Author: Humeyra Pamuk
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Report: State Department’s top China policy official to step down
WASHINGTON • The State Department’s top China policy official Rick Waters is set to step down, four sources familiar with the matter said, at a time of fraught relations between Washington and Beijing. Waters, deputy assistant secretary of State for China and Taiwan who leads the department’s recently created China House policy division, announced his…
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Putin orders troop conscription; makes another nuke threat
KYIV/NEW YORK/GDANSK, Poland • President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia’s first wartime mobilization since World War Two on Wednesday, shocking citizens with what Western countries described as an act of desperation in the face of a losing war. Putin made the announcement in a televised address in which he also announced moves to annex swaths of…
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U.S. sounds caution against optimism by Iran, Russia over nuclear talks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Tuesday expressed caution over upbeat comments by Iran and Russia about talks in Vienna to salvage the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, saying it was still too soon to say if Tehran had returned to the negotiations with a constructive approach. Iran and Russia both gave upbeat views on…
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Putin warns West: Moscow has ‘red line’ about Ukraine, NATO
RIGA/MOSCOW • Russia would pay a high price for new military aggression against Ukraine, NATO and the United States warned on Tuesday as the Western military alliance met to discuss Moscow’s possible motives for massing troops near the Ukrainian border. President Vladimir Putin countered that Russia would be forced to act if U.S.-led NATO placed…
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Special envoy to Haiti resigns, blasting migrant deportations
CIUDAD ACUNA, Mexico/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. special envoy to Haiti resigned in protest in a letter that blasted the Biden administration for deporting hundreds of migrants back to the crisis-engulfed Caribbean nation from a camp on the U.S.-Mexican border in recent days. Daniel Foote, a career diplomat named to his post in July, said…
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Pentagon bracing for more attacks after troops killed at Kabul airport
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -American forces in Kabul were bracing for more Islamic State attacks while winding up their evacuation mission, U.S. officials said, as the number of U.S. troops killed in Thursday’s suicide bomb attack rose to 13. A U.S. official told Reuters the number of U.S. personnel killed was likely to rise even higher. More…