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British life-style: Migrant protests descend into anarchy

11:38 28.08.2025

British life-style: Migrant protests descend into anarchy

Migrant protests descended into anarchy as at least 15 people were arrested at demonstrations taking place across the country over asylum seeker hotels, ‘The Daily Mail’ reports. Today more than 30 protests under the Abolish Asylum System slogan were held in towns and cities including Bristol, Exeter, Tamworth, Cannock, Nuneaton, …

View from Washington: “Lasting peace will require grappling with the history of Ukraine’s borders and adjusting them to reflect solid realities”

12:00 27.08.2025

View from Washington: “Lasting peace will require grappling with the history of Ukraine’s borders and adjusting them to reflect solid realities”

As it now stands, Ukraine can have political independence or territorial integrity, but it cannot have both. That was true in 2014, it was true in 2022, and it is true today, writes John Daniel Davidson, a senior editor at ‘The Federalist’. It’s not parroting Russian propaganda to say that …

Reuters: 'Powerful optics' – Xi to welcome Putin, Modi in regional security forum of solidarity in China

11:59 27.08.2025

Reuters: 'Powerful optics' – Xi to welcome Putin, Modi in regional security forum of solidarity in China

President Xi Jinping will gather more than 20 world leaders at a regional security forum in China next week in a powerful show of Global South solidarity in the age of Donald Trump while also helping sanctions-hit Russia pull off another diplomatic coup, Reuters writes. Aside from Russian President Vladimir …

POLITICO: Foreign diplomats are worried about the rule of Law in Trump’s America – It could complicate law enforcement across the Globe, they say

11:58 27.08.2025

POLITICO: Foreign diplomats are worried about the rule of Law in Trump’s America – It could complicate law enforcement across the Globe, they say

The mood among the European diplomatic set appears to be one of heightened vigilance and of low-level — but persistent — anxiety about where things are headed in the U.S. legal system in Trump’s second term and beyond, writes POLITICO. Donald Trump’s second term in office has been marked by …

NYT: The question is – whether to send German soldiers to Ukraine?

11:57 27.08.2025

NYT: The question is – whether to send German soldiers to Ukraine?

A long road remains for any peace deal in Ukraine, despite weeks of furious diplomacy and optimistic predictions from President Trump. But in Germany, political leaders are already debating a crucial detail for any final agreement — whether the German Army will send troops, ‘The New York Times’ writes. The …

Trump pushes to rename Department of Defense to the ‘Department of War’

14:38 26.08.2025

Trump pushes to rename Department of Defense to the ‘Department of War’

President Donald Trump on Monday said he wants to rename the Department of Defense the “Department of War,” News Nation Now reports. “It used to be called the Department of War. It had a stronger sound… we are defenders,” Trump said from the Oval Office, surrounded by members of his …

Zelensky’s threats to Hungary will have consequences - Orbann

13:10 26.08.2025

Zelensky’s threats to Hungary will have consequences - Orbann

Volodymyr Zelensky's threats against Hungary will not go unnoticed, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned. "He (Zelensky - ed.) admitted that they are shelling the Druzhba pipeline because we do not support their membership in the EU. This also shows that the Hungarians made the right decision," Magyar Nemzet cited …

View from Delhi: “Both India and China have a vital interest in geopolitical peace on their overlapping peripheries”

11:30 26.08.2025

View from Delhi: “Both India and China have a vital interest in geopolitical peace on their overlapping peripheries”

The signals from Beijing and Delhi are unmistakable. The India-China relationship is being stabilised and rebuilt after it literally fell off the Himalayan cliffs in 2020. While the impetus is a predatory US, Modi and Xi Jinping had cleared the decks during their Kazan summit last October, Zorawar Daulet Singh, …

“Farewell, welfare society!” Welfare state “is not sustainable,” says German chancellor

11:29 26.08.2025

“Farewell, welfare society!” Welfare state “is not sustainable,” says German chancellor

The German welfare state is no longer financially sustainable, Friedrich Merz said, ‘The Telegraph’ reports. The chancellor argued for a fundamental reassessment of the benefits system as spending continues to soar past last year’s record of €47bn (£40bn). In a state-level party conference meeting on Saturday, Mr Merz said: “The …

A new question: Was the Oct 7 attack on Israel ‘a pre-emptive strike’?

11:27 26.08.2025

A new question: Was the Oct 7 attack on Israel ‘a pre-emptive strike’?

In incendiary leaked comments, the former head of Israel's military intelligence disclosed plans to assassinate the leadership of Hamas and initiate war months before October 7, stresses Max Blumenthal at ‘The Gray Zone’. In comments leaked by Israel’s Channel 12 this August 16, the Israeli army’s former head of military …

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