Russia ready to cooperate with NATO : Putin
AFP, Moscow
President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday said Russia is open to cooperation with NATO as a two-day summit of the Western alliance was to open outside London. “We have repeatedly expressed readiness to jointly resist real threats,” Putin said, Russian news agencies reported.
He named these common threats as “international terrorism, local armed conflicts (and) the danger of uncontrolled proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.”
Israeli PM escapes domestic woes to meet Pompeo in Lisbon
AP, Tel Aviv
Looking to escape his legal and political woes at home, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was headed Wednesday toward a warmer embrace in Portugal for a meeting with like-minded ally U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. It will be their first encounter since Pompeo announced a new American doctrine that does not consider Israeli settlements a violation of international law, the latest in a string of diplomatic gifts to Netanyahu by the Trump administration. The meeting with Pompeo offers Netanyahu another boost as he fights for political survival in the wake of two inconclusive elections and a damning corruption indictment.
Officer stabbed,
student shot after fight at US high school
Reuters, Wisconsin
A Wisconsin high school student on Tuesday stabbed a school resource officer, who responded by shooting the teenager, police said, in the second such incident over the last two days in the state. Oshkosh West High School, about 85 miles (137 km) north of Milwaukee, was put on lockdown after the altercation, Oshkosh Chief of Police Dean Smith said during a news conference.
Typhoon death toll rises to four in Philippines
AFP, Manila
At least four people are known to have died after a powerful typhoon ripped through the Philippines, officials said Wednesday, with high-speed winds prompting large-scale evacuations, tearing off roofs and shutting down Manila airport.
Typhoon Kammuri wreaked havoc on islands and provinces south of the capital Manila on Tuesday, sending nearly 600,000 people fleeing their homes, civil defence officials said.
Three people died on the islands of Mindoro and Marinduque after being hit by falling trees and other objects, and a fourth drowned on the island of Leyte, police and officials reported.
