Jerusalem, March 20 (IANS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon have ordered the military to continue preparations for a possible strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities during 2014, a media report here said. The Israel Defense Forces allocated up to NIS 12 billion ($3.5 billion), nearly a fifth of its budget this year, […]
Washington, March 20 (IANS) President Barack Obama said Wednesday that the US would not take military action in Ukraine against Russia. “We are not going to be getting into a military excursion in Ukraine,” Xinhua quoted Obama as saying during an interview with KNSD, a California-based broadcaster. “I think even the Ukrainians would acknowledge, for us […]
Baghdad, March 20 (IANS) At least 25 people were killed and 55 wounded in separate attacks across Iraq Wednesday, police said. In Anbar province, sporadic shelling and fierce clashes erupted after midnight and continued during the day between gunmen and Iraqi soldiers in Fallujah city, some 50 km from Baghdad, killing 11 people and wounding 23, […]
Washington, March 20 (IANS) US President Barack Obama and Tunisian Prime Minister Mehdi Jemaa will meet at the White House April 4, a government official said Tuesday. The leaders will discuss a broad range of bilateral and regional issues, including US assistance to support Jemaa’s reform agenda and Tunisia’s stability, Xinhua quoted White House spokesperson Jay […]
Jerusalem, March 20 (IANS) Israel inevitably resorts to “aggressive” military action sometimes to maintain security and quiet on its northern frontier, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted Wednesday in the wake of Israeli air strikes on Syrian military targets. “Our policy is very clear: We strike those who strike us,” Xinhua quoted Netanyahu as saying at his […]
Ljubljana (Slovenia), March 20 (IANS) Slovenia is witnessing positive changes in curbing growing financial crisis, thus making the restructuring of economy and growth possible, Prime Minister Alenka Bratusek said Wednesday. Thanks to the stabilisation of national banking system, Bratusek told media, negative growth has been reversed and the interest rate on Slovenian debt dropped below four […]
Brussels, March 19 (IANS) European Council President Herman Van Rompuy Wednesday said the European Union (EU) will sign the political provisions of the Association Agreement with Ukraine Friday. In a letter to EU leaders, Van Rompuy said the 28-member bloc will sign the document in the presence of Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on the second […]
Islamabad, March 19 (IANS) Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf has challenged the decision of the special court not to transfer his high treason trial case to a military court. The former president filed a petition in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) Tuesday through defence lawyers Khalid Ranjha and Faisal Hussain, Dawn online reported Wednesday. A three-member […]
Islamabad, March 19 (IANS) Brushing off the opposition’s criticism of a $1.5-billion aid package from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain has defended the government’s policy and expressed the hope that the assistance would help the country overcome the prevailing economic crisis. The opposition claimed that the Nawaz Sharif government was obtaining the $1.5-billion grant from […]
Berlin, March 19 (IANS) German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that Russia remains a member of the G8 in response to reports saying it was booted out of the group after signing a treaty accepting Crimea as a part of the Russian territory, a German government statement said. Earlier Tuesday, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius had […]