Speaking to Army Radio on Wednesday, Nachman Ash, Israel’s national pandemic coordinator, said the country no longer needed the 10 million AstraZeneca jabs it ordered, claiming that other companies were meeting its needs. “We are trying to find the best solution. After all, we don’t want (the vaccines) to get …
Read More »Putin says Russia developing high-tech nuclear & laser weapons, warning ‘provocateurs’ will regret crossing country’s red lines
Speaking as part of his annual address to the Federal Assembly in Moscow on Wednesday, Putin said that his government “wants to have positive relationships with everyone on the international stage, including those with whom relations have broken down recently. We really don’t want to burn bridges.” At the same …
Read More »Russia’s 2021 St. Petersburg Economic Forum to address new economic reality world faces after Covid-19
According to the forum’s official website, the key topic will be “A collective reckoning of the new global economic reality.” More than a hundred events are planned to be held within the forum’s business program. Business sessions will be broadcast on the forum’s platforms, so that participants from countries where …
Read More »Ukrainian President Zelensky proposes face-to-face meeting with Putin in war-torn Donbass & emphasizes Western support for Kiev
Speaking during a public address on Tuesday night, Zelensky urged the restoration of the ceasefire agreed to in 2014 in Minsk, Belarus, as part of a peace plan Kiev has refused to implement. As well as Ukraine and Russia, Germany and France were also signatories to the deal. “There was …
Read More »The battle is won but not the war – football fans must fight on against the gall and greed among the game’s elite
Protest turned to jubilation in west London on Tuesday night as Chelsea fans learned their club was pulling out of the European Super League. Not long afterwards, Manchester City confirmed they were walking away, sheepishly followed by the rest of England’s disgraced ‘Big Six’ as the rebels turned their backs …
Read More »WATCH LIVE: Putin makes ‘State of the Union’-style annual address to Russian lawmakers amid diplomatic stand-off with West
The Russian president is required by law to give a report each year on the state of national affairs to the Federal Assembly, a joint session of the two chambers of the Russian parliament. Traditionally, however, the event is more representative, with governors, government members, and other top officials invited. …
Read More »Delhi oxygen crisis: Hospitals hover hours from running out amid hike in serious Covid-19 cases
Early on Wednesday morning, an oxygen tanker arrived at Delhi’s GTB Hospital, where over 500 patients require the medical gas as part of their treatment. The delivery came less than an hour before the facility was expected to run out of what was left of its stockpile. “All of us …
Read More »Seoul court refuses to force Japan to compensate WWII-era ‘comfort women’ sexual slavery victims, contradicting previous ruling
The case revolved around ‘comfort women’ – a euphemism used to describe women and girls who were forced to work in Japanese Army-run brothels during WWII, when the whole of the Korean Peninsula was Japan’s colony. Historians believe that up to 200,000 women were subjected to sexual slavery under this …
Read More »After 4 election defeats, the British left can’t pin its hopes on some utopian ‘automated luxury communist’ future
The British Labour Party, having lost four elections in 11 years, appears to be in a period of deep self-reflection and, in my opinion, it’s long overdue. It needs to reassess its priorities, and what and who it stands for; in short, why it exists. Its problems are set out …
Read More »America’s domestic political turmoil is making world unstable & fueling conflicts with its main adversaries – Iran, China & Russia
The Afghanistan Papers, published by the Washington Post in 2019, revealed that the US has for many years been aware that it cannot win the war in Afghanistan, yet it has been reluctant to accept defeat and withdraw. US policy has been defined in indecisiveness, as neither victory or defeat …
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