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© Mikhail Metzel/TASSRussian President Vladimir Putin
Putin also instructed Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a meeting with permanent members of Russia's Security Council on October 16 to work out Russia's position on the accord, the New START arms control treaty, and inform the United States of developments.
"In this regard, I propose...extending the current treaty without any conditions for at least a year so that meaningful negotiations can be conducted on all the parameters of the problems..." Putin said, adding it would be "extremely sad" if the treaty expired.
Putin's proposal comes just two days after Lavrov said that Moscow doesn't see any prospects for extending the treaty with the United States, stressing however that Moscow plans to carry on with negotiations on the subject.
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"Starting next week, when people attempt to Retweet a Tweet with a misleading information label, they will see a prompt directing them to credible information about the topic before they can amplify it,"With "credible information" of course meaning information from the same mass media outlets who've lied to us about every American war throughout their entire existence.
"We're taking more steps to encourage thoughtful amplification by preventing Tweets that have been 'followed by' and 'liked by' accounts you don't follow from showing up in your timeline," adds Twitter, as though the social media echo chamber that is turning us all into idiots wasn't bad enough.
© Patrick Semansky/APSpeaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
Between October 9 and October 11, YouGov conducted a survey of 1,525 registered voters. They concluded that 43% of voters feel that Pelosi is more to blame for the failure to pass a coronavirus stimulus package, while 40% placed the blame on President Donald Trump. The other 17% of those surveyed were unsure on who to blame.
The poll found that when it comes to party affiliation, an overwhelming majority of Democrats blame Trump while an overwhelming majority of Republicans blame Pelosi. However, 45% of those who identified as Independents said that Pelosi is more at fault, compared to just 30% who said Trump was to blame.
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- House Dems' stimulus bill includes checks for illegal immigrants and protections from deportations and UPDATE
- Trump hints he'll sign another $1,200 stimulus check bill, vows to halt lockdown relief talks with Democrats until after election
- Pelosi says Democrats are looking at the 25th Amendment to remove Trump
© Reuters/Ammar AwadIsraeli houses Givat Ze'ev, occupied West Bank
"We are deeply concerned by the decision taken by the Israeli authorities to advance more than 4,900 settlement building units in the occupied West Bank. The expansion of settlements violates international law and further imperils the viability of a two-state solution to bring about a just and lasting peace to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."The European foreign ministries called Israel's decision "counterproductive" in light of normalisation agreements reached between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
"We, therefore, call for an immediate halt to settlement construction, as well as to evictions and demolitions of Palestinian structures in East-Jerusalem and the West Bank."The construction plans made public earlier in the week, have already been criticised as illegal by the United Nations' Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov and Europe's top diplomat Josep Borrell.
© Reuters / Tom BrennerDemocratic presidential candidate Joe Biden sits on stage beside host George Stephanopoulos, ahead of an ABC Town Hall event at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., October 15, 2020.
Biden's comments came during an ABC News Town Hall, during which host George Stephanopoulos pressed the former vice president on his increasingly elusive stance on the topic.
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© RFE/RL file photoU.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad
Zalmay Khalilzad made the comments on October 15, amid rising fears about the fate of tens of thousands of civilians caught up in battles between Afghan government forces and the Taliban in the southern province of Helmand.
Khalilzad tweeted that he and the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, General Scott Miller, held several meetings with the Taliban during which the sides agreed to "strictly" adhere to their commitments under a peace agreement signed in Qatar in February.
© Twitter / RFE/RL
Bottom line is this: Azerbaijan has now officially attacked Armenian soil (as opposed to Karabakh soil) and Armenia now has the right to appeal to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). So far, the Armenians have not done so, but now they can and, I believe, probably will do so.
Another interesting development is that the USA has accused Turkey of being involved in this war. This means that by now all three countries Russia, France and the USA are now declaring that the Turks (and or their "good terrorist" proxies from Syria) are involved. Aliev is outraged and accused everybody of lying.
Comment: RT reports the latest statements from each country's leader:
Azerbaijan categorically refuses to recognize the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh, with President Ilham Aliyev calling it a "red line." He reiterated that the region is legally part of his country.
