At a joint press conference with European Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete, Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said that he does not rule out the possibility that the Islamic Republic of Iran will resume uranium enrichment, Interfax reported.

"In front of us there is a choice from many possibilities; we can resume enrichment of uranium up to 20%," the official said.

"If the other side keeps itself committed to its promises, we also will keep them. Our policy is …

The United States has accused Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Diosdado Cabello, Maduro's second-in-command in the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela, of getting revenue from the drug trade, reported the Voice of America.

The US Treasury Department published a statement indicating that Cabello had confiscated small quantities of drugs from drug traffickers, collected them in a large batch, and exported them through Venezuela's state airport.

"Cabello, along with President …

The first American armored brigade units arrived at the Belgian Antwerp port and started to unload for further transportation to Eastern Europe, the press-service of Belgian Ministry of Defense stated on Saturday, May 19.  

“Military equipment of the U.S.A was delivered to the port of Antwerp for further deployment in Eastern Europe as part of the Atlantic Resolve operation,” the Ministry stated on its Twitter account.

The U.S. Embassy in Belgium stated that 85 tanks, Bradley fighting …

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has announced that Ukraine’s representatives are being recalled from the statutory bodies of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The president made a statement to this effect during Europe Day celebrations in Vinnytsia, Interfax-Ukraine reports.

“Today I signed the corresponding decree to recall all of Ukraine’s representatives from all of the CIS’s statutory bodies. We have nothing more to do there – we are moving together into Europe,” the …

Russia has reached the world’s top five with respect to the levels of economic crimes against business. In the rating compiled by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Russia took fourth place, sharing this position with Uganda. Only in France, Kenya and South Africa do countries face economic crimes more frequently than in Russia.

These are crimes which are qualified as such by companies themselves, not by the government, and the incidents need not have featured in legal cases, PwC explains. The …

The draft bill on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s term appeared on the website of the Russian State Duma after being registered on Friday and sent to the Duma’s Chairman. The document was introduced by the Parliament of the Chechen Republic.

On May 9, Chechen legislators proposed to allow the Russian President to hold the post for three consecutive terms. This suggestion was initially put forward by the Head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, who stated that “there is no alternative” …

Russia is once again considering a project to use RS-12M Topol intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) to launch satellites into space, RIA Novosti reports.

“The rocket and space sector has returned to consideration of a project to convert decommissioned Topol ICBMs in order to use them in the space program – to create light carrier rockets based on them,” a source in the military space sector told the news agency.

The Russian Defense Ministry has begun replacing Topols with the more …

In a broadcast of the program Edge of War, US Navy Captain (Ret.) Gary Tabach expressed the view that the US allocation of Javelin anti-tank missile systems to Ukraine is more a symbol than a necessity.

"I believe that this is more of a symbol that shows that the US and President Donald Trump are very serious about this and are ready to give weapons that can strike Russian tanks. This is a small amount of Javelin [weapons] and shells for them, but Ukraine does not need them; Ukraine cannot be …