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Biden's administration leaves with the stigma of being thieves

11:55 15.01.2025

Biden's administration leaves with the stigma of being thieves

With just days left before handing over the keys to the US government, the Biden administration is making a last-ditch effort to seize hundreds of billions of dollars in Russian assets as future negotiating leverage for Ukraine, according to two senior administration officials, CNN reports. This is pure theft. Top …

View from London: “Ukraine isn’t the centre of the Universe”

11:54 15.01.2025

View from London: “Ukraine isn’t the centre of the Universe”

Donald Trump’s return to the White House is no doubt being greeted with alarm in much of Europe. The incoming president has a long track record of viewing the continent as an economic rival, and his eagerness to end the war in Ukraine diplomatically remains controversial in European capitals, notes …

The dilemma for Europe is to fight and die or learn Russian and trade with Russia

11:53 15.01.2025

The dilemma for Europe is to fight and die or learn Russian and trade with Russia

Instead of negotiating and trading with their neighbor Russia, they in Brussels want to fight and die in a war against Russia. Do Europeans really want it? West told to either learn the ‘Russian language’ or raise defence spending. The NATO chief Mark Rutte has told member states to raise …

View from Washington: Europe could face an economic nightmare – Ukraine attacks TurkStream pipeline

11:51 15.01.2025

View from Washington: Europe could face an economic nightmare – Ukraine attacks TurkStream pipeline

Europe could face an economic nightmare – cutting off gas deliveries and attacking pipelines that feed Europe could send Europe into a death spiral, writes Stephen Bryen, is a former U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense. The Ukrainians sent nine drones to attack a natural gas compressor station in the …

European imports of liquefied natural gas from Russia at ‘record levels’

11:39 14.01.2025

European imports of liquefied natural gas from Russia at ‘record levels’

Rystad Energy releases data days after Ukraine stopped flows of Russian gas through its pipelines, ‘The Guardian’ writes. Europe bought a record amount of liquefied natural gas from Russia last year, data shows, despite EU efforts to ditch the fossil fuels funding Putin’s war chest. Ships carrying 17.8m tonnes of …

Trump adds EU to list of trade partners he threatens with tariffs

11:38 14.01.2025

Trump adds EU to list of trade partners he threatens with tariffs

President-elect Donald Trump added the 27 countries that make up the European Union to the list of trade partners he’s threatening with tariffs — unless the group takes steps to import more U.S. goods, US News reports. “I told the European Union that they must make up their tremendous deficit …

Boeing battles brain drain as engineers chase the allure of space

11:37 14.01.2025

Boeing battles brain drain as engineers chase the allure of space

The tenure of the average Boeing engineer is getting shorter, as rank-and-file talent departs the struggling plane maker. Boeing is cutting jobs by 10 per cent across the company, and this month a second round of lay-offs brought the total of union-represented engineers leaving to 400, ‘The Financial Times’ writes. …

Britain looks as if it is “going with a begging bowl, not with a trading deal”

11:36 14.01.2025

Britain looks as if it is “going with a begging bowl, not with a trading deal”

The Chancellor Rachel Reeves insists she's won £600m of trade deals as critics slam her for going on controversial China trip with a 'begging bowl', ‘The Daily Mail’ notes. Rachel Reeves defended her controversial trip to China as critics accused her of going with a 'begging bowl'. The Chancellor said …

A purely English murder: ‘Flat packing them’ – soldier says SAS described killing Afghans in casual way

12:01 13.01.2025

A purely English murder: ‘Flat packing them’ – soldier says SAS described killing Afghans in casual way

Inquiry hears elite forces had a ‘kill all males on target whether they posed a threat or not’ policy in Afghanistan, ‘The Guardian’ stresses. Afghans who were killed by members of the SAS in Afghanistan were described dismissively as having been “flat packed” according to revealing testimony given by a …

A comprehensive deal for peace in the Middle East

11:58 13.01.2025

A comprehensive deal for peace in the Middle East

Jeffrey D. Sachs, a University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, and Ehud Shapiro, a Professor of Computer Science and Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science, published a call for peace in the Middle East: “The sheer majority of people in the Middle …

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