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Nucléaire : Trump et Poutine sur le sentier d’une nouvelle guerre froide
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Si il devait y avoir un conflit, avec les nouveaux missiles hypersonique Russes, ce n’est pas gagné pour Washington....

Le président Donald Trump a décidé de sortir du traité sur les missiles nucléaires intermédiaires INF. Un retrait suivi

quelques heures après par le retrait de la Russie annoncé par Vladimir Poutine. - Brendan Smialowski/AFP

Les Etats-Unis imités par la Russie ont décidé de sortir du traité sur les forces nucléaires intermédiaires signé il y a trente ans pour mettre un terme à la crise des « euromissiles ».

OEil pour oeil. Dent pour dent. Après Donald Trump, Vladimir Poutine a annoncé, samedi à Moscou, sa décision de se retirer du traité de démantèlement des missiles nucléaires de portée intermédiaire. La Russie et les Etats-Unis s’accusent respectivement de ne plus respecter ce (...)

#En_vedette #Actualités_internationales #Actualités_Internationales

Le roi Abdallah d’Arabie saoudite est mort, le prince Salmane lui succède
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Le roi Abdallah d’Arabie saoudite, le 5 janvier 2014 à La Mecque - Brendan Smialowski AFP

Le nouveau roi, Salmane, est âgé de 77 ans et souffrirait d’Alzheimer Obama et Hollande saluent la mémoire d’un dirigeant « courageux » Sous Abdallah, l’Arabie saoudite a rejoint les frappes occidentales contre Daesh Le baril de pétrole grimpait de 2% dans la nuit

Il avait été hospitalisé fin décembre pour une pneumonie. Le roi Abdallah d’Arabie saoudite est mort vendredi à 1h00 (23h00, jeudi, en France). Le royaume l’a officiellement annoncé dans la nuit par communiqué. Le souverain, qui avait entre 90 et 91 ans, sera enterré ce vendredi après les prières de l’après-midi.

Le prince Salmane, 77 ans, a aussitôt été nommé roi, et Moqren, 70 ans, désigné prince héritier. Demi-frères (...)

Servant of the British Empire: On the founding of Ibn Saud’s kingdom
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King Abdullah bin #Abdelaziz_al-Saud (L) speaks to US Secretary of State John Kerry before meeting at the King’s private residence June 27, 2014 in Jeddah, #Saudi_Arabia. (Photo: AFP-Brendan Smialowski) King Abdullah bin Abdelaziz al-Saud (L) speaks to US Secretary of State John Kerry before meeting at the King’s private residence June 27, 2014 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (Photo: AFP-Brendan Smialowski)

The sultan of Najd, Abdelaziz al-Saud bowed his head before the British High Commissioner in #Percy_Cox’s #Iraq. His voice quavered, and then he started begging with humiliation: “Your grace are my father and you are my mother. I can never forget the debt I owe you. You made me and you held my hand, you elevated me and lifted me. (...)

#Series_and_Features #al-Aqeer_conference #Britain #Colonel_Harold_Richard_Patrick_Dickson #Features #Kuwait #Persian_Gulf

Against tyranny, obscurantism, and invasion
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Iraqi President Faud Masum (L) listens while French President Francois Hollande speaks during the International Conference on Peace and Security in #Iraq at the Quai d’Orsay on September 15, 2014 in Paris, #France. World leaders are meeting about strategies to address the threat in the Mideast from #ISIS. (Photo: AFP-Brendan Smialowski) Iraqi President Faud Masum (L) listens while French President Francois Hollande speaks during the International Conference on Peace and Security in Iraq at the Quai d’Orsay on September 15, 2014 in Paris, France. World leaders are meeting about strategies to address the threat in the Mideast from ISIS. (Photo: AFP-Brendan Smialowski)

Did the world suddenly change to believe that the #US, the (...)

