Senior US officials were taken aback by US President Joe Biden’s remarks labeling Chinese President Xi Jinping a “dictator,” which came shortly after a landmark visit of Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Beijing, NBC reported on Wednesday, citing sources. On Tuesday, speaking at a fundraiser in California, the US …
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New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg has reportedly been forced to apologize to guests at a business conference in Singapore after former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave a speech condemning China as a “coercive autocracy.” The ex-mayor of New York City and failed Democrat Party presidential candidate acknowledged to the …
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RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan has condemned comments from Russian-language broadcast host Anton Krasovsky suggesting Ukrainian children should be “drowned,” and suspended his contract. Krasovsky made the remarks during an episode of his program in which science fiction writer Sergey Lukyanenko was a guest. The latter said that back in 1980, …
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Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry has distanced itself from claims made by Kiev’s ambassador to Berlin, which have sparked outrage in Poland and Israel. Earlier the diplomat, Andrey Melnik, denied that Stepan Bandera – a controversial Ukrainian national hero who collaborated with the Nazis during WWII – was implicated in the mass …
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Speaking to journalists in Turkmenistan on Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to questions about several recent remarks from British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. During the latest G7 summit, the UK leader joked that his allies should take their clothes off for the photoshoot – to show that they are “tougher …
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Estonia’s Foreign Ministry has accused Moscow of a “revanchist policy” after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s comments about the history of the Estonian city of Narva. The Baltic state has summoned the Russian ambassador, Vladimir Lipaev, over the issue. “Undersecretary Rein Tammsaar who met with the ambassador expressed regret over the …
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Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto on Monday backed the speaker of the parliament Laszlo Kover, saying he was correct to claim Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had a “mental problem” for threatening countries trying to help him. Kover’s comments, voiced in a TV interview over the weekend, prompted a fury of …
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China has accused Australia’s defense chief of slander and making “wild remarks” over his comment that Australians should “prepare for war.” “Certain Australian politicians often seek selfish political gains by making wild remarks to smear China and clamor for a war,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Tuesday. “Such …
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US President Joe Biden’s remark that Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power” reflects a “very emotional, very personal view” rather than a shift in US policy towards ousting the Russian president, one of Biden’s senior advisers said on Monday. On Saturday, during a visit to Warsaw amid Russia’s ongoing offensive …
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A New York college professor who made remarks in favor of sex between adults and young children has been stripped of contact with students and banned from campus as the college’s investigation continues. The State University of New York at Fredonia (SUNY Fredonia) launched an investigation this week after video …
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