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Bloomberg: US and Ukraine sign Resources Deal after fraught negotiations

10:47 02.05.2025

Bloomberg: US and Ukraine sign Resources Deal after fraught negotiations

The US and Ukraine reached a deal over access to the country’s natural resources, Bloomberg reports. The deal will grant the US privileged access to new investment projects to develop Ukraine’s natural resources including aluminum, graphite, oil and natural gas. It’s been seen as critical to fostering Trump’s goodwill as …

View from India: The new Bandung spirit is about industrial development

10:46 02.05.2025

View from India: The new Bandung spirit is about industrial development

In January 2025, Indonesia – the world’s fourth-largest country by population (282 million) with the seventh-largest Gross Domestic Product by purchasing power parity – joined the BRICS+ bloc. Eleven countries are now in this expanded grouping. With the expansion of BRICS to more countries of the Global South, a revival …

View from Switzerland: Gold is reentering the Global Monetary System

10:45 02.05.2025

View from Switzerland: Gold is reentering the Global Monetary System

One of the main reasons why the price of gold has been on a tear is that gold is reentering the global monetary system, writes Ronnie Stoeferle, the financial analyst from the famous Gold Center ‘Von Greyerz AG’ in Switzerland. After a brief setback below USD 3,000, the USD 3,200 …

The first loss on Trump's team – Michael Waltz

10:43 02.05.2025

The first loss on Trump's team – Michael Waltz

President Donald Trump said he will nominate Michael Waltz, his current national security adviser, to be the next US ambassador to the UN, sidelining a top aide who drew a wave of criticism for inadvertently adding a journalist to a Signal group chat where officials discussed sensitive attack plans, Bloomberg …

Russian MFA: “It is increasingly clear that behind the unsubstantiated and unrealistic claims by the Kiev regime and its Western backers to restore Ukraine within its 1991 borders lies a deeply hostile agenda aimed at erasing all that is Russian. Russia will, without question, take all necessary measures to ensure that such a scenario is never allowed to materialise”

19:25 01.05.2025

Russian MFA: “It is increasingly clear that behind the unsubstantiated and unrealistic claims by the Kiev regime and its Western backers to restore Ukraine within its 1991 borders lies a deeply hostile agenda aimed at erasing all that is Russian. Russia will, without question, take all necessary measures to ensure that such a scenario is never allowed to materialise”

Foreign Ministry’s statement regarding Kiev regime’s terrorist attack on Aleshki, Kherson Region, Russian Federation. On the morning of May 1, the Armed Forces of Ukraine once again targeted a civilian site on Russian territory, launching FPV drones at a crowded market in the town of Aleshki, Kherson Region. According to …

Kyiv EU leaders trip postponed

10:56 01.05.2025

Kyiv EU leaders trip postponed

Ukraine had invited European leaders on May 9 for a summit to counter the optics from Putin’s victory parade in Moscow. But Polish PM Donald Tusk will instead head to Nancy that day to sign a security treaty with President Emmanuel Macron, while British PM Keir Starmer plans to attend …

British life-style: UK’s economic confidence lower than in Crash-2008 and COVID-19

10:53 01.05.2025

British life-style: UK’s economic confidence lower than in Crash-2008 and COVID-19

Optimism in the economy has slumped to the lowest level on record, below both 1979 and the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007-08, ‘The Times’ states. Confidence in Britain’s economy has fallen to the lowest level ever recorded, below the global crash, Covid pandemic and winter of discontent, …

Canada: A campaign that have produced Prime Minister Mark Carney

10:51 01.05.2025

Canada: A campaign that have produced Prime Minister Mark Carney

The remarkable campaign in Canada was upended by a backlash against U.S. President Donald Trump, which sparked a stunning liberal resurgence, writes POLITICO. Canada’s conservative leader lost his own seat in Monday’s election to cap off a stunning electoral meltdown that saw the Liberal Party rise from the polling doldrums …

View from Delhi: India should tread warily on battlefield

10:50 01.05.2025

View from Delhi: India should tread warily on battlefield

In a timely reminder, even as Indians are demanding robust retaliation for the terrorist attack in Pahalgam in Kashmir, the US president Donald Trump pulled aside Prime Minister Narendra Modi to signal that conversations with India on a trade pact were “coming along great” and announced that the two countries …

WSJ: Trump's duties on allies are a real gift to Xi Jinping

10:17 30.04.2025

WSJ: Trump's duties on allies are a real gift to Xi Jinping

The duties imposed by US President Donald Trump have become a "real gift" for Chinese President Xi Jinping, as they have shaken global confidence in the reliability of the United States, according to the Wall Street Journal. Earlier, Bloomberg reported that the high import duties imposed by Trump on China …

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