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Posted on:Thursday, August 3, 2017
President Donald Trump signed a Russia sanctions bill Congress forced on him, adding a statement saying the administration will carry out the law but with reservations about its impact and the constitutionality of some provisions.
Posted on:Thursday, August 3, 2017
New sanctions imposed on Russia will lead to a “full-scale trade war”, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday.
Posted on:Thursday, August 3, 2017
Scientists have, for the first time, successfully freed embryos of a piece of faulty DNA that causes deadly heart disease to run in families.
Posted on:Wednesday, August 2, 2017
More than a million children are suffering from malnutrition amid a deadly cholera outbreak in Yemen, says Save the Children.
Posted on:Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Donald Trump has warned Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro that he will be held ‘personally responsible’ for the safety of two opponents who were jailed on Tuesday.
Posted on:Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Senior Iranian officials are accusing the United States of violating the landmark nuclear accord and promising to take punitive measures against America for this action, according to recent comments that come on the heels of renewed efforts by the Trump administration and Congress to sanction Tehran for its ballistic missile program and regional support for terrorism.
Posted on:Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Air-to-ground or air-to-air missiles have one thing in common — they have a seeker head, or targeting system on the missile that uses radar or heat-seeking technology to find and lead the weapon to the target to destroy it.
Posted on:Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Turkey’s decision to press forward with a multimillion dollar weapons deal with Russia is causing concern within the Pentagon, with U.S. defense officials concerned the Russian-made systems will harm American joint operations with the NATO ally.
Posted on:Tuesday, August 1, 2017
President Trump said Monday that his administration will ‘handle’ the threat posed by North Korea’s latest launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
Posted on:Monday, July 31, 2017
The United States punished Iran on Friday for launching a satellite-carrying rocket into space by hitting six Iranian entities with sanctions that target the country’s ballistic missiles program.
Posted on:Monday, July 31, 2017
Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard said Saturday a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier fired a warning shot in an ‘unprofessional’ confrontation with Iranian vessels, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Posted on:Monday, July 31, 2017
The United States flew two supersonic bombers over the Korean Peninsula on Sunday in a show of force against North Korea following the country’s latest intercontinental ballistic missile test. The U.S. also said it conducted a successful test of a missile defense system located in Alaska.
Posted on:Monday, July 31, 2017
The Trump White House is adamant that Moscow will change course on its public threats of diplomatic punishment over the president’s decision to approve stronger U.S. sanctions against Russia.
Posted on:Monday, July 31, 2017
The majority of Venezuelans on Sunday apparently refused to select members of a legislative body on whose purpose — to rewrite the country’s constitution — they never got to vote.
Posted on:Friday, July 28, 2017
Nigerian hospital officials say the death toll from an ambush in northeastern Nigeria has risen to 48 people.
Posted on:Friday, July 28, 2017
The top EU and UK negotiators appear to be at odds over whether the next phase of Brexit talks could begin in the autumn.
Posted on:Friday, July 28, 2017
Demonstrators throughout Venezuela continue to protest the Venezuelan government as the country is on the verge of a civil war.
Posted on:Friday, July 28, 2017
Iran successfully launched a satellite-carrying rocket into space on Thursday, the country’s state media reported without elaborating.
Posted on:Wednesday, July 26, 2017
The European Union’s top court kept Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on the EU terrorism blacklist on Wednesday and removed Sri Lankan separatist rebels, the Tamil Tigers.
Posted on:Wednesday, July 26, 2017
U.S. President Donald Trump issued a veiled threat against Iran on Tuesday, warning Tehran to adhere to the terms of a nuclear deal with world powers or else face ‘big, big problems.’
