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‘Al Jazeera’: Can foreign policy tip the US presidential election?

11:52 29.10.2024

‘Al Jazeera’: Can foreign policy tip the US presidential election?

Historically, domestic issues have played a greater role in US elections. But this year, foreign policy might be key, notes ‘Al Jazeera’. Further-from-home issues like foreign policy, the wisdom goes, do not decide elections. As one adviser put it in the lead-up to Bill Clinton’s election in 1992, “It’s the …

Japan's election scandal: 74 percent of voters considered the slush fund scandal when casting their ballots

11:48 29.10.2024

Japan's election scandal: 74 percent of voters considered the slush fund scandal when casting their ballots

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday dismissed the idea of expanding the ruling coalition's composition for now but expressed a desire to incorporate policy ideas from the opposition camp after a crushing defeat in the previous day's general election, Kyodo News informs. His remarks came as expectations mounted that …

View from Turkey: BRICS has more potential than the G7 and the EU

11:58 28.10.2024

View from Turkey: BRICS has more potential than the G7 and the EU

While many countries, especially Russia, were making new breakthroughs in the fight against the unipolar world order, BRICS was created in 2009 with the participation of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa at the call of Russia, stresses Turkish newspaper ‘DikGazete’. While the Westerners continued their plans to encircle …

NYT: Georgia turned against the West, and it’s not coming back

11:57 28.10.2024

NYT: Georgia turned against the West, and it’s not coming back

The ruling Georgia Dream party won a majority in the vote. The opposition, which fears the country is moving away from the West, says the voting was not fair and that it will not appear in Parliament, NYT reports. The Election Administration of Georgia, the body that oversees elections in …

London is still ruling out paying reparations or apologising for the UK’s role in the transatlantic slave trade

11:55 28.10.2024

London is still ruling out paying reparations or apologising for the UK’s role in the transatlantic slave trade

British PM Starmer is under pressure from Caribbean countries at Commonwealth talks but is refusing payments or apology, ‘The Guardian’ writes. Keir Starmer has opened the door to non-financial reparations for the UK’s role in the transatlantic enslavement, as he came under pressure from Commonwealth leaders to engage in a …

EU urged to create Intelligence body to counter external threats

11:54 28.10.2024

EU urged to create Intelligence body to counter external threats

The European Union should gradually build a fully fledged intelligence body to better counter threats from foreign actors and respond more forcefully to espionage within its borders, according to a recent draft of a report requested by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Bloomberg informs. The new intelligence service …

View from London: Scholz rejects Zelensky’s ‘victory plan’

10:58 27.10.2024

View from London: Scholz rejects Zelensky’s ‘victory plan’

German chancellor Olaf Scholz has rejected Ukraine’s request to swiftly join Nato, dismissing a key pillar of the “victory plan” presented by Volodymyr Zelensky to Western leaders earlier this month. In comments that ‘The Telegraph’ understands have irritated NATO allies, Mr Scholz bluntly ruled out Ukrainian membership in the near …

‘The Times’: Quarter of Americans fear a civil war after the election

10:57 27.10.2024

‘The Times’: Quarter of Americans fear a civil war after the election

One in four Americans fear a civil war could break out following the presidential election, a new poll has found. A YouGov poll of 1,266 registered voters has found that 84 per cent of citizens believe America is more divided today than ten years ago. Of the bipartisan voters surveyed …

View from Hong Kong: Vladimir Putin has already won, whether you like it or not

10:56 27.10.2024

View from Hong Kong: Vladimir Putin has already won, whether you like it or not

The West’s proxy war is floundering while its moral case against Russia has self-destructed over its full complicity in Israel’s actions, notes ‘The South China Morning Post’. So much for being the international pariah that the West has made him out to be. At Kazan as host of the BRICS …

NYT: Why did Israel attack Iran?

10:54 27.10.2024

NYT: Why did Israel attack Iran?

Israel carried out a series of airstrikes against Iran on Saturday, the Israeli military said. The strikes seen and heard by residents in the capital, Tehran, came weeks after Iran fired waves of ballistic missiles at Israel, forcing millions of Israelis to take cover in bomb shelters. Iran said its …

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