British and EU negotiators will hold the first meeting of a joint committee as planned on Monday, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said. The statement came after trade talks were put on hold because of the coronavirus outbreak, Reuters reported. The spokesman said the meeting would be co-chaired by senior British Minister Michael Gove and European Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic and would take place […]
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Arizona Democratic Congressman and Iraq War veteran Ruben Gallego told SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah that President Donald Trump “just talks out of his ass” about the coronavirus pandemic, and that “it’s very dangerous” to On Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s The Dean Obeidallah Show, Obeidallah talked with Gallego about Trump’s latest decision to reopen the economy on Easter without the approval of the experts on his task force, and asked “How […]
Hamas representatives are in talks with officials from Saudi Arabia over the release of Palestinians held by Riyadh on “terror” charges, Anadolu news agency has reported. Leading Hamas official Dr Basem Naim spoke to the agency about the talks and said that he expects to see the fate of the prisoners decided before the start of the month of Ramadan, which will be towards the end […]
US senators and the Trump administration have finally reached an agreement on a massive rescue plan to help stem the impact Covid-19 is having on the country’s economy. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source
Yesterday, we joked that SoftBank’s decision to pursue a massive share buyback and deleveraging, ostensibly made to please activist investors like Paul Singer’s Elliott Capital Management, might have an important ancillary benefit: it could place Masa Son one step closer to taking the company – or at least a stripped down version of it – private, after the blowup of WeWork and a handful of other […]
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach said that the final decision on a postponement will be made in four weeks. Meanwhile, the number of COVID-19 cases in Japan has surpassed 1,000. Japan’s government is negotiating with the International Olympic Committee to postpone the Tokyo Olympic Games by a maximum of one year, the Sankei newspaper reported on Tuesday. According to the report, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe […]
The EU will start membership negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia, according to a draft unanimous decision by the bloc’s 27 member states, Reuters said on Monday. The draft is expected to be finalized this week, according to sources. The two western Balkan countries had seen their hopes dashed repeatedly in recent years as France and the Netherlands expressed skepticism over their track records on democracy […]
President Donald Trump lamented a previous commitment he made when asked if he will bailout his own businesses at Sunday’s press briefing from the White House coronavirus task force. Trump was asked by Washington Post reporter Seung Min Kim about the coronavirus stimulus bill that was blocked by Senate Democrats on Sunday night — and whether he would “commit publicly that none of that taxpayer money […]
The Iraqi Sairoon coalition, backed by prominent Shia cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr, announced yesterday that Shia forces have failed to choose a candidate to head the new Iraqi government, Anadolu reported. The agency quoted the head of the Sairoon alliance and member of the committee tasked with nominating a candidate for PM, Nabil Al-Tarfi, as saying that after the committee’s failure, the President of the Republic must […]
The former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis, has released a cache of audio files, secretly recorded in 2015 during the bailout talks with the Eurogroup – a powerful group of eurozone’s finance chiefs. The recordings and their transcripts were released by Varoufakis on the website of his ‘pan-European’ DiEM25 party on Saturday. The files –dubbed ‘Euroleaks’– were recorded between February and July 2015, when cash-strapped […]
Middle East 08:30 GMT 14.03.2020(updated 08:37 GMT 14.03.2020) Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107851/41/1078514194_0:70:3072:1798_1200x675_80_0_0_3a50e5a4222780ead92e4bb7fe481740.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202003141078563747-russian-turkish-talks-in-ankara-to-allow-implementation-of-agreements-on-syrias-idlib—moscow/ Russia and Turkey inked a ceasefire deal earlier this month ensuring the cessation of hostilities between Turkish and Syrian forces in the province of Idlib in northwestern Syria. The two sides established joint military patrols in the area. Russian-Turkish negotiations in Ankara were constructive and will allow the […]
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will hold talks about solving a brewing migration crisis, with French and German leaders next week, by teleconference rather than at a summit as originally planned, according to a Turkish official. The decision comes as countries grapple with the spread of Covid-19. Erdogan has postponed his own foreign visits for an unspecified period of time, Reuters reported, citing his spokesman. Earlier this […]
