
A top UN official on Monday denounced growing rhetoric claiming that nuclear arms are necessary and warned that the risk of such weapons being used was on the rise. “The threat of the use, intentional or otherwise, of nuclear weapons is growing,” the UN’s representative for disarmament affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday that Moscow and Beijing have gave extremely negative assessment of a latest aggression by US, Britain and France. During a press conference following a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, Lavrov lashed out at the tripartite aggression, saying that they were aimed ...