Russia’s defense ministry said Monday that the country was poised to transform its naval facility in the Syrian port city of Tartous into a permanent base. “In Syria we will have a permanent naval base in Tartous,” Russian news agencies quoted deputy defense minister Nikolai Pankov as saying. The defense ...
Britain has a “moral duty” to take in hundreds of migrant children from the “Jungle” camp in Calais desperate to cross the Channel, France said Monday, with apparently just days to go until the site is dismantled. “I am solemnly asking Britain to assume its moral duty,” Interior Minister Bernard ...