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Hungarian foreign minister: European leaders oppose the prospects of sending Western troops to Ukraine

9:33 07.03.2024

Hungarian foreign minister: European leaders oppose the prospects of sending Western troops to Ukraine

A deployment of Western troops to Ukraine, which Hungary opposes, would violate NATO's common consensus, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto (photo) told RIA Novosti. "I have to tell you that there's a NATO decision in place which we support and this common decision of ours does not allow any ground …

Bloomberg: French industry slumped more than expected

9:32 07.03.2024

Bloomberg: French industry slumped more than expected

French industrial production dropped much further than expected at the start of the year, adding to signs that the euro area’s second largest economy is struggling to regain momentum after the energy crisis, Bloomberg informs. Output in January fell 1.1% from the previous month, while economists surveyed by Bloomberg had …

UK urges Germany to give long-range missiles to Kyiv

11:13 06.03.2024

UK urges Germany to give long-range missiles to Kyiv

Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he will not give missiles that could strike at strategic Crimea bridge, noted ‘The Guardian’. Britain has urged a reluctant Berlin to supply long-range Taurus missiles to Kyiv despite an embarrassing leak to Russian television of a top-secret call involving German air force officers who said …

US Green Berets permanently based in Taiwan for the 1st time

11:12 06.03.2024

US Green Berets permanently based in Taiwan for the 1st time

The U.S. has reportedly stationed special forces in Taiwan to conduct continuous training missions in the country, ‘Taiwan news’ informs. Following the implementation of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2023 in the U.S., American military advisors have begun being permanently stationed in Army amphibious bases in …

The US M-1 Abrams tanks are exposed in Ukraine — and taking losses

11:11 06.03.2024

The US M-1 Abrams tanks are exposed in Ukraine — and taking losses

The Ukrainian army’s 47th Mechanized Brigade has lost another pair of its best American-made armored vehicles: an M-1 Abrams tank and an Assault Breacher engineering vehicle, Forbs forced to admit. Two weeks after the Ukrainian garrison retreated from Avdiivka, a former Ukrainian stronghold just northwest of Russian-occupied Donetsk in eastern …

Russia confirmed World’s first ever combat test of hypersonic glide vehicle

11:10 06.03.2024

Russia confirmed World’s first ever combat test of hypersonic glide vehicle

Following multiple reports from Russian and Western sources that the Zircon hypersonic cruise missile was used by Russian forces to support ongoing operations in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin confirmed in an address to the Russian Federal Assembly on February 29 that the missile had seen its first combat launch, ‘The …

“A remarkable deterioration in the state of British defence”? Or something else?

10:31 05.03.2024

“A remarkable deterioration in the state of British defence”? Or something else?

In a speech at Chatham House last week, the chief of the Defence Staff, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, tried to look on the bright side. 'We are not on the cusp of war with Russia,' he declared, reassuringly. 'We are not about to be invaded. No one in the Ministry …

Francis Fukuyama: “It’s not too late to reverse America’s political decay”

10:30 05.03.2024

Francis Fukuyama: “It’s not too late to reverse America’s political decay”

American institutions have been decaying steadily for some time, and are now at a major crisis point, writes the famous political scientist Francis Fukuyama at ‘The Financial Times’ from London. Political decay occurs when a society’s institutions fail to adapt to changing circumstances. This has been going on for a …

Will Germany float nuclear arms plan?

10:29 05.03.2024

Will Germany float nuclear arms plan?

Berlin could be moving away from its historic reliance on American nuclear weapons. Reports in the English-language press suggest that German defence officials are quietly contacting their British and French NATO counterparts to prepare an alternative to the American nuclear umbrella, ‘European Conservative’ writes with concern. Potential American disengagement from …

Swedish defaults surge, marking worst February since 1994

10:28 05.03.2024

Swedish defaults surge, marking worst February since 1994

902 firms went bankrupt last month, according to Creditsafe. Restaurants and construction companies among those worst hit, Bloomberg informs. Swedish bankruptcies rose in February to the highest level for that month in three decades, as housing construction has screeched to a halt and restaurants are facing lower demand amid rising …

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