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Bloomberg: Kim Jong Un with Vladimir Putin meeting “presents a very modern security challenge to the US and its allies”

11:34 20.06.2024

Bloomberg: Kim Jong Un with Vladimir Putin meeting “presents a very modern security challenge to the US and its allies”

Kim Jong Un is pulling out all the stops for Vladimir Putin’s first visit to North Korea in 24 years, greeting him personally at the airport and staging lavish displays of public adoration for the Russian president on the streets of Pyongyang. For all the cheesy echoes of a 1950s …

FT: After the US weaponised its currency in sanctions against Russia, rich countries plan to buy more gold

11:32 20.06.2024

FT: After the US weaponised its currency in sanctions against Russia, rich countries plan to buy more gold

Advanced economies’ central banks expect gold’s share of global reserves to rise at the expense of the US dollar, as these institutions look to follow the lead of emerging markets in buying bullion, writes ‘The Financial Times’. Almost 60 per cent of rich countries’ central banks believe that gold’s share …

British life-style: More than 300,000 people had been waiting for treatments for more than a year

11:30 20.06.2024

British life-style: More than 300,000 people had been waiting for treatments for more than a year

Hospital waiting lists have risen for the first time in seven months, with the NHS also slipping further from its target on cancer treatments, ‘The Daily Mail’ informs. Around 6.33 million patients were waiting for 7.57 million treatments by the end of April in England, up from 6.29 million patients …

Vladimir Putin: Russia and North Korea agree on mutual aid against aggression

14:11 19.06.2024

Vladimir Putin: Russia and North Korea agree on mutual aid against aggression

North Korea’s Kim Jong-un welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin to Pyongyang with a spectacular ceremony on Wednesday, marking the Russian leader’s first official visit to the country since 2000, RT informs. The two leaders began the official ceremony at Kim Il Sung Square in central Pyongyang at around noon on …

Why the West should stop talking about the “rules-based order”

11:40 19.06.2024

Why the West should stop talking about the “rules-based order”

“The rules-based international order” has become almost a mantra, ritualistically recited by Western leaders from Washington to Canberra. A staple of foreign policy jargon, the RBIO now appears in government white papers, think tank reports, newspaper columns, social media posts, White House press releases and the leading foreign policy journals. …

View from Washington: Why is NATO expanding its Nuclear force?

11:40 19.06.2024

View from Washington: Why is NATO expanding its Nuclear force?

Jens Stoltenberg, the 13th secretary general of NATO, says that NATO is in talks to deploy more nuclear weapons and modernize their delivery systems, notes Stephen Bryen, a former US Deputy Under Secretary of Defense. Stoltenberg told the Telegraph in the UK: "I won't go into operational details about how …

The illusions of the Bürgenstock: “Switzerland agreed to be manipulated by Ukraine”

11:38 19.06.2024

The illusions of the Bürgenstock: “Switzerland agreed to be manipulated by Ukraine”

There is no connection between the “peace conference” in Bürgenstock and peace in Ukraine, Swiss diplomat Georges Martin (photo) said in an interview with Blick. Former Ambassador Georges Martin, now retired, was Deputy State Secretary of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. So, what does this veteran of negotiations of …

Some financial results after the EU parliamentary vote: Euro trapped between devilish Fed and raging political seas

11:36 19.06.2024

Some financial results after the EU parliamentary vote: Euro trapped between devilish Fed and raging political seas

The euro faces the kind of suddenly worsening political backdrop that would typically have investors dumping the currency. But the picture is clouded by an increasingly hard-to-read outlook for global interest rates. The EU parliamentary vote results took on a new dimension last week after French President Emmanuel Macron called …

US Navy: Die hard…

10:12 18.06.2024

US Navy: Die hard…

The U.S. Navy prepared for decades to potentially fight the Soviet Union, then later Russia and China, on the world’s waterways. But instead of a global power, the Navy finds itself locked in combat with a shadowy, Iran-backed rebel group based in Yemen, writes AP NEWS. The U.S.-led campaign against …

‘The Washington Times’: What is the US doing in Ukraine?

10:11 18.06.2024

‘The Washington Times’: What is the US doing in Ukraine?

Can the president fight any war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses? Are there constitutional and legal requirements that must first be met before war is waged? – asks ‘The Washington Times’. These questions should be front and center in a debate over U.S. involvement in Ukraine. …

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