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IAEA Leader’s Pledge to Secrecy Was His Hallmark Unto Death

(Bloomberg) — One of Yukiya Amano’s first acts when he took command of the International Atomic Energy Agency was to pull a tighter curtain of secrecy around its activities.At a board meeting in September 2010, Amano warned his 2,500 workers that they…

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Huawei secretly helped North Korea build, maintain wireless network: Washington Post

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL], the Chinese company put on a U.S. black list because of national security concerns, secretly helped North Korea build and maintain its commercial wireless network, the Washington Post reported on Monday, citing sour…

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Huawei secretly helped North Korea build, maintain wireless network -Washington Post

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd , the Chinese company put on a U.S. black list because of national security concerns, secretly helped North Korea build and maintain its commercial wireless network, the Washington Post reported on Monday, citing sources and …

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Zelenskiy’s Gravity-Defying Act Is About to Test Ukraine Reality

(Bloomberg) — It’s become a familiar story in European politics: a charismatic outsider captures the imagination of a nation fed up with a stagnant and bumbling political class. He rises quickly, at the head of a movement that sweeps out the old elite…

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The Latest: Iran’s FM says UK ship was traveling unsafely

Iran’s foreign minister says his country seized a British-flagged oil tanker last week because it was violating “international law on safe passage” in the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian officials have previously suggested the Stena Impero was seized and ta…

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How Will Iran’s Seizure Of A British-Flagged Tanker Escalate Tensions?

NPR’s Rachel Martin talks to ex-U.K. foreign minister David Miliband about Iran seizing the tanker. Miliband is now CEO of the International Rescue Committee. NPR’s Greg Myre weighs in on the issue.

July 22, 2019Comments Off on How Will Iran’s Seizure Of A British-Flagged Tanker Escalate Tensions?Read More

Reformist president’s new party set to win majority in Ukraine’s parliament

Reformist president's new party set to win majority in Ukraine's parliamentEarly results have shown that president Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s new party is poised to win a majority in Ukraine’s parliamentary election, giving the former comedian free reign to enact sweeping anti-corruption reforms.  If this bears out as the remaining votes are counted, it would be the first time in Ukraine’s post-Soviet history that a single party has controlled parliament.  The president called the snap election after he swept to power in April on promises to pass reforms like a tax amnesty and an end to parliamentarians’ immunity from prosecution. The old guard parliament has so far stymied his initiatives and appointments.  His Servant of the People party, named after the television show in which Mr Zelenskiy previously played a schoolteacher-turned-president, had the support of up to half of voters in polling before Sunday’s vote. It was reportedly holding preliminary coalition talks with Voice, another new party founded by rock star Svyatoslav Vakarchuk that is now expected to get 20 seats.  But Servant of the People now stands to win more than half the legislative body through Ukraine’s mixed system. The party has done unexpectedly well in the 199 of 424 seats that are filled by first-past-the-post district racesю With almost two-third of votes counted on Monday, it was leading in 127 of these constituencies, according to the central electoral commission. It had another 122 seats through the party list vote.  Twenty-six seats will remain empty as these districts in eastern Ukraine were taken over by Russia-backed separatists in a conflict that has killed more than 10,000 people. Two Ukrainian soldiers were killed on Sunday, the first day of the latest attempt to rejuvenate an oft-violated ceasefire.  Servant of the People party head Dmytro Razumkov speaks on Sunday Credit: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP The pro-Russian Opposition Platform-For Life, which is led by Vladimir Putin’s longtime friend Viktor Medvechuk, was on track to get 44 seats representing districts in eastern Ukraine. The European Solidarity party of former president Petro Poroshenko and the Fatherland faction of former PM Yulia Tymoshenko were set to win 27 and 25 seats, respectively, an embarrassing showing that torpedoes their PM hopes.  Despite his anti-corruption rhetoric, questions remain about Mr Zelenskiy’s ties to oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, the owner of the television channel that broadcast his shows. Servant of the People leader Dmytro Razumkov told journalists on Monday that the party was not expecting to enter a coalition and dismissed the idea of appointing Mr Vakarchuk as a rock star prime minister to complement the comedian president. “I think there are enough people on our team who can meet the challenges that exist in the country,” he said. “We have two to three people for every position.” An outspoken opponent of parliament’s infighting and old-school politics, Mr Zelenskiy is expected to appoint technocrats and activists to key posts. Both Servant of the People and Voice refused to include any serving MPs on their tickets, meaning parliament will now be dominated by political neophytes. An April investigation found that Mr Zelenskiy flew to Geneva 11 times after Mr Kolomoisky fled there to avoid charges in Ukraine. He also appointed the oligarch’s former advisor and lawyer head of the presidential administration.

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Iran’s supreme leader vows not to give up on Palestine

Iran’s supreme leader was quoted Monday as saying during a meeting with a delegation from the Palestinian militant group Hamas that his country won’t give up its stand on Palestine. “Supporting Palestine is an ideological and religious matter,” Ayatol…

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Pilot of Libyan jet lands in Tunisia, reports plane problem

A Libyan military jet trainer was forced to land on the outskirts of a city in southeast Tunisia after it violated Tunisian airspace, a Tunisian Defense Ministry spokesman said Monday. Ministry spokesman Mohamed Ben Zerki said the Libyan pilot told Tu…

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Iran pays tribute to late UN atomic agency chief

Iran’s deputy foreign minister Abbas Araghchi paid tribute to the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, after his death was announced on Monday. “My deep condolences… We worked very closely,” tweeted Araghchi, who took part i…

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UPDATE 1-Release tanker and crew immediately, Britain tells Iran

Britain called on Iran on Monday to release a British-flagged tanker and its crew immediately, describing the seizure of the Stena Impero in the Strait of Hormuz as illegal. Iranian Revolutionary Guards rappelled from helicopters and seized the Stena …

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