NATO naval drills start in Black Sea after one-day delay
SOFIA (Reuters) – NATO’s Black Sea members Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey joined four other alliance states in a multinational naval exercise on Tuesday just across the water from the Crimean Peninsula annexed by Russia last year.
China jails two for selling military secrets, including details of aircraft carrier
BEIJING (Reuters) – China has jailed two men for selling military secrets, including hundreds of photos of the country’s lone aircraft carrier, to foreign spies, state media reported on Friday, without saying which countries were buying them.
Japan PM vows new five-year plan to rebuild from 2011 disaster
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday vowed to draw up a new-five year plan to speed rebuilding from a massive 2011 tsunami and the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl that have left thousands still homeless.
Dozens escape Islamic State-run jail in Syria: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) – About 95 captives, including Kurdish fighters, escaped from an Islamic State-run prison in northern Syria but most have been recaptured, a monitoring group said on Tuesday.
Persistent Israeli ethnic divide may split vote for Netanyahu
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – In the past, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party could count on Israelis like 50-year-old shopkeeper Yossi Levy when it came to election day.
India’s Modi to dilute pro-business changes to land bill
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s government sought on Tuesday to break a political deadlock over reforms that would make it easier to buy land, in a test of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ability to steer his business-friendly agenda through parliament.
Poland to choose missile defense supplier in next few weeks
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland plans to choose the supplier for its medium-range missile defense system within the next few weeks, Deputy Defence Minister Czeslaw Mroczek said on Tuesday.
IAEA sees more cooperation from Iran in parallel nuclear talks
VIENNA (Reuters) – The U.N. nuclear watchdog IAEA expects more information soon from Iran on its nuclear program after progress in talks parallel to Tehran’s negotiations with six world powers, a senior agency official said on Tuesday.
Bombs kill two, wound dozens in Egypt’s North Sinai
CAIRO (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed a civilian and wounded 30 policemen when he tried to ram a water tanker into a police barracks in the Egyptian city of al-Arish on Tuesday, security sources said, the latest in a string of attacks in the Sinai …
Germany says still far away from a solution to Ukraine
SOFIA (Reuters) – German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Tuesday that a solution to the crisis in Ukraine was still a long way off, and that Ukraine will need significant support given the dire state of its economy.
