President Vladimir Putin faced two rival outlines of Russia's future in St Petersburg: the need to gird for a global confrontation with the West or the economic benefits to be reaped from ending the war in Ukraine > https://t.co/TQGuRwiF2u
Ukrainian drones hit an oil terminal in St Petersburg and a warship in dry-dock at a nearby naval base, hours before Vladimir Putin's showcase economic forum got under way in the city, in a clear attempt to embarrass the Kremlin chief https://t.co/aYwHAluzhd
1863: Intercepting news at sea. Reuters built a telegraph line to southwest Ireland and met mail steamers offshore, gaining hours on American news while competitors waited for ships to dock. #Reuters175
How Trump’s Ukraine aid cuts undermine justice for Russian war crimes. "There's less hope” for accountability, Roksolana Makar of Truth Hounds, tells Reuters. See our full report out of Izium: https://t.co/AnPBncpNLd @HRL_YaleSPH@Mariam__Lambert@truth_hounds
Investigators are racing to document Russian war crimes in Ukraine, but as Reuters’ Anthony Deutsch reports, the Trump administration's cuts to foreign aid are leaving them with fewer resources and less hope for accountability https://t.co/CFZ7lqL3QW
Reuters went onto the streets of London to watch the Met using Live Facial Recognition. A wanted supsect was identified and arrested within an hour.
But it still concerns civil liberty campaigners.
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(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet NATO allies on Friday for the first time since President Donald Trump called the alliance into question due to divisions over the Iran war and Washington announced plans to pull 5,000 troops from Germany.
Before leaving for a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Sweden, Rubio said Trump was "very disappointed" in alliance members who had not allowed the U.S. to use bases on their territory for the war, singling out Spain in particular.
"You have countries like Spain denying us the use of these bases - well then why are you in NATO? That's a very fair question," Rubio told reporters in Miami. "In fairness, other countries in NATO have been very helpful. But we need to discuss that."
Scoop:
The Trump admin is planning to tell NATO allies this week that it will shrink the pool of military capabilities the US would have available to assist European nations in a major crisis, like an invasion of a NATO member, sources said
w @JonathanLanday@andrew_r_gray
Pope Leo on Thursday decried rising European military spending, which grew last year by the highest amount since the end of the Cold War amid pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump, saying it was a betrayal of diplomacy. For @Reuters
https://t.co/AmGTj26irx
NEW:
US intelligence agencies are studying how Iran would respond if President Trump were to declare a unilateral victory and wind down the two-month-old war that has killed thousands and become a political liability for the White House, sources said
w/ @ErinBanco
NEW: NATO is considering ending its recent practice of holding annual summits, six sources told Reuters, a move that could avoid a potentially tense encounter with Trump in his final year in office.
@humeyra_pamuk@andrew_r_gray
https://t.co/1syM4WTEHP
🔊 ‘Look, from day one, when I arrived in Oslo, I said I’m planning to go back.’ Listen to this episode of the Reuters World News podcast to hear from Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado in her interview with @ReutersRachel https://t.co/gEFRDaLuw8
SCOOP, w/ @humeyra_pamuk:
U.S. officials have informed European counterparts that some previously contracted weapons deliveries are likely to be delayed as the Iran war continues to draw on weapons stocks, three sources familiar with the matter told @Reuters
Pope Leo warned of the risk of democracies sliding into "majoritarian tyranny" on Tuesday, in a letter issued by the Vatican two days after U.S. President Donald Trump attacked the pontiff on social media. For @Reuters
https://t.co/Cr6BrMlp1n
Scoop, w @steveholland1:
Trump, upset at NATO's failure to help secure the Strait of Hormuz and angry that his plans to acquire Greenland have stalled, has discussed with advisers the option of removing some troops from Europe altogether and bringing them back to the US
Pope Leo said on Tuesday that threats against the population of Iran are "unacceptable," in an unusual appeal hours after US President Donald Trump said "a whole civilization will die tonight" in a post that shocked world leaders. For @Reuters
https://t.co/azIqBwc9b8