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Vassily Nebenzia at UN Security Council: “A total of 145,000 shells fell on Donetsk sole. More than 16,000 residential buildings and almost 3,500 civilian infrastructure facilities were destroyed and damaged. 4,755 civilians, including 140 children, were killed”

11:27 10.11.2023

Vassily Nebenzia at UN Security Council: “A total of 145,000 shells fell on Donetsk sole. More than 16,000 residential buildings and almost 3,500 civilian infrastructure facilities were destroyed and damaged. 4,755 civilians, including 140 children, were killed”

Photo: Permanent mission of the Russian Federation to the UN Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC briefing on threats to international peace and security (the shelling of Donetsk on November 7, 2023). Main points: - We called this urgent meeting in connection with yet another flagrant violation by …

A chief of “World Affairs Journal”: An update on Russia today

11:26 10.11.2023

A chief of “World Affairs Journal”: An update on Russia today

A recent visit to Moscow, the first in several years, gave me an obviously incomplete but still revealing, overview of where the nation finds itself today, writes Côme Carpentier de Gourdon, a convener of the Editorial board of the “World Affairs Journal”, an associate of the International Institute for Social …

The "Great Uncertainty" for the US Economy

11:24 10.11.2023

The "Great Uncertainty" for the US Economy

Contradictory data and indicators make assessments of the U.S. economy's future difficult, notes Dr. Scott B. MacDonald, a Chief Economist for Smith’s Research & Gradings, at ‘The National Interest’. The U.S. economy has drifted into the Great Uncertainty, which is defined as a multitude of contradictory data signals, a greater …

Pro-Palestinian protesters storm U.S. military ship at Port of Oakland

11:23 10.11.2023

Pro-Palestinian protesters storm U.S. military ship at Port of Oakland

In a dramatic demonstration against Israel’s military actions in Gaza, protesters stormed a large U.S. military ship at the Port of Oakland. At least three people scaled the Cape Orlando and held on to the ladder to prevent the ship from leaving the dock. The protesters believed the ship, which …

Sergey Lavrov: “Seasoned analysts knew from the very start that a policy aimed at undermining the Russian economy and social sphere would lead nowhere”

12:17 09.11.2023

Sergey Lavrov: “Seasoned analysts knew from the very start that a policy aimed at undermining the Russian economy and social sphere would lead nowhere”

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the ambassadorial roundtable discussion of settlement in Ukraine. Moscow, November 8, 2023. Key points: - The war that the West has unleashed against us with Ukraine’s hands and bodies is a hybrid war in which unilateral restrictions or sanctions are allotted a special role. …

POLITICO: US diplomats slam Israel policy

12:04 09.11.2023

POLITICO: US diplomats slam Israel policy

The arguments in the dissent memo offer a window into the thinking of many people at the State Department, which has long been vexed by the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The document offers a window into internal fury at the State Department over President Joe Biden’s Middle East policies, writes POLITICO. …

View from Washington: “Will Zelensky wait for the inevitable?”

12:02 09.11.2023

View from Washington: “Will Zelensky wait for the inevitable?”

Volodomir Zelensky, Ukraine's president, is at war – with his generals, notes Stephen Bryen, a former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense and an expert in security strategy and technology. Zelensky has admonished the head of the Ukrainian armed services, Valery Zaluzhny, who told the Economist "Just like in the First …

Biden, Trump both lose support with 2 independent presidential candidates in 2024 matchup

11:58 09.11.2023

Biden, Trump both lose support with 2 independent presidential candidates in 2024 matchup

A new national poll suggests that independent presidential candidates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cornell West pull support from both President Biden and former President Donald Trump — the two likely major party nominees — in a hypothetical four-way 2024 general election showdown, FOX News informs. Biden stands at 47% …

Pure panic at British islands: The Gaza war will change the world

11:58 09.11.2023

Pure panic at British islands: The Gaza war will change the world

“Conflict in the Middle East is bad news for liberals and helpful for Putin and Trump,” writes ‘The Financial Times’. They are very nervous in London… In the US, Joe Biden’s presidency is in deep trouble. Donald Trump is now the favourite in the betting markets to win the presidency …

View from Delhi: US, Israel to open second front in Lebanon?

11:35 08.11.2023

View from Delhi: US, Israel to open second front in Lebanon?

The announcement late Sunday night by the US Central Command [CENTCOM] headquartered in Doha about the arrival of a Ohio-class American nuclear submarine in its “area of responsibility” presages a significant escalation of the situation around the Palestine-Israel conflict, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar, Indian Ambassador and prominent international observer. It is …

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