Venezuelan soldier shoots protester dead in airbase attack, minister says
CARACAS (Reuters) – A Venezuelan military police sergeant shot dead a protester who was attacking the perimeter of an airbase on Thursday, the interior minister said, bringing renewed scrutiny of the force used to control riots that have killed at leas…
Kuwait hands Qatar a list of demands from boycotting countries: Al Jazeera
DUBAI (Reuters) – Kuwait has handed Qatar a list of demands from the Arab states boycotting it, Al Jazeera television said quoting sources.
North Korea tests rocket engine, possibly for ICBM: U.S. officials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korea has carried out another test of a rocket engine that the United States believes could be part of its program to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile, a U.S. official told Reuters on Thursday.
Australia to send surveillance planes to help Philippines fight militants
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s defense force said on Friday it will send two military surveillance aircraft to assist Philippine soldiers fighting Islamist militants, as the archipelago nation battles to regain control of its southern city of Marawi.
U.S. on track to supply India with 22 Guardian drones: source
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is on track to announce plans to supply India with 22 Guardian drones in a deal worth more than $2 billion, a source familiar with the deal said on Thursday.
Cuba says regional marijuana liberalization is fueling trafficking
HAVANA (Reuters) – The liberalization of marijuana laws is fueling drug trafficking but Cuba will not follow the trend of loosening restrictions on marijuana, a government official said on Thursday.
Belgian bombing suspect had marriage, job plans, say family
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The Moroccan suspected of trying to explode a bomb in Brussels Central Station on Tuesday was a normal man who had plans to marry and become a taxi driver, his family told Belgian public broadcaster VRT.
U.S., Europeans to meet next week on aviation security
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. technical experts will hold more talks in Brussels next week in an effort to avert expanding a ban on in-cabin large electronics like laptops to airports in Europe and other regions, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security …
France’s Macron puts national security at heart of foreign policy
PARIS (Reuters) – President Emmanuel Macron is starting to realign France’s foreign policy, setting out plans to be less interventionist in conflicts abroad and putting his country’s national security at the heart of diplomacy.
Good start, not enough: EU leaders mull May’s Brexit offer
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Theresa May offered fellow EU leaders a “fair” deal on Thursday for compatriots living in Britain after Brexit, though her peers sounded skeptical and demanded more detail from a prime minister weakened by an electoral misfire two …
