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Biden-Trump rematch: The first featuring two U.S. presidents since 1912!

11:51 14.03.2024

Biden-Trump rematch: The first featuring two U.S. presidents since 1912!

President Biden and former President Donald Trump won enough delegates to become the presumptive nominees of their parties in the latest round of primary voting Tuesday, more definitively starting the clock on a bitter and costly eight-month general election campaign. They each won several states in primary elections on Tuesday …

CIA conclusions: War in Ukraine ‘is shifting in Russia’s favor’, Hamas’s persistence and an ‘ambitious but anxious’ China

11:49 14.03.2024

CIA conclusions: War in Ukraine ‘is shifting in Russia’s favor’, Hamas’s persistence and an ‘ambitious but anxious’ China

The deadlock in Ukraine is “shifting the momentum” in the war there in Moscow’s favor, US intelligence agencies told senators, Bloomberg informs. Moscow has made continual, incremental battlefield gains since late 2023 and benefits from uncertainties about the future of military assistance from the US and allies, the top intelligence …

Russian Ministry of Defense: Kyiv regime attacks on the State border have been cut! Western weapons destroyed

12:11 13.03.2024

Russian Ministry of Defense: Kyiv regime attacks on the State border have been cut! Western weapons destroyed

Statement by Russian Defence Ministry: In the morning, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation along with the Border Service of the Federal Security Service thwarted the Kiev's regime attempt to enter the territory of the Russian Federation in Belgorod and Kursk regions. At around 03:00 Moscow time, after intensive …

FA: Time is running out in Ukraine – Russia is forecasting more battlefield wins

12:05 13.03.2024

FA: Time is running out in Ukraine – Russia is forecasting more battlefield wins

Western supporters are at a critical decision point and face a fundamental question: How can further Russian advances on the battlefield be stopped, and then reversed? – writes at ‘Foreign Affairs’ Dara Massicot, a Senior Fellow in the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She …

The debate over “Euro-nukes,” explained: “Existential EU anxieties in the age of Putin and Trump”

12:03 13.03.2024

The debate over “Euro-nukes,” explained: “Existential EU anxieties in the age of Putin and Trump”

Are European countries ready to go nuclear? – asks international team of VOX media. Just last week, after French President Emmanuel Macron floated the idea of European NATO members sending ground troops into Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Western leaders that Russia has “weapons that can hit targets on …

British life-style: Salmonella attacks!

12:01 13.03.2024

British life-style: Salmonella attacks!

British hospitals admissions for salmonella and E coli have reached their highest level in decades, writes ‘The Guardian’. Admissions for salmonella infections reached 1,468 in England between April 2022 and March 2023, NHS data shows, a rate of three admissions for every 100,000 people, an all-time high. E coli and …

Europe is whipping up war hysteria

15:32 12.03.2024

Europe is whipping up war hysteria

French President Macron raised the possibility that foreign troops of Baltic allies and Poland could be sent to Ukraine, but Berlin and many other capitals object, writes POLITICO. French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné was in Lithuania on Friday, where he met his Baltic and Ukrainian counterparts to buttress the idea …

‘The Responsible Statecraft’: Ukraine's tragedy is a 'good deal' for some US war supporters

14:33 12.03.2024

‘The Responsible Statecraft’: Ukraine's tragedy is a 'good deal' for some US war supporters

It's a cynical calculus for many in the West: Keep pumping money into the conflict as long as Ukrainians are the ones dying. For a conflict discussed in starkly moralistic terms, the ways the Ukraine war is talked about by its most enthusiastic Western supporters can be remarkably cynical about …

Water conflict danger in EU

11:30 12.03.2024

Water conflict danger in EU

A document obtained by POLITICO shows the European Union will urge capitals to accelerate their preparations for a warming world. Water scarcity risks sparking conflict among European Union countries unprepared for a warming world, the bloc’s executive will warn next week, according to a leaked document obtained by POLITICO. The …

Bloomberg: “The death of the WTO now looks inevitable”

11:27 12.03.2024

Bloomberg: “The death of the WTO now looks inevitable”

At one point, last week’s 13th biennial conference of the World Trade Organization looked as though it might be the last. Talks dragged fruitlessly into the weekend, and outright collapse seemed likely. At the last minute, an effigy of a deal was done. Almost entirely devoid of content, it merely …

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