As talks falter, Moscow finds brokering Syria peace trickier than waging war
ASTANA (Reuters) – With its show of military force, Russia changed the tide of the Syrian civil war. It is finding the next phase — brokering an end to the fighting — a tougher proposition.
Suicide attack on Pakistani shrine kills 72, claimed by Islamic State
KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – A suicide bomber attacked a crowded Sufi shrine in southern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 72 people and wounding dozens more in the deadliest of a wave of bombings across the South Asian nation this week.
Germany’s Schaeuble says EU must assume more active global role
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Friday the European Union must take on a bigger international role, saying the answer to crises from security to climate change, was to stick together and stop relying on the United …
Argentina’s Macri will annul father’s postal debt deal
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri said on Thursday he would annul an agreement his government reached to resolve a 15-year-old debt the country’s postal service incurred when it was owned by Macri’s father.
France says U.S. position on Middle East peace ‘confused and worrying’
BONN, Germany (Reuters) – France considers the U.S. position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “confused and worrying”, its foreign minister said on Thursday, reacting to U.S. President Trump’s dropping of the America’s commitment to a two-state solu…
Trump says U.S. media reports making it hard to strike deal with Russia
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Thursday said reports in the U.S. media about his administration’s relationship with Russia may make it difficult for him to strike a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin to ease tensions between W…
Russian foreign minister meets with Tillerson, denies interfering
BONN, Germany (Reuters) – Russia does not interfere in other countries’ interior affairs, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday at the start of his first meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
With ‘one state’ reference, Trump stumbles into a Middle East minefield
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As he stood on the podium next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Donald Trump said he was open to new ideas that would bring Middle East peace. With that, he opened the door to a whole new maze of compl…
Tillerson denies suggesting he wants to scrap Iran nuclear deal
BONN, Germany (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Thursday he did not suggest to French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault that Washington planned to scrap the Iranian nuclear agreement.
U.S., South Korea, Japan condemn North Korean missile firing in joint statement
BONN, Germany (Reuters) – The United States, South Korea and Japan issued a joint statement on Thursday condemning North Korea’s test firing of a ballistic missile and saying Pyongyang should face an “even stronger” international response for violating…
