US President Donald Trump has once again threatened Iran, claiming that the country’s next supreme leader “is not going to last long” if Tehran does not get his approval first to replace the slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. ”He’s going to have to get approval from us,” Trump told ABC News. …
Read More »Saudi Arabia makes major commitment to US – White House
Saudi Arabia has agreed to raise investment in the US to almost $1 trillion, the White House has announced. The Kingdom made the commitment as part of a series of “landmark” economic and strategic deals signed by US President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during the …
Read More »Putin makes missile announcement
The Russian defense industry is ready to start producing intermediate and shorter-range missiles that had been banned under a now-defunct treaty with the US, President Vladimir Putin announced on Thursday. The Cold War-era Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) had prohibited these systems, but the US withdrew from it in 2019. …
Read More »Putin makes a choice between Trump and Biden
Moscow has a preferred outcome of this November’s presidential election in the US, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. Speaking with journalist Pavel Zarubin on the sidelines of the Future Technologies Forum in Moscow, Putin touched on the ongoing electoral campaign in the US, saying it would be inappropriate …
Read More »EU boss makes election U-turn
European Council president Charles Michel has abandoned plans to contest a seat in the upcoming European Parliament elections in June. This comes amid suggestions that doing so could have led Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban, a critic of aid to Ukraine, to replace him as EU Council chief. Michel, previously …
Read More »Israeli minister makes case for depopulation of Gaza
The majority of the Palestinian Arabs living in Gaza should be encouraged to emigrate to other countries, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has said. He argued that drastic measures are needed to ensure Israel’s security and avoid further incursions by Hamas. “What needs to be done in the Gaza Strip is …
Read More »China makes weapons ‘breakthrough’
Chinese military scientists have reported a research breakthrough that could make it possible for Beijing to develop high-energy laser weapons that can shoot for as long as their operators desire, without interruption and without any degradation in performance. Scientists at the National University of Defense Technology in Changsha, China, published …
Read More »Putin makes Africa sovereignty pledge
The African continent is becoming one of the pillars of a new multipolar world, and Russia will do everything in its power to help it prosper, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. In a welcome address to participants of the Russia-Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum in St. Petersburg, scheduled for …
Read More »Hungarian PM makes Ukraine proposal
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has urged NATO to promote a ceasefire and peace talks in Ukraine rather than continue to ship weapons to Kiev. He made the argument in a video clip posted on social media on Monday. “Instead of bringing weapons to Ukraine, we should bring peace,” Orban …
Read More »Zelensky explains what makes Ukraine’s counteroffensive difficult
The Russian advantage in long-range weapons seriously complicates Kiev’s counteroffensive, Vladimir Zelensky said on Friday. The Ukrainian president has previously attributed lack of progress in the much-hyped operation to delays in arms deliveries by the West. “Without long-range weapons, it’s difficult not only to carry out an offensive mission, it …
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