Ukraine’s ambassador to Berlin, Andrey Melnik, has refused to apologize to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for comparing him to an “offended liverwurst” over his reluctance to visit Kiev. The abrasive Melnik’s comments follow a phone call on Thursday between President Volodomyr Zelensky and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, which was apparently organized to resolve …
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Croatian football officials have come to the defense of Dejan Lovren after the Zenit St. Petersburg player was attacked by a newspaper in his homeland. Media outlet ‘Jutarnji list’ ran a controversial opinion piece on April 23 calling Croatian international star Lovren “an a**hole from Russia” as he remains at Zenit …
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Appearing on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News, Doocy said the president called his cell phone “within about an hour of that exchange.” “He said, ‘It’s nothing personal, pal,’” Doocy continued. “And we went back and forth, and we were talking about just kind of moving forward, and I made …
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President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden phoned in to NBC’s Al Roker during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday to deliver a holiday message to Americans. “My message is after two years, you’re back, America’s back,” Biden said. “There’s nothing we’re unable to overcome.” “America is back” is …
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It was a well written speech–on that, most people agree. The draft talking points had been widely shared with the important political powers beforehand, underscoring the reality that the speech was more about massaging domestic politics than projecting fact-based reality. Given Joe Biden’s resumé, this should not have come as …
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Hundreds of demonstrators marched through Madrid late on Saturday. The unauthorized rally was met by a large police force who blocked the protesters from advancing towards the center of the city. While local media estimated that there were 300 people there, footage from the scene suggests the numbers were higher. …
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While it must be hard for the Queen to ignore the clamour of the woke constituency, especially when one’s own grandchildren are the poster couple for this increasingly insidious mindset, caving in over the relabelling of ‘The Defence of Rorke’s Drift,’ at Christmas of all times, is really a step …
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Khamenei became the latest Muslim leader to express his outrage at Western perceptions of Islam in a war of words that erupted in the wake of the killing of French teacher Samuel Paty in Paris on October 16. The Iranian leader’s attack on Macron came amid renewed tension between France …
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Orban called for Jourova’s resignation in a letter to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, which was published on Tuesday. “According to the vice president, in Hungary a ‘sick democracy’ is being built,” Orban said. EU leaders have in recent months criticized Orban over moves that they believe put the …
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Alexander Khinshtein introduced the act on the punishment of comments in social networks insulting officials and politicians All the news headlines recently publicized that in the state Duma received the draft law on the punishment for the officials for insulting public statements. Co-author of this initiative, a member of the …
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