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Senior Biden advisers quietly visit Saudi Arabia to discuss ‘mega-deal’

10:28 06.10.2023

Senior Biden advisers quietly visit Saudi Arabia to discuss ‘mega-deal’

Senior Biden advisers quietly visited Saudi Arabia last week to continue talks on a potential mega-deal that could include a peace agreement between the kingdom and Israel, two sources with direct knowledge of the issue told Axios. Why it matters: Talks for the deal gained momentum last month following President …

Enough is enough: Britain has ‘run out of arms to send to Ukraine’

11:24 05.10.2023

Enough is enough: Britain has ‘run out of arms to send to Ukraine’

Britain has run out of defence equipment to donate to Ukraine and other countries should step in and shoulder more of the burden, a senior military chief has said. The comments come after ex-secretary of defence Ben Wallace revealed that he asked Rishi Sunak to spend £2.3 billion more on …

Bloomberg: The US economy is now breaking in plain sight

11:21 05.10.2023

Bloomberg: The US economy is now breaking in plain sight

You wouldn’t know it by the headlines. But the US economy is breaking in plain sight. Only the savings cushion of the richest 20% are keeping it afloat. And if interest rates keep rising nearly every day, even that won’t be enough, writes Bloomberg. The tone has changed, too. Last …

NYT: House is paralyzed, with no speaker after McCarthy ouster

11:20 05.10.2023

NYT: House is paralyzed, with no speaker after McCarthy ouster

This is the first time in the history (113 years) that a House speaker is removed. An interim speaker will be appointed until the elections, but the elections could be prolong and difficult. In January 2023, Congress has taken 15 rounds of voting until it chose McCarthy. Now the situation …

Macron strengthens security forces in France

11:19 05.10.2023

Macron strengthens security forces in France

France is increasingly becoming a police state. This can be explained, in part, by the growing tensions in society that have accumulated as a result of the huge number of migrants from Africa and the Middle East who have arrived in France in recent years. The policy of “multiculturalism” has …

Green activists are sure that cows spoil the climate

10:54 04.10.2023

Green activists are sure that cows spoil the climate

More and more articles in the West, particularly in the United States, state that ‘cows are ruining the environment.’ It seems that somebody wants to deprive Americans and Europeans of normal food in the form of meat if they prefer it. They often began to impose “new food” in the …

War fatigue touches Europe and complicates West’s aid to Ukraine

10:52 04.10.2023

War fatigue touches Europe and complicates West’s aid to Ukraine

The victory of Robert Fico, a former prime minister who took a pro-Russian campaign stance, in Slovakia’s parliamentary elections is a further sign of eroding support for Ukraine in the West, ‘The New York Times’ writes. Slovakia is a small country with historical Russian sympathies, and the nature of the …

UK Prime Minister Sunak denied the words of his Minister of Defense…

10:51 04.10.2023

UK Prime Minister Sunak denied the words of his Minister of Defense…

Britain's new defense minister has demonstrated his political myopia and dangerous incompetence. It got to the point that Prime Minister Sunak himself was forced to refute his words. The issue of the low quality of personnel in the Conservative government is becoming central in the upcoming parliamentary elections. Prime Minister …

ECB's Lagarde: Euro, dollar status should not be taken for granted

10:49 04.10.2023

ECB's Lagarde: Euro, dollar status should not be taken for granted

The United States and the euro zone should not take the international status of their currencies for granted as countries such as China and Russia seek to create their own systems, said Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank. The dollar's 80-year-old reign as the world's reserve currency is …

Thousands of Ukrainian troops surrender via Russian ‘Radio hotline’

12:15 03.10.2023

Thousands of Ukrainian troops surrender via Russian ‘Radio hotline’

Amid Kyiv’s botched counteroffensive, which has shown no progress since its initiation in early June, there is a growing number of Ukrainian soldiers opting to surrender by raising a white flag. Clayton Morris, an American journalist, has expressed his astonishment at a series of videos showcasing the significant surrender of …

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