Newsroom24x7 Network Washington: The European Council has decided (17 July, 2017) to sanction sixteen senior military officials and Syria’s Scientific Studies and Research Centre Scientists (SSRC) for their roles in the development and use of chemical weapons against civilian populations. This action follows sanctions designations recently undertaken by the United States, similarly aimed at holding
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Jamsheed Rizwani Paris Democracy has spoken in the U.K., but democracy does not always make the best rational choice. Great Britain has lost it’s Empire in the last century, now it’s in the process of loosing Scotland and Northern Ireland…..Great Britain has lost what was great about it…. a leader in a bigger entity that
Newsroom24x7 Desk New Delhi: Before his departure for Belgium, USA and Saudi Arabia, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi today saluted the resilience and spirit of the people of Belgium and said:”We stand shoulder to shoulder with them in the wake of the horrific attacks in Brussels and share the grief of those who lost
Newsroom24x7 Desk Brussels : Australia’s access to vital satellite data has been assured through the signing of a cooperation arrangement in Brussels between the Australian Government and the European Commission. The agreement provides access to Copernicus, the European Union’s Earth Observation and Monitoring program, which captures imagery of planet Earth and its environment for the ultimate
Newsroom24x7 Desk France: More than 160,000 asylum seekers are to be relocated from Italy, Greece and Hungary.The European Union (EU) has drawn up a new schedule of national quota under which Germany will take in more than 40,000 and France will allow 30,000 refugees into their territories. European Commission proposes to add around 120,000 people
Newsroom24x7 Desk Washington DC: After many months of principled diplomacy, the P5+1 — the United States, the United Kingdom, France, China, Russia and Germany — along with the European Union, have achieved a long-term comprehensive nuclear deal with Iran that will verifiably prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon and ensure that Iran’s nuclear program
Opinion: Our World Our Times Anoop Swarup As regulator TRAI is primed to secure the interest of the Consumer and to safeguard Constitutional guarantees such as the freedom of speech and expression but it is indeed an irony that it has set in motion proposals that would not only hurt the consumers because access to
Newsoom24x7 Desk Canberra: Expanded sanctions by Australia have come into force against Russia due to the “threat to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.” Sanctions against Russia were announced by the Australian Prime Minister on September 1, 2014 closely matching those implemented by the European Union, Canada and the United States. They supplement targeted
Newsroom24x7 Desk Washington DC, Feb. 3: Friends of the Lower Mekong, a donor coordination group, have come together with the countries of the Lower Mekong to discuss the connection between water resources, energy needs, and food security. Carrying forward this objective, US Counselor Tom Shannon and Senior Advisor to the Secretary Ambassador David Thorne led
