Polish minister accuses EU’s Tusk over Smolensk plane crash
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s defense minister has accused European Council President Donald Tusk of working with Russia’s Vladimir Putin to harm Polish interests in the wake of a 2010 plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others in Rus…
Israel says 2016 death of Hezbollah’s top military commander was inside job
NETANYA, Israel (Reuters) – The chief of Israel’s armed forces said on Tuesday the death of Hezbollah’s top military commander Mustafa Badreddine last year was an assassination by the Iranian-backed Lebanese group itself.
Iraqi forces try to bring civilians out of west Mosul, U.S. pledges more support
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqi government forces attempted to evacuate civilians from Mosul’s Islamic State-held Old City on Tuesday so that troops could clear the area, but militant snipers hampered the effort, Iraqi officers said.
East Libyan forces say they will investigate Benghazi abuses
BENGHAZI, Libya/TUNIS (Reuters) – An eastern Libyan force says it will investigate abuses by its troops, after images showing the public display of corpses and allegations of summary killings surfaced following the end of a siege in Benghazi last week….
Former foes salute Martin McGuinness, IRA man turned peacemaker
BELFAST/LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland (Reuters) – Martin McGuinness, the Irish Republican Army commander who laid down his arms to become a major architect of peace in Northern Ireland, died on Tuesday aged 66, drawing tributes from allies and former e…
Russia must limit Iranian power in Syria: Israeli intelligence director
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Russia and other world powers must move to limit Iran’s growing military strength in Syria because it poses a regional threat, the director-general of Israel’s Intelligence Ministry told Reuters in an interview.
U.S. drone kills militant blamed for attack on Sri Lanka cricket team in Pakistan
DERA ISMAIL KHAN (Reuters) – A U.S. drone airstrike in Afghanistan has killed a Pakistani militant accused of involvement in a deadly attack on a bus carrying Sri Lanka’s cricket team in 2009, Pakistani security sources and Islamist militants said.
EU leaders to meet for special Brexit summit on April 29: EU’s Tusk
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union’s 27 leaders will meet on April 29 to agree their negotiating lines for Brexit talks after London sends in a formal notification that it wants to leave the bloc, the chairman of the summit, Donald Tusk, said on T…
EU leaders to hold special Brexit summit in late April: sources
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union’s 27 leaders will meet at the end of April to agree their negotiating lines for Brexit talks, after London sends in a formal notification that it wants to leave the EU on March 29th, three sources in Brussels sai…
In Serbian election, the comedy candidate is no joke
MLADENOVAC, Serbia (Reuters) – It started as a joke, a way to poke fun at a discredited political class in elections last year for the local assembly in this rundown town in central Serbia.
