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Taliban expects date to sign deal with US ‘to be fixed soon’ The Taliban expects that a date to sign a peace agreement with the United States will be fixed in the near future, TASS reported on Friday, citing spokesman for the movement’s Qatar office Mohammad Sohail Shaheen. “A date to sign the agreement has not been fixed. We expect to fix it soon,” he said, responding to a question. Russian special presidential envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov said earlier that Washington and the Taliban had agreed that Russia and several other countries would witness the signing of the agreement. On December 29, the Taliban’s ruling council agreed to a temporary ceasefire in Afghanistan, providing a window in which a peace agreement with the US can be signed, AP reported. Tal...

Iraq asks US to prepare troop pullout, send team to Baghdad Caretaker Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi has asked the United States to send a delegation to Iraq to begin preparing for a troop pullout, his office said on Friday. In a phone call late Thursday with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Abdel Mahdi “requested that delegates be sent to Iraq to set the mechanisms to implement parliament’s decision for the secure withdrawal of [foreign] forces from Iraq,” AFP reports. Some 5,200 US soldiers are stationed at bases across Iraq to support local troops preventing a resurgence of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS). They make up the bulk of a broader US-led coalition, invited by the Iraqi government in 2014 to help combat the jihadists. The deployment was based on an executive-t...

Passenger plane landing gear RUPTURES floor during hard landing in Turkey (PHOTOS) A Russian Airbus A321-200 plane has had its airframe bent and landing gear rupturing its floor after a particularly hard land at Turkish resort city of Antalya. Bu sabah Moskova'dan Antalya'ya inen Rus havayolu Nordwind'e ait Airbus A321-200 tipi VQ-BRS kuyruk tescilli yolcu uçağı büyük tehlike atlattı. Uçağın inişte duman uyarısı yaptığı ve acil iniş istediği öğrenildi. Haberin ayrıntıları için ?https://t.co/Apdenv843i pic.twitter.com/quHtALD37k— AirportHaber (@AirportHaber) January 10, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js DETAILS TO FOLLOW Passenger plane landing gear RUPTURES floor during hard landing in Turkey (PHOTOS)...

Killing of Soleimani 'wake-up call' to get rid of US presence in the region – Iran's envoy to UN The killing of Qassem Soleimani by the US has not only crossed crucial "red lines" but provided an impetus to expel American troops from the Middle East, an Iranian envoy to the UN's office in Geneva told RT. The assassination of Major General Soleimani had "surpassed the red lines that distinguish barbarism from civilized rules of engagement," Esmaeil Baghaei Hamaneh told RT's Afshin Rattansi on his show Going Underground. The diplomat argued that the raid served as "a wake-up call for the people in the region and beyond." I think this is the beginning of a process: the people of our region would get rid of the American presence because… it has brought...

‘We are going to have a horrible time,’ Jim Rogers tells Boom Bust as global debt skyrockets Central banks around the world will continue printing money as long as it’s necessary, says legendary investor Jim Rogers, calling it “madness.” He talks to RT’s Boom Bust about the state of the global economy and what could be over the horizon. Never before in world history have interest rates been so low, Rogers says. The US’ central bank, the Fed, increased its balance sheet by over 500 percent in less than a decade. Japan’s central bank prints money and buys ETFs and bonds. “These are astonishing statements and facts… this is insanity, that’s not how sound economic systems are supposed to work.” According to the trader, in 2008 we had problems because of...