PARIS (Reuters) -Suspects in the brazen daylight heist of some of France’s crown jewels from the Louvre were arrested near Paris on Saturday evening, the Paris prosecutor said, confirming an earlier report from newspaper Le Parisien. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said on Sunday that one of the men was arrested at Charles de Gaulle airport …
Paris prosecutor confirms suspects arrested in Louvre heist case Read More »
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian armed forces will respond forcefully in the event of strikes deep inside Russia, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in remarks published on Sunday. “Like (Russian President Vladimir) Putin said, the response will be overwhelming,” Peskov told state TV Kremlin correspondent Pavel Zarubin. Putin said on Thursday that Moscow would never bow to …
Russia will respond harshly in event of strikes deep inside its territory, Kremlin says Read More »
(Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that Russia had tested its Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile. Here are some key facts about the weapon. – The 9M730 Burevestnik, whose name translates as “storm petrel”, is a ground-launched, low-flying cruise missile that is not only capable of carrying a nuclear warhead but is also nuclear-powered. NATO …
VILNIUS (Reuters) -NATO member Lithuania closed its capital airport late on Saturday and shut both crossings on the border with Belarus after helium weather balloons drifted into the Baltic country’s territory for a second consecutive day. Traffic at Vilnius Airport was suspended until 2 a.m. (2300 GMT), while the Belarus border will remain shut until …
Lithuania again shuts Vilnius airport, Belarus border over balloon sightings Read More »
By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) -Catherine Connolly, a veteran lawmaker on the far left of the Irish political spectrum, was elected president by a landslide margin on Saturday in a stinging rebuke to the recently re-elected centre-right coalition. Connolly, 68, a long-time critic of the European Union in overwhelmingly pro-EU Ireland backed by the left-dominated …
Independent left-wing politician Connolly wins Irish presidency in landslide Read More »
By Gram Slattery, Max Hunder and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has prepared additional sanctions it could use to target key areas of Russia’s economy if President Vladimir Putin continues to delay ending Moscow’s war in Ukraine, according to a U.S. official and another person familiar with the matter. U.S. officials …
DOHA (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he does not plan to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin until he thinks a deal is in place to secure peace between Russia and Ukraine. “You have to know that we’re going to make a deal, I’m not going to be wasting my time,” Trump …
Trump says he will not meet with Putin until he thinks there is a deal on Ukraine Read More »
By Miguel Gutierrez, Guillermo Martinez and Ana Cantero VALENCIA (Reuters) -Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia on Saturday and called for conservative regional leader Carlos Mazon to resign over his handling of flash floods that killed 229 people a year ago. Displaying banners with messages such as “Mazon …
Protesters urge regional Spanish leader to quit a year after deadly floods Read More »
DUBLIN (Reuters) -Catherine Connolly, an independent lawmaker on the far left of the Irish political spectrum, was elected president on Saturday after winning 63% of the first preference vote for the largely ceremonial role. (Reporting by Padraic Halpin, Editing by Timothy Heritage)
VOLENDAM, Netherlands (Reuters) -Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders urged other party leaders on Saturday to reconsider their refusal to work with him after an election on October 29 that will determine the Netherlands’ next coalition government. Wilders, who campaigns on a promise to stop all asylum migration to the Netherlands, won the last election in …
Dutch far-right leader Wilders says voters should decide on his future in government Read More »
