North Korea has threatened a nuclear response if the US deploys aircraft carriers, bombers, and missile submarines in South Korea, according to a statement shared on Thursday by state media channel KCNA. Pyongyang claims that despite repeated warnings, Washington and Seoul held a meeting of the “nuclear consultative group” on …
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed retaliation for a new overnight strike on the Crimean Bridge, targeted by two Ukrainian naval drones. Precise measures are currently being weighed up by the country’s Defense Ministry, he said, during an extraordinary meeting with senior officials on Monday. “The incident is a yet …
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Russia has kicked out ten diplomats stationed in Moscow from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in retaliation to a similar move by the Baltic states. In a statement on Tuesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry expressed “a resolute protest against [the] prevocational, unjustified actions” of these countries. The ongoing diplomatic war between …
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Despite Russia’s recognition on Monday of Donbass’ breakaway regions as sovereign states and an order to deploy troops there, Ukraine doesn’t believe there will be a war, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday. The Ukrainian leader is considering breaking diplomatic relations with Russia and wants more foreign assistance for his …
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Russia is preparing to unveil a response to the banning of RT’s German-language news channel by regulators in Berlin, as part of a growing diplomatic row over media freedom. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced that authorities would soon take action over the RT DE ban on her Telegram channel on Thursday, saying …
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Moscow has repeatedly warned the German authorities that it considers any “politically motivated pressure” on Russian media “unacceptable,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. Officials were referring to the situation around the RT DE channel. On Wednesday, Germany’s media regular decided that authorities in Berlin-Brandenburg were correct in declaring …
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After RT’s German-language channel was taken off air just hours following its launch, Moscow is drafting a package of retaliatory measures aimed at Berlin, Russian media outlets reported on Friday, citing government sources. The proposed measures, which could be imposed in response to the blocking of RT DE, are said to range from restricting advertising …
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The diplomatic mission has lodged a “strong protest” in response to Wednesday’s decision by the German Foreign Ministry. Russian diplomats called the move “unwarranted,” and said the “obviously unfriendly step… will not be left without an appropriate response, to follow in the near future.” The situation comes as Berlin has seen …
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Speaking to BBC television on Friday, Environment Secretary George Eustice said Britain had its own countermeasures in mind if Paris were intent on escalating a row over fishing licences for French trawlers in British waters. “Obviously it’s always open to us to always increase the enforcement that we do on …
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“This is a retaliation case designed to punish me for my successful advocacy on behalf of the indigenous groups in Ecuador,” Donziger said in a video address he uploaded to Twitter in response to Friday’s verdict in the Chevron case. In the early 1990s, the Harvard Law School graduate and …
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