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View from Washington: US-Russia meeting – atmosphere professional, not ideological

10:24 20.02.2025

View from Washington: US-Russia meeting – atmosphere professional, not ideological

Meeting atmosphere professional, not ideological in Riyadh successful, more to follow, writes Stephen Bryen, a former U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense. Both the Russian and the US side say that the high level diplomatic meeting held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia was successful. Steve Witkoff, who is Trump's number one …

Vassily Nebenzia at a UNSC Briefing on Ukraine: “The EU countries and the UK are absolutely unfaithful to their word and cannot be a party to any future agreements on the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis whatsoever”

10:55 19.02.2025

Vassily Nebenzia at a UNSC Briefing on Ukraine: “The EU countries and the UK are absolutely unfaithful to their word and cannot be a party to any future agreements on the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis whatsoever”

Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at a UN Security Council Briefing on Ukraine. Key points. - Today marks ten years since the adoption of UNSC resolution 2202, which endorsed the “Package of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements”. Having thus expressed its support for the solutions that …

View from Brussels: “The chaos within the EU is making us irrelevant — on our own continent, no less”

10:55 19.02.2025

View from Brussels: “The chaos within the EU is making us irrelevant — on our own continent, no less”

French President Emmanuel Macron has convened an emergency summit in Paris to forge a European response to the US policy shift over the war in Ukraine, although numerous European Union leaders were not be involved. On the afternoon of February 17, only the heads of France, Germany, the UK, Italy, …

Gaza future at the centre of talks

10:53 19.02.2025

Gaza future at the centre of talks

“The Palestinians and the Arabs need to come up with a middle way where they run Gaza, not the US and not Israel,” said a European official, quotes ‘The Financial Times’. “That’s the gap that needs to be filled, and I think the Europeans will work with the Arabs, both …

Europe is in a stupor: Trump’s Ukraine plans mean a $3 trillion bill for European allies

10:51 19.02.2025

Europe is in a stupor: Trump’s Ukraine plans mean a $3 trillion bill for European allies

Whatever the US president decides is his goal for Ukraine, one thing is clear: Europe isn’t ready to shoulder its huge share of the burden, Bloomberg notes. Donald Trump is starting to tell European Union leaders what they need to do if they want to secure peace in Ukraine. His …

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement following talks with US administration officials

10:49 19.02.2025

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement following talks with US administration officials

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement following talks with US administration officials, Riyadh, February 18, 2025: “We wish to extend our gratitude to the Saudi Arabian leadership for facilitating a meeting between Russian and American representatives. This appreciation was conveyed personally to the Kingdom’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during an …

Russia-US talks in Riyadh

16:47 18.02.2025

Russia-US talks in Riyadh

High-level talks of the Russian and US delegations have concluded in Riyadh, the meeting lasted about 4.5 hours, a TASS correspondent reported from Riyadh. The talks started around 10:30 a.m. Moscow time (7:30 a.m. GMT). After about two hours and a half, the sides took a 15-minute break, and after …

View from London: Trump is forcing Europe to a reckoning on Ukraine

9:56 18.02.2025

View from London: Trump is forcing Europe to a reckoning on Ukraine

The worst nightmare of leaders on the continent is a deal between Putin and the US president done over their heads, writes ‘The Financial Times’. Emmanuel Macron does not need to be convinced. In Europe, the conversation on Russia’s war in Ukraine has brutally shifted. Donald Trump’s return to the …

Confession: Britain’s system for controlling arms exports is broken, former diplomat claims

9:55 18.02.2025

Confession: Britain’s system for controlling arms exports is broken, former diplomat claims

Britain’s system for controlling arms exports is broken, subject to political manipulation and has seen conduct that crossed the threshold into complicity with war crimes, a former UK diplomat has claimed. Writing for ‘The Guardian’, Mark Smith, who resigned from the Foreign Office in August, said officials were instructed to …

It is more than corruption: A $1,300 coffee cups, 8,000% overpay for soap dispensers show waste as DOGE locks in on Pentagon

9:55 18.02.2025

It is more than corruption: A $1,300 coffee cups, 8,000% overpay for soap dispensers show waste as DOGE locks in on Pentagon

President Donald Trump's team of zealous cost-cutters under Elon Musk will soon set their sights on the U.S.’s largest discretionary budget, FOX News reports. With an annual budget of $850 billion, the Pentagon has long been plagued by accusations of waste and inefficiency in its defense programs and recently failed …

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