Reuters, Moscow
Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump will have a detailed discussion about Syria when they meet in July, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.
If Trump raises the issue of Russia’s alleged meddling in the U.S. elections in 2016, Putin will reiterate his position that Moscow has nothing to do with that, Peskov told a conference call with reporters.
Russia test-fires sanctions-busting Crimea turbine
Reuters, Moscow
Russia’s energy ministry said it had conducted the first test of a German-made electricity turbine that was installed in Crimea in contravention of European sanctions.
Russian annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and since then has been subject to sanctions that, among other things, bar European Union companies from supplying energy infrastructure to the region.
Iraq executes 12 ISIS terrorists
AFP, Baghdad:
Iraq executed a dozen death row terrorists on the order of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, his office said Friday, in retaliation for the ISIS group’s murder of eight captives.
The executions on Thursday came shortly after Abadi ordered the “immediate” implementation of the death sentences of hundreds of convicted terrorists in response to the killings by ISIS.
Four people killed by bodyguard in Hong Kong
AFP, Hong Kong
A woman was charged with murder Thursday over the fatal shooting of two elderly relatives in a brazen daylight attack in Hong Kong, a city with a reputation for safety.
The attack at Quarry Bay Park in eastern Hong Kong Island followed an alleged dispute over the sharing out of inheritance money from a HK$8 million ($1 million) apartment.
Ada Tsim, 44, who is reported to have worked as a bodyguard in mainland China, is accused of gunning down two uncles and two aunts in a park on Tuesday using a semi-automatic pistol.
