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View from India: The second coming of Trump – what it means for the World

10:06 29.12.2024

View from India: The second coming of Trump – what it means for the World

US President-elect Donald Trump is no doubt an unorthodox politician. It would not matter much if the US were not a globally pre-eminent power whose views and positions had little impact on the world. But the US is the world’s foremost economic and military power, it intervenes militarily abroad liberally …

View from Delhi: Outgoing Biden administration aims to impose “constraints and limitations” on the flourishing India-Russia relationship

12:08 28.12.2024

View from Delhi: Outgoing Biden administration aims to impose “constraints and limitations” on the flourishing India-Russia relationship

The last acts of the Biden administration aimed at Russian oil may affect India too. They can constrain the thriving India-Russia ties once Donald Trump takes office, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar, Indian Ambassador and prominent international observer. The 88-year old South Indian Education Society is one of the oldest educational societies …

‘The Asia Times’: Trump’s BRICS salvo an exercise in dollar destruction

12:08 28.12.2024

‘The Asia Times’: Trump’s BRICS salvo an exercise in dollar destruction

The next Trump administration might end up boosting prospects of a BRICS currency in his roughshod attempt to reassert American primacy. A ham-fisted approach to bilateral relations with major rising powers, meanwhile, will likely only strengthen their resolve to band together and collectively undermine any US-led global order, writes ‘The …

YouGov poll finds: Support for Ukraine ‘until it wins’ falls sharply in Western Europe

12:06 28.12.2024

YouGov poll finds: Support for Ukraine ‘until it wins’ falls sharply in Western Europe

A YouGov survey finds negotiated end to war with Russia is preferred option in four out of seven countries, writes ‘The Guardian’. Readiness to support Ukraine “until it wins” has fallen sharply across western Europe at a critical time for the country, a survey suggests, as Donald Trump’s forthcoming return …

NYT: Biden and aides courted allies who undermined U.S. goals

12:05 28.12.2024

NYT: Biden and aides courted allies who undermined U.S. goals

Mr. Biden basked in his final meetings with friendly leaders among the Group of 20 nations in Brazil last month. A week later, outside Rome, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken attended his last gathering of top diplomats from the Group of 7 advanced economies, all U.S. allies, and noted …

Following the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council Meeting Vladimir Putin answered the questions of Russian journalists

14:07 27.12.2024

Following the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council Meeting Vladimir Putin answered the questions of Russian journalists

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Good evening. Please, what are your questions? Yekaterina Abramova: Good evening, Mr President. Yekaterina Abramova, Mir television and radio company. You devoted yesterday entirely to an informal summit of the Commonwealth countries and you spent all the day with your fellow presidents. Today, we can …

‘The Independent’: NATO cannot defend Europe from Russia without the US, warn alliance’s frontline leaders

11:43 27.12.2024

‘The Independent’: NATO cannot defend Europe from Russia without the US, warn alliance’s frontline leaders

NATO is “not ready” to fight against Russia without the US, the leaders of the alliance’s three frontline states have told The Independent, as they called on allies to drastically increase defence spending, writes ‘The Independent’. In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, the leaders …

View from USA: Right and left populists bringing down Euro elites in 2024

11:41 27.12.2024

View from USA: Right and left populists bringing down Euro elites in 2024

Ukraine war fatigue coupled with economic woes and immigration concerns fueled a tide of revolt, writes ‘The Responsible Statecraft’. Anti-establishment parties of populist right, and occasionally of the populist left, made inroads across Europe in elections of 2024, reflecting in part the waning confidence across societies that NATO’s aims for …

FT: EU burns through gas storage at fastest rate since energy crisis

11:40 27.12.2024

FT: EU burns through gas storage at fastest rate since energy crisis

Colder weather and lower seaborne imports increase reliance on stored gas, writes ‘The Financial Times’. The EU is emptying its gas storage facilities at the fastest pace since the energy crisis three years ago as colder weather raises demand and the continent grapples with a decline in seaborne imports.The volume …

Donald Trump’s transition team seeks to pull US out of WHO ‘on day one’

11:39 27.12.2024

Donald Trump’s transition team seeks to pull US out of WHO ‘on day one’

Donald Trump’s transition team is pushing to pull the US out of the World Health Organization (WHO) on the first day of the new administration, according to experts who warn of the “catastrophic” impact it would have on global health, ‘The Financial Times’ informs. Members of Trump’s team told the …

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