ATHENS (Sputnik) – German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said he was “extremely surprised” by the latest actions of Turkey after successfully bringing the contradictions between Turkey and Greece onto the path of diplomacy. Speaking at a joint press conference with Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) Ersin Tatar on 6 October, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the opening of the Varosha embankment. This is a tourist quarter at the southeast coast of Cyprus, which has been closed to the public since 1974 after the occupation of part of Cyprus by Turkish troops and the partition […]
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President Donald Trump boasted on Thursday night about a cognitive test he took during a Walter Reed physical, telling Fox News host Sean Hannity that doctors were “very surprised” that he “aced” it while calling on former Vice President Joe Biden to take the same test. Calling in to close confidant Hannity’s primetime program, both the president and the Fox News star began openly questioning Biden’s mental fitness and suggesting he is suffering from cognitive decline. After Hannity aired a montage of selectively edited clips to characterize Biden as senile, and Trump described the former vice president as “brainwashed,” the conservative […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107958/05/1079580548_0:0:3076:1731_1200x675_80_0_0_781dbdc1765a89d895d28999c60a1104.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202007041079794768-moscow-surprised-by-uks-response-to-russias-exit-from-un-syria-deconfliction-mechanism/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Moscow is surprised by the UK Foreign Office’s comment that Russia’s withdrawal from the UN deconfliction mechanism in northwest Syria was “unacceptable,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday, adding that the participation in the mechanism was voluntary. The Russian Foreign Ministry noted that the deconfliction mechanism was created in 2014 as an unilateral initiative of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), and is not based on international humanitarian law or UN Security Council resolutions. “The guidance document regulating the functioning of this mechanism clearly states that […]
Mr Assange faces 18 charges under the indictment, all of which relate to his role in publishing classified documents revealing, among other things, war crimes committed by US forces in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay in 2010 – 2011. Julian Assange’s case took an unexpected turn at the latest hearing at Westminster Magistrate’s Court on Monday, with the defence telling the judge that it was “surprised” to have learned about the US’s superseding indictment against their client via the press. “A superseding indictment is supposed to do what it says on the tin, it’s supposed to replace the existing indictment’, said […]
As the United Kingdom seeks to loosen national lockdown restrictions introduced to slow the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, concerns of a second wave are being raised. Countries that appeared to have successfully beaten back the pandemic are also raising the alarm as new cases are reported. An Oxford professor told peers on Monday that he would be “very surprised” if the UK was to avoid a second wave of coronavirus. Speaking to the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine at the University of Oxford, reported that China and Iran are already experiencing […]
BERLIN (Sputnik) – German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas expressed the belief on Monday that it was not surprising that the United States had not coordinated with Berlin the decision to withdraw troops, qualifying the bilateral relations as “difficult”. “I would say it [US-German relations] is difficult … As we see that the decision has not been 100 percent coordinated in the US government, it is not surprising that it has not been coordinated with us, either” Maas said, as aired by the broadcaster ZDF. Earlier, more than 20 Republicans from the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee sent a letter to President […]
World 19:12 GMT 14.05.2020Get short URL On Wednesday, US special envoy for Iran Brian Hook warned that the US would force a unilateral “snapback” of all UN sanctions against Iran if the Security Council did not extend its arms embargo, promising that the embargo would remain in place “one way or another.” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has accused the US’s top Iran official of making fresh “foolish claims,” noting that Washington has no business talking about the terms of an agreement it’s not part of. “Making foolish claims by US officials is nothing new,” Zarif said, speaking to reporters […]