Ukraine’s parliament approves president’s choice for defense minister
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s parliament on Tuesday approved National Guard chief Stepan Poltorak as defense minister following his nomination by President Petro Poroshenko.
With a parade for Putin, Serbia walks a tightrope
BELGRADE (Reuters) – In his 1949 memoir Eastern Approaches, British officer Fitzroy Maclean wrote of standing on top of Belgrade’s fortress and watching the Nazis retreat across the River Sava, leaving the capital to the Red Army and Yugoslav Partisan …
UK anti-terrorism police arrest six in Syria-linked operation
LONDON (Reuters) – British police arrested three men and three women on Tuesday in a counter-terrorism operation linked to the civil war in Syria.
Turkish warplanes hit Kurdish militant targets in southeast: media
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish warplanes attacked Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in southeast Turkey on Sunday in the first significant air operation against the militants since the launch of a peace process two years ago, Hurriyet news website sa…
Europe urged to end plight of 600,000 ghost people
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – European countries must end the plight of an estimated 600,000 stateless people by giving them similar protection to refugees, campaigners said on Tuesday as they launched a day of action to highlight the predicame…
Palestinian mosque in West Bank torched in suspected arson
AQRABA West Bank (Reuters) – A mosque was set alight in a suspected arson attack in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday and the name of an Israeli vigilante group called “price tag” was found scribbled on an outside wall, Palestinian officials and witnes…
Australia to ease immigration rules for Chinese millionaires
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia on Tuesday took steps to boost a visa scheme aimed at luring investment from wealthy Chinese, including speeding up approvals and expanding investment avenues, after complaints that disclosure requirements were too strict.
U.N. to give evidence in Australian asylum seeker test case
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s highest court gave the United Nations permission on Tuesday to give evidence in a groundbreaking legal challenge to the country’s power to intercept asylum seekers’ boats outside its territorial waters.
Widespread safety issues identified at Bangladesh clothing factories
BERLIN (Reuters) – Inspectors hired by a group of Western clothing brands have found safety problems at all the Bangladesh factories they visited as part of an initiative launched after a building collapse last year killed more than 1,100 workers.
Russian hackers target NATO, Ukraine and others: iSight
BOSTON (Reuters) – Russian hackers exploited a bug in Microsoft Windows and other software to spy on computers used by NATO, the European Union, Ukraine and companies in the energy and telecommunications sectors, according to cyber intelligence firm iS…
