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‘Brexit worse threat than EU conflict to Polish government’

Bloomberg It’s Brexit, and not Warsaw’s escalating conflict with the European Union over democratic values, that presents a bigger threat to inflows of the bloc’s assistance to Poland, according to the government official in charge of funds absorption. While the EU’s executive is set to move ahead this week with plans to slap unprecedented political sanctions on Poland, Deputy Development ...

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Putin thanks Trump for CIA tip

Bloomberg Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with Donald Trump for the second time in four days, this time to thank the US president for Central Intelligence Agency information that lead to the breakup of a suspected IS cell. The information helped disrupt a group that had been planning to blow up Kazan Cathedral and other locations around St. Petersburg, according ...

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Arab envoys ask India to clarify stand on ‘Jerusalem’

NEW DELHI / Reuters A dozen Arab ambassadors have asked India to clarify its position on the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, diplomatic sources said, after New Delhi’s muted response suggested a shift in support for the Palestinian cause. US President Donald Trump abruptly reversed decades of US policy this month when he recognised Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, ...

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