Cyprus says Turkish drill ship off its coast serious sovereignty breach
Cyprus said on Monday it ‘strongly condemns’ what it said was an infringement of its sovereign rights by Turkey, after Ankara sent a drill ship off the island to explore for oil and gas.
Ukraine’s president says ready to meet Russia’s Putin in Minsk
Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said on Monday he was ready to meet Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Minsk for talks that he said should also involve Germany, Britain, the United States and France.
Climate protesters arrested outside Swiss banks
Environmental activists, seeking to pressure Swiss banks into halting the financing of fossil fuels, blocked entrances to Credit Suisse in Zurich and UBS in Basel on Monday before police intervened and arrested some protesters.
Iran threatens to restart centrifuges, ramp up enrichment in next nuclear steps
Iran threatened on Monday to restart deactivated centrifuges and sharply step up its enrichment of uranium to 20 percent purity as its next potential big moves away from a 2015 nuclear agreement that Washington abandoned last year.
U.N. nuclear agency says still verifying Iran enrichment announcement
The U.N. atomic watchdog policing Iran’s nuclear deal with major powers is still verifying Iran’s announcement that it has enriched uranium beyond the maximum purity allowed under the deal, the agency said on Monday.
Pope defends migrants after clashes between Italy and rescue ships
Pope Francis said on Monday that “no one is exempt” from helping migrants, in an indirect rebuke of Italy’s hardline interior minister Matteo Salvini who has tried to shut the country’s ports to non-governmental migrant rescue ships.
UK regrets leak of memos calling Trump administration ‘inept’
Britain said on Monday it had contacted Washington to express regret for the leak of confidential memos in which its ambassador described U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration as “dysfunctional” and “inept”.
New Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis takes over, Tsipras bows out
Conservative politician Kyriakos Mitsotakis was sworn in as Greece’s new prime minister on Monday after storming to victory on a pledge to create jobs and lure investment to the crisis-hit nation.
Indonesian woman jailed for reporting harassment to seek amnesty
An Indonesian woman sentenced to prison for reporting her employer for sexual harassment said on Monday she will ask President Joko Widodo for an amnesty.
Iran’s Zarif calls on UK to immediately release captured oil tanker
The capture of an Iranian oil tanker by Britain has set “a dangerous precedent and must end now”, Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Twitter on Monday.
