Representatives from the United States and the European Union will meet on Wednesday for the inaugural US-EU Trade and Technology Council meeting, a summit which is widely perceived to be aimed at China and was first conceived when Donald Trump was president. The meeting has a broad remit, and will …
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Attempts to flag the newly-signed trade, defence and tech deal between the US and UK as a Atlantic Charter 2.0 are nothing more than shameful, tin-eared grandstanding aimed at infusing the G7 gabfest with some sort of historical significance. Wartime leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill signed the original …
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Biden and Johnson met in St. Ives, Cornwall, on Thursday, in a bilateral sit-down before the G7 summit kicks off on Friday. Though the two had plenty to disagree on – the impact of Brexit on the fragile peace in Northern Ireland for example, they seemed to emerge from their …
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On Thursday, Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, the deputy chief of Iran’s Army for coordination, announced that two vessels, both indigenously developed, had reached the Atlantic Ocean following a near 6,000 nautical mile journey. “The 77th strategic naval fleet of the Navy, comprising of the ‘Sahand’ destroyer and the ‘Makran’ ship, …
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Over 70 years ago, the United States forged the beginning of a new transatlantic order through the initiation of first, the Marshall Plan to rebuild the war-torn economies of Europe, and then secondly, the NATO alliance, framed as a protection from the perceived threat of the Soviet Union. Depicting themselves …
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PACOM (United States Indo-Pacific Command) announced on Friday evening that the Chinese military flights over the past week “at no time” posed any threat to US Navy ships, sailors, or aircraft, according to a statement cited by Reuters. An official speaking on condition of anonymity said the Chinese warplanes never …
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For Isaac-Dovere, the “enduring image of the day” was simple: Vice President Harris’s “hair blowing in the wind as she took the oath.” “No one with longer hair (in other words: a woman) has ever taken the oath of office outside at the Capitol before, because she’s the first woman …
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The communications have been released publicly as a result of the ongoing defamation case brought against Fusion GPS and its founder and chief Glenn Simpson in a Washington, DC court, by Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and German Khan, the owners of Alfa Bank. The three allege false allegations against them …
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“End the Nobel Peace Prize,” The Atlantic declared in a headline on Friday. The award’s past winners have a “spotty” record of achievement, the media outlet said, as many were honored for making efforts at peace that never came to fruition. Trump’s nomination was apparently the last straw for The …
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In the Atlantic ocean from the ship Maria G, which sails under the Maltese flag, had disappeared Ukrainian sailor Oleg Koval.It is reported a sailor’s wife Marina Koval on his page in Facebook. The incident occurred on December 18. On this day the ship was in the Northern part of …
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