The West risks a return to the Cold War with its actions in the case of the former double spy Sergei Skripal, says the Russian foreign intelligence service SWR. 'For fear of change, the West is prepared to build a new iron curtain around it,' said SWR chief Sergei Narisjkin on Wednesday in Moscow.
Despite repeated threats from President Donald Trump to Amazon, there are currently no discussions at the White House about action against the web shop giant. That insiders told the Bloomberg news agency around the American government.
US President Donald Trump wants to make a decision in the short term about the US military presence in Syria. The president made it clear that he is seriously considering reclaiming US troops. 'I want to go away. I want to take our men home. I want to start building our country. \u0026 # X27; \u0026 # x27;
With a new indictment against the state, the legal battle between California and the US government is rising. The Department of Justice started a lawsuit Monday to get a Californian law that would limit the possibility of selling land in the state.
Russian minister Sergei Lavrov accuses London and Washington of violating all standards of decency. 'Great Britain and the US, and all countries that blindly follow them, have lost all decency' on the issue of Skripal. They operate according to Lavrov of gross lies and manipulation.
Scott Pruitt may be the next protégé of President Donald Trump to clear the field. The pressure on the boss of the American Environmental Protection Service (EPA) has increased following reports from ABC News and Bloomberg news agency that in 2017 he rented six months of living space in Washington far below the market price.
President Trump further intensified his attack on web shop Amazon Saturday. Amazon would pay too little tax and give the American postal company unfair competition with too low rates.
Russia rejects sixty American diplomats. The US consulate in St Petersburg must also close, Russian minister Sergei Lavrov (Foreign Affairs) announced.
A man from the US state of Washington was arrested after sending several bombships to military locations in the US and a CIA office. According to the Federal Police FBI, the packages have not exploded.
Russia has accused Washington of putting other countries under pressure to mass-out diplomats. More than twenty Western countries deployed more than one hundred diplomats on Monday and Tuesday in response to an attack with nerve gas on a Russian former double spy in England.
Several US government agencies in the Washington D.C. region, including two army bases, received suspicious packages on Monday. The FBI investigates the packages, the police have informed.
Among the sixty Russians that Washington expels, twelve Russian diplomats are with the United Nations. The US government accuses the UN diplomats of doing intelligence work.
South Korean steelmakers are shooting up on the stock market Monday after claims of a deal with the US.
Hundreds of thousands of young Americans are on the clock in the US to demonstrate against the barely controlled distribution of firearms in the country. The mass protests follow a shooting in a high school in Florida, where 14 February an ex-student with a semi-automatic weapon shot seventeen people.
China wants to tax a series of American products in response to the import levy that President Trump announced on Thursday.
President Donald Trump has replaced national security advisor Herbert McMaster with John Bolton. He becomes the third national safety advisor.
Federal prosecutors in the US have decided to dismiss the charges against eleven of the fifteen security guards of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The members of the security team were charged with a street fight in May 2017 near the Turkish embassy in Washington.
The Chief of Staff of the White House John Kelly is 'frustrated and severely disappointed' by the leaked message that President Donald Trump had been advised not to call his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin to congratulate him on the re-election. A spokesman said on Wednesday about the mood of Kelly.
US President Donald Trump has thwarted urgent advice from his security advisors by congratulating his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during a telephone conversation with his re-election.
The US and South Korea start their annual military exercises in South Korea on April 1st. This has been announced by the US Department of Defense. The timing is remarkable, because at the end of that month a summit is planned between the South Korean president Moon Jae-in and his North Korean colleague Kim Jong-un. North Korea traditionally sees military exercises as a provocation.
European Commissioner Cecilia Malmström (Trade) travels to Washington Tuesday for crisis talks about the upcoming US steel tax. In the US, the Swedish talks with the American Minister of Economic Affairs Wilbur Ross.
Bento the 'keyboard cat' is no longer. The cat, which became world-famous through YouTube videos, passed away on Thursday, March 8. That made his owner known last weekend. The cat was nine years old.
EU Commissioner Vera Jourova travels to Washington on Monday for discussions on data protection. She wants to clarify Facebook and the US government about possible abuse of private information from 50 million Facebook users by the Cambridge Analytica data company, the Czech informed.
US President Donald Trump has decided to dismiss his national security advisor Herbert McMaster. The White House has not yet made a decision about who should replace him, The Washington Post reports on several sources.
Porn star Stormy Daniels does not let it go in her battle with US President Donald Trump. Daniels started an online crowdfunding to raise $ 130,000 in order to buy her alleged silence contract, reports The Washington Post. Daniels would like to open up her alleged affair with Trump.
In the United States, students have protested massively against firearm violence. At many schools across the country, the classes were shut down for seventeen minutes on Wednesday. Pupils and teachers left the classrooms to commemorate the seventeen deaths of the shooting at a school in Parkland last month.
The Democrat Conor Lamb has claimed victory in midterm elections for a seat in the House of Representatives in Washington, but this triumph is not entirely certain. There are still 1400 votes to be counted in Pennsylvania by letter.
The North Korean Foreign Minister, Ri Yong-ho, will be visiting Sweden very soon.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is going to the United States for a talk with Trump next month, prior to his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Abe welcomed the 'change' in the North Korean position on Friday and talked about 'opening a dialogue based on denuclearization.'
North and South Korea do not form one Korean team on Friday at the opening of the Paralympic Games. Initially it was the intention that the two countries, together with the recent Winter Games, would jointly make their appearance. However, according to the South Korean Paralympic Committee that comes later with a statement, news agency Yonhap reports.
