The Massachusetts senator announced Monday the launch of a “support committee” to raise funds. The year 2018 is not over yet, but the start of the 2020 presidential campaign has already been given. On Monday, Elizabeth Warren, senator and fierce critic of Donald Trump, became the first major Democrat to formally display her ambitions. Elected […]
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An American citizen was arrested by the Russian secret service while he was committing “an act of espionage”. This is what announces a statement of the FSB, published this Monday. The man, named Paul Whelan by Russia, has been detained since 28 December. He faces up to 20 years in prison according to the security […]
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UNESCO loses two of its members. The United States and Israel are no longer part of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. At issue: an organization considered not very modern and especially anti-Israeli. The decision was made a few months ago, it is effective December 31, 2018. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, […]
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In a letter to the South Korean government, Kim Jong Un promises to meet “often” with his counterpart in 2019, to discuss the denuclearization of the peninsula. It’s a very unusual letter that Kim Jong Un just sent to her neighbor to the south, President Moon Jae-in. In the end-of-year letter, according to a spokesman […]
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Bogota accuses the Venezuelan authorities of preparing for several months an attack against President Ivan Duque. Relations between the two countries are tense because of the mass exodus of Venezuelans to Colombia. Colombian authorities on Saturday (December 29th) accused Venezuelan authorities of wanting to attack the life of President Ivan Duque. Colombian Foreign Minister Carlos […]
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The Taliban refused Sunday to negotiate with the Afghan government next month, in Saudi Arabia, where their representatives are to meet with US envoys to begin the peace process. A delegation of the Islamist militia met with members of the US administration on December 17 in the United Arab Emirates, but the movement remains hostile […]
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Russia ‘s S-350 Vityaz short-range medium-to-medium-range surface-to-air missiles, which will replace the S-300, will be deployed sometime next year, Defense Ministry said Sunday. He added that Pantsir-S and S-400 missiles were sent this year to Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula that Moscow annexed in 2014, as well as to the Russian Arctic zone, the Kaliningrad enclave […]
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German police said Sunday seizure of 850 kilograms of fireworks and firecrackers at the home of a 23-year-old man before the New Year festivities. The police were warned by a neighbor of the storage of a large quantity of pyrotechnic material. The security forces found the fireworks packed in the young man’s apartment, in a […]
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Vladimir Putin says he is ready to address a “wide range of topics” with the United States, in a letter to Donald Trump for the New Year, reports the Kremlin in a statement released Sunday. The US President, who was scheduled to meet with his Russian counterpart on the occasion of the G20 summit in […]
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The death in custody of two Guatemalan children, a seven-year-old girl and an eight-year-old boy after their entry into the United States provoked outrage in the country. Words that may react to the American left. US President Donald Trump said the Democrats were “strictly” responsible for the deaths of migrant children in detention in the […]
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