Putin offers transcript to prove Trump did not pass Russia secrets
SOCHI/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump had not divulged any secrets during a meeting in Washington with Russian officials and offered to prove it by supplying Congress with a transcript.
Turkish MPs elect judicial board under new Erdogan constitution
ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish lawmakers elected seven members to a reshaped judicial authority on Wednesday, part of a constitutional overhaul backed by a referendum last month that considerably expands the powers of President Tayyip Erdogan.
Red Cross finds 115 bodies in CAR diamond-mining town
DAKAR (Reuters) – Red Cross workers have found 115 bodies in Central African Republic’s diamond-mining town of Bangassou after several days of militia attacks, the president of the aid group’s local branch said on Wednesday.
Germany asks U.S. for classified briefing on Lockheed’s F-35 fighter
BERLIN (Reuters) – The German Air Force this month sent the U.S. military a written request for classified data on the Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter jet as it gears up to replace its current fleet of fighter jets from 2025 to 2035.
Greek police fire teargas on demonstrators in central Athens
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek police fired teargas to disperse demonstrators in central Athens on Wednesday as a protest was underway against new austerity measures in the country’s parliament.
Germany eyes Jordan as base for troops due to Turkey row
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany said on Wednesday it was considering moving the roughly 250 troops deployed at Turkey’s Incirlik base to help in the fight against Islamic State militants to Jordan because Ankara refuses to grant German lawmakers access to t…
Kremlin says Ukraine’s accusation of cyber attack ‘groundless’
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Ukrainian accusations that Moscow was behind cyber attacks on President Petro Poroshenko’s official website are baseless, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday.
Car bomb hits camp for displaced Syrians near Jordan border: monitor
Amman/BEIRUT (Reuters) – A car bomb exploded in Syria’s sprawling Rukban refugee camp near the border with Jordan on Wednesday, two rebel sources and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Iran leader denounces ‘unworthy’ election rhetoric in veiled swipe at Rouhani
DUBAI/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denounced the heated rhetoric of Iran’s presidential election campaign on Wednesday as “unworthy”, a thinly-veiled rebuke of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani’s attacks on his main conser…
Get ready now for Brexit, EU’s Barnier tells business
STRASBOURG (Reuters) – Businesses had better move fast to prepare for Brexit in under two years and should not count on long transition periods to cushion the impact of Britain leaving the European Union, the EU’s chief negotiator said on Wednesday.
