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No Contact with US on New START Currently: Lavrov
Russia currently has no contact with the United States on the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with TASS on Tuesday. 'There is no contact on the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with the Americans,' he stressed. On February 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced in his State of the Nation Address to the Federal Assembly that Moscow was suspending its participation in the New START treaty, ...
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Mass Protest Rally against French Pension Reform Underway in Lyon
A tenth protest rally with students and trade unions participating kicked off in Lyon on Tuesday where thousands of people gathered to protest against the overhaul of France’s pension system. The protesters will march from the university campus to the city’s central square. From 22,000 to 55,000 people, according to various estimates, participated in the previous protest rally held on March 23. Mass protest rallies against France’s new pension reform are being ...
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Kremlin Regrets Berlin’s Decision to Step up Its Military Aid to Ukraine
Germany is getting increasingly involved in the Ukrainian conflict, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday. This was how he commented on a Spiegel report saying that Berlin is planning to increase spending on military assistance to Ukraine from €3 billion to more than €15 billion in the next few years. When asked how such decisions could affect relations between Russia and Germany, Peskov said that bilateral relations currently 'leave much to ...
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Two People Killed in Attack at Islamic Center in Portugal
Portuguese police shot a man suspected of stabbing two people to death at a Muslim center in Lisbon, authorities said Tuesday. Police were called to the center late Tuesday morning where they encountered a suspect “armed with a large knife,” a police statement said. Police ordered him to surrender but he advanced toward them and was “neutralized,” the statement said. The suspect was taken to a Lisbon hospital where he was in ...
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Canada announces fresh anti-Iran sanctions
TEHRAN, Mar. 28 (MNA) – Canada added more Iranian individuals and companies to its sanctions list, targeting the IRGC and law enforcement forces, over what Ottawa claims to be systematic human rights violations and the production of drones.
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