Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has criticized Russia’s decision to suspend talks about the WWII-era peace deal in response to sanctions over Moscow’s military campaign in Ukraine. “Russia’s actions are extremely unreasonable and totally unacceptable,” Kishida told his country’s parliament on Tuesday. The prime minister said that Japan’s sanctions were …
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Ukrainian officials have accused Russian forces of hitting a school located in the besieged city of Mariupol. The facility was sheltering some 400 civilians, primarily women, children and the elderly, the city’s council alleged on Sunday in a Telegram post. “Yesterday, the Russian occupiers dropped bombs on an art school …
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The highest UN court has confirmed it received an application by Ukraine asking it to launch proceedings against Russia under the so-called “Genocide Convention.” Accusing Moscow of “planning” to commit acts of genocide against Ukranians, Kiev denied accusations that it itself has waged genoicide against the people of Lugansk and …
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Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) added another chapter to their long-running feud on Friday, this time engaging in verbal fisticuffs over whether the progressive lawmaker is a person of color — and culminating in her accusing him of sexual harassment. The latest bout was …
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Moscow has hit back at the German Chancellor, accusing him of making fun of issues around a potential genocide. The Foreign Ministry in Moscow was responding to remarks made by Olaf Scholz at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, where he appeared to dismiss claims that thousands of Ukrainian civilians …
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America’s willful ignorance of atrocities being committed against Russian-speaking people in Ukraine is causing “outrage and indignation” in Moscow and is an example of Washington’s “double standards,” Russia’s ambassador to the US claimed on Thursday. Anatoly Antonov’s statement came in response to a comment made by US State Department spokesman …
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Speaking at a United Nations Security Council meeting on Monday, Russia’s permanent representative to the parent body in New York, Vassily Nebenzia, blasted what he described as the war-like rhetoric of the West over Ukraine. “Our Western partners talk about the need for de-escalation, but first of all themselves ramp …
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Donald Trump has swiftly responded to US President Joe Biden’s speech on the anniversary of the January 6 Capitol riot, accusing the Democrat of “destroying our nation” and of playing “political theater” to distract from crises. Trump made abundantly clear in his Thursday statement that he was unhappy with Biden’s …
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The allegations are part of damning testimony from Raphael Marshall – a desk officer for the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) – to MPs published on Tuesday. Marshall, who was part of the response team that monitored these “desperate and urgent” emails – outlined a list of government failures …
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In a statement on Tuesday, the Chinese Embassy in the UK dismissed allegations levied against Beijing that China actively seeks to snare poorer nations in “debt traps” and steals valuable strategic data from these countries. The embassy claimed that Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) chief Richard Moore, who made the …
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