Ticker
US starts 60-day countdown to end Russia missile pact
By EUobserver
The US has said it will scrap a Cold War-era treaty, the INF pact, which banned medium-range nuclear missiles, in 60 days unless Russia returned to "verifiable compliance". Nato ministers the same day agreed Russia had violated the accord by creating a new cruise missile that threatened European targets. The IMF treaty "strategically doesn't make sense" due to Russian violation, US secretary of state Mike Pompeo said in Brussels Tuesday.