US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Suriname on Thursday. Albert Ramdin, Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Business and International Cooperation in Suriname, confirmed this to the ANP on Sunday. It is the first time that a US Secretary of State has visited Suriname. Pompeo’s visit to Suriname […]
India reported another record number of daily corona infections on Friday. In the past 24 hours, 96,551 cases were added, according to data from the Ministry of Health. About 4.5 million residents have been infected since the virus outbreak. In no other country is the number of infections increasing […]
Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko is in Moscow on Monday. A diplomatic source has reported this to the RIA news agency. The Kremlin stated that Lukashenko would come to Russia “in the coming days”. The visit to the Kremlin has been in the air for a while. The Belarusian president […]
German Economy and Energy Minister Peter Altmaier questions possible sanctions against Russia over the alleged poisoning of Putin critic Aleksej Navalny. To TV channel ARD, Altmaier said that Russia will not behave differently because of sanctions and that relations with Russia will harden if punished. The CDU politician strongly […]
Georgia is the setting for large-scale joint exercises with NATO from Monday. Russia’s neighbour has been trying to join the alliance for a long time, much to Moscow’s dismay. Approximately 2,800 troops from the United States, Great Britain, France and Poland participate in the ‘Noble Partner 2020’ exercise near […]
The chance that the European Union and Great Britain will succeed in properly arranging Brexit is only 30-40 percent. This probability calculation comes from senior British officials in Downing Street, The Times and The Spectator report. Negotiations for an agreement on Brexit have virtually stalled. One of the main […]
US President Donald Trump has encouraged voters in the state of North Carolina to vote twice: by mail and in person. This way, he says, they can check whether their vote has been counted. “Let them send it in and then vote,” the president told WECT-TV in Wilmington, North […]
Two leading Venezuelan opposition leaders are in talks with President Nicolas Maduro’s government about possible participation in the upcoming parliamentary elections, said Turkish Foreign Minister, who is involved in the negotiations. The opposition parties had previously decided to boycott the elections. The boycott came about because the opposition is […]
According to local media, the Japanese ruling party LDP will probably hold a party election on 14 September to choose the successor of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. He is resigning due to health problems but has announced that he will remain in his post until it is clear who […]
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced his departure due to chronic intestinal inflammation. He also stepped down in 2007 due to the same health ailment. Abe says he will stay until his successor is elected. The prime minister said at a press conference that his health started to […]
