Russia’s Lavrov meets Tillerson, says feels U.S. ready to continue dialogue
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday he believed his U.S. colleagues were ready to continue dialogue with Moscow on complex issues despite bilateral tensions.
Police charge Australian man over weapons after ‘IS-inspired’ plane plot raids
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – An Australian man who was detained during raids to disrupt what authorities described as an Islamic State-inspired plot to bomb an Etihad Airways flight has been charged with weapons offences and released on bail, police said on S…
China says dialogue vital to tackle Korean peninsula crisis
MANILA (Reuters) – China’s foreign minister said on Sunday new U.N. Security Council sanctions on North Korea were the right response to a series of missile tests, but dialogue was vital to resolve a complex and sensitive issue, now at a “critical junc…
Venezuela restores opposition leader Lopez to house arrest: wife
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan authorities returned opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez to his home, where he is serving house arrest, after having transferred him to a military prison on Tuesday, his wife said via Twitter.
Germany’s SPD rejects NATO 2 percent defense spending target
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Social Democrats on Sunday rejected NATO’s target of spending 2 percent of economic output on the military, and blasted German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her conservatives for kowtowing to the demands of U.S. President Do…
France has seen 271 jihadi militants return: minister
PARIS (Reuters) – France has seen 271 jihadi militants return from war zones in Iraq and Syria and all of them are subject to investigation by public prosecutors, the country’s interior minister said in a newspaper interview.
UK ready to pay up to 40 billion euros to leave EU: Sunday Telegraph
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is prepared to pay up to 40 billion euros ($47 billion) as part of a deal to leave the European Union, the Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported, citing three unnamed sources familiar with Britain’s negotiating strategy.
United Nations bans key North Korea exports over missile tests
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea on Saturday that could slash by a third the Asian state’s $3 billion annual export revenue over its two intercontinental ballistic missile t…
No more ‘Heroes’ as Turkish coup suspects get court uniforms
ANKARA (Reuters) – Terrorist or coup suspects in Turkish courts will be made to wear special uniforms when they appear in court, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday after a defendant showed up for trial last month with a T-shirt that said “Hero” …
Man arrested over British model kidnapped in Italy
MILAN (Reuters) – Italian police said on Saturday they had arrested a 30-year-old man suspected of abducting a British model in Milan and threatening to auction her online unless a ransom of $300,000 was paid.
