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      Main Messages and Results of Negotiations in Vienna
      May18

      Main Messages and Results of Negotiations in Vienna

      Interview with Kayts Minasyan, analyst at the Center of Strategic Studies of France. Mr. Minasyan, presidents of the two countries have met after the wide-scale military operations unleashed by Azerbaijan on April 2 due to OSCE MG productive efforts. According to the released statement an agreement has been reached to take steps for installation...

      Polish Ambassador: Armenia is an ancient Christian country with European mentality and quite good prospects for European integration
      May18

      Polish Ambassador: Armenia is an ancient Christian country with European mentality and quite good prospects for European integration

      Mr. Ambassador, what do you think of the current level of the trade and economic relations of Armenia and Poland, considering that despite the upward tendency of the two countries’ trade turnover for 2015, Poland is no longer in the list of the countries wherefrom Armenia receives net direct foreign investments? The commodity turnover...

      Getting slots for Rio 2016 just got much harder for Indian women boxers
      May18

      Getting slots for Rio 2016 just got much harder for Indian women boxers

      Five-time champion Indian star M C Mary Kom (51kg) will take on Sweden’s Juliana Soderstrom in her opening bout of a highly competitive World Women’s Boxing Championship where only three of her compatriots were given seedings in Astana on Wednesday. The event — the final qualifying tournament for women boxers in the three...

      Trump would speak to Kim Jong-Un: report
      May18

      Trump would speak to Kim Jong-Un: report

      FILE – In this April 15, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks in Hartford, Conn. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File) Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would speak with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, in what would be a dramatic shift in US policy. “I would speak to him, I would have no problem speaking to him,” the...

      Would have no problem speaking to Kim Jong-Un, says Donald Trump
      May18

      Would have no problem speaking to Kim Jong-Un, says Donald Trump

      Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would speak with North Korean Leader Kim Jong-Un, in what would be a dramatic shift in United States (US) policy. “I would speak to him, I would have no problem speaking to him,” the Republican presumptive presidential nominee told media in an interview. Until now, the US strategy has been to try and isolate...

      Trump would speak to N.Korean leader: report
      May18

      Trump would speak to N.Korean leader: report

      WASHINGTON: Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would speak with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, in what would be a dramatic shift in US policy. “I would speak to him, I would have no problem speaking to him,” the Republican presumptive presidential nominee told Reuters in an exclusive interview. Until now, the US strategy has been to...

      Rio 2016: 31 athletes caught in drug retests, might face ban
      May18

      Rio 2016: 31 athletes caught in drug retests, might face ban

      In a major doping crackdown stretching back eight years, 31 athletes in six sports could be barred from competing in this year’s Olympics after they were caught in retesting of drug samples from the 2008 Beijing Games, and other positive cases could emerge from the 2012 London Games. The International Olympic Committee opened disciplinary...

      Trump would talk to North Korea’s Kim, wants to renegotiate climate accord
      May18

      Trump would talk to North Korea’s Kim, wants to renegotiate climate accord

      A combination photo shows a Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) handout of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un released on May 10, 2016, and Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump posing for a photo after an interview with Reuters in his office in Trump Tower, in the Manhattan borough of New York City, US, May 17, 2016. REUTERS NEW YORK:...

      US election: Donald Trump open to talks with North Korea
      May18

      US election: Donald Trump open to talks with North Korea

      Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. –AP photo Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he is willing to meet the North Korean leader to discuss Pyongyang’s nuclear programme. ‘I would speak to him, I would have no problem speaking to him,’ the businessman said of Kim Jong-un....

      Trump would engage North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, wants to renegotiate climate accord
      May18

      Trump would engage North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, wants to renegotiate climate accord

      Asked whether he would try to talk some sense into the North Korean leader, Trump replied, “Absolutely.” (Source: AP) Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is willing to talk to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try to stop Pyongyang’s nuclear program, proposing a major shift in US policy toward the isolated...