The Kremlin said yesterday that it has not ruled out the possibility of resuming talks with Saudi Arabia, OPEC’s largest oil producer, to stabilise global energy markets. Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, assured reporters that the Russian economy had sufficient international reserves and was sufficiently robust against any temporary market instability. Peskov said the current fluctuations in oil prices are within the Russian Ministry of Energy’s expectations. […]
The United Kingdom’s trade negotiators want to influence global blockchain regulation in its upcoming free trade talks with the United States, according to the negotiating objectives released by the U.K.’s Department for International Trade (DIT). The plan is straightforward and the “opportunity,” as DIT called it, is clear. In its 184-page action plan released March 2, U.K.’s post-Brexit trade broker said it will “seek to deliver” […]
Fox Business correspondent Susan Li was on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, covering the market’s worst day since the financial crisis of 2008. Stocks plunged so quickly Monday morning that the NYSE was halted for 15 minutes for the first time since October 1997. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 2,013 points, the biggest single-day point loss in history. The S&P 500 […]
During his interview with Hillary Clinton, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria asked if she would campaign for Bernie Sanders if he became the Democratic nominee for president. Clinton has let loose on Sanders, even saying “nobody likes him” at one point, in the past few months, including in a newly-released Hulu documentary. She told Zakaria she would “support the nominee of the Democratic party.” “Will you campaign for […]
Governor Larry Hogan appeared on Meet the Press this morning to talk about the response to coronavirus cases in Maryland. At one point, Chuck Todd remarked, “There does seem as if politics is getting in the way a little bit. The president even took a shot at a fellow governor of yours on the other side of the aisle. Are you concerned that if it looks […]
CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen is joined by Elena Giralt, the Electric Coin Company’s product marketing associate known for her research on cryptocurrency usage in Latin America, to talk about how digital assets can subvert power dynamics. According to the Brookings Institute, roughly 4.6 million Venezuelans have fled the country so far, which the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees called the largest exodus in the region’s recent history. Many […]
Senior White House officials were yesterday quoted by Israel’s Channel 13 as saying the US will back Israeli annexation of swathes of West Bank territory within months, if the Palestinians do not resume negotiations, reported the Times of Israel. According to Channel 13, “the sources said they intend to go ahead with the implementation of the peace plan unveiled earlier this year by US President Donald […]
Russia & Turkey agree on de-escalation in Idlib, Syria, after Putin-Erdogan talks in Moscow (WATCH LIVE) — RT World News icon bookmark-bicon bookmarkicon cameraicon checkicon chevron downicon chevron lefticon chevron righticon chevron upicon closeicon v-compressicon downloadicon editicon v-expandicon fbicon fileicon filtericon flag ruicon full chevron downicon full chevron lefticon full chevron righticon full chevron upicon gpicon insicon mailicon moveicon-musicicon mutedicon nomutedicon okicon v-pauseicon v-playicon searchicon shareicon […]
Turkey’s purchase of Russian S-400 defense systems remains a very serious concern as Washington considers what support to offer over Syria’s Idlib, the US special representative for the region James Jeffrey has said. The envoy was speaking in Istanbul on Thursday. Jeffrey also said the United States had already offered humanitarian assistance and information sharing with Ankara and was pressing European allies for a significant contribution. […]
Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh on Tuesday denied that there had been secret talks between his movement and the United States. Speaking to the Lebanon-based Al Mayadeen TV, Haniyeh said: “The US is trying to spread rumour that the deal of century was revealed after meetings with Palestinian groups.” Haniyeh reiterated that his movement rejected an invitation by the US for a secret meeting between the two […]
5 Mar, 2020 11:15 Dozens of Turkish troops died in a Syrian airstrike because no one knew they were there, Putin told Erdogan, adding the crisis in the Syrian province is so dire that direct talks between the two leaders are needed. Source
The peace talks on Syria in the Astana format are currently the only effective instrument that has facilitated the efforts to curb violence in that country, according to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. “We are convinced that today the only mechanism that considerably helped to… make a step towards stability has become the Astana process,” IRNA cited Zarif as saying on Wednesday. He described the […]