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Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Austria on Tuesday in his first trip to the West since being re-elected to the Kremlin and was rebuffed when he called for European Union sanctions to be lifted. The Russian leader was given full military honours as he met with Alexander van der Bellen, the Austrian president, and Sebastian Kurz, […] Reporters Without Borders (RSF) today formally asked the International Criminal Court to investigate what it regards as war crimes by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) against Palestinian journalists covering protests in Gaza since 30 March. Submitted to ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda a few hours before today’s UN Security Council meeting and based on article 15 […] Stockholm, 11 December 2017 – Sales of arms and military services by the world’s largest arms-producing and military services companies the SIPRI Top 100 totalled $374.8 billion in 2016, according to new international arms industry data released today by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The total for the SIPRI Top 100 in 2016 is […] US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov met privately – behind closed doors Vienna to discuss their differences over Ukraine, but their public comments were explosive when they had addressed the OSCE Ministerial Council Meeting in Vienna, they traded allegations about interference in Ukraine and there appeared little room for […] Vienna, 19 Nov. 2017. For the first time at VIECC Vienna Comic Con 2017, the Vienna Challenger Arena took place at Vienna Messe, a “League of Legends” tournament in which teams from Germany, Austria and Switzerland meet. Over 60 star guests attended VIECC Vienna Comic Con 2017 and the first comic con craft beer among […] Kawther Salam: According to UNODC’s Afghan Opium Survey 2017, the disappointing reversal of last year has become a profoundly alarming trend in the cultivation and production of opium in the country. The Survey’s findings show the total area under poppy cultivation has jumped a dizzying 63 per cent or 127,000 hectares compared to 2016. In […] Opium production in Afghanistan increased by 87 per cent to a record level of 9,000 metric tons in 2017 compared with 2016 levels, according to the latest Afghanistan Opium Survey figures released today by the Afghan Ministry of Counter Narcotics and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The area under opium poppy cultivation […] |
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