Sputnik – December 16, 2019 Russia and China have submitted a draft resolution to the UN Security Council to lift sanctions on North Korea and promptly resume the ‘six-party’ talks, according to the text of the document. The resolution proposes to exempt the inter-Korean rail and road cooperation from UN sanctions and lift all measures […]
Press TV – December 15, 2019 Turkish navy ships have intercepted an Israeli research vessel in Cypriot waters, over which Ankara claims jurisdiction, forcing it to leave the area in a move that could negatively impact an ambitious Israeli project to pipe natural gas to Europe. Quoting unnamed senior Israeli officials, Israel’s channel 13 news […]
By Renée Parsons | OffGuardian | December 13, 2019 Despite an inadequate performance last week by Constitutional law experts before the House Judiciary Committee, Chair Jerrold Nadler released a unilateral committee report on Saturday entitled “Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment.” The Report came the day after Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s press conference in which she directed […]
Press TV – December 11, 2019 United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres says the world body’s investigators are “unable to independently corroborate” the US and Saudi claims that Iran was behind attacks on the kingdom’s Aramco oil facilities in September. Guterres announced in a report on Tuesday that all the debris from the weapons used […]
RT | December 8, 2019 Pressure is mounting on Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, with the opposition threatening him with civil unrest should he show weakness during the Normandy Four talks with Russian, French and German leaders on Monday. Thousands attended a rally at the iconic Maidan square in the center of the Ukrainian capital, organized […]
Dmitry Polyanskiy, Russia’s chargé d’affaires to the United Nations Press TV – December 6, 2019 Russia’s mission to the United Nations says the US continually tries to demonize Iran’s missile activities despite lack of any damning evidence against the Islamic Republic’s defensive activities, and while Washington itself is in default of several international non-proliferation agreements. […]
Press TV – December 6, 2019 Jordan plans to restore full diplomatic relations with neighboring Syria in a further sign of Arab states embracing President Bashar al-Assad after a UAE diplomat praised him for “wise leadership” this week. Jordanian Minister of State and Agriculture Samir Habashneh said Thursday he will travel to Syria later this […]
RT | December 6, 2019 Ukraine should not expect new important agreements from the Normandy Four summit in Paris but the meeting may result in establishing a comprehensive ceasefire in Donbass and prisoner exchange, TASS quoted Nikita Poturaev, the adviser to the Ukrainian president, as saying on Friday. “No new Minsk Agreements or some kind […]
Al-Manar | December 5, 2019 Nearly one million Syrian refugees have so far returned from Lebanon since June 2018, the pro-government al-Watan newspaper reported on Thursday. Their return is a result of conveniences provided by the Syrian government, Hussain Makhlouf, the minister of local administration said as quoted by the Syrian paper. Makhlouf said Syrian […]
By Renée Parsons | OffGuardian | December 5, 2019 There were two especially notable testimonys made during the recent House impeachment inquiry that should have been ‘nothing to see here folks, let’s move on’ except that The Grand Poo-bah of the Intel Committee Chair Adam Schiff, haughty in his own insecurity and full of his […]
