Global climate goal measures an 'enormous challenge', says Equinor
OSLO (Reuters) - Oil demand needs to halve, gas use must drop by 10% and coal use needs to be all but eradicated by 2050 to achieve the goals of the Paris agreement to limit global warming, oil company Equinor said in its energy outlook on Thursday.
Haftar-Led Libyan Army Says Destroyed Drone At Tripoli Mitiga Airport
BENGHAZI (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 06th June, 2019) The Libyan National (LNA) led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar on Thursday destroyed a , which carried out several airstrikes in 's outskirts, at the city's Mitiga International , the LNA General Command press service director Khalifa Obeidi told Sputnik.
Pentagon eyes rare earth supplies in Africa in push away from China
CHICAGO/LONDON: The US Department of Defense has held talks with Malawi?s Mkango Resources Ltd and other rare earth miners across the globe about their supplies of strategic minerals, part of a plan to find diversified reserves outside of China, a department official said on Wednesday. The push comes as China threatens to curb exports to the United States of ...
US State Senator Says Trump Unlikely To See Letter Warning Against Going To War With Iran
WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 06th June, 2019) State Senator Richard Black told Sputnik that he has not received a response US President to his letter calling on the president not to allow his advisers to drag the into a war with and is doubtful the president will ever receive see it. In ...
US Became Leading Foreign Investor In Russian Economy In 2018 - Survey
ST. PETERSBURG (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 06th June, 2019) The beat by the number of investment projects in and became the leading investor in that country in for the first time since 2013 despite tense relations between and in recent years, a survey, carried out by EY consultancy and obtained by Sputnik, ...
Venezuelan Vice President El Aissami To Head National Delegation At SPIEF - Moscow
ST. PETERSBURG (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 06th June, 2019) Venezuelan Minister and Vice President for Economy Tarek El Aissami will head the Venezuelan national delegation at International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Aleksander Shchetinin, the head of the Foreign Ministry's Department of Latin America, told Sputnik on Thursday.
Syrian War Would End Very Quickly If US Pulled Out - Virginia State Senator
WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 06th June, 2019) The war would end very and the people would start rebuilding their country if US forces left the war-torn Eastern nation, State Senator Richard Black told Sputnik. "If we'd [the United States] pulled out, I think the war would end very quickly and would be ...
US Must Stop Acting Recklessly, Engaging In Disputes On Russian Border - State Senator
WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 06th June, 2019) The has become very irresponsible as it engages in disputes on the and should stop such provocative actions given the chance that something can go wrong and trigger a thermonuclear war, State Senator Richard Black told Sputnik. Black said there is a chance, however small, that ...
Iran’s supreme leader calls US middle eastern plan ‘betrayal of muslim world’
Iran's Supreme Leader blasted the US Middle Eastern peace plan that has is about?to be revealed during?the economic summit in?Bahrain in?June, calling it "a betrayal of?the Muslim world," Mehr News reported Wednesday. Speaking about?the summit, named "Peace to?Prosperity," and scheduled to?take place on?24-25 June, in?Bahrain, the Supreme Leader said that the event's sole objective is "to materialize America's wrongful, ...
RPT: ANALYSIS - US Desire For NATO Dominance Likely Drives Demands For EU Allies To Keep Buying Arms
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 06th June, 2019) The trying to coerce its European allies into buying US arms for a future common EU military appears to be a drive to preserve 's dominance in and hegemony in the arms , experts told Sputnik. US President 's administration has presented European allies with an "ultimatum" ...
Meeting Putin Would Give Trump More Accurate Insight On Ukraine, Syria - US State Senator
WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 06th June, 2019) A meeting with President would allow US President to see things through someone else's eyes with the respect to the conflicts in and , State Senator Richard Black told Sputnik. If he meets with him in at the G20 meeting then I think they ...
RPT: ANALYSIS - US-Iran 'No War, No Peace' To Last For Years, Despite Trump's Remarks On Military Options
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 06th June, 2019) US-Iran relations are likely to remain in limbo for a long time since the level of hostility between the two nations is not enough to embark on a war, but and still engage in negotiations to prevent a direct confrontation, experts told Sputnik, commenting on recent statements ...
Trump Must Stop Bolton, Other Officials From Setting Their Own Foreign Policy - State Sen.
WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 06th June, 2019) US President should stop National Security Adviser (NSA) John Bolton and other officials setting their own foreign policy, State Senator Richard Black told Sputnik. Trump, Black added, should not them "after tweets and tweets and tweets" but needs to tell these members directly ...
Russian Far East Minister To Visit Pyongyang For Cooperation Commission Meeting - Ministry
VLADIVOSTOK (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 06th June, 2019) Alexander Kozlov, the Minister for the Development of the Far East, will pay a working to where he will co-chair a session of an intergovernmental commission on cooperation between and , the ministry said on Thursday.
Turkish president Erdogan phones Saudi king Salman
Saudi Arabia's King Salman has received a telephonic call for an Eid greeting from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Saudi media reported on Wednesday. The phone call comes days after Saudi Arabia hosted the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting in the holy city of Makkah, but with the notable absence of the Turkish president from the summit. The ...
New US Troop Deployment Against Iran Likely To Destabilize Mideast - State Senator Black
WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 06th June, 2019) The plan to deploy an additional 1,500 troops is based on false pretexts to spark a war with and will only destabilize the region even further, State Senator Richard Black told Sputnik. At the end of , President said he would deploy additional troops to the ...
Macron, Trump To Take Part In Separate D-Day Commemorating Ceremony Thursday
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 06th June, 2019) French President Emmanuel Macron and his US counterpart, , will take part in joint a French-US ceremony commemorating the 75th anniversary of D-Day, marking the start of the Normandy invasion in II, in the French commune of Colleville-sur-Mer.
Trump administration suspends US educational programs for migrant children
The Trump administration is suspending educational, legal and recreational programs for migrant children in its custody, saying an influx of children crossing the border without a parent or legal guardian was putting a ?tremendous strain? on the resources of the agency tasked with housing them. The agency that houses migrant children ? the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) ? ...
Mexico meets migrants at southern border with armed forces
?That many sailors and military police, yes, it?s new,? Cruz said, by WhatsApp, from Metapa, in the southern border state of Chiapas, where the vast majority of migrants from Central America cross into Mexico. Mexico?s National Migration Institute (INM) said in a statement that a group of about 300 people entered Mexico by a border bridge Wednesday morning, and ...
China's panda diplomacy puts a smile on 'best friend' Putin's face
Xi unveiled the pandas - Ru Yi and Ding Ding - after talks with Putin whom he called his ?best friend? at the start of a three-day visit that will see him attend Russia?s flagship economic forum in St Petersburg later this week. ?Over the past six years we have met almost 30 times ... Putin is my best ...
