Matthew Klimow will now lead the office, the State Department confirmed Thursday, temporarily leaving his position as U.S. Ambassador to Turkmenistan to take on the position. ( read original story ...)
World Bank Cancels Loan For Controversial Lebanon Dam
The World Bank on Friday said it was canceling a loan to fund a dam in Lebanon that environmentalists claimed could destroy a valley rich in biodiversity. The Bisri Dam was partially suspended in June ... ( read original story ...)
Kosovo and Serbia give Israel diplomatic boon after US-brokered deal
Muslim Kosovo will recognise Jewish state, while Serbia promises to relocate embassy to Jerusalem ... ( read original story ...)
UAE Deal Boosts Israeli Oil Pipeline Secretly Built With Iran
UAE Deal Boosts Israeli Oil Pipeline Secretl... A desert oil pipeline that Israel once operated as a secret joint venture with Iran could be a major beneficiary from the Trump-brokered peace deal with ... ( read original story ...)
Morocco, Netherlands, India, UAE to buy Longbow Fire Control Radars
Longbow Limited, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, won a $164.6 million contract to equip foreign Apache helicopters with radar units. ( read original story ...)
Nagorno-Karabakh President Harutyunyan warns residents of territory disputed by Armenia & Azerbaijan to ‘prepare for war’
Karabakh, Arayik Harutyunyan, has told citizens of the small republic to “be realistic and prepare for war.” He claimed that bilateral discussions between Armenia and Azerbaijan have reached an ... ( read original story ...)
Azerbaijan is Preparing its People for War, Says Artsakh Foreign Minister
Instead of preparing its population for peace, Azerbaijan has been preparing it for war,” Artsakh Foreign Minister Masis Mayilyan said in an interview with Nationalia, a Catalan publication based in ... ( read original story ...)
Sri Lanka navy says no real risk of spill on stricken supertanker
There is no real risk of a spill from a fully loaded supertanker that caught fire off the east coast of Sri Lanka, a senior official in the Indian Ocean nation's navy said on Friday. The fire that bro ... ( read original story ...)
Images suggest North Korea may be preparing launch of submarine missile – think tank
Satellite imagery of a North Korean shipyard on Friday shows activity suggestive of preparations for a test of a medium-range submarine-launched ballistic missile, a U.S. think tank reported on Friday ... ( read original story ...)
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, the Iraq veteran on the front line of the war against chemical weapons in Syria
Beneath the smoke-hazed starlight of the desert night, a young tank captain waited for his moment of war. He was a romantic man and it was his first conflict. Now, on the eve of battle, as the trails ... ( read original story ...)