Russia | Kremlin-controlled TV airs ‘secret’ plans for nuclear weapon

President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman says plans for a new submarine-launched nuclear torpedo shown on Kremlin-controlled television were secret and should never have been aired. The video broadcast on NTV and Channel One — shot over a military officer’s shoulder during a meeting with Putin — showed a document describing a weapons system called Status-6, which it said would cause radioactive contamination to make coastal areas unsuitable for military or economic activity “for a long time.” The channels later removed the footage. Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said late Wednesday: “It’s true that some secret information was caught by the camera and therefore it was subsequently removed. We hope this will not happen again.” The appearance of the video on Kremlin-controlled channels raised suspicions it was done intentionally to alarm the West.

Malta | Saving Schengen travel zone a race against time

European Union leader Donald Tusk says saving Europe’s Schengen passport-free travel zone is going to be a “race against time” after Germany, Sweden, Slovenia and other EU nations acted unilaterally. Sweden — with the highest number of migrants per capita in Europe — was reintroducing border controls yesterday. Tusk spoke yesterday at the end of a European-African summit in Malta to find ways to send migrants who don’t qualify for asylum back to their homelands and discourage more from leaving Africa. Tusk warned: “Without effective control of our external borders, Schengen will not survive.” He added “We must hurry, but without panic.” Tensions were also high yesterday in the Balkans, as Slovenia continued to erect a razor-wire fence on its border with Croatia to hold back the migrant influx.