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Macron’s life-style: The French president’s industrial-scale spritzing is rather a way of asserting power and “marking his territory”

11:20 12.04.2025

Macron’s life-style: The French president’s industrial-scale spritzing is rather a way of asserting power and “marking his territory”

There are few among us who haven’t experienced the headache-inducing horror of an overpowering waft of someone else’s perfume. But it seems that this is an unusually frequent occurrence for the aides of Emmanuel Macron, who can allegedly “scent” the French president’s presence before he enters a room, ‘The Telegraph’ …

A broad Spanish view: Sanchez discussed Trump's tariffs, trade with Europe and cherries with Xi

11:20 12.04.2025

A broad Spanish view: Sanchez discussed Trump's tariffs, trade with Europe and cherries with Xi

Chinese ruler Xi Jinping proposed the EU and Beijing work together to resist Donald Trump as the U.S. president wages a global trade war. "China and the EU must fulfill their international responsibilities, jointly safeguard the trend of economic globalization and a fair international trade environment, and jointly resist unilateral …

Sergey Lavrov: “Our contacts with President Trump’s team… showed that the sides share the principled understanding of the importance of a dialogue in which each side remains committed to its national interests”

21:58 11.04.2025

Sergey Lavrov: “Our contacts with President Trump’s team… showed that the sides share the principled understanding of the importance of a dialogue in which each side remains committed to its national interests”

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions following a meeting of the CIS Foreign Ministers Council Almaty, April 11, 2025 “Good afternoon. We have just completed our work within the framework of meetings of the CIS Foreign Ministers Council. We began yesterday with an informal conversation about …

SCO allowed the market to merge with BRICS – Potential changes could affect 40% of the Global Economy

11:12 11.04.2025

SCO allowed the market to merge with BRICS – Potential changes could affect 40% of the Global Economy

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and BRICS markets may merge, the secretariat of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization told Izvestia. They clarified that such a decision should be made at the level of the competent authorities of the member countries of both structures. But we must understand that it will not …

View from India: The main element of Trump’s strategic thinking can be identified as an Economic Nationalism

11:11 11.04.2025

View from India: The main element of Trump’s strategic thinking can be identified as an Economic Nationalism

United States President Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ announcement on sweeping tariffs on imports in an effort to reset global trading relationships have triggered severe stock market volatility, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar, Indian Ambassador and prominent international observer. The life of an average American is wired into Wall Street and the stock …

Bloomberg view: Oil Question on a fragile Market

11:09 11.04.2025

Bloomberg view: Oil Question on a fragile Market

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes — take Saudi Arabia pushing OPEC to boost production, seemingly to humble cartel cheaters, writes Javier Blas, a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy and commodities. If it sounds familiar, it’s just coincidence. I’m not talking about last week, but rather 1997, when …

America has nothing to fight with China – U.S. Yemen campaign will drain arms needed

11:09 11.04.2025

America has nothing to fight with China – U.S. Yemen campaign will drain arms needed

American military officials say the Pentagon might need to dip into stockpiles in Asia to replenish supplies in the Middle East, congressional aides say, ‘The New York Times’ writes. U.S. commanders planning for a possible conflict with China are increasingly concerned that the Pentagon will soon need to move long-range …

Vassily Nebenzia at a UNSC: “Western officers and instructors sent to assist the Kiev regime are legitimate targets for the Russian army”

11:21 10.04.2025

Vassily Nebenzia at a UNSC: “Western officers and instructors sent to assist the Kiev regime are legitimate targets for the Russian army”

Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at a UNSC Briefing on Ukraine. 8 April 2025 Main point: “The formal reason for the European supporters of the Kiev regime to convene today's UNSC meeting was the April 4 strike by the Russian Armed Forces at a restaurant in Krivoi Rog. According …

View from America: “Wake Up! The stock market is crashing, layoffs have surged more than 200 percent, and we are being warned Depression is coming!”

11:18 10.04.2025

View from America: “Wake Up! The stock market is crashing, layoffs have surged more than 200 percent, and we are being warned Depression is coming!”

Trump’s tariffs have caused a massive wave of panic on Wall Street, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 1,679 points on Thursday. That was the biggest decline that we have seen since the early days of the pandemic in 2020. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq also experienced …

“The Responsible Statecraft’: Why Trump probably can’t pull off a ‘reverse Nixon’ maneuver?

11:17 10.04.2025

“The Responsible Statecraft’: Why Trump probably can’t pull off a ‘reverse Nixon’ maneuver?

Insiders hint that the White House has some ambitious plan to drive a wedge between Moscow and Beijing, but there is a major doubt on the viability of a so-called “reverse Nixon” maneuver, ‘The Responsible Statecraft’ notes. President Donald Trump’s unorthodox diplomacy has alarm bells ringing around the world, not …

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