The UN’s High-Level Week – an annual gathering of senior representatives of member states who address the General Assembly – is taking place in New York. It is a period of speeches of varying length and intensive contacts between ministers or even heads of state, depending on the status of …
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The political situation in Niger should teach France and other Western countries, including the US and UK, that Africa cannot be taken for granted, a former Nigerien foreign affairs officer, Iliyasu Gadu, told RT on Thursday. According to Gadu, a wind of change leading to a decline in western hegemony …
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Preliminary results from Türkiye’s presidential election show the incumbent, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with a comfortable lead over his opponent, Kemal Kilicdaroglu. However, the majority of the ballots remain to be counted. Polling stations closed at 5pm local time on Sunday, with the first results announced several hours later by Anadolu …
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Taiwan’s military has responded to a slew of nearby Chinese navy and air force drills by displaying its latest fighter jets to reporters and promising to respond to any attacks. Reporters were taken to the Hualien air base on Taiwan’s eastern coast on Wednesday and were shown a rare nighttime …
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A video shows the destruction in the city of Novaya Kakhovka in southern Ukraine, which local officials say was shelled by Ukrainian troops on Monday evening. The city is controlled by Russian forces. Vladimir Leontyev, the city’s top Russian-appointed official, shared a video showing several destroyed buildings, including a supermarket. …
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US President Joe Biden was aware of his son Hunter’s dubious Chinese business dealings in 2018 despite the elder Biden’s repeated denials of any such knowledge, a recently unearthed voicemail from Hunter’s “laptop from hell” published by the Daily Mail on Monday reveals. The December 2018 voicemail from the elder …
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New York City Council has spent more than $200,000 in taxpayer money on drag queen shows at city schools since 2018, the New York Post reported on Saturday. The shows featured cross-dressing performers interacting with kids as young as three, and some parents are furious they weren’t given a chance …
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Syrian authorities on Friday said that the Damascus International Airport temporarily suspended operations due to “technical disruptions,” just hours after a massive airstrike blamed on Israel. An Israeli satellite company showed photos of severely damaged runways and claimed the airport has been “completely disabled.” All flights have been suspended for …
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A Pride Month event at a Dallas gay bar sparked massive social-media outrage over the weekend, after footage surfaced of children being invited to participate in a drag-queen show. The “Drag the Kids to Pride” event, held at the Mr. Misster Dallas gay nightclub on Saturday became the focus of …
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Fewer Americans now blame the former US president Donald Trump for the January 2021 Capitol riot compared to surveys at the time it happened, a new poll shows. About 45% of US adults now say Trump was “solely” or “mainly” responsible for the January 6 riot, according to an NBC …
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