Tag Archives: The United States

BRUSSELS – The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is not part of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, NATO Secretary-General Stoltenberg said on Wednesday. “I reminded the [Armenian] president that NATO is not part of this conflict. Armenia and Azerbaijan have been valued NATO partners for over 25 years,” said Jens Stoltenberg at …

MOSCOW – Russia is ready to freeze the current number of nuclear warheads with the United States to extend the new bilateral strategic arms reduction treaty (New START) by one year, Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. “This position of ours can be implemented strictly and exclusively on the understanding …

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon has raised the estimated cost of commissioning a new fleet of ground-based nuclear missiles to replace the Minuteman 3 arsenal, that has been in continuous operation for 50 years to $95.8 billion, officials said Monday. The estimate is around $10 billion from four years ago. The …

ANKARA – The Turkish Defense minister, Hulusi Akar, in a phone call, told his Russian counterpart, Sergey Shoygu, on Monday that Armenia must end attacks on civilian settlements in violation of a new ceasefire and leave the occupied Azerbaijani territories. Akar and Shoygu discussed the Armenian attacks on Azerbaijan and …

LAHORE, Pakistan – Amid the rising positivity rate in the country which has now crossed 2%, the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) has warned authorities and the general public of the second predictable peak of coronavirus, which is expected to come from educational institutions as it has happened in the United …

LONDON – More than 37.35 million people have been infected with the novel coronavirus worldwide, and 1,073,862 have died, according to a Reuters tally released on Monday. With 214,375 deaths and 7,745,140 confirmed cases, the United States top the list of twenty countries with the highest recorded infections and deaths …

MOSCOW – The commitments of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a military alliance of six former Soviet states, do not apply to the Nagorno-Karabakh region, the spokesperson for the Russian presidency said on Wednesday. Responding to a question about the possibility of Russia sending troops to the Nagorno-Karabakh region, …

TOKYO – China said Wednesday that the United States should end its unprovoked attacks and accusations against China, accusing U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of maliciously creating a political confrontation and sullying Beijing. Pompeo visited Japan on Tuesday and called for deeper cooperation with Australia, India and Japan to …

JEDDAH: – Former Saudi intelligence chief Prince, Turki al-Faisal, has said US President Donald Trump is not an honest broker between the Arab world and Israel. Speaking to US business news channel CNBC on Wednesday night from Jeddah, Faisal said his father, King Faisal bin Abdul Aziz, was “disappointed” by …

UNITED NATIONS – World leaders met electronically on Tuesday for an unprecedented high-level meeting, where the UN chief urged them to unite and tackle the immense problems of the time: the coronavirus, the “economic calamity” it sparked and the risk of a new cold war between the United States and …