…from SouthFront.org On October 14, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry announced that its forces had conducted strikes on Armenian operational-tactical ballistic missile systems in the Armenian border area, near the Kalbajar District of the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region. The Azerbaijani military claimed that the destroyed missiles “were targeted at Ganja, Mingachevir and other cities of Azerbaijan to inflict casualties among the peaceful population and to destroy civilian infrastructure.” The Armenian Defense Ministry confirmed the strikes denying any casualties and threatening Azerbaijan with retaliatory strikes on military targets inside the country. “From now on, the Armed Forces of Armenia reserve the right to attack […]
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Last Sunday, President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Brad Parscale was detained by police after his wife called 911 saying that he came home brandishing loaded guns and threatening to harm himself. Brad Parscale, a senior adviser to President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and former campaign manager, has announced a decision to give up the job. “I am stepping away from my company and any role in the campaign for the immediate future to focus on my family and get help dealing with the overwhelming stress”, Parscale said in a statement on Wednesday. This followed police detaining Parscale last Sunday after […]
The news comes as less than five weeks remain for the UK and the EU to strike a deal before Boris Johnson’s deadline of October 15th, on which date he has said he is prepared to “walk away” with or without an agreement. The British government reportedly believes that the EU is showing signs of softening as Boris Johnson prepares for the final leg of discussions over getting a Brexit deal secured. According to The Sun, the UK side has been encouraged by signs that the EU’s top negotiator, Michel Barnier was “more forward” than usual on getting on with discussions […]
New Delhi and Beijing have agreed to ratchet down tensions that have been building along the disputed Chinese-Indian border, leading to skirmishes, as they announced a five-point de-escalation plan at a meeting in Moscow. Tensions have been flying high along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Eatern Ladakh at the Chinese-Indian Himalayan border since May, and have repeatedly led to clashes between Indian and Chinese troops stationed in the sparsely populated mountainous area. The plan – agreed by India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on the sidelines of a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting […]
The Indian Army chief is on a visit to the frontier areas in eastern Ladakh, which had witnessed one of the worst face-off between the armies of both countries in mid-June, and a subsequent alleged transgression bid by Chinese troops on the night of 29-30 August. Indian Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane has said the situation along the India-China border in Ladakh is delicate, but under control. General Naravane is on a visit to friction points in eastern Ladakh to get a first-hand account of the situation. “The situation along the LAC (Line of Actual Control) is tense. Keeping in […]
Turkey will not bow to international pressure and “banditry” in the contested waters of the eastern Mediterranean, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said, promising to continue oil and gas exploration as planned. Turkey’s Oruc Reis survey vessel will continue its work between Cyprus and the Greek island of Crete until August 23 despite mounting pressure and threats of sanctions, Erdogan said on Saturday. We will never bow to banditry on our continental shelf. We will not back down against the language of sanctions and threats. Ankara’s goal is to protect its “rights and interests,” Erdogan stressed, adding that the country is […]
…from SouthFront The explosion in the port of Beirut in early August that caused thousands of casualties became a trigger point for the further development of the already existing crisis in Lebanon. In the following week days after the August 4 explosion, a series of large-scale protests took place in Beirut. Protesters clashed with police, hung cardboard figures of Lebanese politicians, like President Michel Aoun and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and stormed government buildings, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of the Economy, the Ministry of the Environment, the Association of Banks and the Ministry of Energy and Water. […]
A driver and and Antifa-Black Lives Matter protester faced off against each other with drawn handguns In Eugene, Oregon Saturday night when protesters blocked a street, preventing the driver from passing through. Screen image from C. Francis O’Leary video. Video of the incident was posted to Twitter by C. Francis O’Leary, Managing Editor of the Daily Emerald. No one was shot and the impasse ended peacefully, reported O’Leary. Headed out for another night covering the #EugeneProtests for the @DailyEmerald. Tonight’s protest is at the federal couthouse in solidarity with protesters in Portland. Reporting with me will be @jwcroxton, @Lundhale and Kevin […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/18/1079969463_0:0:3297:1854_1200x675_80_0_0_b4bed2c850e02582959882e7c95fb9d1.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007251079980837-protesters-resume-violent-stand-off-with-federal-agents-in-portland—photo-video/ PORTLAND (Sputnik) – Another night of protests in the US city of Portland turned violent as federal agents deployed tear gas against hundreds of protesters to deter a violent minority of them from attacking a downtown courthouse. Scores of people, many of whom were engaged in peaceful activities on Friday night, hurriedly left the adjacent area, coughing, sneezing and rubbing their eyes. Officers fired gas canisters and flashbangs after several dozens of protesters started shaking a metal fence around the courthouse and hurling petards and various incendiaries over it. Portland, a predominately white city […]
