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View from Delhi: The SCO summit in Tianjin was, to begin with, a message to the US about an altered balance of power in the western Pacific

11:13 15.09.2025

View from Delhi: The SCO summit in Tianjin was, to begin with, a message to the US about an altered balance of power in the western Pacific

The SCO summit in Tianjin, China has caught the attention of the West as no previous summit has, writes Kanval Sibal, a former Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, Ambassador to Turkey, Egypt, France and Russia. The West has, in general, paid more attention to BRICS as a forum …

FT: UK economy failed to grow – Stagnation was in line with analysts’ expectations

11:11 15.09.2025

FT: UK economy failed to grow – Stagnation was in line with analysts’ expectations

The UK economy stagnated in July, underlining the challenge facing the government ahead of a high-stakes November Budget. Friday’s figure from the Office for National Statistics was in line with economists’ expectations and followed a 0.4 per cent expansion in June. A slump in manufacturing in July offset increases in …

Trump says he will impose more sanctions on Russia if NATO does

11:06 15.09.2025

Trump says he will impose more sanctions on Russia if NATO does

President Trump on Saturday set conditions for imposing new sanctions on Russia, saying he would do so only if all NATO member nations did the same and also stopped buying Russian oil and imposed steep tariffs on China, ‘The New York Times’ writes. “I am ready to do major sanctions …

NI: What happened over Poland? – The question of cui bono is best answered as the Europeans, rather than the Russians

9:29 14.09.2025

NI: What happened over Poland? – The question of cui bono is best answered as the Europeans, rather than the Russians

By ballooning this incident with the Russian drones, NATO’s supporters in Europe and America believe they can force Trump to change course on Ukraine. He shouldn’t, ‘The National Interest’ writes. The same people who have spent the last five years doing everything in their power to get the United States …

Albania appoints AI bot as minister to tackle corruption!

9:28 14.09.2025

Albania appoints AI bot as minister to tackle corruption!

A new minister in Albania charged to handle public procurement will be impervious to bribes, threats, or attempts to curry favour. That is because Diella, as she is called, is an AI-generated bot, Reutesr reports. Prime Minister Edi Rama, who is about to begin his fourth term, said on Thursday …

Overlooked Treasury Report supports warning about Federal Deficits sinking the U.S.

9:26 14.09.2025

Overlooked Treasury Report supports warning about Federal Deficits sinking the U.S.

James D. Agresti, the president of Just Facts and a policy advisor to The Heartland Institute, published a very interesting study in which he analyzes the volume and structure of the US debt. He gave a sensational figure for the US debt - 143 trillion dollars!!! This is the financial …

A 110,000-strong “biggest ever” anti-migrant demo takes over central London

9:23 14.09.2025

A 110,000-strong “biggest ever” anti-migrant demo takes over central London

Nine people have been arrested as Tommy Robinson supporters hurled missiles at police officers in what is thought to be the largest right-wing demonstration in British history, ‘The Daily Mail’ reports. The ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march saw 110,000 anti-migrant activists march through central London on Saturday, with police reporting that …

POLITICO: EU’s richest countries hold secret meeting in Vienna, as budget talks get tribal

11:24 13.09.2025

POLITICO: EU’s richest countries hold secret meeting in Vienna, as budget talks get tribal

Northern European countries gather in Vienna to forge a common front ahead of two years of fierce negotiations on the EU’s next seven-year budget, POLITICO notes. It's the first time that top officials from the EU’s richer countries — including France, Germany and the Nordics — have convened in the …

View from Washington: Did Russia attack Poland with drones?

11:20 13.09.2025

View from Washington: Did Russia attack Poland with drones?

Poland says that 19 allegedly Russian drones entered its airspace. In an all night operation on September 9th, the Polish air force tried to track them down. According to the Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, four of them were destroyed but the rest remain missing. Poland blamed Russia for the …

Britain’s hunger crisis: 14 million going without food because they can’t afford it

11:19 13.09.2025

Britain’s hunger crisis: 14 million going without food because they can’t afford it

Britain is facing a deepening hunger crisis with more than 14 million people going without food because they can’t afford it, shocking new analysis has revealed, ‘The Independent’ reports. A total of 3.8 million children (27 per cent) are among those estimated to be living in homes where people are …

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