Aleppo airstrikes kill at least 81 civilians amid ‘holocaust’

That tension yesterday brought the cancellation of Putin’s planned visit to Paris.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has also said that the world is at a “dangerous point” because of the rising tensions between Russian Federation and the United States. Nevertheless the USA must at least try to avert an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe, if only to protest the criminal violence being inflicted on innocent civilians by Syrian President Bashar Assad and his Russian and Iranian allies.

India has signed a series of key defence deals under Modi as part of a $100 billion upgrade of its Soviet-era military hardware, making it an attractive proposition for arms exporters. “I don’t think it is right to talk about a new cold war”, he said.

WASHINGTON―Moscow and Washington have pledged to try again to negotiate a lasting ceasefire for war-ravaged Syria, committing to multilateral weekend talks in Europe, after the last attempt collapsed amid bitter recriminations. French President Hollande said, “These are people who today are the victims of war crimes”.

“The EU recalls its conviction that the situation in Syria should be sent to the International Criminal Court”.

The divide between the Arab countries on Syria is even more ominous and consequential than that between Moscow and the West.

Fierce fighting in the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo has claimed the lives of more civilians – including children – on both sides of the front lines in the past 48 hours.

Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, has spoken of “cleaning” the besieged city of Aleppo, where a quarter of a million people are caught under heavy bombardment by his government’s forces, and using it as a “springboard” for winning the country’s war.

Russian Federation criticized the U.S. for not doing enough to rein in militants in Syria to protect the truce deal. Three hundred people have lost their life in the bombing.

AMERICANS should make Donald Trump the next US President or risk being dragged into a nuclear war, according to close ally of Vladimir Putin.

The U.S. and Russian foreign ministers will meet in Lausanne, Switzerland on Saturday to resume their failed effort to find a diplomatic solution, possibly joined by their counterparts from Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Iran, but U.S. officials voiced little hope for success.

From the breakdown in Syrian talks to US charges that Russia is actively hacking political groups to undermine the November 8 presidential election, Russian-US ties have deteriorated in recent months.

He said: “The French further envenomed the political situation by pushing for a meeting they knew would not take place – just so that they convince us to change our minds about the veto”.