Новости за 20.08.2016

Newspaper probe shows how much of Trump’s business 'remains shrouded in mystery' - Companies belonging to Donald Trump have at least $650 million in debt, more than twice the amount shown in public filings made by his presidential campaign, the New York Times reported Saturday.

During a visit to Syria On Tuesday, China’s Senior Administration Official have Stated that Beijing would like to have a military relationship with Damascus.

Recently, Donald Trump Republican nominee has described President Barack Obama as “the founder of ISIS”, and said his rival Hillary Clinton was the “co-founder”.

The terrorist group, ISIS, was expelled from Manbij, a City in northern Syria by the "Syrian Democratic Forces "after two months of battle. The city was under the control of ISIS for two years.

TEHRAN (FNA)- A US warship was shooed away from Iran’s territorial waters after it received a tough warning from an Iranian navy vessel. The US warship approached the Iranian warship in a provocative move, ignoring the internationally set standard distance from Iran’s Shahid Mousayee patrol vessel and the Iranian territorial waters in Persian Gulf. The […]

TEHRAN (FNA)- Russia announced that it aims to launch an operation in Syria against ISIL, urging Iraqi officials to cancel all flights in Erbil and Suleimaniyah airports in order to prevent any hazardous incidents from happening. Russia has announced that it is set to launch an extensive military operation codenamed “pervasive destruction”, using 69 Sukhoi […]

Scientists believe that an exoplanet discovered last year has oxygen in its atmosphere, potentially the first time the gas has been detected on a rocky planet outside the solar system. NASA/JPL-CALTECH Time Travel is Real: Space and Time Together Result in Universal Asymmetry Earth-sized exoplanet GJ 1132b, which was discovered last year just 39 light-years […]

Concerned about the security implications of last month’s coup attempt in Turkey for his country, Czech defense consultant Frantisek Sulc worries that Ankara’s move toward a realist approach to foreign policy could result in the most serious crisis NATO has faced in a quarter century, possibly leading to the alliance’s collapse. Commenting on the Czech media’s […]

Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Serbia was intended to send a message that the US stood by its policies, essentially promoting Hillary Clinton’s campaign. All it managed to do, however, was dredge up the bitter memories of the 1999 NATO invasion. Before jetting off to Belgrade on August 16, Biden gave a fiery speech […]

The US forces assisting the Saudi-led coalition in coordinating air strikes in Yemen have largely withdrawn from Riyadh in an apparent move to distance themselves from the mounting civilian death toll in the 17-month long conflict, Reuters has learned. TrendsYemen unrest In addition to withdrawing air support personnel, Lieutenant Ian McConnaughey, a US Navy spokesman […]

Jim W. Dean - The rational way to handle this some kind of sharing program on the natural resources. But China, with its huge population is not about to end up on the short end of the stick.

Press TV has conducted an interview with Gordon Duff, senior editor of Veterans Today, to discuss the ongoing fight between the Syrian army and Kurdish militia forces in the northeastern city of Hasakah. Here is a rough transcription of the interview: Press TV: When the Kurds are helping fight terror groups in Syria, the same as […]

By Sajjad Shaukat for Veterans Today Taking note of the acts of terrorism in  San Bernardino,  Orlando, Paris, Brussels, Munich and Nice, Pakistani author Sajjad Shaukat said in a detailed statement that in his research-based book, “US vs Islamic, Invisible Balance of Power: Dangerous Shift in International Relations,” which was first published in 2005, he […]

China launched the world’s first quantum science satellite into space early on Tuesday morning, with the project carrying the hopes of scientists around the world. In ancient times, China was the land of innovation, inventing black powder, paper, printing and the compass. Now, after decades of rapid economic development, it has built up the world’s largest army of scientists and engineers, some armed with cutting-edge technology and state-of-the-art hardware, and is ready to reclaim the glory of the past with ambitious projects.

Clearly the deteriorating situation in Turkey and the changing relationships with the US and NATO meant that it was no longer a good idea to have a stash of nukes in Turkey. Therefore it comes as no surprise that the US is moving them. Wherever they chose to place them will doubtless be somewhere in Europe as their main purpose appears to be as some kind of threat to Russia.

The Pentagon failed to account for $6.5 trillion in its financial statement, a recently-recovered Inspector General’s report on the 2015 fiscal year said. It reveals the audit of the Department of Defense was “materially misstated.” The army failed to provide “accurate, complete, timely and well-supported” documents that could have explained the use of trillions of […]

Jim W. Dean - This story is a tempest in a teapot for two reasons. Russia can do just fine with the US locking itself out of the Russian market. Plus, presidents have a wide hand when it comes to foreign policy.