Press TV – April 7, 2019 Iran’s top military commander says the country and its neighbor Iraq have agreed to cooperate in the area of air defense to fend off the challenges facing their respective air spaces. Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Baqeri made the announcement […]
Press TV – April 3, 2019 Venezuela’s foreign minister has embarked on a Middle East tour taking him through Turkey, Lebanon, and Syria, amid US measures to prop up the Latin American country’s opposition figure and self-proclaimed “interim president” Juan Guaido against President Nicolas Maduro. Jorge Arreaza arrived in Turkey on Monday and was assured […]
Al-Manar | April 3, 2019 The Kremlin on Wednesday said it hoped for a transition of power in Algeria without foreign “interference” after President Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigned in the face of massive street protests. “We expect that the internal processes that are happening in this country and are exclusively the internal affair of Algeria will […]
By M. K. BHADRAKUMAR | Indian Punchline | April 2, 2019 The reported arrival of Chinese military personnel in Venezuela last weekend is undoubtedly a major event in world politics. Unlike Russia, which has a history of force projection abroad, this is an extremely rare Chinese move. Although vital Chinese interests are at stake in […]
Second in a four-part series on the 70th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization By Yves Engler · March 30, 2019 The first installment in this series discussed how NATO was set up partly to blunt the European Left. The other major factor driving the creation of NATO was a desire to bolster colonial authority […]
By Martin Berger – New Eastern Outlook – 29.03.2019 To this day Central Asia remains an arena of struggle for a number of major international players, namely Russia, China and the United States. In this struggle, Washington has now started losing its influence, which resulted in a series of desperate attempts to establish a sound […]
Sputnik – March 29, 2019 Although Berlin has sided with the US and recognised self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaido, it is keeping Otto Gebauer, whom he picked to represent Venezuela in Germany, in limbo and has not granted the representative key diplomatic status. Spain, above all, has reportedly urged fellow EU member states not to […]
By James O’Neill | American Herald Tribune | March 28, 2019 According to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald (25 March 2019) the coalition government, if re-elected, would spend $2.5 billion on an air defence system. The object of the expenditure is said to “bolster Australia’s capacity to intercept enemy aircraft”. The new system […]
Sputnik – March 28, 2019 New Delhi – Categorically denying the presence of any terror camps, Pakistan’s Foreign Office on Thursday stated that it has thoroughly investigated the entire dossier related to the Pulwama terror attack and has neither found any evidence of terror camps at the locations mentioned by India, nor of any of […]
Venezuelan authorities denounce “double attack” against the country’s electrical infrastructure By Ricardo Vaz | Venezuelanalysis | March 26, 2019 Caracas – Venezuela suffered another widespread power outage on Monday, with authorities claiming a “double attack” against the country’s main hydroelectric dam took place. Both alleged attacks against the Simon Bolivar Hydroelectric Plant, known as the […]
