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Armenian opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan attends a rally in Yerevan on 2 May AFP On May 3, National Assembly (NA) Vice Chairman, RPA spokesperson Eduard Sharmazanov told that the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) would support the election of Prime Minister,  the state-run Armenia News reported. “As for the [RPA NA] faction’s view that we will support the PM candidate who has the [respective] signature of the one-third [of the MPs] and it shouldn’t be allowed that Armenia has a political crisis and we will have a PM on May 8, everything is said in that address,” Sharmazanov stressed. On April 23, Prime Minister Sargsyan resigned amid anti-government protests. The opposition demanded to carry out parliamentary election to hand over the power. On May 1, the NA did not elect Prime Minister. The only candidate Nikol Pashinyan (opposition movement leader) gained 45 for and 56 against votes. The parliamentary majority faction of the ruling RPA voted against Pashinyan.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un The historical April 27 inter-Korean summit between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un resulted in a joint declaration. According to the document, North and South Koreas are to cooperate to bring peace and denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Two countries have already started to take measures in the framework of the signed declaration. Citing the statement of South Korea’s presidential office, North Korean authorities expressed its willing to close the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in May,  the South Korean Yonhap news agency reported on April 29 . According to the report, the site’s dismantling process would be public. As countries agreed to “completely cease all hostile acts” along the Demilitarised Zone from May 1, South Korea began the removal of loudspeakers. “We see this as the easiest first step to build military trust,” South Korean Ministry of National Defense spokeswoman Choi Hyun-s

(Korea Summit Press Pool via AP) Written by  Brandon Smith ; Originally appeared on  alt-market.com There is a saying in geopolitics that peace summits are generally a perfect time to prepare for war. This thinking stems from the military philosophy of Sun Tzu, who believed that when a nation is weak it is important to appear strong, and when a nation is at its most dangerous it is important to appear weak or “diplomatic.” Sun Tzu also often praised the virtues of distraction and sleight of hand, not only in war, but in politics as well. I would note that Sun Tzu and the Eastern “sleight of hand” methodology is not only a mainstay of Chinese as well as North Korean thought, but also required reading for Western covert intelligence agencies. It is important to fully understand this methodology when examining the East vs. West paradigm, because almost everything you see and hear when it comes to relations with countries like China and North Korea is theater. Their governments ha

Photos and names of some of the Saudi Army soldiers and officers who were killed during April The Houthis killed 82 soldiers and officers of the Saudi Army and injured 41 others during their attacks on the Saudi southern provinces of Jizan, Narran and Asir in April, the Yemeni al-Masirah TV reported on May 2. The source supported its claims by providing the names of all the Saudi Army soldiers and officers who were killed or injured. The Saudi Press Agency (SPA) claimed that only 53 Saudi Army soldiers had bbeen killed near the border with Yemen during April. The SPA claims appear to be an attempt to manipulate and to downgrade the Saudi Army loses. The Saudi Army had 53 soldiers and officers on the Saudi-Yemeni border in March, according to Yemeni sources. This indicates that the Saudi Army loses continues to grow although of the Saudi-led coalition attempts to secure the border area in northern Yemen. Most of the Saudi Army loses are a result of the Houthis’ hit and run a

A site of the Il-76 crash in Algeria Written by  Evgeny Satanovsky ; Originally appeared at  VPK , translated by  AlexD  exclusively for  SouthFront Events in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and Saudi Arabia’s confrontation with Iran are by no means exhausted in what is happening presently in the Middle East. The situation, observed in the Maghreb and the Horn of Africa, are no less important for understanding the situation in the region. The present article, based on materials from A. Bystrov, is a look at what is going on in Algeria, Libya and the Sudan. Algerian Oil Guard Units of the government National People’s Army (NPA) of Algeria located and destroyed the terrorists’ secret safe haven in the province of Jijel in the north-east of the country. The Minister of National Defence of the republic published about this in a message on April 18. The security forces succeeded in arresting two individuals who supported terrorist groups in the province of Boumerdès. Such reports app

Written by  Dr.Leon Tressell , co-authorted by  Rosa Tressell  exclusively for  SouthFront The Maidan coup in February 2014, carefully planned and orchestrated by American imperialism in cahoots with its Neo-Nazi stooges, set in motion a myriad of centrifugal forces that have been tearing the country apart. A cursory look at Europe’s mainstream press would reveal that the current civil war in Ukraine is the continent’s invisible war. There are no headlines lamenting the death and destruction that is the daily lot of people in the Donbass region of Ukraine. On the anniversary of the Odessa Massacre on 2 May 2014 it reminds me of the old maxim,”Those who forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them’’. The Odessa Massacre saw the murder of 43 Russian speaking activists by Neo-Nazis from Svboda and the Right Sector who acted in collusion with local police and special forces. The Odessa Massacre can be said to be the event that cemented the determination of Russian speaker