The Latest: Turkish, Russian and Iranian Ministers Meet
___4:10 p.m.A ceremony is being held at Ankara airport for assassinated Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov, whose body was being flown home to Russia Tuesday. Karlov's wife Marina stood in the front row, holding two red carnations. She wept as her husband's flag-draped coffin was carried by a Turkish honor guard.Deputy Prime Minister Tugrul Turkes said Karlov had, "become the eternal symbol of Turkish-Russian friendship."Karlov was shot dead Monday evening as he delivered a speech at a photo exhi..>> view originalAleppo evacuation should finish in 'one or two days': Lavrov
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The assassination of Russia’s top envoy in Turkey is by all appearances another bloody result of Syria’s civil war. Video footage shows the assailant shouting religious slogans and “Don’t forget Aleppo,” a reference to the Syrian city where the interests of Turkey and Russia collided, and where the civil war became a humanitarian crisis. Leaders of both countries were quick to pledge that the assassination won’t break ties between Ankara and Moscow, which are still recovering from Turkey’s down..>> view originalGunman Who Shot 3 at Zurich Islamic Center Is Found Dead, Police Say
Photo The Islamic center after a shooting in Zurich, on Monday. Credit Ennio Leanza/European Pressphoto Agency GENEVA — A gunman who wounded three people attending prayers after opening fire at an Islamic center in Zurich has been found dead, apparently after committing suicide, the Swiss police said on Tuesday.Officials described the man as a 24-year-old Swiss citizen of Ghanaian descent, but they did not identify him by name. They said he had no known links to terror..>> view originalTheresa May: Brexit plans to be laid out in new year
Theresa May has promised to set out her proposals for a "truly global Britain" in speech on Brexit in the new year.The prime minister also told MPs that Parliament would get a "proper opportunity" to discuss her plans before negotiations with the EU start.She "fully" expected that these talks would begin by the end of next March.And, in testy exchanges with Labour MP Yvette Cooper, Mrs May defended the inclusion of overseas students in net migration figures.The prime minister has pledged to..>> view originalThat Drone Skirmish With China? It Was Over Before Donald Trump's First Mean Tweet.
WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump launched his Twitter campaign against China’s seizure of a U.S. Navy research submersible last week to great fanfare ― and, as it turns out, hours after the crisis had already been defused. It’s unclear whether the president-elect or his aides knew that fact ― it would have been included in the intelligence briefing available to him each morning ― before he sent out his misspelled missive of outrage at 7:30 a.m. Saturday. “China steals United States Navy research drone ..>> view originalSearch for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 may have been in wrong spot for two years
SYDNEY - For two years, a handful of ships have diligently combed a remote patch of the Indian Ocean west of Australia in a $160 million bid to find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. On Tuesday, investigators made what was surely a painful admission: They have probably been looking in the wrong place.The latest analysis by a team of international investigators concluded the vanished Boeing 777 is highly unlikely to be in the current search zone and may instead be in a region farther north. But thoug..>> view originalBerlin Truck-Attack Driver May Be at Large, Officials Say
BERLIN—The German capital was on high alert Tuesday after authorities said the suspect they had detained in connection with a deadly truck rampage through a Christmas market may have been the wrong man. Police detained a Pakistani man Monday evening after witnesses reported seeing the driver of the truck flee the devastated market in front of...>> view originalSturgeon: UK could stay in single market
Media captionMs Sturgeon was speaking at her official Bute House residence in Edinburgh Nicola Sturgeon has argued it would be "democratically justifiable" for the whole of the UK to remain in the European single market after Brexit. But the Scottish first minister also said it would be possible for Scotland to remain in the free trade bloc even if the rest of the UK left. She was speaking as she unveiled proposals for Scotland's future relations with Europe after Brexit. The prime minister..>> view original
Monday, January 23, 2017
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