North Korea ‘struggling’ with ICBM program: U.S. military official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korea is struggling with getting its intercontinental ballistic missile program “up and operational” but it could acquire the capabilities over time, a U.S. military official told a U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday.
UK minister attacks colleagues for ‘scaring’ voters in EU debate
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s justice minister accused government colleagues on Tuesday of treating voters like children, saying they were trying to scare them into voting to stay in the European Union with “new bogeymen every night”.
Turkey denies entry to German journalist at Istanbul airport
BERLIN (Reuters) – Turkish authorities at Istanbul airport denied entry on Tuesday to a German public television journalist who arrived from Cairo and planned to travel to the Turkey-Syria border, the ARD broadcaster said.
Risk of full-scale war if Western Sahara mission departs: U.N.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has recommended extending for another 12 months the mandate of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the disputed territory of Western Sahara, according to a new report seen by Reuters …
Ukraine’s Poroshenko hints at deal with Russia to swap pilot Savchenko
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Tuesday he had agreed with Russian President Vladimir Putin a framework for a deal to secure the release of Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, serving a 22-year jail sentence in Russia.
Nagorno-Karabakh says one of its soldiers killed by Azeri gunfire
YEREVAN (Reuters) – A soldier from the Armenian-backed Nagorno-Karabakh region was killed by gunfire from Azerbaijan on Tuesday morning, said the defense ministry of the breakaway region.
Protesters demand fall of Egypt’s government over islands deal
CAIRO (Reuters) – Thousands of Egyptians angered by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s decision to hand over two islands to Saudi Arabia called on Friday for the government to fall, chanting a slogan from the 2011 Arab Spring uprising.
Macedonian president stands by wiretap pardons despite protests
SKOPJE (Reuters) – Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov stood by his decision on Friday to pardon 56 officials in a wiretapping scandal despite days of street protests and mounting national and international calls on him to change his mind.
Syrian government delegation joins Geneva talks under pressure to negotiate
GENEVA (Reuters) – The Syrian government delegation led by U.N. Ambassador Bashar Ja’afari arrived on Friday for their first session of the latest round of peace talks in Geneva, where they faced pressure to negotiate terms for a political transition.
Pakistan denies involvement in deadly 2009 attack on CIA base
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Pakistan on Friday dismissed as preposterous reports that its intelligence agency helped fund a 2009 suicide bombing on a CIA outpost in Afghanistan that was one of the deadliest attacks in the U.S. spy agency’s history.
