In push for equal NATO status, Poland asks for flashpoint troops
WARSAW (Reuters) – At the height of the Cold War, NATO generals lost sleep over the “Fulda Gap”, a flat lowland area they identified as the easiest way for Warsaw Pact tanks to roll into Western Germany.
Syria ‘terrorists’ recovering strength – Russian army
MOSCOW (Reuters) – “Terrorists” in Syria are recovering strength and the situation there is becoming more tense, the head of the Russian army’s General Staff Valery Gerasimov said on Monday, Interfax news agency reported.
Turkey detains three prominent Turkish press freedom campaigners
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish authorities on Monday detained three prominent campaigners for press freedom, including the local representative of Reporters Without Borders (RSF), on charges of spreading terrorist propaganda, human rights groups said.
Three years on, resentment simmers again on Istanbul streets
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – For residents of Cihangir, a trendy neighborhood of cafes and bars in central Istanbul, it almost felt like a return to the summer of 2013, when protesters played cat-and-mouse with riot police amid clouds of tear gas night after n…
Italy’s Renzi faces fight for political life after vote setback
ROME (Reuters) – “Italy should be proud of having a leader like him,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said as he sat alongside Prime Minister Matteo Renzi last week. Mayoral elections on Sunday suggested Italians think otherwise.
EU to extend Russia sanctions, divided over next steps
LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) – The European Union was divided on Monday over how to end a stand-off with Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine, as Britain called for governments to maintain their tough stance and Slovakia said the current sanctions policy was unte…
Balkan police arrest 13 for gang-related identity theft
SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Police in Bosnia, Croatia and Slovenia arrested 13 people on Monday on suspicion of identity theft, seizing weapons and forged documents in a crackdown on Balkan criminal gangs.
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi reiterates stance on not using term ‘Rohingya’: official
YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has told the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights that the government will avoid using the term “Rohingya” to describe a persecuted Muslim minority in the country’s northwest, an official told Reute…
NATO’s Stoltenberg: EU sanctions on Russia should remain
TRONDHEIM, Norway (Reuters) – The European Union should keep in place the sanctions imposed on Russia over the Ukraine crisis, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told Reuters on Monday, a day after the German foreign minister said they should grad…
Six held in Belgium over train attack in 2015
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian police detained six people for questioning on Monday over an attack on a high-speed train as it traveled between Amsterdam and Paris in August 2015, prosecutors said.
