The US and UK want to escalate the Russia-Ukraine conflict into a larger confrontation between Moscow and Europe, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday in an interview with RT and Sputnik. “Our US and British colleagues… with the support from the Germans, Poles, and the Baltic states, very …
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The world has a choice between “collective action and collective suicide” and must act immediately to address climate change, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday in a message to the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin, Germany. “Greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise and ocean heat have broken new records. …
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Washington believes it’s too early to discuss peace talks between Moscow and Kiev since neither side is ready for such negotiations, the National Security Council (NSC) Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby told Fox News on Sunday. When asked whether US President Joe Biden should “push” Russia and Ukraine towards …
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The UAE has offered its “assistance” in a potential prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported on Monday, citing a law enforcement source. The Emirati proposals are being considered as the lists of prisoners slated for the swaps are finalized, the report said. Both Russia …
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The confrontation between Europe and Russia over Ukraine is likely to turn into a “waiting game,” US President Joe Biden has said. After delivering his speech on Covid-19 vaccines for children under five in the White House on Tuesday, Biden was asked by a journalist if he was “afraid” there …
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The likelihood of a military conflict “between great powers” is growing, the chair of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, has warned. Speaking in front of cadets graduating from US Military Academy West Point on Saturday, Milley said that the “world you are being commissioned into has …
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The sharp increase in the cost of living in the UK has stretched to national medical services and is causing more British families to fall into the ‘vulnerable’ category, The Independent reports, citing clinicians across the country. Last month, the rate of inflation in the UK rose to 7% – …
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US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu conducted their first phone call since the start of Moscow’s operation in Ukraine in late February. The news was confirmed by both sides on Friday. Austin has called for an “immediate ceasefire in Ukraine,” Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby …
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Police in Latvia have blocked access to the Liberators of Riga monument as Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins expressed his frustration at city residents twice creating a carpet of flowers, despite authorities’ attempts to prevent and remove it. Latvian police announced on Wednesday that “in order to prevent endangering public safety” …
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is the main obstacle to peace between his country and Russia, renowned Italian journalist and historian Angelo D’Orsi has told RT. D’Orsi has been left disappointed by the coverage of the Ukrainian conflict in the Western media, including in his home country of Italy. In March, …
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