Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte has pledged to make Italy the first Group of Seven nation to join China’s ambitious Belt and Road initiative despite objections from the United States and doubts within the governing coalition. Mr. Conte insisted on Tuesday that Italy’s signature on a memorandum of understanding for the infrastructure-building venture planned during the […]
North Korea said on Wednesday leader Kim Jong-un supervised a live-fire demonstration of newly-developed short-range ballistic missiles he said were intended to send an “adequate warning” to the United States and South Korea over their joint military exercises. The announcement by Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency on August 7 came a day after South […]
The “unilateral invasion” of northern Syria has resulted in widespread casualties and destruction, US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Monday. This has also undermined the successful multinational “Defeat ISIS” mission in Syria, Mark Esper said. Esper will be visiting NATO next week in Brussels and he plans to press members of the alliance to […]
