Ex-rebel leaders detail role played by Putin aide in east Ukraine
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A top aide to Vladimir Putin decides how the pro-Moscow administration of eastern Ukraine is run and who gets what jobs there, three former rebel leaders said, challenging Kremlin denials that it calls the shots in the region.
Le Pen must realize debate over quitting euro is over, top aide says
PARIS (Reuters) – Marine Le Pen needs to learn the lessons from her French presidential election defeat to Emmanuel Macron and accept that her National Front (FN) party must drop its policy of quitting the euro, one of her top aides said on Thursday.
North Korean university draws U.S. evangelicals despite risks
SEOUL (Reuters) – Like many other Americans who came to teach at the foreign-funded Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), Kim Hak Song was a Christian missionary who raised money from a church to come to North Korea.
‘Complete nonsense’: Britain’s Hammond dismisses report of rift with May
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s finance minister Philip Hammond on Thursday dismissed a Times newspaper report suggesting that his relationship with Prime Minister Theresa May had deteriorated as “complete nonsense”.
Austrian court jails Syrian for life for killing Assad soldiers
VIENNA (Reuters) – An Austrian court jailed a Syrian asylum seeker for life for murdering 20 wounded soldiers of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s army while fighting alongside an anti-Assad militia near the city of Homs, a court spokesman said.
Saudi forces kill “wanted man” at Shi’ite district- newspaper
DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi security forces shot dead a wanted man in eastern Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, a local newspaper reported, after gunmen tried to stop redevelopment work at the old quarter of Awamiya, where authorities say Shi’ite militants are hi…
Six killed as Bangladesh police raid militant hideout
DHAKA (Reuters) – Police in Bangladesh raided a militant hideout on Thursday sparking a clash in which five suspected militants and a fire fighter were killed in blasts that the militants set off, police said.
Wall collapse kills 23 during wedding celebration in India
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Twenty-three people were killed and 30 injured in India when a wall collapsed on a crowd of people celebrating a wedding, police said on Thursday.
South Korea urges ‘parallel’ talks, sanctions to rein in North
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s new president launched international efforts to defuse tension over North Korea’s weapons development on Thursday, urging both dialogue and sanctions while also aiming to ease China’s anger about a U.S. anti-missile syst…
China’s Xi speaks with new South Korean president about North Korea
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke with South Korea’s new liberal President Moon Jae-in on Thursday about the North Korean nuclear issue, state television said.
