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The Times: Europe ‘would struggle to put 25,000 troops on the ground in Ukraine’

10:50 03.05.2025

The Times: Europe ‘would struggle to put 25,000 troops on the ground in Ukraine’

Europe would struggle to collectively muster 25,000 troops to be part of a “deterrence” force in Ukraine because its armies are undermanned and underfunded, sources have disclosed. ‘The Times’ was given a rare insight into conversations between Europe’s defence ministers and military chiefs as they thrashed out plans for a …

State Department: The United States will no longer mediate in negotiations between Russia and Ukraine

10:48 03.05.2025

State Department: The United States will no longer mediate in negotiations between Russia and Ukraine

The State Department announced the US refusal from the role of mediators in the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. The United States has changed its approach to the conflict in Ukraine and will no longer mediate negotiations between representatives of Moscow and Kiev. This was announced on May 1 by …

The ideological war threatening NATO – the USA and Europe may be soon heading for a messy divorce

10:47 03.05.2025

The ideological war threatening NATO – the USA and Europe may be soon heading for a messy divorce

The strain in US-European relations under the second Trump administration stems primarily from a deepening ideological divide, not just policy disputes over trade or Ukraine/Russia. Focused on ideological jousting, many on both sides of the Atlantic seem to have forgotten that “Europe” as a unitary actor in international affairs exists …

Bloomberg: US and Ukraine sign Resources Deal after fraught negotiations

10:47 02.05.2025

Bloomberg: US and Ukraine sign Resources Deal after fraught negotiations

The US and Ukraine reached a deal over access to the country’s natural resources, Bloomberg reports. The deal will grant the US privileged access to new investment projects to develop Ukraine’s natural resources including aluminum, graphite, oil and natural gas. It’s been seen as critical to fostering Trump’s goodwill as …

View from India: The new Bandung spirit is about industrial development

10:46 02.05.2025

View from India: The new Bandung spirit is about industrial development

In January 2025, Indonesia – the world’s fourth-largest country by population (282 million) with the seventh-largest Gross Domestic Product by purchasing power parity – joined the BRICS+ bloc. Eleven countries are now in this expanded grouping. With the expansion of BRICS to more countries of the Global South, a revival …

View from Switzerland: Gold is reentering the Global Monetary System

10:45 02.05.2025

View from Switzerland: Gold is reentering the Global Monetary System

One of the main reasons why the price of gold has been on a tear is that gold is reentering the global monetary system, writes Ronnie Stoeferle, the financial analyst from the famous Gold Center ‘Von Greyerz AG’ in Switzerland. After a brief setback below USD 3,000, the USD 3,200 …

The first loss on Trump's team – Michael Waltz

10:43 02.05.2025

The first loss on Trump's team – Michael Waltz

President Donald Trump said he will nominate Michael Waltz, his current national security adviser, to be the next US ambassador to the UN, sidelining a top aide who drew a wave of criticism for inadvertently adding a journalist to a Signal group chat where officials discussed sensitive attack plans, Bloomberg …

Russian MFA: “It is increasingly clear that behind the unsubstantiated and unrealistic claims by the Kiev regime and its Western backers to restore Ukraine within its 1991 borders lies a deeply hostile agenda aimed at erasing all that is Russian. Russia will, without question, take all necessary measures to ensure that such a scenario is never allowed to materialise”

19:25 01.05.2025

Russian MFA: “It is increasingly clear that behind the unsubstantiated and unrealistic claims by the Kiev regime and its Western backers to restore Ukraine within its 1991 borders lies a deeply hostile agenda aimed at erasing all that is Russian. Russia will, without question, take all necessary measures to ensure that such a scenario is never allowed to materialise”

Foreign Ministry’s statement regarding Kiev regime’s terrorist attack on Aleshki, Kherson Region, Russian Federation. On the morning of May 1, the Armed Forces of Ukraine once again targeted a civilian site on Russian territory, launching FPV drones at a crowded market in the town of Aleshki, Kherson Region. According to …

Kyiv EU leaders trip postponed

10:56 01.05.2025

Kyiv EU leaders trip postponed

Ukraine had invited European leaders on May 9 for a summit to counter the optics from Putin’s victory parade in Moscow. But Polish PM Donald Tusk will instead head to Nancy that day to sign a security treaty with President Emmanuel Macron, while British PM Keir Starmer plans to attend …

British life-style: UK’s economic confidence lower than in Crash-2008 and COVID-19

10:53 01.05.2025

British life-style: UK’s economic confidence lower than in Crash-2008 and COVID-19

Optimism in the economy has slumped to the lowest level on record, below both 1979 and the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007-08, ‘The Times’ states. Confidence in Britain’s economy has fallen to the lowest level ever recorded, below the global crash, Covid pandemic and winter of discontent, …

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