LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government said Thursday it is withdrawing from a controversial international energy treaty after efforts to modernize it ended in stalemate. The U.K.’s move followed similar announcements by France, Germany and other European Union countries to quit the Energy Charter Treaty, which critics say is being used by the fossil fuel industry […]
Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Netherlands, has announced the signing of a security agreement with Ukraine shortly and vowed to maintain the existing arrangements when the new government assumes power. Source: a European Pravda correspondent in Munich Details: In a conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference […]
JERUSALEM — Iran’s Navy commander announced in a televised broadcast last fall that the regime owns Antarctica and will build a military operation in the South Pole. “We have property rights in the South Pole. We have plan to raise our flag there and carry out military and scientific work,” Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral […]
JERUSALEM (AP) — It was a warm handshake between the unlikeliest of statesmen, conducted under the beaming gaze of President Jimmy Carter. Sunlight streamed through the trees at Camp David, Maryland, as Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin solidified a landmark agreement that has allowed over 40 years of peace between […]
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Egypt is threatening to suspend its peace treaty with Israel if Israeli troops are sent into the densely populated Gaza border town of Rafah, and says fighting there could force the closure of the besieged territory’s main aid supply route, two Egyptian officials and a Western diplomat said Sunday. The […]
Russia violated an international convention on prohibiting terrorist financing by supporting its proxies in Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts in 2014, the UN International Court of Justice in The Hague ruled on Jan. 31. Ukraine first began proceedings against Russia in 2017, arguing that it had been financing terrorism in Ukraine’s Donbas region. The court […]
Wavering world leaders were told Tuesday to speed up efforts to agree a global treaty on avoiding a new pandemic catastrophe — four years to the day since Covid-19 was declared an international emergency. Countries have spent more than two years working out an accord on making sure countries are better prepared to deal with, […]
By Andrew Osborn (Reuters) – Senior Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev told Japan on Tuesday it would have to drop territorial claims to a group of Pacific islands if it wanted to conclude a peace treaty with Russia formally ending World War Two. The blunt remarks by Medvedev, a former president who is deputy chairman […]
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine, and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak have signed a bilateral security agreement. The agreement will remain in force until Ukraine joins NATO. Source: European Pravda Details: The two leaders signed the document entitled “Agreement on Security Cooperation between Ukraine and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland” after […]
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis has called for a legally binding international treaty to regulate artificial intelligence, saying algorithms must not be allowed to replace human values and warning of a “technological dictatorship” threatening human existence. The pope made his call on Thursday in a message for the Roman Catholic Church’s World […]