Section: The Indian Express (India)
North Korea’s repeated provocations is making disarmament harder: G7 Ministers
G7 foreign ministers gathered at Hiroshima where the US had dropped an atomic bomb in 1945 (AP Photo) The effort to rid the world of nuclear weapons has been made more complex by North Korea’s repeated provocations and by the worsening security environment in Syria and Ukraine, the Group of Seven (G7) foreign ministers said on Monday....
Ukraine’s embattled PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk resigns
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. (AP Photo) Ukraine’s embattled prime minister announced Sunday that he is resigning, opening the way for the formation of a new government to end a drawn-out political crisis. In his weekly televised address, Arseniy Yatsenyuk said his resignation would be formally submitted to parliament on...
John Kerry arrives in Japan for landmark Hiroshima visit
US Secretary of State John Kerry arrives ahead of G7 ministerial meetings, at Iwakuni Marine Corps Air Station, Japan. (Source: Reuters photo) John Kerry arrived in Japan on Sunday for a Group of Seven meeting in Hiroshima, in the first-ever visit to the atomic-bombed city by a US secretary of state. Kerry arrived at a US military base west of...
After Panama papers leak, EU warns of sanctions on the low-tax haven
Panama is listed by the EU as a country that is not cooperative on tax issues. A European Union official has threatened to sanction Panama and other nations if they don’t cooperate fully to fight money laundering and tax evasion, after a leak of data showed the small country remains a key destination for people who want to hide money. The...
Friend named in Panama Papers not corrupt: Vladimir Putin
Russia President Vladimir Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin said a friend of his named in the leaks had done nothing wrong and spent the money he earned from business on buying expensive musical instruments which he was donating to public institutions. Media reports based on the leaked documents from a Panama-based law firm alleged that...
Global military spending nearly $1.7T amid Mideast conflicts
Russian Su-25 ground attack jets are parked after returning from Syria, at a Russian air base in Primorsko-Akhtarsk, southern Russia, Wednesday, March 16, 2016. (Olga Balashova/Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP) Global military spending rose in 2015 to nearly $1.7 trillion, the first increase in several years, driven by conflicts...
China limits coverage of Panama Papers’ tax haven revelations, blocks certain search terms
China’s President Xi Jinping (L) and China’s Premier Li Keqiang arrive for the opening session of the National People’s Congress (NPC) in Beijing, China, March 5, 2016. (REUTERS/Jason Lee) China has moved to limit coverage of the massive leak of documents from a Panamanian law firm that may have exposed financial wrongdoing by...
NATO is critical to security of United States: Barack Obama
US President Barack Obama. US President Barack Obama has said NATO is “critical” to the security of America and its allies in Europe, a virtual rejection of Republican front-runner Donald Trump’s views that the intergovernmental military alliance has outlived its utility. “NATO continues to be the linchpin, the cornerstone of our collective...
Afghanistan on top of NATO agenda: Stoltenberg
An Afghan laborer pushes his handcart in front of street art on a barrier wall of the NDS (National Directorate of Security) in Kabul, Afghanistan. “I want people to define who really are the heroes of my city _ the people who clean the city, for instance,” the 46-year-old artist Kabir Mokamel said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) NATO has said...
US says ‘reviewing’ Panama papers
Panama papers: “We are aware of the reports and are reviewing them,” US Justice Department spokesman Peter Carr said. The US was reviewing the leaked ‘Panama papers’, which lifted the lid on the murky offshore financial dealings of a slew of politicians and celebrities across the world, including 500 from India, and will follow up on...
