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Furious Qatar Balks At Saudi Ultimatum As UAE Warns Of "Parting Of Ways"

Furious Qatar Balks At Saudi Ultimatum As UAE Warns Of "Parting Of Ways"

One day after Saudi Arabia and its Gulf ally states finally released a long-awaited, 10-day ultimatum containing 13 demands from Qatar as a precondition for the resumption of diplomatic ties and an end of Qatar's economic and naval blockade, the small Gulf nation balked and said the ultimatum is neither "reasonable" nor "realistic", and infringes on its sovereignty and foreign policy. 

US-China Agree On Need For "Complete, Irreversible" Korean Denuclearization

US-China Agree On Need For "Complete, Irreversible" Korean Denuclearization

After terse public exchanges this week, each proclaiming the other is not working hard enough on 'solving' the Kim Jong Un 'situation', Chinese state media said on Saturday, reporting the results of high level talks in Washington this week, that China and the United States agreed that efforts to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula should be "complete, verifiable and irreversible."

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