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View from Delhi: “Both India and China have a vital interest in geopolitical peace on their overlapping peripheries”

11:30 26.08.2025

View from Delhi: “Both India and China have a vital interest in geopolitical peace on their overlapping peripheries”

The signals from Beijing and Delhi are unmistakable. The India-China relationship is being stabilised and rebuilt after it literally fell off the Himalayan cliffs in 2020. While the impetus is a predatory US, Modi and Xi Jinping had cleared the decks during their Kazan summit last October, Zorawar Daulet Singh, …

“Farewell, welfare society!” Welfare state “is not sustainable,” says German chancellor

11:29 26.08.2025

“Farewell, welfare society!” Welfare state “is not sustainable,” says German chancellor

The German welfare state is no longer financially sustainable, Friedrich Merz said, ‘The Telegraph’ reports. The chancellor argued for a fundamental reassessment of the benefits system as spending continues to soar past last year’s record of €47bn (£40bn). In a state-level party conference meeting on Saturday, Mr Merz said: “The …

A new question: Was the Oct 7 attack on Israel ‘a pre-emptive strike’?

11:27 26.08.2025

A new question: Was the Oct 7 attack on Israel ‘a pre-emptive strike’?

In incendiary leaked comments, the former head of Israel's military intelligence disclosed plans to assassinate the leadership of Hamas and initiate war months before October 7, stresses Max Blumenthal at ‘The Gray Zone’. In comments leaked by Israel’s Channel 12 this August 16, the Israeli army’s former head of military …

'If you don’t like it, don’t buy it!' Jaishankar on Trump's secondary sanctions on India’s Russian oil trade

12:17 25.08.2025

'If you don’t like it, don’t buy it!' Jaishankar on Trump's secondary sanctions on India’s Russian oil trade

‘If you don’t like, don’t buy!’ Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Russia oil, says ‘we buy oil…’ External Affairs Minister Jaishankar defended India's energy ties with Russia, asserting that oil purchases serve both national and global interests by stabilizing prices. He emphasized India's independent decision-making amid ongoing trade …

View from London: Civil war comes to the West

12:13 25.08.2025

View from London: Civil war comes to the West

“Why is it correct to perceive the increasing danger of violent internal conflict erupting in the West? What are the strategies and tactics likely to be employed in the civil wars to come in the West and by whom?” asks David Betz, Professor of War in the Modern World in …

View from Washington: Zelensky, not Trump or Putin, is the Threat to Peace

12:12 25.08.2025

View from Washington: Zelensky, not Trump or Putin, is the Threat to Peace

Zelensky, not Putin or Trump, is the impediment to peace. Until he is gone from power, Ukraine’s days are numbered, and the world is drawn inextricably closer to world war between nuclear-armed Russia and America, Brandon J. Weichert, a senior national security editor at ‘The National Interest’ stresses. Now that …

Is Venezuela the next target of the U.S. Empire?

12:10 25.08.2025

Is Venezuela the next target of the U.S. Empire?

Caracas has already mobilized millions of soldiers and militiamen in response to Washington’s “outlandish threats” while President Donald Trump has deployed several warships and thousands of Marines to the southern Caribbean – just miles off the coast of Venezuela. The provocative mission was launched under the guise of an anti-narcotics …

Sergey Lavrov's interview with NBC: “If you believe that if there is American capital in an enterprise which is used to produce weapons to kill Russians, and you believe that be it American, be it Hungarian, be it anybody's capital that this gives impunity to those who build weapons to kill us, I don't think so, I don't think this is fair. This is kind of, I would say, imperialistic”

19:21 24.08.2025

Sergey Lavrov's interview with NBC: “If you believe that if there is American capital in an enterprise which is used to produce weapons to kill Russians, and you believe that be it American, be it Hungarian, be it anybody's capital that this gives impunity to those who build weapons to kill us, I don't think so, I don't think this is fair. This is kind of, I would say, imperialistic”

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's interview with NBC Kristen Welker, Moderator of “Meet the Press”. Moscow, August 24, 2025 Question: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Mr. Foreign Minister, welcome to Meet the Press. Sergey Lavrov: Thank you. And welcome to meet the Russian diplomats. Question: Thank you so much for joining …

Sergey Lavrov: Western countries “are just looking for a reason to prevent talks from happening, while attempting to shift the blame onto others”

17:31 24.08.2025

Sergey Lavrov: Western countries “are just looking for a reason to prevent talks from happening, while attempting to shift the blame onto others”

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answers to questions of the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin TV programme. Moscow, August 24, 2025 Question: Those same Western countries that have been saying recently they would not conduct any talks with the Putin regime, with Russia, are now declaring that if talks do not take place, …

Colombian police helicopter downed by drone in Colombia, killing 12 – a Ukrainian trace

9:55 24.08.2025

Colombian police helicopter downed by drone in Colombia, killing 12 – a Ukrainian trace

A drone operated by a drug-trafficking gang brought down a Colombian police antinarcotics helicopter, killing 12 in an escalating series of drone attacks against the country’s beleaguered security forces, police and provincial officials said. The U.S.-made Black Hawk had been operating Thursday morning in a rural area near the town …

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