US agrees to extend major arms treaty, Russia says
(WorldNews Europe)

Russia says the United States has agreed to extend the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), the last bilateral agreement verifiably and transparently limiting the world`s two largest nuclear arsenals, which the former US administration was unwilling to extend. “In the nearest days, the parties will complete the necessary procedures that will ensure further functioning” of the treaty, the Kremlin said in a statement on Tuesday, after US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the issue during a phone conversation earlier in the day. The Kremlin said Presidents Putin and Biden had “expressed satisfaction” with the exchange of notes on reaching an agreement on...