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Sergey Naryshkin, director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service: Risks and threats from Western countries have significantly increased

11:36 08.10.2024

Sergey Naryshkin, director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service: Risks and threats from Western countries have significantly increased

Key statements by Sergey Naryshkin, director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), 7 oct., 2024. ‘Sputnik’ quotes: Global affairs Risks and threats from Western countries have significantly increased, although Russia has never wished them any harm. In an attempt to maintain aggressive dominance in the modern world, Western countries are …

View from Delhi: Why the West must take seriously that Russia revises its nuclear doctrine?

11:34 08.10.2024

View from Delhi: Why the West must take seriously that Russia revises its nuclear doctrine?

The revision lowers the threshold of use of nuclear weapons by Russia. It is a warning to the West not to escalate the Ukraine war, writes Kanwal Sibal, a former Indian Foreign Secretary, India’s Ambassador to Turkey, Egypt, France and Russia. The Ukraine conflict is acquiring increasingly dangerous dimensions. The …

View from London: America needs to start getting Israel and Ukraine to negotiate

11:32 08.10.2024

View from London: America needs to start getting Israel and Ukraine to negotiate

The United States is in a trying position with two of its most consequential foreign friends: the Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Washington has provided broad military backing to both, even when their actions run counter to long-term US interests. A more clear-eyed approach is needed, …

British life-style: They don’t know – what Woman IS! They say, “How we will decide what constitutes a woman…”

11:30 08.10.2024

British life-style: They don’t know – what Woman IS! They say, “How we will decide what constitutes a woman…”

What is a woman? This now highly controversial issue will be decided in November by the highest court in the land. Five senior judges will sit in the quiet, restrained atmosphere of Court One in the Supreme Court in Parliament Square, impervious to the placards and banners of any protesters …

View from the Middle East: “Can the Arab world ignore global changes?”

11:46 07.10.2024

View from the Middle East: “Can the Arab world ignore global changes?”

Today, almost three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the proclamation by the United States of what George Bush Sr. called a "New World Order", or more precisely an "American World Order", the global landscape seems to be changing again. The situation in the Middle East and …

Harold Hamm: US ‘unusually vulnerable’ to Middle East oil shock

11:44 07.10.2024

Harold Hamm: US ‘unusually vulnerable’ to Middle East oil shock

Harold Hamm blames Joe Biden for decision to drain strategic petroleum reserve in recent years, writes ‘The Financial Times’. US shale magnate Harold Hamm has accused the Biden administration of leaving the nation “unusually vulnerable” to a Middle East oil price shock by draining its strategic petroleum reserve, damaging domestic …

WP: Mossad’s pager operation - how many innocent civilians and bystanders were killed?

11:43 07.10.2024

WP: Mossad’s pager operation - how many innocent civilians and bystanders were killed?

New details emerge of Israel’s elaborate plan to sabotage Hezbollah communications devices to kill or maim thousands of its operatives, ‘The Washington Post’ reveals this information. In the initial sales pitch to Hezbollah two years ago, the new line of Apollo pagers seemed precisely suited to the needs of a …

POLITICO: France insists it’s no slacker on military aid to Ukraine

11:41 07.10.2024

POLITICO: France insists it’s no slacker on military aid to Ukraine

Accused by Germany of not pulling its weight on aid to Ukraine, France struck back over the weekend by publishing for the first time a list of the military kit delivered to Kyiv between the start of the war and December 31, notes POLITICO. According to the French, their military …

‘The New Statesman’: “Is the West poised to enter the war in Ukraine?”

10:39 06.10.2024

‘The New Statesman’: “Is the West poised to enter the war in Ukraine?”

The West may soon be forced to stop thinking of its participation in Ukraine as a “special logistical operation”, writes ‘The New Statesman’. Imagine that a number of American cities were being bombed with Chinese missiles guided by Chinese navigational data and that, even though the missiles – Dong-Feng 15s, …

Trump vs. Harris: “This race is TIGHT – election officials and media outlets are bracing for uncertainty”

10:39 06.10.2024

Trump vs. Harris: “This race is TIGHT – election officials and media outlets are bracing for uncertainty”

Contested election: How a close race with dueling polls creates risk of surprises, delays, and doubts, writes ‘The Washington Examiner’. Before President Joe Biden abandoned his reelection bid in July, there was a broad consensus about where the 2024 race for the White House was headed. Former President Donald Trump …

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