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Orbital to fly first space cargo mission since 2014 explosion
MIAMI (AFP) – Orbital ATK on Wednesday counted down to its first space launch since a sudden explosion last year destroyed its Antares rocket and cargo craft bound for the International Space Station.Thursdays planned liftoff of the unmanned Cygnus cargo ship uses a different rocket — an Atlas V made by United Launch Alliance —...
Obama pushes for calm in angry Russia-Turkey row
LE BOURGET (AFP) – US President Barack Obama pushed Monday for a de-escalation of a furious war of words over Turkeys downing of a Russian warplane, a White House official said.Obama called for an easing of inflamed Russia-Turkey tensions in a closed-door meeting with Russias Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of a climate summit in Paris, the...
Obama, Putin discuss Syrian crisis, Russian jet’s downing dispute
Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama held talks for around 30 minutes on the sidelines of a summit in Paris on Monday at which the two leaders discussed the Syria and Ukraine crises, a Kremlin spokesman said. Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman, told reporters that Obama had expressed regret at the meeting over the downing of a...
Putin visits Iran
And what’s going to happen in the Middle East next? A very important development has escaped the notice of local media in light of ongoing happenings. This was Putin’s first visit to Iran bearing gifts in eight years. Let’s briefly take a look at the historical involvement of both Russia and Syria to analyse the importance of...
Boxing: Fury vows to be ‘most charming champ since Ali’
DUSSELDORF, Germany (AFP) – Britains Tyson Fury has vowed to be the most charismatic champion since Muhammad Ali after delivering on his promise to dethrone Wladimir Klitschko and become the new world heavyweight champion.I always said what I would do and I delivered. I didnt have this confidence for nothing, beamed Fury, 27, after his...
Russia-Turkey war of words escalates over downed warplane
MOSCOW (AFP) – Moscow slapped sanctions on Ankara on Friday as the war of words over a downed Russian warplane escalated, with Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan warning Russia not to play with fire.Russia announced it was halting a visa-free regime for Turkish visitors, after threatening a raft of retaliatory economic measures to...
Gloves dispute in world title fight will be resolved
The dispute over the gloves to be used in Saturday’s world heavyweight title fight between Ukrainian holder Wladimir Klitschko and Britain’s Tyson Fury will be resolved before Friday’s rules meeting, officials said. Klitschko, unbeaten for 11 years and a hot favourite to retain his belts in Duesseldorf, has the right to choose...
Ukraine bans Russia’s airlines from crossing its airspace
Ukraine on Wednesday banned all Russian airlines from crossing its airspace in the latest escalation between the two neighbours 19 months into the separatist war in the east of the former Soviet state. The announcement by Kiev’s pro-Western government came only moments after Russia announced plans to halt gas shipments to energy-dependent...
Top academic thinks Zionists are going to kill most of us; corporations will kill the rest
Punjab University’s VC believes Zionists want to reduce world population a more manageable 1 billion from the current 7 billion Punjab University Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran said on Wednesday that the New World Order would be a dictatorship of a few Zionist families who wanted to reduce world’s population from 7 billion to...
Turkey said it shot down the Russian warplane after it repeatedly violated air space above the Turkish border.
Turkey says it did not want any escalation in tension with Russia over its downing of a plane on the Syrian frontier. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a televised speech in Istanbul vowed to always defend Turkish borders. He said Turkey always favours peace and dialogue, but at the same time no one should expect us to remain silent on...
