Dutch minister unlikely to attend Saudi conference after journalist’s disappearance
Dutch Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra said on Tuesday that he will most likely not attend a conference in Saudi Arabia after dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi went missing.
Kremlin to discuss resumption of flights from Russia to Egypt’s Red Sea resorts
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will discuss the resumption of direct charter flights from Russia to Egyptian Red Sea resorts during their meeting on October 17, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said.
Malta says million-euro bounty for journalist’s killer still on offer
A million-euro ($1.2 million) reward for information on who ordered the murder of Malta’s most prominent journalist is still available, a year after her death.
At least six people killed in train derailment in Morocco
Six people were killed and about 80 injured when a train derailed near the Moroccan capital Rabat on Tuesday, officials said.
Two Koreas, U.N. Command wrap up first talks on disarming border
North and South Korea held their first three-way talks with the United Nations Command (UNC) on Tuesday to discuss ways to demilitarize the border as the neighbors push for peace, South Korea’s defense ministry said.
U.S. security adviser Bolton to meet Lavrov next week: Kremlin
U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton will meet with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow next week, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said on Tuesday.
UK Conservative lawmaker deliberately broke campaign spending rules, court hears
A lawmaker from British Prime Minister Theresa May’s minority ruling Conservative Party deliberately made false declarations over his spending in a 2015 election, a prosecutor told a London court on Tuesday.
Senior ministers back UK PM May ahead of EU summit: May’s spokesman
Senior British ministers supported Prime Minister Theresa May at a Brexit-focused cabinet meeting on Tuesday and there was no suggestion anyone would quit the government, May’s spokesman said following the meeting.
EU’s Barnier says will work ‘seriously’ in coming weeks for Brexit deal
The European Union and Britain will work “calmly and seriously” in the next weeks to reach a deal on Britain’s withdrawal from the bloc without creating a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, the EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier said.
French citizen freed after being held by Yemeni Houthis
Alain Goma, a French citizen who had been held captive in Yemen by Houthi forces, was freed on Tuesday, a statement from the French president’s office said.
