Turkey has accused the EU of “strategic blindness,” criticizing the bloc’s decision this week to keep membership talks with Ankara in stalemate as being “detached from reality” and based on “ideological motives.” The Turkish foreign ministry stated on Friday that Read more…
A Nigerian Catholic bishop recently offered a harrowing account of religious persecution in the country and called on the U.S. State Department to explain its decision for delisting the nation as one that merited “particular concern” on religious freedom. “Since the United States has delisted Read more…
Last week, U.S. President Joe Biden opened the 100-nation “Summit for Democracy” by describing the authoritarian models of Russia and China as “the defining challenge of our time”. On Wednesday, the leaders of those two nations held their own video Read more…
The government has said that all 11 countries will be removed from the UK’s travel red list from 4am on Wednesday. Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe are on the list. The red Read more…
Russia and China will develop shared financial structures to enable them to deepen economic ties in a way that foreign states will be unable to influence, the Kremlin has announced following talks between the countries’ leaders. The move appears to Read more…
Seven time Formula 1 champion Sir Lewis Hamilton has officially received his knighthood from the Prince of Wales. The 36-year-old was awarded his knighthood and the resulting title in the 2021 New Year Honours list after matching Michael Schumacher with Read more…
Nigeria will no longer accept COVID-19 vaccines with short shelf lives after 1 million doses have expired in Africa’s most population nation before the shots could be used, a government official said. While some of the doses given to Nigeria Read more…
A historic court decision sheds light on how China has used espionage to gain a military and economic advantage over the US and the rest of the world. US counterintelligence officials managed to lure Yanjun Xu, a senior Chinese intelligence Read more…
The leaders of the world’s largest country and its most populous will hold talks on Wednesday, with Moscow and Beijing publicly committed to strengthening their ties amid increasingly strained relations between East and West. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Read more…
While Russian President Vladimir Putin keeps the West guessing over Ukraine, it was the might of Chinese President Xi Jinping that garnered the long-term strategic focus when the diplomats from the Group of Seven richest democracies met this weekend. The Read more…
Russia said on Monday it may be forced to deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe in response to what it sees as NATO’s plans to do the same. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told Russia’s RIA news agency in an Read more…
Germany’s new foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, has said the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline from Russia can’t be launched yet because it doesn’t meet EU energy requirements and there remain “safety” concerns. Baerbock, a Green politician who assumed her Read more…