Pompeo calls for Greece-Turkey dialogue to ease tensions

Greece and Turkey, both NATO members, have spent weeks at loggerheads after Ankara sent exploration vessels in August into potentially resource-rich waters claimed by both countries. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addresses a press conference during a visit to … Read More

Israel’s war industry embraces Emirates with open arms

Gaza City’s al-Tuffah neighborhood following Israel’s military offensive in 2014.   Basel Yazouri Active Stills Palestinians are calling for a boycott of Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence in Abu Dhabi. Earlier this month, the newly established university – named after the crown prince … Read More

View from the Golan Heights: Israel prepares to take on Hezbollah

Ain Qana is a pretty pastoral village perched on a hillside in southern Lebanon. On 22 September a large explosion destroyed a building on the edge of the village. It was about 12 miles from the Israeli border. Reports indicated … Read More

Hundreds dead, dozens of tanks and aircraft destroyed in Middle East’s newest war

The information spread by the Armenian side about the losses in the Azerbaijani Armed Forces is false, Spokesman for the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry Lieutenant Colonel Anar Eyvazov said, Trend reports. According to intelligence, the Armenian army suffered serious losses, Eyvazov … Read More

Boris Johnson adopts cautious approach to second UK coronavirus lockdown

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson | Leon Neal/Getty Images Pubs and restaurants will be forced to close at 10 p.m. and people will be encouraged to work from home under new restrictions announced Tuesday. LONDON — Boris Johnson took a softly-softly … Read More

Boris Johnson: UK wants to rewrite Brexit Withdrawal Agreement to stop EU being ‘abusive’

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson | Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images France’s Europe Minister Clément Beaune accuses British PM of adopting ‘the madman’s strategy.’ The U.K. wants to rewrite elements of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement to prevent the EU from … Read More

Boris Johnson has run out of rope

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is finding that the benefit of the doubt over Brexit and the coronavirus is finite after all | Leon Neal/Getty Images UK prime minister’s aggressive tactics are undermining trust abroad and at home. Mujtaba Rahman is … Read More

All-out war? Armenia, Azerbaijan clash over Nagorno-Karabakh

Why are Armenia and Azerbaijan back to the brink of all-out war? Dozens have been killed in a flare-up of July’s tensions in the separatist Armenian-speaking enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. This time, it has escalated with both sides declaring martial law and … Read More

Coronavirus death toll hits 1M worldwide

The news comes as Europe braces for a ‘second wave’. There have been over 1 million coronavirus-associated deaths worldwide since the illness was first reported in Wuhan, China, in late 2019, according to Johns Hopkins University data. In January, as the virus … Read More

Germany’s debt hits record high due to fiscal splurge in pandemic

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s massive spending to shield Europe’s largest economy from the coronavirus shock has pushed overall debt to its highest level on record, data showed on Tuesday. The overall debt from federal government, regional states, municipalities and social … Read More

Northern California wildfire: 3 dead, thousands flee

‘Our firefighters have not had much of a break, and these residents have not had much of a break’. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Northern California‘s wine country was on fire again Monday as strong winds fanned flames in the already scorched … Read More

Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 25 September 2020

Greetings from Tyler, Oh no!  A second wave has hit.  Who saw this coming?  “New York Eyes New Shutdown,” reads the NBC headline.  Of course they do, we were sure they would.  Every time there’s some hint that the pandemic … Read More

Trump announces Amy Coney Barrett as nominee for Supreme Court seat

The announcement sets up what is likely to be a fierce confirmation battle. President Trump on Saturday announced he has chosen Amy Coney Barrett as his pick to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — a move … Read More

Republican-Led US Senate Panel Backs Subpoena in Hunter Biden Probe

Hunter Biden, son of former Vice President Joe Biden, President Donald Trump’s main rival as he runs for re-election in November. WASHINGTON – A Republican-led U.S. Senate committee authorized a subpoena on Wednesday for information in an investigation related to … Read More

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