‘We need Turkey to buy the Patriot’ missile defense system – acting Pentagon chief
Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said on Tuesday that he wanted NATO ally Turkey to remain in the F-35 fighter jet program, but added that Ankara needed to buy the Patriot missile defense system.
Intruders at North Korea embassy in Spain urged official to defect: court
Intruders forced their way into North Korea’s embassy in Madrid last month, identified themselves as a human rights campaign group and tried to persuade an official there to defect, a court which specializes in organized crime said on Tuesday.
Gulf Arabs, Iran reject U.S. recognition of Golan Heights as Israeli
U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights united Washington’s Arab allies and their regional foe Iran in condemnation on Tuesday.
Destructive Cyclone Idai was a climate change ‘alarm bell’ says U.N. chief
Cyclone Idai’s deadly hit has left some 1.85 million people in need of assistance in Mozambique in a catastrophe that United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called “yet another alarm bell about the dangers of climate change.”
Spanish judge to request extradition of North Korea embassy intruders from US-source
The Spanish judge investigating an intrusion at the North Korean embassy in Madrid last month intends to request the extradition of the suspects from the United States, a judicial source said on Tuesday.
Russia, China sent home more than half of North Korean workers in 2018 – U.N. reports
Russia sent home nearly two-thirds of some 30,000 North Koreans working there during 2018 and China repatriated more than half of those employed there but did not specify a figure, according to unpublished reports by Moscow and Beijing to the United Na…
Convicted drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman seeks new trial
Lawyers for Joaquin Guzman, the Mexican crime lord known as El Chapo, on Tuesday said his drug smuggling conviction should be set aside and a new trial ordered, because juror misconduct deprived him of his constitutional right to a fair trial.
UK lawmakers to begin voting on Brexit options at 1900 GMT Wednesday
Britain’s parliament will begin voting on alternative options for the way forward on Brexit at 1900 GMT on Wednesday, under plans put forward by lawmakers who have taken control of the process from the government.
‘It’s not about the Benjamins,’ Netanyahu says of U.S. support for Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “it’s not about the Benjamins” as he hit back on Tuesday against any suggestion that U.S. politicians are paid to support Israel.
Spanish politicians call Mexican president letter an ‘offense’
Spanish politicians reacted with anger on Tuesday to a request by Mexico’s president for an apology for the wrongs committed by conquerors to indigenous peoples 500 years ago, calling it an affront to Spanish history.
