“Venezuela has the oil vessels and has the customers who will buy our oil,” Maduro said, as cited by the media. “We are ready and prepared for oil for vaccines, but we will not beg anyone.” He added that in addition to oil shipments, Caracas could pay for the vaccine provided …
Read More »Putin thinks democracy not fit for the future, US President Joe Biden claims amid growing diplomatic row with Russian counterpart
Speaking at a press conference in the White House on Thursday, Biden said that he had got to know Chinese Premier Xi Jinping personally while serving as Barack Obama’s vice president. “He is very, very straightforward. Doesn’t have a democratic — with a small ‘d’ — bone in his body,” …
Read More »Biden, already the oldest president to assume office, says he expects to run for re-election in 2024
“The answer is yes, my plan is to run for re-election,” the 78-year-old Biden told reporters on Thursday at his first formal press conference since taking office in January. “That is my expectation.” Asked if he expects to be running against former President Trump again, Biden said, “I don’t even …
Read More »Russian President Vladimir Putin receives Covid-19 vaccine as nationwide immunization campaign underway
The president, who has been noticeably cautious when it comes to Covid-19, received the jab in Moscow on Tuesday. Putin is “feeling well,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, adding that the president has a full working day scheduled for Wednesday. Kremlin has earlier refused to reveal which formula Putin was injected with, …
Read More »President Richard Grenell? Google accidentally lists former Trump administration figure as POTUS in fake news blunder
Multiple results listed Grenell as the US president on Saturday, claiming he had taken over the position from President Joe Biden “since 2021.” Searches for ‘President of the United States’ also returned Grenell’s name alongside Biden’s. The false information appeared to come directly from Wikipedia, which is automatically used by …
Read More »Former Ukrainian president Kravchuk says country will be invaded by Russia as Moscow seeks to solve Crimea’s water-supply problem
Speaking on Wednesday to US state-run media outlet RFE/RL, Kravchuk noted that the disastrous water situation on the Black Sea peninsula could be used as an excuse for a military incursion into Ukraine. For seven years, the Kiev government has blockaded a vital channel that once provided around 85% of …
Read More »Putin replies to Biden’s insinuation that’s he a ‘killer’: says US President is talking about himself but ‘I wish him good health’
Speaking on Thursday, Putin suggested that Biden may be projecting, noting that evaluating other countries “is like looking in a mirror.” “When I was a kid, when we were arguing with each other in the playground, we used to say, ‘Whatever you say [about others] is what you are yourself,’” …
Read More »Wayne Dupree: As happy Mexicans say, Biden’s going to be ‘a good president for migrants’. But not a good one for Americans…
Hey America, let’s get this straight before going any further: Immigration laws have not yet changed. Only Congress can do that. What has happened instead is, in a series of hasty executive orders, President Biden has sought to overturn and undermine Donald Trump’s effective immigration policies. He’s misguidedly tried to …
Read More »Bolivia’s former interim president Jeanine Anez arrested over 2019 coup
Anez’s arrest warrant was issued by a court on Friday and was executed on Saturday morning, Minister of Government Carlos del Castillo announced on Twitter. He hailed the development as a step forward in giving the Bolivian people the justice they deserve. Bolivian media showed images of the politician being …
Read More »Why does every American president promise to bring the economy back? Boom Bust explores
“Right now, it’s having a kind of euphoric effect with these enormous promises that it’s going to solve our problems and bring us our economy back,” Wolff says, adding: “Here’s the irony, this constant message of bringing it back. Back to what? To what it was before Mr. Trump became …
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