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The NATO military alliance on Thursday marks the 75th anniversary of the signing of its founding treaty in Washington. Here are some facts and figures about the organisation forged in the Cold War and re-energised by Russia’s war on Ukraine. – 12 to 32 – Just 12 countries were founder members of the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949 as the United States, Canada and much of western Europe clubbed together to face up to the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – On September 12, 1962, then US president John F. Kennedy informed the public of his plan to put a man on the Moon by the end of the decade. It was the height of the Cold War and America needed a big victory to demonstrate its space superiority after the Soviet Union had launched the first satellite and put the first man in orbit. “We choose to go to the Moon,” […]
by Paul HANDLEY Agence France Presse Mikhail Gorbachev stepped onto a Washington street and began shaking hands to cheers and applause in 1990 — a bit of unaccustomed political showmanship worthy of his friend Ronald Reagan. Ana Maria Guzman was in the park on her lunch break that May when she saw the Soviet leader, who died on Tuesday at 91. “We knew he was in town and we saw his motorcade. Then he […]
by Maria Panina and Sebastian Smith Agence France Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin sought to cool tensions in the combustible US-Russian relationship at their first summit in Geneva on Wednesday, with the US president saying his Kremlin counterpart doesn’t want a new Cold War. The two leaders emerged cautiously positive after more than three hours of talks, including two hours alone with just the Russian foreign minister and US […]
(Eagle News)—-The Palace on Saturday, Dec. 1, expressed its condolences to the United States of America for the passing of former US President George H.W. Bush. “The Palace is deeply saddened by the news of the passing of former President George Herbert Walker Bush of the United States of America,” Presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in a statement. Panelo noted that Bush “stood for freedom,” noting his role in the end of the Cold War. […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Saturday praised former US president George H.W. Bush for his role in ending the Cold War, calling him a “true partner”. Gorbachev, 87, expressed his “deep condolences” to the family of the 41st US president and the entire American nation. Bush died at age 94 on Friday, his family has announced. The two men famously declared an end to the Cold War at the […]
by Ed JONES Agence France Presse PANMUNJOM, North Korea (AFP) — On the world’s last Cold War frontier, where troops have long faced off at the truce village that divides the two Koreas, propaganda broadcasts have fallen silent and soldiers from the North are hopeful a historic summit will herald a new era for their country. The blue huts of Panmunjom are emblematic of the truce that stopped the fighting in the Korean War, and […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — The head of Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence agency said Wednesday the poisoning of a Russian former double agent in Britain was a “grotesque provocation” by the British and US security services. “Even when it comes to the grotesque provocation with the Skripals that was crudely concocted by the British and American security services, a number of European countries are in no rush to unquestioningly follow London and Washington but prefer […]
by Harry Pearl Agence France-Presse JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) – The US government was fully aware of a bloody anti-communist purge by the Indonesian army in the 1960s, with one diplomat at the time describing the bloodletting as “widespread slaughter,” recently declassified documents have revealed. The 39 US embassy documents cover the period from 1964-1968, at the peak of the Cold War, and uncover new details about one of the most tumultuous periods in modern Indonesian history. […]
WASHiNGTON, United States (AFP) — Zbigniew Brzezinski, the hawkish Polish-born Cold War strategist and former top aide to United States president Jimmy Carter who influenced key policy decisions on Afghanistan, China and the Middle East, has died, his family said. He was 89. His death in a Virginia hospital was announced late Friday by his daughter, Mika Brzezinski, an MSNBC journalist. She said he died “peacefully” but did not give a cause. Former president Barack […]
(REUTERS) For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the German government plans to tell citizens to stockpile food and water in case of an attack or catastrophe, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper reported on Sunday. Germany is currently on high alert after two Islamist attacks and a shooting rampage by a mentally unstable teenager last month. Berlin announced measures earlier this month to spend considerably more on its police and […]
NORTH CAROLINA, United States (Reuters) – Dozens of radio towers that used to transmit “Voice of America” broadcasts throughout the world tumbled to the ground on Monday (April 4), falling like dominoes. The 48 towers in Beaufort Country, North Carolina, located on land owned by the state’s Wildlife Resources Commission, had been out of use for 10 years, NBC reported. “Voice of America” was created in 1942 as a radio news service for people living […]
