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India-Russia strengthen inclusive transparent global governance
India-Russia Joint Statement After PM Narendra Modi Meets President Vladimir Putin Posted by Surabhi Pandey, NDTV, India, 15 October 2016 Prime Minister Narendra Modi held bilateral talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of the eighth BRICS Summit in Goa. Following is the full text of the joint statement: India-Russia Joint Statement...
Vote Trump or face nuclear war, says Putin ally
“Victory for Trump would be a gift to humanity. But if Hillary Clinton wins it will be the last US president ever,” Russian lawmaker Vladimir Zhirinovsky told Reuters. ||| Moscow – Americans should vote for Donald Trump as president next month or risk being dragged into a nuclear war, according to a Russian ultra-nationalist ally of...
Are there more racist, sexist Trump recordings?
A TV producer is at the centre of claims which may shatter Donald Trump’s remaining chances of getting to the White House. ||| London – A Los Angeles-based television producer, who was born in London and served in the Falklands as a British Army paratrooper, is at the centre of the latest claims which may shatter Donald Trump’s...
Clinton blames Trump, WikiLeaks, Moscow after new leaks
The head of Hillary Clinton’s campaign team John Podesta slammed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday for helping Republican rival Donald Trump in the bitter White House race, while accusing Moscow of being behind the hack. The anti-secrecy website has published thousands of emails from John Podesta’s personal Gmail account...
Hollande uncertain on Putin visit after Aleppo veto
French President Francois Hollande has not yet decided whether to meet Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Paris next week, after the Kremlin blocked a UN bid to end the bombing of Aleppo, Paris said Monday. Putin is due in Paris on October 19 to inaugurate a new Orthodox church near the Eiffel Tower in a visit that is fast turning into a diplomatic...
Four council members linked to attacks on medical facilities
When the UN Security Council last week discussed the deliberate attacks on medical facilities in war-ravaged Syria and Yemen, secretary-general Ban Ki-moon implicitly criticised some of the warring nations lamenting that “even a slaughterhouse is more humane” than the ongoing indiscriminate killings of civilians in the two devastating conflicts....
Poland blames Airbus for grounding chopper talks
Poland on Saturday blamed French aeronautics giant Airbus for the breakdown in talks over a multi-billion euro contract for military helicopters that has triggered a spike in tensions with Paris. “I want to make it perfectly clear that it wasn’t the Polish side who broke off the talks,” Polish Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz told...
Russia deploys nuclear-capable missiles on NATO doorstep: Lithuania
Russia is again deploying nuclear-capable Iskander missiles into its Kaliningrad outpost bordering two NATO members, Lithuania said Saturday, warning the move was aimed at pressuring the West into making concessions over Syria and Ukraine. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Putin calls to boost Russia’s defences
President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday called for a boost of Russia’s defences to keep the nation “strong” as he opened the new parliament session amid a fresh upsurge in tensions with the United States. Putin addressed the State Duma after a crushing victory for ruling party United Russia at elections last month that could help smooth the...
Putin scraps plutonium disposal deal with ‘unfriendly’ US
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered a halt to an agreement with the United States on weapons-grade plutonium disposal in retaliation for Washington’s “unfriendly actions” amid a wider standoff with the West. The deal, signed in 2000, was meant to allow both nuclear powers to dispose of plutonium from their defence programmes,...
