AFP, Washington
The White House has launched an internal probe of the use of private email for official business by senior aides to President Donald Trump, news outlet Politico reported Thursday.
The administration is scouring the White House server for emails to and from private email accounts of these aides, Politico said, quoting four people familiar with the probe.
Russia, N Korea to discuss nuclear crisis
Reuters, Moscow
Russian and North Korean officials will meet in Moscow on Friday to discuss the North Korea crisis, a move welcomed by the United States, which has been locked in am increasingly heated war of words with Pyongyang over its nuclear and missile programs. Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Oleg Burmistrov, Russia’s ambassador-at-large, would meet Choe Son-hui, director-general of the North American department of North Korea’s foreign ministry.
US presses for more Iran nuclear inspections
AFP, United Nations
The United States pressed on Thursday for the International Atomic Energy Agency to carry out more nuclear inspections in Iran, warning that failure to do so would make the nuclear deal with Tehran “an empty promise.”
US Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said that some countries were trying to shield Iran from more inspections by the IAEA, which is charged with verifying Tehran’s compliance with the 2015 nuclear accord.
Russia’s oppn leader detained
AP, Moscow
Police on Friday detained Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny ahead of a rally in a major city.
Navalny on posted a video on his Instagram account of what he said were officers outside his home asking him to come to a police station. He tweeted from the station later, saying he had not been told why he had been detained.
Six terrorists killed in Karachi
Xinhua, Islamabad
Six suspected terrorists were killed in an encounter during a raid at the suspects’ hideout, police in the Pakistani port city of Karachi said Thursday.
Senior Superintendent of Police Rao Anwar said police along with intelligence officials conducted the raid on a tip-off about the presence of the terrorists in Sachal area of Karachi, the capital of the country’s southern Sindh province.
Taliban attack leaves 5 Afghan cops dead
AP, Kabu
An Afghan official says a Taliban attack on a police checkpoint has left five police dead in western Farah province.
Iqbal Baher, spokesman for the provincial chief of police, says two others were wounded when the militants launched their attack early Friday in Bala Bluk district.
