NATO must continue to support Kiev so it can negotiate with Moscow about becoming an independent state, the US-led bloc’s secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg, said on Monday. Speaking at the ceremony to admit Sweden into NATO, Stoltenberg repeated the bloc’s talking points about supporting Ukraine in the conflict with Russia, but …
Read More »‘US lacks power and wits in showdown with independent countries’ – N. Korea
North Korea’s deputy foreign minister has accused the US of “unjust and outrageous hostility” towards Pyongyang and Moscow, saying it shows Washington’s hegemonic mentality based on Cold War logic. “The US ill-minded repugnancy toward the North Korea-Russia relations only reveals that it lacks power and wits in the showdown with …
Read More »Pakistani PM commends India’s ‘independent foreign policy’
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has complimented regional rival India for maintaining an “independent foreign policy” amid US and allied pressure to adopt a harsher stance toward Russia. Speaking Friday after accusing Washington of “interference” in Pakistan’s internal affairs, Khan went on to praise New Delhi’s unwillingness to go along …
Read More »Ukraine bans another independent TV channel
Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) imposed five-year sanctions on the Nash TV channel on Friday after a closed-door meeting chaired by President Volodymyr Zelensky. Viewers have since reported being unable to view the channel on cable. The move came days after an online petition launched on the website …
Read More »Pop star awarded National Hero of now-independent Barbados
During a ceremony in the singer’s birthplace of Bridgetown, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley referenced Rihanna’s 2012 song ‘Diamonds’ to applause. “May you continue to shine like a diamond and bring honor to your nation,” the prime minister declared. Robyn Rihanna Fenty – who goes by the stage name Rihanna …
Read More »The Independent misrepresents race of Rittenhouse’s victims
Shortly after a jury in Kenosha, Wisconsin found Rittenhouse not guilty of murder, attempted murder and reckless endangerment, The Independent updated its front-page live coverage of the trial with the headline: “Full story: Teenager who shot three black men with rifle found not guilty on all charges.” The headline was …
Read More »Ukraine shuts down leading independent news site Strana as part of new crackdown on journalists, judges & opposition politicians
Strana.ua, one of the country’s best-known mainstream news sites, was unavailable on Friday after officials included both its parent company and its editor, Igor Guzhva, in a new tranche of restrictions. Network service providers began blocking access to its domains. However, in a statement posted online, its journalists said that …
Read More »Without independent probe, some UNSC members not ready to back West’s claims about Mercer Street tanker attack – UN source to RT
The UK called for a closed-door UN Security Council meeting on Friday to discuss an alleged drone attack that occurred on July 31 on the Liberian-flagged oil tanker Mercer Street, which is managed by an Israeli firm. Britain told the UNSC on Tuesday it was “highly likely” Iran was responsible …
Read More »‘Independent’ Mexico has every right to send aid to Cuba in defiance of ‘inhumane’ US sanctions, president says
Defending his decision to fuel shipments and other humanitarian aid to Cuba, Obrador said on Tuesday that US sanctions on the socialist state were “inhumane,” and that “independent” Mexico was well within its rights to defy the unilaterally imposed embargo. Earlier this week, a Mexican cargo ship loaded with 100,000 …
Read More »China and Russia urge independent probe into Canada’s treatment of indigenous people as anger over mass-grave discovery rages
The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found in May by the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Nation in the province of British Columbia at the site of what was once the largest residential school for the forced assimilation of indigenous children. An estimated 150,000 children …
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