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View from Delhi: The Saudi-Pakistan Pact and Global Power games

9:36 21.09.2025

View from Delhi: The Saudi-Pakistan Pact and Global Power games

The announcement of a strategic defence pact between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan has many ramifications for us and for the region, writes Kanwal Sibal, a distinguished Indian diplomat and former Foreign Secretary of India, who served as Ambassador to Turkey, Egypt, France, and Russia. Some commentators in India are arguing …

Bloomberg: America’s friends will never trust the US again

10:29 20.09.2025

Bloomberg: America’s friends will never trust the US again

The letter asks Congress to demand a classified intelligence assessment that answers questions such as the following: Whether America’s allies believe the US remains a stable democracy; whether they regard the US as a reliable partner; whether they’re hedging their security by seeking alternative alliances without the US; and even …

NYP: Swiss banking giant UBS eyes move to the US to avoid pesky new regulations

10:28 20.09.2025

NYP: Swiss banking giant UBS eyes move to the US to avoid pesky new regulations

Banking giant UBS is ramping up its threats to leave Switzerland and set up shop in the US — a radical response to Swiss regulators who have proposed onerous new capital requirements on the financial behemoth, ‘The New York Post’ has learned. Executives at the 162-year-old Swiss bank — led …

British life-style: “Up to 3 million children will have been skipping meals, while more than 2 million households will rarely have known the benefit of fresh food or hot food at home”

10:27 20.09.2025

British life-style: “Up to 3 million children will have been skipping meals, while more than 2 million households will rarely have known the benefit of fresh food or hot food at home”

Homes without heating, bedrooms without beds. If we are to offer any hope to the children of austerity, the next few weeks will be decisive, writes Gordon Brown, a UK prime minister from 2007 to 2010. Run-down housing estates in Britain’s former industrial heartlands remind us of the poverty described …

Chinese President Xi Jinping held phone talks with U.S. President Donald Trump

10:25 20.09.2025

Chinese President Xi Jinping held phone talks with U.S. President Donald Trump

China and the United States can achieve mutual success and shared prosperity, benefiting both countries and the world, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Friday, Xinhua reports. In his phone talks with U.S. President Donald Trump, Xi said that to realize this vision, the two countries should make joint efforts …

Sergey Lavrov: “Europe attempts to lick into shape its Ukraine policy contrary to Donald Trump’s guidelines (as at least they were formulated in Alaska and later presented to the US allies) in a bid to “break” them and again involve the United States into their Russia containment “games”

17:25 19.09.2025

Sergey Lavrov: “Europe attempts to lick into shape its Ukraine policy contrary to Donald Trump’s guidelines (as at least they were formulated in Alaska and later presented to the US allies) in a bid to “break” them and again involve the United States into their Russia containment “games”

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's interview with Channel One’s Bolshaya Igra (Great Game) political talk show, Moscow. Question: It is over two months since the Russian-US summit in Alaska. In two days, it will be eight months since the Trump administration assumed power. You know better than many how inspiring that …

View from the Middle East: How Saudi-Pakistan defence pact reshapes region’s geopolitics

11:11 19.09.2025

View from the Middle East: How Saudi-Pakistan defence pact reshapes region’s geopolitics

A beaming Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif – welcomed with Saudi F-15 fighter jets, a red carpet, and full royal protocol – joined Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Wednesday to sign a “strategic mutual defence agreement” (SMDA), ‘Al Jazeera’ writes. Observers say it is a landmark moment in …

‘Rzeczpospolita’: Polish F-16 missile, not Russian drone, hit house in Lublin region last week

11:10 19.09.2025

‘Rzeczpospolita’: Polish F-16 missile, not Russian drone, hit house in Lublin region last week

A missile reportedly fired from a Polish F-16 fighter jet struck a residential house in eastern Poland’s Lublin region, not a Russian drone as initially suspected, according to a report published Tuesday by local daily Rzeczpospolita. The incident occurred in the village of Wyryki Wola, near the Belarusian border, where …

Chancellor Friedrich Merz: “We cannot keep our social promises”

11:08 19.09.2025

Chancellor Friedrich Merz: “We cannot keep our social promises”

Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned that Germany is facing a perilous watershed moment and vowed to make the right choices to protect freedom, economic prosperity and social cohesion, Bloomberg reports. Merz pointed to military aggression, growing trade protectionism and anti-democratic forces at home and abroad as key threats to Europe’s biggest …

Trump's U.K. visit

11:06 19.09.2025

Trump's U.K. visit

President Donald Trump traded pageantry for politics Thursday as he ended a lavish stay hosted by Britain's King Charles III at Windsor Castle and met with Prime Minister Keir Starmer at his country residence, Chequers, NBC reports. Hailing the “unbreakable bond” between the two nations, Trump said ties between America …

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