Bahrain has become the fourth Arab nation to formally establish diplomatic ties with Tel Aviv as officials from both states signed a joint communique on the issue during a visit by a high-level US-Israeli delegation to Manama. The development comes after Bahrain and Israel struck a US-brokered deal on normalization of relations in Washington in mid-September. Now, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s national security adviser, Meir […]
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https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202010021080638780-belarus-mulling-viability-of-maintaining-diplomatic-relations-with-eu-amid-sanctions/ The European Council has made a political decision to introduce sanctions on Belarus and will work on technicalities, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday. The Belarusian Foreign Ministry has said that Minsk may reconsider the level of its diplomatic presence in the EU and is mulling the viability of maintaining diplomatic relations with […]
The Aegean Sea and the eastern Mediterranean has seen naval and land conflict since the Trojan War in the 12th century BC. But now tensions between Turkey and Greece have risen to boiling point again because of hydrocarbons. Turkey has vowed to send a reconnaissance vessel, the Oruç Reis, back to disputed waters in the eastern Mediterranean after it undergoes routine maintenance. The announcement, on Monday 14 September, suggests President […]
Harry Dunn’s alleged killer Anne Sacoolas who left England after ‘causing his death by driving on the wrong side of the road’ DID NOT have diplomatic immunity, his family is told Harry Dunn, 19, died when his motorcycle was struck by car near RAF Croughton Anne Sacoolas claimed diplomatic immunity after the collision in August 2019 Director of Public Prosecutions concluded suspect should not have left the UK It […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202009031080360975-greek-diplomatic-sources-refute-nato-claims-that-ankara-athens-will-hold-technical-talks/ ATHENS (Sputnik) – Diplomatic sources in Greece refuted on Thursday information that Ankara and Athens had agreed to begin technical talks within NATO to de-escalate tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean, media reported. According to the sources, as cited by the AMNA news agency, such information does not correspond to the reality, however, Greece “duly noted the intention of NATO […]
– …from PressTV, Tehran – News Review video below [ Editor’s Note: Rouhani has recently played a card by letting the IAEA look at a couple of new Iranian sites. This is supposed to show Iran’s flexibility, and theoretically focus some attention on the fact that the IAEA has yet to inspect a single Israeli nuclear site, yet it continues on as a full voting member […]
KIEV (Sputnik) – Kiev does not see any reasons to fully break off diplomatic relations with Minsk despite a recent suspension of contacts, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Friday. “There are no grounds for a diplomatic rupture at the moment, so we are definitely not planning to do this”, Kuleba said, as streamed by the ministry on its Facebook page. On Thursday, Kuleba said that […]
Afghanistan’s capital has been hit by multiple rockets in an attack that appears to have targeted the main diplomatic district which houses embassies. At least 10 people have been injured in the attack, local media reported. “Several rockets were fired from two vehicles,” Ministry of Interior spokesman Tariq Arian said on Tuesday, as cited by Reuters. Photographs and videos show plumes of black smoke rising from […]
Donald Trump’s senior adviser has hinted that the United Arab Emirates may not be the last Arab nation to establish full diplomatic ties with Israel. Saudi Arabia, a major regional power, has remained silent on the UAE-Israel deal so far. Normalisation of ties between Saudi Arabia and Israel is an “inevitability,” Jared Kushner has predicted as the UAE this week became the first Gulf state – […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): Last month, 30 kgs of gold, worth $2 million (INR 150 million) was seized from a diplomatic cargo addressed to a person in the UAE’s Consulate-General by customs officials at Thiruvananthapuram Airport in Kerala. India’s anti-terror probe body, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested six people in connection with a diplomatic gold smuggling case in Kerala, a senior official said on Sunday. The number […]
U.K. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, left, and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo walk up the stairs in the Foreign Office in London on Tuesday. Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP hide caption toggle caption Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP U.K. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, left, and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo walk up the stairs in the Foreign Office in London on Tuesday. Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP The U.S. and the U.K. have […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/17/1079959901_0:0:2912:1638_1200x675_80_0_0_9c727fec7adc52eb1583a6c0fc887b91.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007231079959930-trump-does-not-rule-out-closing-additional-chinese-diplomatic-missions/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump said during a press briefing at the White House that he does not rule out closing additional Chinese diplomatic missions in the United States. “As far as closing additional embassies, it’s always possible”, Trump said on Wednesday when asked if he planned to close more Chinese diplomatic missions in the country. During […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): On 5 July, customs officials seized 30 kg of gold, valued at $2 million (INR 150 million), at Thiruvananthapuram Airport in India’s Kerala state from a diplomatic cargo that was addressed to a person in the UAE’s Consulate-General. A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in India has taken the two main accused in the Kerala diplomatic gold smuggling case into the agency’s […]
A rocket fired toward Baghdad’s Green Zone, where the US’ and other embassies are based, failed to reach the diplomatic compound and, instead, landed near a house, Iraq’s military said on Sunday. A child was injured. Citing police sources, Reuters reported that a missile defense system protecting the US embassy shot down the rocket, which exploded in mid-air before it could hit the Green Zone. Local […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): On Tuesday, India reported the first combat fatalities along the Line of Actual Control since 1975, announcing that three Indian Army personnel were killed in a violent face-off with Chinese troops in eastern Ladakh’s Galwan Valley. Diplomats and army commanders from India and China have been involved in several rounds of talks for over a month to de-escalate the build up along the […]