The US government filed suit to block AT&T’s merger with Time Warner, setting up a the biggest antitrust court clash in decades over the $85 billion tieup. The deal announced more than a year ago would merge vast content of Time Warner units like premium cable channel HBO and news channel CNN with the massive […]

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says Washington is still hopeful for diplomacy with North Korea amid mounting s pressure against nuclear-powered Pyongyang. The former ExxonMobil CEO made the comments after US President Donald Trump declared North Korea a state sponsor of terror on Monday. “We still hope for diplomacy,” Tillerson told a White House […]

As early as the first half of 2018, China’s People’s Liberation Army is slated to commission a new multi-warhead intercontinental ballistic missile, the Dongfeng-41, that can target “anywhere in the world,” Speaking before 2,300 delegates of the Chinese Community Party, President Xi Jinping declared that Beijing “would strive to fully transform the people’s armed forces […]

BAKU– Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, affirmed on Monday that the OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism on Syria “has worked in a shameful way” depending in its conclusions on data proposed by nongovernmental institutions, some of which linked to terrorists. In a speech on Monday before Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy, Lavrov said that Mechanism acted in a […]

TEHRAN  – Romania’s defense minister says the country will purchase Patriot missiles worth $3.9 billion from the United States in the first half of 2019. The comments from Defense Minister Mihai Fifor came after Romania’s Senate’s defense committee on Monday formally approved the acquisition of the missiles, which then needs to be approved by the […]

TEHRAN – The EU’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on Monday hailed “extremely encouraging” talks with Aung San Suu Kyi on the Rohingya crisis, welcoming steps towards the repatriation of Muslims driven from Myanmar into Bangladesh. But her optimistic tone appeared sharply at odds with the realities on the ground in a crisis that has […]

Marathon talks on forming a coalition government in Germany have collapsed, plunging the eurozone’s largest economy into a political crisis and casting doubt on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s fourth term. Germany’s pro-business Free Democrats Party (FDP) unexpectedly called off more than four weeks of coalition talks with Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU bloc and the left-leaning Greens as they […]

Iraq’s Supreme Federal Court has ruled Kurdistan’s controversial secession referendum as unconstitutional, saying the results of the vote are void. “The Federal Court issued the decision to consider the Kurdish region’s referendum unconstitutional and this ruling is final,” a court spokesman said on Monday. The tribunal is responsible for settling disputes between Iraq’s central government and […]

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has resisted mounting pressure to step down, telling the nation that he will preside over a ruling party congress next month. The 93-year-old Zimbabwean leader had been widely expected to announce his resignation as Zimbabwe’s head of state and government on Sunday, five days after a surprise military takeover in which […]

Lebanon’s foreign minister will not attend an extraordinary Arab League meeting on Sunday (Nov 19) called by Saudi Arabia to discuss what Riyadh claims “violations” committed by Iran. Arab foreign ministers will gather in Cairo on Sunday at the request of Riyadh, whose regional rivalry with Teheran has escalated in recent weeks. But Lebanon’s top […]