Mike Pompeo: Lifting Iranian arms embargo would be ‘just nuts’

europeanvoice Friday, August 14, 2020 5:49:00 PM CEST | info

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday said Washington would do anything in its power to prevent the expiration of an arms embargo on Iran in October of this year. Speaking at a joint press conference with Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg in Vienna, Pompeo said the U.S....

UK: Nuclear site evacuated after chemical found

turkishpress Friday, August 14, 2020 5:54:00 PM CEST | info

LONDON. A nuclear power site in Britain has been evacuated and a bomb squad deployed after a chemical was found needing removal, local media reported on Friday. The chemical is organic peroxide and was found in small amounts on the site, which underwent a controlled evacuation as a precautionary measure....

Trump and his allies got a win. Palestinians had their isolation writ large.

nbcnews Friday, August 14, 2020 5:19:00 PM CEST | info

Many Palestinians will be reciting a version of this adage on Friday, a day after the United Arab Emirates said it had agreed to in a U.S.-brokered deal. establish full diplomatic relations with Israel The announcement was widely cheered within Israel, the U.S....

Power of the atomic bomb is shown in colourised photos 75 years after 146,000 died in Hiroshima - Daily Mail

google-news Friday, August 14, 2020 2:15:00 PM CEST | info

When Tokuso Hamai saw the colourised version of a picnic held under cherry tree blossoms sometime before World War II, forgotten memories of family members, most of whom died in the atomic bombing, came pouring out. 'In colourised photos, people come to life,' said Hamai, now 86....

U.S. Seizes Tankers Loaded With Iranian Fuel Bound For Venezuela

rferl Friday, August 14, 2020 6:35:00 PM CEST | info

The United States has seized four tankers en route from Iran to Venezuela in what the Justice Department says is the government’s largest-ever seizure of fuel shipments from Iran. The Justice Department said on August 14 that U.S. law enforcement seized the cargo on the tankers -- approximately 1....

Toshiba : shareholder 3D Investment wants independent probe into AGM vote -letter

4-traders Friday, August 14, 2020 2:25:00 PM CEST | info

The demand from Singapore-based 3D Investment Partners is likely to sharpen scrutiny of the treatment of Toshiba's foreign investors. It follows a contentious, but failed, attempt by foreign shareholders to elect some new independent directors to Toshiba's board at the July 31 meeting. 3D said voting rights representing a 1....