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India accused of blocking plane picking up aid for Ukrainians

India prevented a Japan Self-Defense Forces plane from landing in its territory on Thursday, Sanae Takaichi, a policy chief of…

2 years ago

Moscow responds to US security proposal ‘cherry picking’

The US has “failed to provide a constructive answer” to all the key elements of Russia’s proposals on security guarantees,…

2 years ago

How picking a Soviet-born radical for a Treasury post backfired on Biden

She was called by some “Joe Biden’s most dangerous nominee.” Saule Omarova, the president’s pick for one of the US Treasury’s…

2 years ago

Israel is picking so many fights on multiple fronts that several wars could break out at any time. Meanwhile, the US stays silent

Israeli police forces this week raided the Damascus Gate (Bab al-Amud), located at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Old City, injuring…

3 years ago

In picking up the phone to Xi Jinping, has Biden just blinked first in the great showdown between America and China?

US President Joe Biden this week telephoned Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The call was the first direct contact between the…

3 years ago

Hit piece on Republican Senator’s cotton-picking ancestors backfires for Washington Post, but team Trump doesn’t race to his aid

Politicians often embellish their family histories. Elizabeth Warren lied about her Native American ancestry and was christened “Pocahontas” by Donald…

3 years ago

Biden is picking up where Trump left off as US readies itself for a titanic tech cold war with China

It’s now abundantly clear that Joe Biden is carrying on the United States’ technology war against China where Donald Trump…

3 years ago

Picking an official embroiled in a ‘white man’ bias row to run the Sarah vigil probe is a massive own goal for tone-deaf cops

With more than 20 police officers injured, some with broken arms and ribs, in the Bristol ‘Kill the Bill’ riots…

3 years ago

Wage war: Biden blasted for picking a fight in Syria, letting minimum wage slide at home

The Democrats’ proposed $15 national minimum wage increase cannot be included in President Biden's $1.9 trillion Covid-19 stimulus bill, Senate…

3 years ago

Biden signals US return to full-on globalism and foreign meddling by picking interventionist Anthony Blinken as secretary of state

Biden, the nominal president-elect, announced his selection of Blinken along with other members of his foreign-policy and national-security team, which…

3 years ago