[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/news/iran-nuclear-iaea-spies-289/i0a0ef8af8a538ac8d1fca034068459e6_big-interview.flv] UN nuclear watchdog IAEA has been closely cooperating with the world’s spy agencies, including on Iran, for years, former head of the agency, Hans Blix, told RT. The cooperation of the International Atomic Energy…
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U.S. soldiers of Stryker Brigade Combat Team stage a live fire drill at Seungjin fire range during a photo call in Pocheon, about 46 km (28 miles) northeast of Seoul and about 15 km (9…
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (R) arrives at a polling station in the capital Damascus to cast his vote on a new constitution on February 26, 2012. Turkish protesters have held a demonstration near the Syrian…
Syria’s Interior Minister has announced that 89 per cent of those who took part in the referendum have voted in favor of a new constitution. The new law puts an end to five decades of one-party rule among other reforms put forward by President Assad. Interior Minister Ibrahim al-Shaar announced the results of the referendum at a press conference on Monday. According to the minister, out of 14,580,000 Syrians eligible to vote some 8,376,000, or about 57 per cent, actually came to the polling stations and voted, RT’s Maria Finoshina reports from Damascus. Al-Shaar said that the opposition groups tried to hamper the vote in some troubled areas like Homs and Idlib. Armed rebels did not allow some people to get to the polling stations he said.
President Truman said at the Peace Conference with Japan in San Francisco in Sept. 1951 that “It is a treaty that will work. It does not contain the seeds of another war. It is a…
Pakistani authorities have completed the demolition of Osama Bin Laden compound in the city of Abbottabad. A raid by the US SEALs, carried out last May, killed the terrorist in his Pakistani home where he…
The following is a rush transcript of Webster G. Tarpley’s interview with PressTV, 24 February 2012. The video can be found at the end of this text. Press TV: A number of big players this Friends of…
The BRICS group of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa is prepared to boost the lending resources of the IMF that can be used for tackling Europe’s sovereign debt crisis. Russian Finance Minister Anton…
US President Barack Obama and international diplomats gathered at the “Friends of Syria” meeting in Tunis issued statements yesterday pressing for military intervention in Syria. They cited as a pretext escalating warfare between US-backed Syrian “rebel” forces and…
Libya and France have agreed to look into boosting maritime security and controlling the North African country’s borders, their defense ministers said on Saturday, Reuters reported. On a visit to Tripoli, French Defence Minister Gerard Longuet met his Libyan counterpart Osama…