Washington does not want to become a party to the conflict between Kiev and Moscow, and while the US intends to continue supplying Ukraine with weapons, systems that allow Ukrainian forces to attack Russia will not be among them, US ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said on Tuesday. “Look, …
Read More »Millions could starve due to Ukraine crisis – UN
The number of people in the world facing acute hunger is predicted to increase by 18 million due to the crisis in Ukraine, Maurizio Martina, the vice director of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), said in an interview with Corriere della Sera, published on Friday. According to the …
Read More »‘Almost a quarter’ of humanity could go hungry – European leader
Nearly a quarter of the world’s population could run short of food if the war in Ukraine continues for much longer, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said during a speech at the 89th International Agricultural Fair in Novi Sad on Saturday. “If something does not change in the conflict in Eastern …
Read More »Senator reveals when US could approve NATO bids
Sweden and Finland’s applications to become members of the US-led NATO military bloc could be ratified by Washington by the summer, Republican Senator Mitch McConnell has said during his tour of the two Nordic nations. McConnell and a group of fellow Republican lawmakers Susan Collins, John Barrasso and John Cornyn …
Read More »Andrey Sushentsov: Ukraine could be just the starting point of a bigger crisis
Why do Russian-Ukrainian relations concern every Russian and Ukrainian? To some extent, what is happening is a delayed civil war, which could have happened in the early 1990s with the collapse of the USSR, when the first generation of Russian and Ukrainian leaders boasted that they had avoided a bloody divorce like the one in Yugoslavia. In Russia, every other person …
Read More »Elon Musk warns he could die ‘under mysterious circumstances’
Elon Musk on Monday told his followers on Twitter that should he die “under mysterious circumstances, it’s been nice knowin ya.” The SpaceX and Tesla magnate had previously clashed with a Russian official, but his announcement sparked more jokes than concern. Musk tweeted his message on Monday morning but gave …
Read More »Elon Musk suggests he could die ‘under mysterious circumstances’
Elon Musk on Monday told his followers on Twitter that should he die “under mysterious circumstances, it’s been nice knowin ya.” The SpaceX and Tesla magnate has apparently clashed with a Russian official, but his announcement sparked more jokes than concern. Musk tweeted his message on Monday morning but gave …
Read More »Abortion rights in US could be repealed, bombshell document shows
Abortion rights in the US could become severely restricted, a leaked Supreme Court document reveals, sending shockwaves around the country. According to a draft decision published in full by Politico on Monday evening, the highest court in the US has voted to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling on …
Read More »Texas governor could invoke war powers
Texas Governor Greg Abbott is weighing a plan to invoke real war powers by declaring an “invasion” at the US southern border to get around a clause in the US Constitution. Abbott could declare an invasion to comply with a clause in the US Constitution which prohibits states from engaging …
Read More »Ukraine sets out how security guarantees could work
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that security guarantees for his country should empower guarantor countries to make a decision within a day. During the last in-person meeting between the Ukrainian and Russian negotiators in Istanbul, Kiev had propose an international agreement along such lines. Speaking to Polish journalists amid …
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