Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday that Moscow was ready to work with Washington to save a key arms control treaty, after fresh talks to salvage the accord went nowhere. “We are still ready to work to save the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty,” Lavrov told reporters, calling on Europe ...
The Lebanese newspaper, Al-Akhbar, reported on Wednesday that Lebanon’s embassy in Washington sent a confidential cable to the Lebanese authorities in which it rejects inviting Syria to the Arab Economic Summit scheduled to be held in Beirut on January 19 and 20. Washington also threatened to impose sanctions against Lebanon ...