WARSAW / AP Poland’s ruling party leader says his talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel were held in “good atmosphere” and that he believes her visit will bring “good results.” Poland’s most powerful politician, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, met with Merkel late Tuesday during her half-a-day visit to Warsaw. TVN24 on Wednesday showed him kiss Merkel’s hand in greeting, a vanishing, …

  ANKARA / AP CIA Director Mike Pompeo will visit Turkey on Thursday in his first overseas visit to discuss security issues, including Turkey’s fight against a movement led by a US-based cleric accused of orchestrating a failed military coup, Turkish officials said, in a sign of improving relations between the allies. Pompeo’s visit was decided during a 45-minute telephone …

  BEIJING / AP China is drafting policies to attract Taiwanese to live and work on the mainland, a government spokesman said on Wednesday, in a direct appeal to the island’s population amid a deepening political standoff between the governments in Taipei and Beijing. The Cabinet’s Taiwan Affairs Office said on Wednesday that residents of the self-governing island democracy will …