Rosstat, the country’s statistical authority, announced on Friday that 37,107 people had died while infected with the coronavirus in January, putting the overall official number of dead at 200,432 and potentially giving the country the third-highest total death toll in the world after the US and Brazil. However, when measured …
Read More »New START treaty with US officially extended until February 2026 as Moscow hopes for new chapter in global stability
The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the treaty was formally signed without any amendments or additions, in effect preserving the arms control accord as it currently exists until February 5, 2026. The Ministry hailed the diplomatic breakthrough as a “cornerstone of international security” and expressed hope that …
Read More »A done deal: Following agreement with Biden, law extending New START nuclear treaty with US for 5 years signed into law by Putin
Friday evening’s move comes just two days after the Russian parliament unanimously agreed to prolong the pact that was about to expire on February 5. Earlier this week, Putin and Biden agreed to trigger the five-year extension clause following a lengthy phone call. This launched the paperwork needed to save …
Read More »The New START extension is welcome, but it won’t deliver stability. The last thing the US wants is improved relations with Russia
This is because the Biden team is unwilling to understand that arms control treaties further strategic stability between the great powers only if they are an integral part of a network of agreements designed to improve relations between such powers. The first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) and Anti-Ballistic …
Read More »Putin submits bill to ratify 5-year extension of New START as last-minute deal with US is expected to rescue nuclear treaty
The draft text reveals that the two countries have “agreed in principle” to preserve the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, placing no conditions on the five-year extension. The eleventh-hour deal to revive New START was discussed during a Tuesday phone call between Putin and US President Joe Biden, a conversation …
Read More »Biden aims at 5-year extension of New START nuclear treaty with Russia, White House spokeswoman confirms
White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed on Thursday that Biden would look to negotiate an extension of the deal before it sunsets on February 5. “The president has long been clear that the New START treaty is in the national security interest of the United States, and this extension …
Read More »Guatemala police start clearing US-bound migrant caravan camp after violent clashes (VIDEOS)
In videos aired on TV and shared on social media, lines of security forces could be seen marching with shields and batons towards migrants in the village of Vado Hondo, in the east of the country, around 55 kilometers from the borders of Honduras and El Salvador. Around 2,000 migrants …
Read More »‘We may never find patient zero’: WHO urges to be ‘careful’ about attributing start of Covid-19 pandemic
“We need to be very careful about the use of the phrase ‘patient zero’ which many people indicate as the first initial case. We may never find who the patient zero was,” Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’s technical lead on Covid-19 told a press conference on Friday, referring to the organization’s …
Read More »Can America be saved? It would have to start with some TRUTH-TELLING and unselfishness, so…not so much
Ironically, it was during the last civil war when President Abraham Lincoln spoke those eloquent words at Gettysburg, asserting that the honored dead had fallen in battle so America could have a “new birth of freedom” and govern with such dedication to the will of its people that it “shall …
Read More »Apple & Hyundai to start production of self-driving electric ‘iCar’ in 2024 – reports
With negotiations between the two companies in full swing, the duo is expected to reach a final agreement by March, local newspaper Korea IT News reported on Sunday, citing industry sources. The outlet says the cars will be produced at a plant in the US, operated by Hyundai affiliate Kia Motors. They …
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