#Opinion #Articles #colonialism #Europe #Free_Syrian_Army #FSA #Hezbollah #IS #Lebanon #Saudi_Arabia #syria

#washington and #Paris fear for #Lebanon’s stability
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/washington-and-paris-fear-lebanon%E2%80%99s-stability

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US Secretary of State John Kerry (R) and former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri shake hands before a meeting at the US Chief of Mission Residence June 26, 2014 in Paris, France. (Photo: AFP-Brendan Smialowski) US Secretary of State John Kerry (R) and former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri shake hands before a meeting at the US Chief of Mission Residence June 26, 2014 in Paris, France. (Photo: AFP-Brendan Smialowski)

There have been several US statements indicating, sometimes implicitly and sometimes explicitly, that #Lebanon will inevitably be drawn into the Iraqi and Syrian quagmires. The last such statement, which confirmed that “Lebanon will not escape the sectarian storm in the region,” was reported by Lebanese (...)

#Articles #Future_Movement #Hezbollah #Iraq #MARCH_14 #March_8 #syria

Iraqi party leaders may oust Maliki
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Iraqi Prime Minister #Nouri_al-Maliki waits for the arrival of US Secretary of State John Kerry ahead of their meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Baghdad on June 23, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Brendan Smialowski) Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki waits for the arrival of US Secretary of State John Kerry ahead of their meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Baghdad on June 23, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Brendan Smialowski)

Iraqi party leaders planned delicate talks that could end Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s divisive rule after a top Shia cleric called for a new premier to be chosen without delay to tackle Islamist rebels threatening to tear apart the country. Major powers are pushing for a new inclusive government, (...)

#Iraq

Hot summer engulfs the region: Open war on all fronts
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (R) and #US Secretary of State John Kerry meet at the Prime Minister’s Office in #Baghdad on June 23, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Brendan Smialowski) Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (R) and US Secretary of State John Kerry meet at the Prime Minister’s Office in Baghdad on June 23, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Brendan Smialowski)

The curtains have fallen on the last scene in the settlement farce in the region. War has extended its tentacles into #Iraq and along the borders with #Jordan and #Saudi_Arabia. A new proxy war is raging in Iraq, under the specter of a #takfiri monster that threatens to devour everything in its path.

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#Opinion #Articles #Iran #ISIS #Israel #Lebanon #Nouri_al-Maliki #Supreme_Leader_Ali_Khamenei #syria

#Glenn_Greenwald: NSA documents on Middle East to be disclosed
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Glenn Greenwald speaks at the Sixth & I Synagogue May 14, 2014 in Washington, DC. Greenwald spoke about his new book “No Place to Hide” and about working with his subject #Edward_Snowden who leaked documents about United States surveillance and intelligence programs. (Photo: AFP-Brendan Smialowski) Glenn Greenwald speaks at the Sixth & I Synagogue May 14, 2014 in Washington, DC. Greenwald spoke about his new book “No Place to Hide” and about working with his subject Edward Snowden who leaked documents about United States surveillance and intelligence programs. (Photo: AFP-Brendan Smialowski)

Numerous documents focusing on partnerships and surveillance tactics between America’s #National_Security_Agency and regional security (...)

#Articles #Brazil #France #Israel #Obama_Administration #US #Yemen

Kerry slams Israeli demand that #Palestine recognize it as ’Jewish state’
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US Secretary of State #John_Kerry waits to start the meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (not pictured) at Winfield House, the residence of the US ambassador to the UK, in London on March 14, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Brendan Smialowski)

US Secretary of State John Kerry has criticized #Israel's insistence that the Palestinians publicly declare Israel to be a Jewish state. Kerry said Thursday that recognition had already been made in UN resolutions and by the late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat and it is a mistake for Israel to keep insisting on it as the two sides work towards a two-state peace agreement. “’Jewish state’ was resolved in 1947 in (UN) Resolution 181 where there are more than 40-30 mentions of ’Jewish state,’” Kerry testified at a (...)

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