Monday, 31 August, 2026

Category: World


Emmanuel Macron has just reminded us why we voted to leave the EU. On his way back from meeting Xi Jinping in Beijing, the diminutive énarque declared that Brussels should stop following the American line on Taiwan. Rather than behaving Read more…


During his presidential campaign Joe Biden pledged to make Saudi Arabia an international pariah. Then came sky high inflation and a war. In July, Biden swallowed his words and travelled to Jeddah to meet the Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman. Read more…


The West is trying to drive a wedge between Russia and China by talking about their unequal relations and Moscow’s dependence on Beijing, Russia Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview published on Tuesday. Lavrov, speaking to the Argumenty Read more…


The 2024 BRICS summit will be hosted by the southwestern Russian city of Kazan as Russia is poised to take over the economic bloc’s rotating presidency next year. The decision was announced in a presidential decree signed by Russian President Read more…


President Vladimir Putin has signed an updated version of Russia’s foreign policy doctrine, a key strategic document which outlines the principles, goals and priorities of the country’s international diplomacy. The new document features a focus on Western efforts to undermine Moscow amid the Read more…


The air forces of four Nordic countries agreed to operate their fleets of around 250 fighter jets as a combined force, hoping to deter Russia by working together. Air force commanders of Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark said Friday that Read more…


Days after a US drone crashed upon colliding with a Russian fighter jet over the Black Sea, a top US military official revealed that armed Russian jets flew over a US military garrison in Syria almost every day in March.  Read more…


The Federal Government is ready to fulfill the Paris Agreement on Climate Change to ensure effective gender inclusion. Sen. Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment stated this during the inauguration and inception workshop of the project in Abuja Read more…


Crimea’s progress since re-joining Russia in 2014 has been very obvious when compared to the period of Ukrainian rule, the head of the republic’s State Council, Vladimir Konstantinov, said on Saturday. “We escaped poverty and infrastructural desolation, now turning into a Read more…


“Every cloud has a silver lining,” is a familiar line of reassurance, and Russian President Vladimir Putin reached for it, recently, as he commented on the slew of sanctions imposed on Moscow by the West and its allies in recent years. They Read more…


Germany is facing an inevitable economic decline after losing its access to Russian energy, but cannot do anything about it because it is not a sovereign nation, the secretary of the Russian National Security Council has claimed. “Germany tried for Read more…


Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili accused Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy of meddling in his country’s political situation by commenting on protests there last week, prompting an angry response from Kyiv. During the protests against a “foreign agents” law that critics Read more…