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After 3 years, no trace of ‘missing’ MH370 found; search suspended
Sydney, Jan 17: The hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on Tuesday was suspended in futility and frustration as a failed three-year search of a 120,000 sq km stretch of the Indian Ocean came to an end without being able to find a trace of the plane. The Joint Agency Coordination Center in Australia, which has helped lead the $160 million hunt...
Trump labels NATO ‘obsolete’ in newspaper interview
Frankfurt am Main, Jan 16: (AFP) The NATO alliance is an “obsolete” organisation, US President-elect Donald Trump has said in an interview, complaining that the pact had “not bothered about terrorism”.”I said a long time ago that NATO had problems. Number one it was obsolete, because it was designed many, many years ago,” Trump told the...
Donald Trump backing EU breakup would be ‘lunacy’: ambassador
Brussels, Jan 13: The Donald Trump administration would be committing “sheer folly” if it supports the European Union’s breakup, as it appears to be doing, the departing US ambassador to the EU warned today. Anthony Gardner, who is leaving his Brussels post after three years, said the US president-elect’s transition team had been...
Trump’s Pentagon pick receives strong support in first vote
Washington, Jan 12: Retired General James Mattis won overwhelming support today in a first vote to allow him to run the Pentagon after telling senators he places Russia at No. 1 on his list of security threats. He also accused Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to “break” NATO.The Senate Armed Services Committee voted 24-3 on a one-time...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel warns ‘eternal’ US-EU ties not guaranteed
Brussels, Jan 12: German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned the EU today it should not rely on “eternal” US support, as concern grows in Europe about Donald Trump’s commitment to transatlantic ties. Merkel, who faced a small protest by far-right supporters on a visit to Belgium, also told the European Union it must keep a united front in...
China won’t allow bullying from US on Taiwan: Chinese media
Beijing [China], Jan. 10: Calling the recent U.S- Taiwan engagement an orchestrated show, the Chinese Media has said that Beijing won’t allow any bullying from Washington on the Taiwan question. Beijing surely hopes to keep a stable relationship with Washington, but it won’t allow any bullying from the US over the Taiwan question,...
Pro-Russian rebel commander killed in Ukraine elevator bombing
Donetsk, October 17: A military chief of Ukraine’s pro-Russian rebels, Arseny Pavlov, was killed in a bomb attack in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, local authorities have said, calling it a “declaration of war.” Russia, which annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014, backs a separatist, pro-Moscow insurgency in eastern Ukraine that...
Russia envoy: Tensions with US are probably worst since 1973
United Nations, Oct 16 : Russia’s UN ambassador said that tensions with the United States are probably the worst since the 1973 Mideast war. But Vitaly Churkin said Friday that Cold War relations between the Soviet Union and the US more than 40 years ago were different than US-Russia relations today. “The general situation I think is pretty...
BRICS Summit 2016: Full text of India-Russia Joint Statement after Narendra Modi meets Vladimir Putin
New Delhi, Oct 15: On the sidelines of the 8th BRICS Summit in Goa on Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held bilateral talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and discussed a wide range of issues during the two hour long talk. After the meeting in Goa, both nations witnessed the signing of 16 agreements including the deal to make Kamov...
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. 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...
