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CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday recalled Venezuela’s top diplomat from the United States in protest at the renewal of a year-old US decree calling his country a security threat. “Enough arrogance, double standards, condescension and intrigue,” the leftist leader said as he announced he was summoning charge d’affaires Maximilien Arvelaiz back to Caracas. “Bolivar’s Venezuela deserves respect.” © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON D.C., United States (Reuters) — The U.S. said on Thursday (March 3), it could not confirm reports North Korea fired several short-range projectiles into the sea, hours after the U.N. Security Council voted to impose tough new sanctions on the isolated state. “I’ve seen the reports of these missile shots that they allegedly took. I’m actually not in a position right now to independently confirm that they actually did that,” state department spokesman John […]
WASHINGTON D.C., United States of America – In reaction to reports of Chinese naval actions in the Jackson Atoll in the West Philippine Sea, the State Department of the United States of America warned China of using its navy to intimidate the fishing vessels of other countries in the West Philippine Sea. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
UNITED STATES, United States (AFP) — The UN Security Council is expected to vote Friday on a US-Russian draft resolution endorsing the Syria ceasefire, diplomats said. The 15-member council is set to meet as of 2000 GMT to hear a report from UN envoy Staffan de Mistura and could vote on the measure at that session. The draft text obtained by AFP welcomes the truce as “a step towards a lasting ceasefire” and endorses the US-Russian agreement […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Barack Obama put the onus for upholding a ceasefire in Syria firmly on the regime and its Russian ally Thursday, warning Moscow and Damascus that the “world will be watching.” Hours before the Saturday cessation of hostilities comes into force, Obama huddled with his top national security advisors to plot the way forward and discuss the campaign against the Islamic State group. “Everybody knows what needs to happen,” Obama […]
WASHINGTON D. C., United States (Reuters) — U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday (February 25) expressed confidence that the United States would prevail in its fight against the Islamic State, but said that an end to the conflict in Syria would be key to dismantling the group. Obama made the comments following a meeting with the National Security Council at the State Department. Obama said his security team was realistic about how difficult the fight […]
Washington, United States (AFP)—The United States and China have agreed on a UN resolution on North Korea and will not accept Pyongyang as a “nuclear weapons state,” the White House said Wednesday. National Security Advisor Susan Rice and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi agreed “on the importance of a strong and united international response to North Korea’s provocations, including through a UN Security Council Resolution that goes beyond previous resolutions,” National Security Council spokesperson Ned […]
WASHINGTON D. C., United States (CCTV/Reuters) — Important progress has been made in talks on a UN resolution on the nuclear issue of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Tuesday. Wang made the statement at a joint press briefing after he met with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington, D.C. Wang said China does not accept the DPRK’s nuclear missile program and does not recognize the […]
LOUISIANA, United States (Reuters) — Several tornadoes lashed southern Louisiana and Mississippi on Tuesday (February 23), killing at least three people and injuring more than 30 others as the storms destroyed homes and businesses and toppled a water tower, weather and emergency officials said. One of the hardest-hit areas was the Mississippi River hamlet of Convent, Louisiana, where most of the estimated 160 mobile homes at the Sugar Hill RV Park were demolished, the Advocate […]
WASHINGTON D. C., United States (Reuters) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi assailed the Philippines on Friday (February 23) as the instigator of tension in the South China Sea. “It is exactly one country, and let me not avoid mentioning the name: that is, the Philippines has violated the stipulation of Article 4 of DoC (the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea) and has given up on the dialogue and […]
DAMASCUS, Syria (AFP) — The United States and Russia have announced plans for a partial truce in Syria but there were serious doubts it could take effect on Saturday as planned. The agreement does not apply to jihadists like the Islamic State group and the Al-Nusra Front, putting up major hurdles to how it can be implemented on Syria’s complex battlefield. It calls for President Bashar al-Assad and opposition forces to agree by noon on Friday to […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) — U.S. and South Korean senior officials held a meeting in Seoul on Tuesday (February 23) amid high tension on the Korean peninsula after North Korea’s rocket launch earlier this month. The U.S. Treasury Department’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes (TFFC), Jennifer Fowler, and South Korean Foreign Ministry’s Director General for North Korean Nuclear Affairs, Kim Gunn, attended the meeting in the South Korean capital. Fowler and […]
