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On Thursday, China hosted a summit which was attended by foreign ministers from the Pacific island nations of Kiribati, Fiji, Tonga, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Micronesia, and the Solomon Islands. With the exception of PNG, these Polynesia and Melanesia countries are small, yet they are taking centre stage in one …

On Wednesday, during a meeting with Taliban representatives, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the group must use its power as Afghanistan’s new de facto government to prevent further chaos in the region. “We call on the Taliban movement to strictly follow the line of preventing anyone from using the …

On Thursday morning, the embassy’s Twitter account called out the US State Department spokesman. “[Ned Price] keeps criticizing Russia for assumed human rights violations. Meanwhile, it is high time the US drew its attention to the internal situation,” the tweet said, including a link to an article posted on the …

Over the past few days, many eyes in the Western Hemisphere have been on the hotly contested presidential election in Peru. Left-wing candidate Pedro Castillo of the anti-imperialist Free Peru party appears to have gained the upper hand against establishment figure Keiko Fujimori in an otherwise dead-heat contest, which the …

He said he wished for more equality in the future, and for strong countries like the US not to meddle in other nations’ affairs. “This idea of the Americans to be a beacon for the world and not let anyone else compete economically is wrong. Americans must know that we …

And this new Cold War, like the previous one, emanates from the even older Monroe Doctrine of 1823 in which US President James Monroe declared that the US has sole dominion over the Western Hemisphere.    President Teddy Roosevelt would add his famous corollary to this Doctrine, declaring that the US …

The Group Arabian Sea Warfare Exercise (GASWEX) 21, which begins on Sunday, seeks to “develop the necessary skills to address threats to regional security, freedom of navigation and the free flow of commerce,” US Naval Forces Central Command said in a statement. The aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle is accompanied …

“In rural Ukraine, only a stone’s throw away from Russia’s border,British Paratroopers have mounted a rapid airborne deployment,” says a Medium post by DefenceHQ on Tuesday, introducing a photo gallery of its soldiers. The accompanying tweet gives away the post’s meta-headline: “We dropped into Russia’s backyard.” The article’s URL matches it, …

Whether encyclopedia of children’s domestic games? Not long ago, I wrote in Nyuslende few of their pitiful memories of sophistication of the post-war children’s games, which I did with pleasure could be seen in almost any urban neighbourhood of our great country. Unfortunately, these games are forgotten or almost completely …

Now children prefer computer games. In the twenty-first century children quietly disappeared from the yards of the big cities — now they play computer games or ladylike spend time in a specially organized children’s clubs. With the children gone and yard games. And if kids can still be found on …