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Xi meets Blinken: Five points of consensus

9:52 30.04.2024

Xi meets Blinken: Five points of consensus

Chinese President Xi Jinping met with visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Beijing. Xi said China is willing to cooperate with the US, but cooperation should be a two-way street, ‘The Global Times’ informs. China is happy to see a confident, open, prosperous and thriving US, and hopes …

View from Washington: Is the sun slowly setting on U.S. power?

10:23 29.04.2024

View from Washington: Is the sun slowly setting on U.S. power?

The United States might be stumbling toward a decline from which few great powers have ever recovered. It has many of the tools of national recovery but doesn’t yet have a shared recognition of the problem and how to fix it. That’s not a quote from a MAGA or progressive …

West in panic: “Putin sends horror warning to West as Russian exhibit shows off captured NATO equipment”

10:21 29.04.2024

West in panic: “Putin sends horror warning to West as Russian exhibit shows off captured NATO equipment”

The West shuddered. Western military equipment was destroyed by the Russians. Vladimir Putin has sent a provocative message to the West, just days after the US and UK agreed to send billions more in military aid to Ukraine, writes British ‘Daily Express’. Vladimir Putin's officials are putting the final touches …

Russia asset seizure? – It’s a Dollar angst

10:20 29.04.2024

Russia asset seizure? – It’s a Dollar angst

Congressional passage of authority granting President Joe Biden new powers to seize Russian dollar assets to aid Ukraine has intensified debate over the potential consequences of foreign demand for US Treasuries and use of the dollar. The so-called REPO provision was added to a $95 billion Ukraine, Taiwan and Israel …

British life-style: 'Heavy-drinking' MPs indulging in sex during foreign trips are putting themselves at risk of blackmail - with prostitutes 'waiting in hotel rooms' when they arrive

10:19 29.04.2024

British life-style: 'Heavy-drinking' MPs indulging in sex during foreign trips are putting themselves at risk of blackmail - with prostitutes 'waiting in hotel rooms' when they arrive

The group of politicians travelling in an All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) were met by prostitutes at their hotel during an official trip aboard, The Times reported. A senior government source told the newspaper that the behaviour of MPs undertaking APPG trips abroad “is quite astonishing”. They added: “If a hostile …

Bloomberg: Russia’s economy is so resilient, it risks overheating

10:44 28.04.2024

Bloomberg: Russia’s economy is so resilient, it risks overheating

Russia’s government touted robust domestic demand in boosting its 2024 growth forecast on Tuesday. While some might be tempted to dismiss the move as geopolitical bravado in the face of the US stepping up Ukraine aid, Russian economic strength is real, Bloomberg writes. In fact, Moscow’s new 2.8% GDP projection …

NATO is starting to deploy troops in Ukraine and Russia is racing to win

10:41 28.04.2024

NATO is starting to deploy troops in Ukraine and Russia is racing to win

US Troops to Ukraine After Biden is Reelected? – asks Stephen Bryen, a former US Deputy Under Secretary of Defense. NATO is starting to deploy combat troops to Ukraine. They are in uniform and mostly are concentrated in the western part of the country, although in some cases they are …

Britain life-style: “‘Do you hate Britain?’ I asked my pupils. 30 raised their hands”

10:39 28.04.2024

Britain life-style: “‘Do you hate Britain?’ I asked my pupils. 30 raised their hands”

There’s a piece in Sunday Times by an anonymous teacher, revealing the scale of national self-hatred in schools with large Muslim populations, aided and abetted by hand-wringing woke teachers who never stop apologising for Britain’s sins. Here’s an extract: “My pupils are a lively bunch. The school, where I teach …

Meteorologist warns of 'weather wars' between countries

10:37 28.04.2024

Meteorologist warns of 'weather wars' between countries

A meteorologist has warned of looming 'weather wars' between countries if 'cloud seeding' gets out of hand – after flooding in Dubai spawned concerns about artificially manipulating the rainfall, writes ‘The Dialy Mail’. Johan Jaques, a senior meteorologist at environmental technology company KISTERS, warned there could be 'unintended consequences' to …

Russian troops broke through Ukrainian lines as Ukraine pulls in panic US Abrams tanks from the front lines

11:24 27.04.2024

Russian troops broke through Ukrainian lines as Ukraine pulls in panic US Abrams tanks from the front lines

Ukraine has sidelined U.S.-provided Abrams M1A1 battle tanks for now in its fight against Russia, in part because Russian drone warfare has made it too difficult for them to operate without detection or coming under attack, two U.S. military officials told The Associated Press. The U.S. agreed to send 31 …

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