Bolton: Washington to Strengthen Sanctions if DPRK 'Not Willing' to Denuclearize
March 08, 2019 at 10:25 AM
The United States will look at ramping up sanctions on North Korea if it does not move to denuclearization, US National Security Adviser John Bolton said on Tuesday. Read More »
South Korea Will Seek New Talks Between Pyongyang, US After Trump Walked Away
March 06, 2019 at 10:03 AM
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - South Korea will push for trilateral negotiations with North Korea and the United States as a way of resuming Washington-Pyongyang denuclearization talks after the second US-North Korea summit in Hanoi, South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha said on Monday. Read More »
US Merges Jerusalem Embassy, Consulate Used to Serve Palestinians
March 06, 2019 at 09:51 AM
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The United States has merged its Consulate General in Jerusalem, which served Palestinians, and its new Embassy in Israel into a single diplomatic mission. Read More »
Trump Says Unwilling to Give Up DPRK Sanctions Unless Denuke Program Agreed
March 04, 2019 at 09:52 AM
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - US President Donald Trump said in an interview with Fox News that he did not want to fully abandon sanctions against North Korea unless there is a real program for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula agreed. Read More »
Moscow ready to mediate as India & Pakistan caught up in fresh escalation
March 03, 2019 at 12:26 PM
Moscow would be ready to host negotiations between New Delhi and Islamabad, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said as tensions flare in the contested region of Kashmir. Read More »
Pakistan Hopes to Avoid War With India: It Would Lead to Mutual Suicide
March 02, 2019 at 05:20 PM
Earlier, the Indian Air Force (IAF) claimed that it had lost a MiG-21 fighter but that a Pakistan F-16 jet had also been downed as the two sides engaged in an air battle, just a day after the IAF carried out an airstrike against a Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist camp located in the Pakistani-controlled part of the Kashmir region. Read More »
N. Korea offered to halt nuclear, long-range rocket testing for partial relief of sanctions - FM
March 01, 2019 at 12:08 PM
North Korea offered a “realistic proposal” to halt nuclear and missile tests in exchange for partial sanctions relief, Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho told reporters in Hanoi after the failed Trump-Kim summit. Read More »
Vatican’s former 3rd most powerful man convicted of child sex abuse
February 28, 2019 at 10:42 AM
Once a close aide to Pope Francis, former Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell has been unanimously convicted by a jury in Australia on five counts of historic child sex crimes, a verdict that is likely to land him in jail. Read More »
Syria’s Assad visits ally Iran for first time in 8 years since conflict began (VIDEO)
February 28, 2019 at 10:27 AM
Syrian President Bashar Assad has made his first public visit to Iran — his country’s closest regional ally — since the beginning of the Syrian conflict eight years ago. Read More »
Kim Jong-un Takes Armoured Train to Vietnam for Second Summit with US
February 26, 2019 at 10:44 AM
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was on a train Sunday to Vietnam, where he is set to hold a second summit with US President Donald Trump, local media reported. Read More »
