US would like to have dialogue with DPRK at some point: US top diplomat
3 August, 2017 Comments Off on US would like to have dialogue with DPRK at some point: US top diplomat
WASHINGTON – US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday that the United States would like to have dialogue with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) at some point. “We are not your enemy…but you are presenting an unacceptable threat to us, and we have to respond,” said Tillerson here at a press […]
Continue reading …Moscow ‘won’t bend or break’ over US sanctions – Russian envoy to UN
3 August, 2017 Comments Off on Moscow ‘won’t bend or break’ over US sanctions – Russian envoy to UN
© Alexey Druzginin / Anton Denisov / Russian Presidential Press Office / Sputnik Moscow “won’t bend” and has no plans to change its policies following Donald Trump’s signing of new anti-Russian sanctions, says its permanent representative to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia. “Those who invented this bill, if they were thinking that they might change our […]
Continue reading …Police investigate anti-Israel protest in southern Sweden
3 August, 2017 Comments Off on Police investigate anti-Israel protest in southern Sweden
Police in southern Sweden are investigating an anti-Israel protest where Jewish people were allegedly labelled the “offspring of apes and pigs”. Aside from the investigation the Jewish Community of Northwest Skåne (Judiska Församlingen i Nordvästra Skåne) is also preparing a report to submit to the police, SVT Helsingborg reports. Several protests have been held by […]
Continue reading …Shells hit Russian embassy compound in Syria
2 August, 2017 Comments Off on Shells hit Russian embassy compound in Syria
No injuries were reported in what the Syrian government said was an attack on the Russian embassy [Reuters] Syrian state media said that two mortar shells were fired at the Russian embassy in Damascus but reported no injuries. Syrian state media say shells have hit the Russian embassy in Damascus, causing material damage. State news […]
Continue reading …Ron Paul: Trump ‘racing towards disastrous war’ with Iran or N.Korea
2 August, 2017 Comments Off on Ron Paul: Trump ‘racing towards disastrous war’ with Iran or N.Korea
© Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Libertarian icon Ron Paul has accused Donald Trump of betraying his promises to the American electorate by seeking a new conflict with either Iran or North Korea, warning the US president that any such war will put an end to his term. “President Trump seems to be impatiently racing toward […]
Continue reading …96-year-old ‘Bookkeeper of Auschwitz’ fit to serve sentence: prosecutors
2 August, 2017 Comments Off on 96-year-old ‘Bookkeeper of Auschwitz’ fit to serve sentence: prosecutors
Oskar Gröning in court in 2015. Photo: DPA. A former Nazi SS guard known as the “Bookkeeper of Auschwitz”, now 96, is fit to serve out his sentence, prosecutors said on Wednesday. Oskar Gröning was found guilty in July 2015 of being an accessory to the murders of 300,000 people at the camp and sentenced to four […]
Continue reading …Trump willing to go to ‘war’ with N. Korea
2 August, 2017 Comments Off on Trump willing to go to ‘war’ with N. Korea
In a stunning revelation, U.S. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told NBC’s Today program, Tuesday (local time), U.S. President Donald Trump told him he was “willing to go to war with North Korea if they (North Korea) continued to try to hit America with an ICBM.” Graham said: “He’s told me that. I believe him… There […]
Continue reading …The newly-elected Prime Minister Abbasi likely to retain Nawaz’s ministers
2 August, 2017 Comments Off on The newly-elected Prime Minister Abbasi likely to retain Nawaz’s ministers
ISLAMABAD: Former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan is unlikely to rejoin the cabinet under the leadership of the ‘interim’ prime minister. Other members of the cabinet are expected to take oath with the same portfolios they were holding till Friday when Nawaz Sharif was disqualified by the Supreme Court as prime minister and his cabinet […]
Continue reading …Russian Losses In Syria Four Times Higher Than Official Count — Reuters
2 August, 2017 Comments Off on Russian Losses In Syria Four Times Higher Than Official Count — Reuters
Christiaan Triebert / Flickr Russia’s Defense Ministry has denied a Reuters report which claims that at least 40 Russians have died fighting in Syria this year alone. The number given by Reuters is far higher than official figures given by the Defense Ministry, which puts the death toll this year at ten servicemen. The ministry says in total […]
Continue reading …Suicide attack hits NATO convoy in Kandahar
2 August, 2017 Comments Off on Suicide attack hits NATO convoy in Kandahar
US soldiers keep watch near the wreckage of their vehicle at the site of the Taliban suicide attack [AFP] A suicide bomber rammed a vehicle filled with explosives into a convoy of foreign forces on Wednesday in Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar, officials said. “At around noon a car bomb targeted a convoy of foreign forces in Daman […]
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