Web of investigations entangles Israel’s ‘King Bibi’
JERUSALEM Benjamin Netanyahu has spent 30 years in public office, including 11 years as Israel’s prime minister, but this year his political future is being called into question as seldom before.
Kremlin hits out at Obama, says was always ready for nuclear arms cuts
MOSCOW The Kremlin on Thursday disputed a statement by outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama on nuclear arms cuts, saying Russia had always been ready to consider making proportional cuts to its arsenal.
UK PM May says Britain faces momentous change as it leaves EU
DAVOS, Switzerland Britain is facing a period of momentous change following its decision to leave the European Union and will need to forge a new role in the world, Prime Minister Theresa May told the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday.
Turkey says New Year’s nightclub attacker captured in Istanbul
ISTANBUL Turkish police have captured the gunman who killed 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub on New Year’s Day at a hideout in an outlying suburb of the city after a two-week manhunt, officials said on Tuesday.
Underwater search for missing Malaysian flight ends without a trace
SYDNEY The deep-sea search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 ended on Tuesday without any trace being found of the plane that vanished in 2014 with 239 people on board, the three countries involved in the search said.
PM May indicates Britain will seek ‘hard Brexit’ in EU talks
LONDON Britain will not seek a Brexit deal that leaves it “half in, half out” of the EU, Prime Minister Theresa May will say on Tuesday in a speech setting out her priorities for divorce talks which indicates she is prepared to leave the single market.
Russia expects dialogue with Trump on nuclear weapons: Lavrov
MOSCOW Russia expects to have a dialogue with the Trump administration on strategic stability, including on nuclear weapons, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday. Lavrov added to reporters that such a dialogue could cover hypersonic weapons, a U.S.
Germany says NATO concerned about Trump ‘obsolete’ remark
BRUSSELS/BERLIN Germany’s Foreign Minister said on Monday that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s comments that NATO was obsolete had aroused concern across the 28-member alliance. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, speaking after a meeting with alliance Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels, said Trump’s remarks contradicted views expressed by designated Defense Secretary James Mattis.
Philipine’s President Threatens to leave the UN after recieving criticism from the organization
The President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte, has threatened that the country could leave the UN, after the organization urged the Philippines to stop executing and killing people linked to drug business and threatened that “state actors” could be punished.“I do not want to insult you, but maybe we’ll just have to decide to separate from the United Nations,”…
Russia-Ukraine Tension High Amid New Escalation, World Powers Call for Peace
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Friday said that Moscow could formally sever diplomatic ties with Kyiv after reported clashes between Russian forces and alleged Ukrainian “saboteurs” in the annexed Crimean Peninsula. Ukraine puts army on combat alert along border with CrimeaUkrainian President Petro Poroshenko has put the army on combat alert along the border…