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David Cameron is not ‘Welcome’ in US Congress

11:52 12.04.2024

David Cameron is not ‘Welcome’ in US Congress

A senior Donald Trump ally snubbed, turning down a meeting him to explain why he is holding up $60billion-worth of US war aid for Ukraine. The Republican speaker of the US House of Representatives declined to meet the Foreign Secretary, despite the peer having a sit-down with Mr. Trump himself. …

Euro-luck: EU industrial production declines

11:46 12.04.2024

Euro-luck: EU industrial production declines

EU industrial production declines, continuing its downward trend, amidst falling inflation and historically low unemployment, figures The European Statistical Monitor (Edition: March 2024): EU retail trade rebounded in January 2024, while industrial production declined, following stable GDP in Q4 2023 (see Figure 1 and Figure 2). Additionally, production in services …

Ukrainian military using chemical weapons near Artemovsk

11:55 11.04.2024

Ukrainian military using chemical weapons near Artemovsk

On Tuesday, Russian security forces reported that the Ukrainian army had used chemical weapons, presumably white phosphorus, near the city of Artemovsk in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). They provided Sputnik with a video showing a glass flask containing this poisonous substance. The use of chemical weapons was recorded in …

IAEA director General Rafael Grossi: “We came "quite close" to a nuclear accident”

11:51 11.04.2024

IAEA director General Rafael Grossi: “We came "quite close" to a nuclear accident”

The Zaporozhye Nuclear Power plant came "quite close" to a nuclear accident, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi said. According to the report, the IAEA believes that the nuclear power plant came "quite close" to a nuclear accident after the drone attack on Sunday. "Our objective here …

Bloomberg: The US and its allies face a $10 Trillion reckoning

11:50 11.04.2024

Bloomberg: The US and its allies face a $10 Trillion reckoning

Leaders are just starting to come to terms with the vast increase in defense spending required to counterbalance the militaries of Russia and China. A new era of global rearmament is gathering pace, and it will mean vast costs and some tough decisions for western governments already struggling with shaky …

FT: The Great American Transport Crisis

11:50 11.04.2024

FT: The Great American Transport Crisis

The US infrastructure hasn’t been updated in a significant way since the Eisenhower era (1952-1960), ‘The Financial Times’ notes. From the Baltimore bridge collapse (photo) to chaos at Boeing, what look like discrete problems are in fact part of a wider dysfunction. Transport in America is having a crisis moment. …

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov with President of China Xi Jinping

12:29 10.04.2024

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov with President of China Xi Jinping

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks during a meeting with President of China Xi Jinping, Beijing, April 9, 2024: Mr President, Thank you for taking the time to receive our delegation. This is yet another confirmation of how much personal attention you pay to the development of cooperation with the …

Bloomberg: A ‘Conscription panic’ in Europe

11:52 10.04.2024

Bloomberg: A ‘Conscription panic’ in Europe

Jean-Dominique Merchet, author of ‘Are We Ready For War?’, says that the French army’s current capacity could hold a frontline no longer than 80 kilometers (50 miles) — compared to a Ukrainian front that’s about 1,000 kilometers long. Edward Luttwak, writing in ‘The Telegraph’, said that Europe’s political and cultural …

British life-style: Human rights? Not for Britain

11:50 10.04.2024

British life-style: Human rights? Not for Britain

Rishi Sunak has given his strongest signal yet that he is willing to remove the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights amid the stalemate over his Rwanda deportation plan. The PM told The Sun’s Never Mind The Ballots programme that controlling immigration is more important than “membership of …

NYT: NATO wants to show support for Ukraine, but only so much

11:49 10.04.2024

NYT: NATO wants to show support for Ukraine, but only so much

Admitting Kyiv is a nonstarter as long as the war with Russia is raging. But the member nations want to show they are supporting Ukraine “for the long haul,” notes ‘The New York Times’. When NATO’s leaders gather this summer to celebrate the 75th anniversary of their military alliance, the …

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