A bus seized by an armed gunman who took 13 hostages in the city center of Lutsk, some 250 miles west of Kyiv, Ukraine on Tuesday. Pavlo Palamarchuk/AP hide caption toggle caption Pavlo Palamarchuk/AP A bus seized by an armed gunman who took 13 hostages in the city center of Lutsk, some 250 miles west of Kyiv, Ukraine on Tuesday. Pavlo Palamarchuk/AP A hostage standoff on a bus in western Ukraine ended Tuesday after a bizarre demand from the captor was met with the country’s president publicly recommending a 15-year-old animal-rights documentary narrated by Joaquin Phoenix. Just before the end of […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): United States’ Secretary of State Michael Pompeo spoke to India’s External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar at the height of border tensions between India and China following the violent face-off between Indian and Chinese soldiers in Ladakh’s Galwan Valley. White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has hinted that New Delhi has the support of US Military in its conflict with Beijing. “The message is clear. Our military might stands strong and will continue to stand strong, whether it’s in relationship to a conflict between India and China or anywhere else,” the White House official told Fox News. […]
In late June, a Chinese government think tank warned of a possible military conflict due to the US military’s “unprecedented” deployment to the Asia-Pacific region. War Zone has reported about “substantial improvements” to the secretive US military base on Wake Island, described by the news outlet as “America’s remote outpost deep in the Pacific”. “The major expansions to the [Wake Island] airfield began early this year and are still underway today”, War Zone said, referring to new satellite imagery that it obtained from the private American imaging company Planet Labs. The improvements include a large apron expansion on the eastern side […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., joined by House Democrats spaced for social distancing, spoke at a press conference on the House East Front Steps of the Capitol ahead of ahead of the House vote on the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020. Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption toggle caption Carolyn Kaster/AP House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., joined by House Democrats spaced for social distancing, spoke at a press conference on the House East Front Steps of the Capitol ahead of ahead of the House vote on the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020. Carolyn Kaster/AP House […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107963/95/1079639513_0:238:3215:2047_1200x675_80_0_0_4734b7d05655bff68ee31fc974d00721.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/india/202006251079709926-india-china-swear-upon-past-agreements-new-confidence-building-measures-to-break-stand-off/ New Delhi (Sputnik): India and China have been in a border stand-off along the 4,057km long Line of Actual Control since the last week of April. The tensions between the neighbours escalated last week when 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a violent face-off between the Indian Army and PLA. After several rounds of diplomatic and military level talks, India’s East Asia Joint Secretary and the Director-General of the Department of Boundary and Oceanic Affairs from China have decided to “implement the understanding on disengagement and de-escalation that was reached by the Senior Commanders […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107956/64/1079566433_0:86:3242:1910_1200x675_80_0_0_7029aedf2b3d23cac22b20d7b43411d4.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/india/202006091079566307-indian-chinese-armies-disengage-at-multiple-points-in-ladakh-ending-weeks-long-standoff—report/ New Delhi (Sputnik): The armies of India and China have stood face to face at several locations along the Line of Actual Control that separates both the countries in the Ladakh region over the past several weeks. There have also been unverified media reports of skirmishes, which both sides have denied. India and China have reportedly decided to disengage at multiple points in eastern Ladakh, where troops on either side were reinforced during the past several weeks of standoff. The face-off began after India started the construction of a key road along the loosely-demarcated […]
Cliven Bundy listens to other speakers before giving the keynote address to the state convention of the Independent American Party of Nevada, in February 2018. Scott Sonner/AP hide caption toggle caption Scott Sonner/AP Cliven Bundy listens to other speakers before giving the keynote address to the state convention of the Independent American Party of Nevada, in February 2018. Scott Sonner/AP It’s been more than two years since Cliven Bundy left the federal courthouse in downtown Las Vegas a free man. His arm around his wife, Carol Bundy, the Nevada rancher was defiant. “We’re not done with this,” Bundy told reporters in […]
World 06:09 GMT 29.05.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107932/47/1079324761_0:0:3155:1775_1200x675_80_0_0_06d5df337478435fdb2e97f285108ea8.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202005291079449836-indian-govt-sources-deny-trumps-claim-he-talked-to-modi-over-border-stand-off-with-china/ New Delhi (Sputnik): US President Donald Trump on Wednesday offered to mediate between India and China in the ongoing border stand-off, but India refused the offer the following day, saying that New Delhi is “engaged with the Chinese side to peacefully resolve this issue”. Following US President Donald Trump’s comments about having spoken to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the ongoing India-China standoff, New Delhi has dismissed claims of any contact between the two leaders since 4 April 2020. Government sources in New Delhi have clarified the […]
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called Covid-19 the “European virus,” to zero pushback from the press that gave President Donald Trump no end of trouble back when he called it a “Chinese virus.” Outlining a plan to reopen some parts of the state for business – while keeping New York City and its environs under strict lockdown – at a press conference on Monday, Cuomo argued that the virus came to New York from Europe, not China, and even referred to it as the “European virus” multiple times. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is now describing the coronavirus pandemic that originated […]