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State Dept. diplomats got an order – “Resign before Trump’s inauguration!”

11:42 21.01.2025

State Dept. diplomats got an order – “Resign before Trump’s inauguration!”

Trump’s team requested the high-level resignations as the president-elect prepares a sharp break with the Biden administration. Scores of senior career diplomats are resigning from the State Department effective at noon on Monday after receiving instructions to do so from President-elect Donald Trump’s aides, three U.S. officials familiar with the …

NYT: Are Russian sanctions working? A quiz for Mr. Trump

11:41 21.01.2025

NYT: Are Russian sanctions working? A quiz for Mr. Trump

The president-elect has said he will use sanctions sparingly while vowing to end the war in Ukraine, renewing questions over their efficacy. Mr. Trump has stated, “I want to use sanctions as little as possible.” And he has made clear that there will be a shift in American policy toward …

Vladimir Putin: “We extend our congratulations to the President-elect of the United States of America on his inauguration... We are open to dialogue with the new US Administration concerning the Ukrainian conflict”

1:19 21.01.2025

Vladimir Putin: “We extend our congratulations to the President-elect of the United States of America on his inauguration... We are open to dialogue with the new US Administration concerning the Ukrainian conflict”

Vladimir Putin held, via videoconference, a briefing session with permanent members of the Security Council. January 20, 2025, Novo-Ogaryovo, Moscow Region. The meeting was attended by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, Chief of …

Vassily Nebenzia at a UNSC: “In Lebanon, during the recent ground invasion, the IDF units occupied part of the territory north of the Blue Line and attacked UNIFIL facilities, including using tanks”

11:44 20.01.2025

Vassily Nebenzia at a UNSC: “In Lebanon, during the recent ground invasion, the IDF units occupied part of the territory north of the Blue Line and attacked UNIFIL facilities, including using tanks”

Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at a UN Security Council briefing on the Situation with Peacekeeping Missions in Lebanon and the Golan Heights. Key points: - What matters most amid heightened tensions in the region is whether UN member States and the Security Council are willing to stand up …

View from Delhi: Why Trump’s Greenland gambit caused such a weak EU response

11:42 20.01.2025

View from Delhi: Why Trump’s Greenland gambit caused such a weak EU response

President-elect’s bullying tactics as leader of the world’s foremost power inevitably send worrying signals across the globe, writes Kanval Sibal, a former Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, Ambassador to Turkey, Egypt, France and Russia. Even before he becomes president, Donald Trump is causing dismay with his idiosyncratic diplomacy. …

British life-style: The UK faces a fate worse than blackout

11:40 20.01.2025

British life-style: The UK faces a fate worse than blackout

Green politics collapses in Britain. The failure of this most important national policy represents one of the biggest failings in statecraft since World War Two!.. British pay electricity 50 times the recent market price! Centrica’s stark warning that Britain’s gas storage is now “concerningly low” came hot on the heels …

View from London: Europe could be torn apart by new divisions

11:37 20.01.2025

View from London: Europe could be torn apart by new divisions

The European continent is at its most vulnerable in decades. For Europe, this will be a year of crisis management, notes ‘The Economist’. The next crisis will be harder, in part because the nature of the threats facing Europe has changed. America and China will soon share disdain for the …

A distrust of mainstream West media

10:38 19.01.2025

A distrust of mainstream West media

Distrust of the news is particularly widespread in the United States and France. According to a survey by Statista Consumer Insights, one in five respondents in each country said that they do not trust mainstream media. This is the highest share of the 21 countries polled. Spanish respondents were similarly …

Bloomberg: Europe threatens to trigger a global scramble for natural gas

10:36 19.01.2025

Bloomberg: Europe threatens to trigger a global scramble for natural gas

Loss of Russian pipeline supplies will stoke demand for LNG and could squeeze out poorer emerging nations, notes Bloomberg. The world is bracing for a fight for natural gas supplies this year, prolonging the pain of higher bills for consumers and factories in energy-hungry Europe and putting poorer emerging countries …

At 2,722 feet – Nicole Smith-Ludvik at the top of the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world

10:33 19.01.2025

At 2,722 feet – Nicole Smith-Ludvik at the top of the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world

Perhaps no one will quite understand what it feels like to be at the very top of the Burj Khalifa quite like Nicole Smith-Ludvick, a skydiver and stuntwoman, who stood on top of Burj Khalifa’s spire in an advertisement for Emirates airline, presents ‘Admiddleeast. com’. “Standing on the pinnacle of …

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