"As for our red line, we have stated it very clearly," Aliyev explained. "Under no circumstances can the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan be violated. Under no circumstances will Azerbaijan consent to the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh."
In 1991, Nagorno-Karabakh declared independence from Azerbaijan, but the region is internationally classified as part of Azerbaijan. No UN member states have recognized the breakaway republic.
However, the disputed land is mainly populated by ethnic Armenians. Baku considers the enclave to be illegally occupied by Yerevan, and has stated its goal to gain full control of its territory.
Earlier, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that his country supports Nagorno-Karabakh's right to self-determination, describing that as non-negotiable. According to Pashinyan, Baku won't accept that the region has this right, while Yerevan is ready for compromise.
"Azerbaijan did not want and does not want to accept the right to the self-determination of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh. And the right to self-determination of Nagorno-Karabakh is, for us, a red line beyond which we cannot step," Pashinyan said.
- War enters second week: Armenia and Azerbaijan accuse each other of shelling cities, targeting civilians
- Azerbaijan's president says "neighbor" Russia is most suitable mediator, Turkey accused of sending terrorists in from Middle East
- As Nagorno-Karabakh battle goes on, Armenia asks Washington if it supplied Turkey F-16s to aid Azerbaijan
- CIA and MI6 behind Armenian - Azerbaijani conflict?
- Explosive stakes on Armenia-Azerbaijan chessboard
One email sent to Biden on May 13, 2017, with the subject line "Expectations," included details of "remuneration packages" for six people involved in an unspecified business venture.
Biden was identified as "Chair / Vice Chair depending on agreement with CEFC," an apparent reference to the former Shanghai-based conglomerate CEFC China Energy Co.
His pay was pegged at "850" and the email also noted that "Hunter has some office expectations he will elaborate."
In addition, the email outlined a "provisional agreement" under which 80 percent of the "equity," or shares in the new company, would be split equally among four people whose initials correspond to the sender and three recipients, with "H" apparently referring to Biden.
Comment: Trump weighed in on this rather big and damning story:
President Trump on Wednesday slammed Joe Biden as "corrupt" following The Post's bombshell exposé on Hunter Biden's alleged hard drive and emails linking the Democratic presidential candidate to his son's job at a Ukrainian energy company.
"Vice President Biden, you owe the people of America an apology because it turns out you are a corrupt politician," Trump told a rally crowd in Des Moines, Iowa.
"The Biden family treated the vice presidency as a for-profit corporation, flying around the globe, collecting millions of dollars from China and Ukraine and Russia and other countries."
An alleged 2015 email from Burisma energy executive Vadym Pozharskyi, reported by The Post, thanks Hunter Biden for "giving an opportunity to meet your father" — appearing to debunk Biden's claim he didn't speak with his son about his "overseas business dealings."
Biden's campaign said Wednesday in a carefully worded statement there were no meetings with Pozharskyi on the former vice president's "official schedules."
Trump said the reporting indicates, however, that "Joe Biden has been blatantly lying about his involvement in his son's corrupt business dealings."
"These emails show that Biden's repeated claim that he has never spoken to Hunter about his business dealings were a complete lie," Trump said. "He's trying to cover up a massive pay for play scandal at the heart of his vice presidency."
"Hunter was being paid for access to his vice-president father, who was specifically put in charge of Ukraine and Russia," Trump said. "It's a corrupt family. Joe Biden personifies the selfish and corrupt globalists who got rich and powerful at your expense."
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© Mike Groll/Office of Gov. CuomoNew York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo at a press conference at the State Capitol on Tuesday, announcing the shutdown of houses of worship in COVID-19 hotspots.
"The current rule ... in any indoor gathering ... it's 50% of capacity," the governor said. "That's the current law. We have to follow that law. If we don't follow that law then the infection rate gets worse. Then we're gonna have to go back to close down. And nobody wants to do that. But I need your help in getting the rate down, and the rate will come down, if we follow the rules on the mask and the social distancing and the 50%."
But just a few hours later, Cuomo announced restrictions on houses of worship to as few as 10 people. Jewish leaders said they felt "stabbed in the back" by what they deemed Cuomo's duplicity.
Hamodia has exclusively obtained a recording of the full call here.
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