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Iran’s envoy to the United Nations has called on the international community to end “unlawful destabilizing measures” by the US, declaring that while Iran does not seek war, it “reserves the right to counter any hostile act. Iranian envoy to the UN Majid Takht Ravanchi has condemned continuing US provocations that culminated Thursday morning in […]

Comparing Lionel Messi and Diego Maradona is an admittedly tired trope, but it is an inescapable one and comes into particularly sharp focus this weekend. Thirty-three years ago to the day, on June 22, 1986, Maradona produced two of the most iconic moments in football history within the space of four minutes. Two moments that […]

India and Russia continue to bolster their energy cooperation, and now India is looking at ways to establish oil shipping routes from Russia’s Far East India’s east coast. During the meeting (between India’s Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan with Yury Trutnev, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister and the Russian president’s top envoy to Russia’s Far East), India and […]

Click:cnc shops near me Iranian hackers are threatening US computer systems, cybersecurity firms FireEye and CrowdStrike claimed just as tensions between Washington and Tehran pulled back from the brink of war. “Really, we’re seeing increased cyber activity that seems to be focused on the West,” Adam Meyers, vice president of Intelligence at CrowdStrike, told Politico. […]

Russian oil giant Lukoil and the country’s biggest independent gas producer, Novatek, are among the 20 biggest large-cap value creators for shareholders, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) rating shows. Lukoil came in 10th and Novatek took 20th among 50 of the top companies, on the basis of total shareholder return (TSR) over the five years […]

Malaysian authorities intensified efforts to recover funds which have been siphoned from the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) fund at the center of the global corruption scandal. According to an unnamed official cited by Reuters, the country wants to recoup around $5 billion worth of foreign assets linked to 1MDB. A state fund was set up […]

Hundreds of US defense contractor personnel will evacuate Balad Air Base in Iraq due to “potential security threats,” Iraqi military sources have told the media. Nearly 400 employees of Lockheed Martin and Sallyport Global stationed at the base north of Baghdad are due to leave the country in a two-stage process due to continuing tensions […]

Ahead of this weekend’s Asean summit, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte warned China that it should be wary over claiming contested waters for fear it would inspire others, including the US. Speaking to media in Manilla on Friday, Duterte said he planned to talk “lengthily” about the issue of disputed waters in the South China Sea […]

NASA has been playing down the true cost of its Boeing Artemis-1 moon rocket, a government watchdog says. The delayed project is majorly over budget, costing $800 million more than the $1 billion overrun NASA has admitted-to. The Artemis Program aims to get humans to the Moon by 2024, with Artemis-1 the first stage of […]

President Vladimir Putin has dismissed allegations by international investigators who have accused three Russians, one Ukrainian of using a surface-to-air missile, brought from Russia, to shoot down Malaysian Airlines flight MH17. Asked whether he thought it was time for Russia to acknowledge responsibility for the shooting down of the plane, with the loss of almost […]