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Mission impossible: French warship to exit Red Sea

12:22 17.04.2024

Mission impossible: French warship to exit Red Sea

France's Aquitaine-class FREMM frigate Alsace has turned tail from the Red Sea after running out of missiles and munitions repelling attacks from the Yemeni armed forces, according to its commander, Jerome Henry. “We didn’t necessarily expect this level of threat. There was an uninhibited violence that was quite surprising and …

POLITICO: Why Germany’s Scholz is bowing to the Chinese dragon?

11:47 16.04.2024

POLITICO: Why Germany’s Scholz is bowing to the Chinese dragon?

Ignoring pressure from Washington, chancellor seeks Beijing’s embrace. With the next national election just over a year away, the leader of Europe’s sputtering economic engine is running out of time to conjure a miracle and reverse his government’s calamitous standing with the German population, notes POLITICO. Scholz's three-day visit to …

Chaotic War: Norms, conventions and laws of conduct are being erased

11:44 16.04.2024

Chaotic War: Norms, conventions and laws of conduct are being erased

We stand on the cusp of what might be termed Chaotic War. Not the formula used by Israel often in the past to intimidate adversaries; this is different, notes Alastair Crooke, a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum. Israeli reporter Eddie Cohen said, in the …

View from India: David Cameron's “Double Standards”

11:43 16.04.2024

View from India: David Cameron's “Double Standards”

David Cameron's "double standards" over Iran-Israel conflict. When asked how Britain would react if one of its consulates was "flattened", Mr Cameron said, "We would take very strong action," notes Indian NDTV. Former UK Prime Minister David Cameron has been criticised for his "double standards" on the ongoing Iran-Israel conflict. …

IOC chief Thomas Bach duped into praying to fake saints

11:40 16.04.2024

IOC chief Thomas Bach duped into praying to fake saints

Thomas Bach was convinced to offer a prayer to Vovan and Lexus during a video call with the notorious Russian pranksters, RT informs. Two Russian pranksters have tricked International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach into praying to the nonexistent ‘saints Vovan and Lexus,’ for divine assistance disrupting the upcoming …

NYT: Everyone wants to seize Russia’s money. It’s a Terrible Idea

12:11 15.04.2024

NYT: Everyone wants to seize Russia’s money. It’s a Terrible Idea

If Russia, China and other diplomatic rivals were to decide that their dollar assets were vulnerable and that they could no longer trust the dollar as a means of exchange, we would feel the pain of that $34 trillion in debt in a way that we don’t now. Retaining the …

Unprecedented US war drills and naval deployments raise fear of war in Korea

12:09 15.04.2024

Unprecedented US war drills and naval deployments raise fear of war in Korea

The opposition to President Yoon won the parliamentary elections held in the Republic of Korea. However, military tension on the Korean Peninsula is not decreasing. One critical issue that has been absent in the media coverage of these critical elections is Yoon’s decision to entirely subsume South Korea’s national interests …

America must find its middle ground

12:07 15.04.2024

America must find its middle ground

Regardless of who wins November’s presidential election, America is likely to see new outbursts of protest, revealing a pessimism and anger that threatens to become the norm in US politics. The nation must come together to recreate a middle ground, writes Michael Auslin, a PhD at the Hoover Institution, Stanford …

Bloomberg: Niger receives Russian military instructors

12:06 15.04.2024

Bloomberg: Niger receives Russian military instructors

Russia boosted its influence in West Africa’s Sahel region by sending military instructors to Niger, its first such deployment, Bloomberg informs. The instructors, who arrived in the country last Wednesday, brought an air-defense system and will train Nigerien troops, state-owned Radio Television du Niger reported late Thursday. RTN broadcast images …

Iran answers to the Israeli provocation

10:57 14.04.2024

Iran answers to the Israeli provocation

Tel Aviv condemned the move as a “dangerous escalation” and said its forces were on high alert, writes Will Porter, an assistant news editor at the Libertarian Institute and a regular contributor at Antiwar.com. Find more of his work at Consortium News and ZeroHedge. The Iranian military has launched an …

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