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Japan cannot survive without Russian oil… Where are the tough sanctions?

10:34 14.06.2025

Japan cannot survive without Russian oil… Where are the tough sanctions?

The Japanese oil refiner Taiyo Oil Co. is taking delivery of a cargo of Russian crude on a tanker that’s blacklisted by both the US Treasury and the European Union, Bloomberg informs. While Japan has a waiver to buy the oil in question, the delivery — the nation’s first in …

Bloomberg: Israel disregards Trump with major attack on Iran

10:32 14.06.2025

Bloomberg: Israel disregards Trump with major attack on Iran

President Donald Trump had repeatedly urged Israel not to strike Iran’s nuclear sites. It didn’t work, Bloomberg notes. Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to have defied Trump with his decision to go ahead with an attack on Iran’s nuclear program that US and allied officials had feared. Early signs suggest …

View from Washington: Israel's strike on Iran was 8 months in the making

10:31 14.06.2025

View from Washington: Israel's strike on Iran was 8 months in the making

Israel's stunning and sprawling operation targeting Iran's nuclear facilities, missile sites, scientists and generals followed eight months of intensive clandestine preparations, AXIOS stresses. Why it matters: The operation launched a new war in the Middle East that could draw in the U.S., demolished any hopes of a nuclear deal, and …

CNN: Iran launches counterstrikes at Israel in retaliation to attack

10:30 14.06.2025

CNN: Iran launches counterstrikes at Israel in retaliation to attack

The Middle East is in focus again after Israel launched a historic attack on Iran, killing three of its most powerful men and striking locations key to its nuclear program — and Iran said it has responded with “hundreds” of ballistic missiles, CNN informs. Iran and Israel exchange strikes: Iran …

Russian Foreign Ministry statement in connection with Israel’s strikes on Iran

14:50 13.06.2025

Russian Foreign Ministry statement in connection with Israel’s strikes on Iran

Foreign Ministry statement in connection with Israel’s strikes on Iran: “We express our profound concern regarding the dangerous escalation of tensions in the Middle East. We strongly condemn the military actions undertaken by the State of Israel on the night of June 13, which constitute a clear violation of the …

USA: Leftists strike back – Anti-Trump protests planned all over America on day of military parade June 14

11:04 13.06.2025

USA: Leftists strike back – Anti-Trump protests planned all over America on day of military parade June 14

Protestors in the DMV and nationwide are organizing anti-President Trump rallies to run counter to the June 14 military parade — provoking an angry response on Tuesday from Trump himself, AXIOS reports. Why it matters: Organizers expect it to be the country's largest single-day anti-Trump rally since the start of …

British life-style: Rough sleeping to be decriminalised with 1824 law finally scrapped – “Have a good sleep, pals…”

11:01 13.06.2025

British life-style: Rough sleeping to be decriminalised with 1824 law finally scrapped – “Have a good sleep, pals…”

Rough sleeping will no longer be a crime in the UK as the government abolishes a ‘cruel’ 200-year-old law. The Vagrancy Act 1824 was introduced amid a spiralling homelessness crisis after the Industrial Revolution. On any given night last autumn, 4,667 people were sleeping rough, a 164% increase from 2010, …

‘The Atlantic’: Anger in Washington

11:01 13.06.2025

‘The Atlantic’: Anger in Washington

Ukraine’s drone strikes deep into Russia delivered a humiliating blow to Moscow last weekend. Kyiv’s defenders celebrated the attack as a triumph of modern warfare and a warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin. But the extraordinary operation got a different response inside the White House: anger, ‘The Atlantic’ stresses. Donald …

NYT: Israel appears ready to attack Iran

10:59 13.06.2025

NYT: Israel appears ready to attack Iran

Israel appears to be preparing to launch an attack soon on Iran, according to officials in the United States and Europe, a step that could further inflame the Middle East and derail or delay efforts by the Trump administration to broker a deal to cut off Iran’s path to building …

IAEA cooperated with Israel against Iran — intelligence source

10:27 12.06.2025

IAEA cooperated with Israel against Iran — intelligence source

According to the report, the IAEA also allegedly disclosed to Israel the names of Iranian nuclear scientists, who were later assassinated in sabotage attacks, TASS informs. In an operation to gain access to a secret archive of Israeli documents, the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence discovered that the International Atomic Energy …

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