Section: Al-Manar TV (Lebanon)
Arms Sales to Middle East Have Increased Dramatically: US Top Exporter
Arms flows to the Middle East have increased by 87 percent over the past five years and now account for more than a third of the global trade, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said in a report on Sunday. The defense think-tank’s annual survey showed that Saudi Arabia became the world’s top arms importer in...
US, Allies Aim to Eliminate the Statehood of Countries They Dislike: Moscow
Chief of the Russian General Staff and First Deputy Defense Minister, General Valery Gerasimov stated that modern conflicts are characterized by attracting means of economic, political, diplomatic, informational pressure, as well as a demonstration of military power in the interests of enhancing the effectiveness of non-military measures....
US calls on Russia to return Crimea to Ukraine, five years later
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Ukraine asks UN to move ahead with peacekeeping mission: AFP
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Pompeo Says US Will Do “Everything in Its Power” to Stop Nord Stream 2 Pipeline
United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday in a joint press conference with Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz that the US will do everything in its power to stop Russia’s plans to build the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Europe. Pompeo said that the pipeline from Russia to Germany, on which construction began last...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko Announces Re-election Bid
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday launched an uphill battle for re-election, five years on from a bloody uprising that brought him to power on a promise to tackle corruption. “This feeling of deep responsibility towards my country… prompted me to decide to run again for the office of President of Ukraine,” he told a forum in Kiev....
20 presumed dead from ship fires off Crimea: AFP
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Moscow Rejects Israeli Complaint over Haniyeh Invitation: You’re Also Talking to Hamas
Israeli ambassador to Moscow Gary Koren recently sent a sharp protest to Russian officials over the invitation the Russian Foreign Ministry sent to the Head of Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh in Moscow, Israeli Channel 10 reported. Senior Israeli officials were quoted as confirming that a similar protest was also transferred to the Russian...
Russia deploys fighter jets to Crimea amid Ukraine tensions: Ifax
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EU sanctions nine people over ‘illegal’ Ukraine polls
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