Reuters UK Top

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican chairman of the U.S. Senate intelligence committee called on Wednesday for American spy agencies to “pause” intelligence sharing with Germany’s domestic intelligence agency that could be used to target the far right Alternative for Germany party (AfD). “I understand that liberal elites on both sides of the …

US senator says US intel should not help Germany monitor far-right party Read More »

By Timour Azhari and Suleiman Al-Khalidi BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates has set up a backchannel for talks between Israel and Syria, three people familiar with the matter said, as Syria’s new rulers seek regional help to manage an increasingly hostile relationship with their southern neighbour. The indirect contacts, which have not been …

Exclusive-UAE mediating secret talks between Israel and Syria, sources say Read More »

WARSAW (Reuters) -Police said on Wednesday they had detained a 22-year-old Polish man after he killed one person with an axe at Warsaw University, in an attack the institution described as a “huge tragedy”. “Police have detained a man who entered the University of Warsaw campus. One person died, another was taken to hospital with …

Polish police say one killed in axe attack at Warsaw University Read More »

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff will informally brief members of the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday on Gaza and other regional issues, a U.S. administration official said. The briefing, to which a diplomatic source said all 15 members of the Security Council have been invited, would take …

Trump’s Middle East envoy to brief U.N. Security Council members on Wednesday Read More »

By Luc Cohen and Jack Queen NEW YORK (Reuters) – The judge overseeing Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial admonished a lawyer close to the hip-hop mogul’s defense team for referring to the prosecutors in the case as a “six-pack of white women” in comments on a podcast. The lawyer, Mark Geragos, said in a …

Judge in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial admonishes lawyer for racial remarks Read More »

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian air defence forces downed 12 Ukrainian drones flying towards Moscow, the city’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said on Wednesday. Sobyanin, in a series of posts over four hours on the Telegram messaging app, noted that 12 drones headed for the capital had been repelled or destroyed. Earlier on Wednesday the Telegram channel Shot, …

Russian air defences down 12 more Ukrainian drones en route to Moscow, mayor says Read More »