Syria Never Used And Will Not Use Chemical Weapons - Ambassador to Russia After a series of unjustified allegations that Syria reportedly kept chemical weapons, Syrian Ambassador to Russia Riyad Haddad said on Sunday that the state eliminated all of its chemical arsenal in 2013. 26.08.2018
Trump Under Fire for Failing to Mention McCain Who Discontinued Cancer Treatment On August 24 McCain's family announced that the veteran senator had decided to end his treatment for brain cancer, citing its reduced efficiency due to his age and aggressiveness of the glioblastoma. 25.08.2018
Duterte rejects ‘imposed friendship’ & questions US reputation as 'peerless' arms supplier Despite getting no guarantees that Philippines' colonial-times 'friend' the US would ever supply him with weapons, President Duterte says he’ll meet top US officials, who want to stop him from buying arms from Russia and China. 24.08.2018
State Dept Warns of Possible Sanctions on Any Country Purchasing Russia's S-400 US State Department doesn't rule out that a purchase of Russian S-400 air defense systems may cause sanctions on any country around the world. 23.08.2018
NATO Aircraft to Continue Mission in Estonia After Accidental Missile Launch The Estonian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday that starting from August 27 the airspace of the country will be reopened for training flights of NATO countries' aircraft despite an incident with a missile mistakenly launched by a Spanish fighter jet earlier in August. 22.08.2018
UK Foreign Secretary: No-Deal Brexit Will be Geo-Strategic Mistake for Europe The United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in June 2016, with the negotiations between the two parties expected to last until March 29, 2019. 21.08.2018
Dozens of Korean Families to Have Almost Week-Long Reunion - Reports Following a rapid diplomatic thaw on the Korean peninsula, 89 elderly and frail South Koreans will meet their family members in Mount Kumgang resort in North Korea on Monday, almost seven decades after they were separated by the Korean war that kept the peninsula and relatives divided, local media reported. 20.08.2018
Afghan President Announces Eid Holiday Ceasefire With Taliban Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani office’s said that a "conditional" ceasefire with the Taliban will run for a three-month period. 19.08.2018
World Mourning as Former UN Chief and Nobel Prize Laureate Kofi Annan Dies Kofi Annan served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January, 1997 to December, 2006. 18.08.2018
‘We are not going to take it sitting down’: Trump on detention of US pastor in Turkey US President Donald Trump has vowed to take new steps to free an American pastor detained in Turkey, stating that “we haven’t seen the last of it. 17.08.2018
In Russia's Footsteps? Turkey Dumps US Sovereign Debt as Political Rift Deepens US Treasury reports previously showed that Russia had also drastically decreased its share in the US debt amid a deterioration of relations between the two countries and following a set of harsh sanctions imposed by Washington. 16.08.2018
Turkey favors switching from dollars to national currencies in trade with Russia & China Ankara has given a green light to Moscow’s proposal to switch to ruble-lira trade between the countries. 15.08.2018
Ex-White House Aide Says Trump Knew About Clinton Emails Before WikiLeaks Posted Former White House Official Omarosa Manigault Newman said in an interview on Tuesday that US President Donald Trump knew about the emails stolen from the campaign of Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton before they were posted by WikiLeaks. 14.08.2018
Washington Freezes Open Sky Treaty With Moscow in New Defense Bill US President Donald Trump signed the $716 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for the fiscal year 2019 at Fort Drum, New York on Monday. 13.08.2018
Mueller Aims to Quiz Alleged Mediator Between Ex-Trump Aide & Assange – Reports The US Special Counsel's office continues to investigate alleged collusion between Russia and President Trump's election campaign in 2016, including information about WikiLeaks' publication of stolen Democratic Party emails which were ostensibly obtained by Russian hackers. 12.08.2018
Russian PM Compares Further Anti-Moscow Sanctions to Economic Warfare Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned the United States on Friday that sanctions it plans to impose in August over the ex-spy poisoning might be treated as a declaration of economic war. 11.08.2018
50 dead, mostly kids, in Saudi-led coalition's 'legitimate' airstrike on Yemen bus Fifty people died in a bus attack in Yemen and 77 were injured, most of whom were children, the International Committee of the Red Cross stated, citing officials. 10.08.2018
Kremlin Rejects US Claims of Skripal Case Links, Calls Sanctions 'Unacceptable' Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has addressed the most recent round of sanctions introduced by the US against Moscow. 09.08.2018
Israeli Airstrikes Hit 12 Palestinian Targets in Gaza Strip Israeli combat aircraft on Wednesday attacked 12 Palestinian targets in the Gaza Strip in response to rocket attacks that continue from the territory of the Palestinian enclave, the Israel Defense Forces said. 08.08.2018
Europe Seeking to Boost Ties With Russia, Turkey Apart From the US – Analysts Turkey is seeking to host a new Syria summit without the US, which indicates the beginning of the end of Washington's influence in Syria, Turkish analysts told Sputnik, further suggesting that France and Germany are also interested in expanding ties with Russia and Turkey. 07.08.2018
