Top U.S. official: U.S. would block sale of Russian Su-30 aircraft to Iran
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Thomas Shannon, the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, said on Tuesday the United States would use its veto power in the U.N. Security Council to block any sale of Su-30 fighter aircraft to Iran.
U.S. official: administration open to renewal of Iran Sanctions Act
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration is open to renewing the Iran Sanctions Act, which expires at the end of 2016, if it does not interfere with the international nuclear agreement with Tehran, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Aff…
Hungary’s Orban to pay rare visit to German ex-chancellor Kohl
BERLIN (Reuters) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a fierce critic of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door migrant policy, is to visit her former mentor Helmut Kohl later this month, raising eyebrows among German politicians.
City of London head takes aim at Mayor Johnson over backing Brexit
LONDON (Reuters) – London Mayor Boris Johnson’s leading role in campaigning for Britain to leave the EU is sending “unwelcome and unhelpful” signals to investors about the capital’s future, the head of the City of London Corporation said on Tuesday.
Russia’s Putin creates national guard to fight terror, crime
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia is creating a national guard to fight terrorism and organized crime, President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.
Three police officers, two gunmen killed in Brazzaville fighting on Monday
BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) – Three police officers and two gunmen were killed in Congo Republic’s capital in heavy fighting touched off by President Denis Sassou Nguesso’s disputed re-election, a police spokesman said on Tuesday.
U.S., allies conduct 25 strikes against Islamic State -U.S. military
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and its allies conducted 25 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Monday, focusing on rebel forces near towns that guard the approach to the key Iraqi city of Mosul, the coalition leading the operat…
Germany records 300 attacks on asylum shelters so far this year
BERLIN (Reuters) – There were almost 300 attacks and other criminal offences against German asylum shelters in the first quarter of the year, police said on Tuesday, which suggests the 2016 total could exceed last year’s level.
Turkish police detain 68 people over links to cleric Gulen: Anadolu
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Police detained 68 people across Turkey on Tuesday in an investigation into their alleged financial links to U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, an-ally-turned-foe of President Tayyip Erdogan, state-run Anadolu Agency reporte…
AU mission says several al Shabaab commanders killed in Somalia
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – African Union peacekeepers and Somali government troops have killed several senior figures in the al Qaeda-linked Islamist militant group al Shabaab in Somalia in the last few days, the peacekeeping mission said on Tuesday.
