Section: The Frontier Post (Pakistan)
Merkel, Trump discuss Russia, China at G7 summit
BERLIN (AA): German Chancellor Angela Merkel insisted on Monday that progress should be achieved in Ukrainian peace talks before Russia could return to G8 group of world’s leading powers. “We wish to see progress made on the Minsk agreement,” Merkel said at a joint news conference with U.S. President Donald Trump ahead of their meeting on...
EU ‘under no condition’ agrees to reinvite Russia to G7
ANKARA (AA): The EU can “under no condition” agree to Russia’s return to the G8, European Council President Donald Tusk said on Saturday. “One year ago, in Canada, [U.S.] President [Donald] Trump suggested reinviting Russia to G7, stating openly that Crimea’s annexation by Russia was partially justified. And that we should accept this...
‘EU believes inviting Russia to rejoin G7 would be sign of weakness’
Monitoring Desk BRUSSELS: The European Union is against inviting Russia to the G7 format and thus resuming the G8 format until the country addresses the issues that led to its exclusion back in 2014, a high-ranking source in EU institutions told reporters on Thursday in Brussels. According to the source, the European Union believes that since...
UK urges Russia to take responsibility for MH17 downing
LONDON (AA): Britain on Wednesday reiterated its support to demands from the Russian government to “accept state responsibility for the downing of flight MH17”. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt paid tribute to the victims on the fifth anniversary of the downing of the Malaysian airplane in eastern Ukraine in 2014. Hunt has announced that the U.K....
Japan developing medical kits to secure 2020 Olympics
Monitoring Desk ANKARA: Japan is developing medical kits to counter outbreak of any fatal diseases, ahead of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games scheduled in Tokyo, Japan Times reported, quoting health ministry officials. According to plan, Tokyo will import strains of Ebola and four other deadly rare and fatal viruses that cause hemorrhagic...
Putin, Trump meet on sidelines of G20 summit
MOSCOW / WASHINGTON (AA): Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday held a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan. According to a Kremlin statement, the two leaders discussed the situations in Iran, Syria, Ukraine, and Venezuela. The closed-door meeting lasted for 1 hour and 20 minutes, the...
German Chancellor Merkel seen shaking for second time
BERLIN (AA): German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday was seen shaking for the second time in nine days. At a ceremony in Berlin, when Merkel’s whole body started to shake, she folded her arms in an apparent attempt to stop the motion, but it continued. She was offered a glass of water but declined it. A similar incident took place last...
NATO calls on Russia to destroy new missile, warns of response
BRUSSELS (Reuters): NATO urged Russia on Tuesday to destroy a new missile before an August deadline and save a treaty that keeps land-based nuclear warheads out of Europe or face a more determined alliance response in the region. NATO defense ministers will discuss on Wednesday their next steps if Moscow keeps the missile system that the United...
EU extends sanctions on Russia for another year
BRUSSELS (AA): The EU on Thursday agreed to extend by another year sanctions on Russia in response to its illegal annexation of Crimea. “The measures apply to EU persons and EU based companies. They are limited to the territory of Crimea and Sevastopol,” the EU said in a statement. The economic sanctions targeting specific sectors of the Russian...
Afghanistan ranked world’s least peaceful Nation
KABUL (TOLO News): The world is “considerably less peaceful now” than it was a decade ago, as the Middle East has become more violent and terrorist attacks have risen, the annual Global Peace Index said in an annual report on Thursday. The 103-page analysis, conducted by the Institute for Economics and Peace, evaluates and ranks 163 nations and...
