22/07/2018
21 July 2018 (teleSUR)* — IMF chief Christine Lagarde praised the economic policies promoted by president Macri and rejected by vast sectors of Argentine society.
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Argentines welcomed International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde, who arrived Friday [21 July 2018] in Argentina for a G20 summit, with protests and roadblocks in Buenos Aires. Social movements, students, opposition political parties, and workers’ unions mobilize to reject the IMF once more.
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22/07/2018
21 July 2018 (SPUTNIK)* —
Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno is not planning to meet with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who resides in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, during the president’s upcoming visit to the United Kingdom, the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry said on July 19.
A source close to the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry and the president’s office, refusing to speak publicly, has confirmed that Moreno is close to settling if he has not already settled, an agreement to hand over Assange to the UK within the next several weeks, the Intercept reported.
The withdrawal of Assange’s asylum and his ejection could come as early as this week.
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22/07/2018
21 July 2018 (teleSUR)* — As Pakistan heads toward the July 25 general elections, teleSUR examines how the 71-year-old South Asian nation’s diplomatic relations with key global players have shaped it.
Land Of Contradictions
The United States has a longstanding relationship with Pakistan. At the beginning of the Cold War, the United States strategically allied with Pakistan. The South Asian country maintained its distance from the Soviet Union, unlike India.
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22/07/2018
Stockholm (SIPRI)* – The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on 18 June 2018 launched the findings of SIPRI Yearbook 2018, which assesses the current state of armaments, disarmament and international security.
SIPRI Yearbook 2018
Key findings include the following: all the nuclear weapon-possessing states are developing new nuclear weapon systems and modernizing their existing systems; and the number of personnel deployed with peace operations worldwide continues to fall while the demand is increasing.
World nuclear forces: reductions remain slow as modernization continues
At the start of 2018 nine states—the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea)—possessed approximately 14 465 nuclear weapons.
This marked a decrease from the approximately 14 935 nuclear weapons that SIPRI estimated these states possessed at the beginning of 2017.
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22/07/2018
Voicing deep concern over the latest flare-up of violence around Gaza, the United Nations chief on Saturday 21 July 2018 urged all sides to “step back from the brink of another devastating conflict”.
UN Photo | Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and Gaza, May 2018.
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“I am gravely concerned over the dangerous escalation of violence in Gaza and southern Israel,” said
Secretary-General António Guterres in a statement. “I deeply regret the loss of life. It is imperative that all sides urgently step back from the brink of another devastating conflict”, he added.
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22/07/2018
Celebrating the holding of the first session of a new Congress in Colombia, the United Nations has said that the inclusion of former rebels in the legislative body marked their transition “from weapons to politics”.
UN Photo/Hector Latorre | UN Mission in Colombia extracts weapons caches (file)
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