Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday that Moscow was working on what she called a big treaty with Iran. Her comment appeared to be a reference to a comprehensive bilateral cooperation agreement that is being negotiated between Tehran and Moscow. In January, Russia's Foreign Ministry said that a new interstate treaty reflecting the "unprecedented upswing" in Russia-Iran ties was in the final stages of being agreed.
His wife Stella Assange said her husband would not speak publicly until a ‘time of his choosing’.
The Episcopal Church, at its General Convention in Louisville, Kentucky, is scheduled to elect a new leader Wednesday to replace Michael Curry, who for the past nine years has served as the first African American presiding bishop of the 239-year-old denomination. There are five nominees for presiding bishop, who serves as the Episcopalians’ chief pastor, president and CEO. —Bishop Daniel Gutiérrez of the Diocese of Pennsylvania (which encompasses Philadelphia and four nearby counties).