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The State Department has hailed its “real success” in deterring Russian defense exports, claiming Moscow will come up “several billion dollars” short. Officials, however, could not specify which deals were ‘derailed.’ The State Department on Tuesday praised its own efforts to punish Russia for its “malign activity” by warning countries “around the world” of the […]
Published time: 13 Dec, 2017 22:59 State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert appeared to walk back statements by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson calling for negotiations with North Korea. Nauert said Pyongyang would have to suspend weapons tests before talks could take place. “We’re ready to talk anytime they’d like to talk,” Tillerson said on Tuesday, […]
Published time: 29 Nov, 2017 21:14 The US Congress has withdrawn RT America’s accreditation, citing the company’s “foreign agent” status. That’s hours after the State Department said the US Foreign Agents Registration Act “does not restrict an organization’s ability to operate.” On Wednesday, RT America received a letter from the Congress, informing it of the […]
Poland is set to purchase up to 150 advanced air-to-air missiles and about two dozen multiple rocket launchers and other high-grade military equipment from US, with a total estimated cost of some $ 500 million, The Pentagon has revealed. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency, a branch of the US Department of Defense, in charge of […]
Russia’s military clout eclipses Europe’s, making it a “real” threat from “the Baltic to the Black Sea,” a senior US State Department official claimed, citing large-scale drills conducted by Russia within its own borders as proof of sinister intentions. “The threat to [the West’s] collective security posed by Russia is clear, and we on both […]
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has reportedly scrapped an office within the State Department that coordinated foreign sanctions policy. Sanctions have long served as a pillar of Washington’s foreign policy toward Iran, North Korea and Russia. The sanctions office was shuttered after the Trump administration missed an October 1 deadline to apply new penalties […]
The Russian Embassy in the US has lashed out against the State Department’s remarks which understates the significance and potential consequences of Washington’s demands for Russian media to register as “foreign agents.” In September, the US Department of Justice ordered RT America and Sputnik to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), or face […]
Published time: 20 Oct, 2017 23:28 Edited time: 20 Oct, 2017 23:29 The US State Department is advising Iraq’s federal authority to limit its military activity in the country’s Kurdish northern region, as it also calls for “all parties to cease all violence” in the wake of violence in the town of Altun Kupri. On […]
Published time: 17 Oct, 2017 01:34 On Monday, US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert addressed growing concerns surrounding reports of violence between Iraqi troops and Kurdish forces around the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. Nauert said the US is calling on all involved parties to coordinate military activities and restore calm. The department expressed its […]
Published time: 5 Oct, 2017 21:16 US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has issued a memo reversing protections for transgender workers previously expanded under the Civil Rights Act. Under the revision, Sessions said discrimination only applies to men and women. “Title VII’s prohibition on sex discrimination encompasses discrimination between men and women but does not encompass […]
