Moscow on Tuesday slammed as “illegal” sanctions announced by Washington against Venezuela’s state oil company aimed at crippling embattled President Nicolas Maduro’s power base. “The legitimate authorities of Venezuela have already labelled these sanctions illegal. We can wholly support this point of view,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists.
U.S. and Taliban officials have agreed in principle to the “framework” of a peace deal, The New York Times quotes U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad as saying after five days of talks between the militant group and the United States in Qatar. Both sides have said “progress” had been made ...
