US President Donald Trump says he will withdraw the US from an Obama-era nuclear agreement with Iran, the BBC reports. Calling it “decaying and rotten”, he said the deal was “an embarrassment” to him “as a citizen”. He said he would reimpose economic sanctions that were waived when the deal was signed in 2015. The […]
On Wednesday May 2, the European Union announced that due the belief that the bloc needs to become more resilient in order to handle the Russian threat (which, one understands, is present and concerns European officials deeply), there are plans for the financial boosting of the EU’s long-term defence budget. As euractiv.com reads, “After decades of […]
Ten people were injured after a bonfire lit as part of celebrations for a Jewish holiday in north London exploded into a fireball. Paramedics were called to a Lag BaOmer event in Stamford Hill on Wednesday evening, treating several people for minor burns after the blast on a residential street. Video of the incident circulated online shows a large […]
Venice has installed temporary gates at the ends of two bridges to keep tourists out if their numbers become overwhelming. The measure has been brought in by the lagoon city for the four-day holiday weekend that finishes on 1 May. There are also various diversions in place to prevent the city from being overwhelmed during […]
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to shut down the federal government in September if Congress did not provide more funding to build a wall on the border with Mexico. “That wall has started, we have 1.6 billion (dollars),” Trump said at a campaign rally in Washington, Michigan. “We come up again on September 28th and […]
North Korea’s nuclear test site will shut in May and reveal the process to experts and journalists from South Korea and the United States, South Korea’s presidential office has said. On Friday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in vowed “complete denuclearisation” of the Korean peninsula in the first inter-Korean summit in more than […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. President Donald Trump aired differences over trade and NATO on Friday at a White House meeting where they tried to put on a show of warmth and friendship despite tensions between the two allies, Reuters reports. With Trump poised to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium soon that will impact European […]
A new era of peace is beginning, according to a declaration signed by the leaders of North and South Korea after their first meeting in over a decade. Both nations are aiming to completely denuclearize the Korean peninsula. “South and North Korea affirmed their shared objective of achieving a nuclear-free Korean peninsula through complete denuclearization,” reads […]
Police have identified the suspect in a deadly van attack in Toronto as Alek Minassian, a 25-year-old man from Richmond Hill, Ont., a suburb north of the city. Ten people were killed and 15 injured on Monday afternoon after a rented white Ryder van jumped a curb and plowed into pedestrians along an approximately one-kilometre-long stretch of Toronto’s busy Yonge Street. Minassian […]
India’s government has prescribed the death penalty for people convicted of raping children under 12 to help combat an increase in violent crime against women. An ordinance was approved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Cabinet on Saturday and was being sent to the president for approval, the Press Trust of India news agency reported. The […]
The President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that his country will hold snap elections on June 24, 2018. Moments after his meeting with the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) chairman, Devlet Bahceli, the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced snap presidential and parliamentary polls. “What we preferred was for the elections to be held in November 2019. Due […]
President Donald Trump’s administration has informed the Russian embassy in Washington that the United States has no immediate plans to impose new sanctions, Russian news agencies say, AAP reports. Relations between Moscow and Washington are in focus after the United States imposed fresh sanctions on Russia in early April, triggering a massive sell-off on Russian […]
The head of NATO expressed his support for Western strikes in Syria on Saturday after missiles targeted Bashar al-Assad’s regime in retaliation for a suspected chemical attack. “I support the actions taken by the United States, the United Kingdom and France… This will reduce the regime’s ability to further attack the people of Syria with […]
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Hakan Cavusoglu stated on Monday that Ankara’s stance on Assad is firm and has not been altered. “Speaking in Lefkosa, the capital city of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), Hakan Cavusoglu welcomed the U.S.-led airstrikes on Assad regime”, Anadolu reads. “The reaction of the U.S. and the U.K. and […]
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg drew attention to already existing NATO presence in Turkey and called on all allies to provide more support to the country. Stoltenberg spoke to Anadolu Agency at the NATO headquarters in Brussels ahead of his official visit to Turkey on April 16. The NATO chief said the aim of his […]
Born on September 11, 1965, Bashar al-Assad is the second son of former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, and his wife Anisa. His father, Hafez, rose to power through the Syrian military and the minority Alawite political party before taking control of Syria in 1970. Bashar al-Assad was educated at the Arab-French al-Hurriya School in Damascus where he […]
Apple has a long history of trying to tightly control information about its products and culture. According to a new report, Apple recently sent a memo warning employees not to leak company information, saying 29 employees were caught last year, 12 of whom were arrested. Naturally, the memo was leaked. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman got a copy of […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed hope that “common sense” will eventually prevail in the modern world, which is becoming “more chaotic.” The current international situation is very troubling, he added. “The state of world affairs invokes nothing but concerns, the situation in the world is becoming more chaotic,” Putin said on Wednesday during a ceremony […]
Romanian media report that a renowned politician of Romania, has allegedly committed suicide. Reports are based on information by the Alba County Police Inspectorate (IPJ) spokesperson, Luminiţa Prodan. On Wednesday morning, the Alba County Council Deputy Chairman, Alin Cucui “was found hanged (…) by his brother in his parents’ house”, adevarul.ro reads. As Prodan has said, “An investigation team […]
An Algerian military plane crashed and caught fire on Wednesday killing 257 people, mostly army personnel and members of their families, officials said. An AFP photographer at the scene saw the charred wreckage of the plane in a field near the Boufarik airbase from where the plane had taken off. Hundreds of ambulances and dozens […]
