British turmoil spooks Brussels on Brexit deal chances
As British Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to face critics of her Brexit plan at her party conference at the weekend and her Labour opponents vow to vote against it in parliament, EU officials are increasingly uneasy about prospects for a deal.
Lawmakers urge U.S. to call Myanmar’s Rohingya campaign genocide
Leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee called on the Trump administration on Wednesday to declare the Myanmar military’s campaign against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority a genocide, days after a State Department r…
Trump accuses China of 2018 election meddling; Beijing rejects charge
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday accused China of seeking to meddle in the Nov. 6 U.S. congressional elections, saying Beijing did not want his Republican Party to do well because of his pugnacious stance on trade.
Iran says U.S. ‘abused’ Security Council, is ‘further isolated’
The United States “abused” the United Nations Security Council and is “further isolated,” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a Twitter post Wednesday.
Brazil police raid offices of two highway operating firms
Brazilian federal police raided the offices of two of the nation’s largest highway operators on Wednesday, taking multiple executives into custody, the latest development in a wide-ranging corruption crackdown in South America’s largest country.
White house says no Trump-Maduro meeting planned
No meeting is planned between U.S. President Donald Trump and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said on Wednesday.
Trump says ‘plenty of evidence’ of Chinese meddling in U.S. election
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday there was “plenty of evidence” of China trying to meddle in the upcoming U.S. elections and that Beijing wanted him to lose because he had confronted China on trade issues.
Germany to buy six C-130 Hercules transport aircraft: source
Germany’s armed forces will spend almost 970 million euros ($1.14 billion) buying six C-130 Hercules transport aircraft, which in contrast to the A400M from Airbus can land on smaller, more rocky landing strips, a parliamentary source said on Wednesday…
U.S.’s Pompeo to visit North Korea next month: U.S. statement
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Pyongyang next month to discuss North Korean denuclearization efforts ahead of a planned second summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of State …
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards may turn parade attack into political win
An attack on a military parade in Iran is a blow to the image of its Revolutionary Guards, but the elite force could yet turn the bloodshed to its advantage, using public sympathy to bolster itself at the expense of President Hassan Rouhani.
