Australia’s home affairs minister has accused China of attempting to interfere in an election set for next month, saying a recent security deal with a nearby Pacific nation suggested nefarious motives. In comments to a Brisbane radio station on Wednesday, Karen Andrews warned that Australians ought to be “taking notice …
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Islamabad has summoned its acting US envoy, Assistant Secretary of State Donald Lu, to officially condemn his language regarding the upcoming no-confidence vote against PM Imran Khan, a Pakistan foreign ministry official confirmed on Friday. Lu allegedly told the Pakistani ambassador to the US that “relations with Pakistan cannot improve” …
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Ukraine has been trying to interfere in the upcoming parliamentary elections in Hungary, the country’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto claimed, on Tuesday, “A few days ago, the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry [Dmytro Kuleba] called the Ukrainian Embassy in Budapest to discuss the possibility of it influencing the results …
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In the wake of the landmark Brexit referendum in 2016, the UK government launched the opaque ‘Global Britain Fund’. Questions around the size of its budget, objectives, which projects it bankrolls and where, and other key questions have remained unanswered since. It was only two years later that then-Foreign Office …
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According to the pundits, consumers are set to pay more for household bills because of foul play from Moscow. Against the backdrop of Europe’s dependence on gas imports, Russia is said to be playing politics at the pumping stations and making energy supplies scarce. Clearly this isn’t just about the …
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According to the Central Election Commission, over 40% of the population had already cast their ballots, by Sunday afternoon, in the country’s parliamentary elections and a number of them looked really memorable while doing so. One voter in the Ryazan Region in central Russia apparently did some deep thinking before …
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Newsom, as a governor, is so unpopular in California that a recall election is about to be run. No doubt he’s frustrated by this, for the obvious reason it could scupper his political ambitions for the future. Some might think this would be a time for self-reflection, to try to …
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The spat began when Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard slammed Luis Almagro’s leadership of the Organization of American States (OAS), a regional bloc of 35 countries in the Americas and the Caribbean. “The performance of the current OAS secretary-general, Mr. Almagro, has been one of the worst in history,” Ebrard …
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Godzilla vs Kong has debuted to a gargantuan box office and critical response, but overlooked in the excitement over a genuine tentpole release – something that has been missing during the pandemic – is the tale of the Pentagon’s involvement in monster movies. It is not a natural or easy …
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In an interview with the ABC news channel published on Wednesday, Biden was asked by Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos whether he thought Russian President Vladimir Putin was “a killer.”“Mmm hmm, I do,” Biden replied. He added that he had previously warned his counterpart in Moscow that the US would potentially …
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