MOSCOW: Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday (Jul 31) it would respond with reciprocal measures to European Union travel and financial sanctions against a department of Russia’s military intelligence service for alleged cyberattacks. “Of course this unfriendly action by the EU will not be left unanswered,” the ministry said in […]
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The value of nuclear missiles to North Korea is very obvious, and it is surprising that US President Donald Trump offered so little for them, says Professor Robert E Kelly. BUSAN: This week, North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un stated that nuclear deterrence insures there will never be another […]
LOS ANGELES: President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday (Jul 29) agreed to a deal to defuse weeks of clashes in the US city of Portland with the withdrawal of federal forces whose presence enraged protesters, but the timing remained in dispute. Oregon Governor Kate Brown said the forces – whose […]
SINGAPORE: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Tuesday (Jul 28) said he fears US-China tensions could continue beyond the US presidential election this year, highlighting the “bipartisan consensus on treating China as a threat”. Mr Lee was speaking at a virtual dialogue organised by the Atlantic Council – an American […]
WASHINGTON: The United States and Australia said on Tuesday (Jul 28) they will expand military cooperation as tensions soar with China, presenting a common front between the allies. Going ahead in Washington with annual talks despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Australia’s foreign and defence ministers offered clear, if more mildly stated, […]
WASHINGTON: Republicans in the White House and the US Congress were in disarray over their own plan for providing US$1 trillion in new coronavirus aid on Tuesday (Jul 28), as negotiations aimed at reaching a compromise Bill with Democrats also sputtered. President Donald Trump told reporters that there were aspects […]
WASHINGTON: The United States warned Tuesday (Jul 28) that elections planned in Venezuela later this year would be deeply fraudulent, accusing leftist leader Nicolas Maduro of seeking to manipulate the outcome. Venezuelan authorities have called December 6 elections for the National Assembly, the only government branch led by the opposition […]
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump groused on Tuesday (Jul 28) about medical expert Anthony Fauci’s high approval ratings and joked that “nobody likes me” as he struggles to improve his standing with voters for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. “It can only be my personality,” said Trump. Fauci, an infectious […]
PARIS: France’s recently installed interior minister dismissed on Tuesday (Jul 28) the term “police violence” and told lawmakers the police exercise “legitimate violence”. “When I hear the term ‘police violence’, personally I choke,” said Gerard Darmanin, whose predecessor lost his job three weeks ago after becoming embroiled in a controversy […]
BOSTON: US prosecutors brought tax charges on Tuesday (Jul 28) against a Harvard University professor accused of lying to authorities about his ties to a China-run recruitment program and funding he allegedly received from the Chinese government for research. Charles Lieber, the former chair of Harvard’s chemistry and chemical biology […]