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View from London: Fall guy – Trump’s Russia deal is aimed at ousting Zelensky

11:00 29.04.2025

View from London: Fall guy – Trump’s Russia deal is aimed at ousting Zelensky

The intense time pressure piled on the Zelensky government was not only because Trump was hungry for a victory lap before the 100-th day of his administration, which falls on April 30, but because Putin wants to celebrate his own military victory on May 9, the day of an 80th …

FT: Ukraine on the brink of default – Kyiv failed to reach deal with investors to restructure $2.6bn of debt

10:59 29.04.2025

FT: Ukraine on the brink of default – Kyiv failed to reach deal with investors to restructure $2.6bn of debt

Ukraine said that it had failed to reach a deal with holders of $2.6bn of its debt, in a blow to its hopes of securing a restructuring ahead of a payment deadline next month, ‘The Financial Times’ reports. The country’s finance ministry said it would “consider all available options” on …

WD launches HDD recycling process that reclaims rare earth elements

10:58 29.04.2025

WD launches HDD recycling process that reclaims rare earth elements

China, a major source of REE, recently announced export restrictions on seven of them, potentially limiting the U.S. tech industry’s access to materials such as dysprosium, which is necessary for magnetic storage, motors, and generators. Western Digital announced that it has created a large-scale hard disk drive recycling program in …

Peter Hitchens: “You've been fed propaganda nonsense about Ukraine and the invented Russian menace. These are the lies you've been told”

12:15 28.04.2025

Peter Hitchens: “You've been fed propaganda nonsense about Ukraine and the invented Russian menace. These are the lies you've been told”

In my trade I have long grown used to the way governments lie and get others to lie for them. It is what they do. But I have seldom seen such a cloud of lies as we face now, writes Peter Hitchens, ‘The Daily Mail’ columnist and commentator. Hardly anyone …

Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova: “Following the Kursk Region, all territories of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation still under the Kiev regime's control, including the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, the Zaporozhye and Kherson Regions, will definitely be liberated”

12:14 28.04.2025

Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova: “Following the Kursk Region, all territories of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation still under the Kiev regime's control, including the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, the Zaporozhye and Kherson Regions, will definitely be liberated”

Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment on liberation of the Kursk Region: “On April 26, with the liberation of the village of Gornal, the Kursk Region was cleansed of the Ukrobanderite occupiers and foreign militants. It became possible thanks to the unbending strength of spirit and heroism of many people …

View from Middle East: Ukraine is resembling the fall of Saigon in 1975 as its governing regime takes to echoing Trump’s anti-China policies

12:11 28.04.2025

View from Middle East: Ukraine is resembling the fall of Saigon in 1975 as its governing regime takes to echoing Trump’s anti-China policies

The governing regime in Kiev is desperately trying to maintain its US support, as a defeat of the US-led, NATO proxy war in Ukraine looms. It is citing the collapse of the government in South Vietnam in April 1975 as a warning, saying that something similar could happen in Ukraine. …

View from Britain: Chilling war games show Russian missiles overwhelming UK bases & jets blitzed

12:09 28.04.2025

View from Britain: Chilling war games show Russian missiles overwhelming UK bases & jets blitzed

Russian missiles overwhelmed Britain in a war game based on the war in Ukraine.Defence chiefs simulated the first night of the war to test the UK’s air defences. Air Commodore Blythe Crawford said: “It was not a pretty picture,” ‘The Sun’ quotes. The drills suggested bases would be blown to …

View from Brazil: China and BRICS will ‘defend’ global order as Trump withdraws

11:51 27.04.2025

View from Brazil: China and BRICS will ‘defend’ global order as Trump withdraws

China and its partners in the Brics group of developing countries will increasingly stand up for international co-operation as the US withdraws under President Donald Trump, a top Brazilian diplomat said. “China and developing nations are today the main defenders of the multilateral system,” President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s …

Thomas Fazi: Trump’s tariffs and the Empire’s final gamble

11:50 27.04.2025

Thomas Fazi: Trump’s tariffs and the Empire’s final gamble

Over the past two weeks, Trump has taken a wrecking ball to the global economy by announcing sweeping tariffs on dozens of countries. This abrupt move sent stock markets in the US and abroad into a tailspin, forcing the administration to quickly backpedal, writes Thomas Fazi, a well-known international observer, …

POLITICO: The EU fights for independence

11:48 27.04.2025

POLITICO: The EU fights for independence

A decade after we launched in Brussels, Europe's place in the world is ever more uncertain. The battle for relevance will dominate the next 10 years. It was April 2015 and Jean-Claude Juncker’s kidney stones were the talk of the town. As its first big splash in Brussels, POLITICO revealed …

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