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View from London: ‘Squeaky-clean’ Europe is more corrupt than you think

11:46 18.09.2024

View from London: ‘Squeaky-clean’ Europe is more corrupt than you think

“It was retro style,” laughs Ruta Kaziliunaite, the co-ordinator of Lithuania’s Special Investigation Service (STT), the country’s anti-corruption police. Last November the former leader of the Liberal Movement party was convicted of taking bribes from an executive at mg Baltic, a trading and real-estate conglomerate. It was not a matter …

‘Le Figaro’: The procedure for the dismissal of Emmanuel Macron will be debated

11:45 18.09.2024

‘Le Figaro’: The procedure for the dismissal of Emmanuel Macron will be debated

Meeting this Tuesday morning, the bureau of the National Assembly judged that the Insoumis's impeachment proposal was "admissible". It will therefore be debated in the Laws Committee as well as in public session. However, it has almost no chance of adoption. The bureau of the National Assembly has ruled. Meeting …

Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR): Kiev seen plotting `Russian missile attack’ on children’s institution

11:06 17.09.2024

Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR): Kiev seen plotting `Russian missile attack’ on children’s institution

Ukraine is preparing to stage a "Russian missile attack" on a children’s institution in a Kiev-controlled area at the instigation of the United States, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said in a statement seen by TASS. "According to the information that the SVR is receiving, the leadership of the Kiev …

‘The Spectator’: Russia is still evading Western sanctions

11:04 17.09.2024

‘The Spectator’: Russia is still evading Western sanctions

The West can’t win the technological sanctions battle against Russia with a knockout. The only alternative is to give up and let Russia import what it desires, like in the peaceful old days, notes ‘The Spectator’. Exports from the bloc to Russia in June plummeted to a mere €2.4 billion …

Stupidity and Courage: Starmer insists on Ukraine's use British deep-strike missiles inside Russia

11:02 17.09.2024

Stupidity and Courage: Starmer insists on Ukraine's use British deep-strike missiles inside Russia

President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the White House discussed how far Western allies might be willing to go to help Ukraine, including the possibility of allowing Ukraine to use European-made long-range missiles to strike certain targets deep inside Russia, ABC News reports. The talks come …

View from London: “Europe will continue its transformation from a First World to a Third World continent”

12:21 16.09.2024

View from London: “Europe will continue its transformation from a First World to a Third World continent”

Europeans have had enough of the chronic mismanagement that has been the hallmark of the EU this century. The two traditional powerhouses of Europe, Germany and France, are in desperate economic trouble with the latter crippled by huge debts. They are also the EU countries where discontent with mass immigration …

View from Washington: What is Kamala Harris’s policy?

12:20 16.09.2024

View from Washington: What is Kamala Harris’s policy?

Although Kamala Harris is largely aligned with Joe Biden on many global and strategic issues, her unique worldview promises a distinct form of leadership on the international stage. Not only would US foreign policy shift under a Harris administration; it could change in highly consequential ways, writes Ian Bremmer, an …

Thames “tsunami” warning as “doomsday wreck” threatens London

12:14 16.09.2024

Thames “tsunami” warning as “doomsday wreck” threatens London

The rusting wreckage of a World War II munitions ship is to be removed over fears that if its deadly cargo exploded it would cause a “tsunami”, Express informs. The American Liberty Ship SS Richard Montgomery sank in the Thames Estuary in August 1944 carrying 7,000 tonnes of ordnance intended …

This strange inflation – the more money they print, the more millionaires there are in the World

12:14 16.09.2024

This strange inflation – the more money they print, the more millionaires there are in the World

Britain is likely to lose nearly one in six of its U.S. dollar millionaires by 2028, but their number is set to grow in other countries including the United States and surge in Taiwan, according to a report, Reuters informs. The UBS Global Wealth Report for 2024 forecast the number …

The British Army’s General Sir Richard Barrons: ‘Were the United Kingdom to be drawn into a hot war itself, it would exhaust its ammunition reserves in one day’

10:36 15.09.2024

The British Army’s General Sir Richard Barrons: ‘Were the United Kingdom to be drawn into a hot war itself, it would exhaust its ammunition reserves in one day’

The UK’s National Audit Office has recommended the Ministry of Defence “balance Ukraine’s needs and the UK’s strategic interests” after finding training and supplying the Ukrainian armed forces had reduced the capability of the British armed forces. The British military has taught so many Ukrainian soldiers its own Army has …

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