Talks between Turkey and Russia for Ankara to procure S400 missiles for a domestic air defense system have “progressed significantly”, Turkey’s Defence Minister Fikri Isik, said on Wednesday. Isik also said that Turkey’s preference was to originally buy a NATO system but that wasn’t possible. Source: Reuters
Seoul crossed out a reference to nuclear-armed North Korea as its enemy in a defence white paper published Tuesday (Jan 15), amid rapidly warming ties despite stalled nuclear talks between Pyongyang and Washington. Source: Channel NewsAsia
A fireman who joined France’s Yellow Vest protest movement is in a coma after being shot in the head ‘like a rabbit’ by a police officer using a controversial flash ball gun. Source: Daily Mail
Senior administration officials told The New York Times that several times over the course of 2018, Mr. Trump privately said he wanted to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Source: The New York Times
