As Western diplomats scramble to resolve growing tensions with Moscow, the UK’s top diplomat has reportedly made a major error during crunch talks, allegedly proclaiming that London would never recognize the sovereignty of two regions universally considered to be part of Russia. In an article published by Moscow daily Kommersant …
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British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has been slammed by Russia’s Foreign Ministry after a geography error confusing two different bodies of water in Europe, over 1,000km away from each other. In an interview with the BBC, Truss explained that London is “supplying and offering additional support into our Baltic allies …
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UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has announced that she has caught Covid and will be self-isolating ahead of “an important week for diplomacy.” “I tested positive for Covid this evening. Thankfully I’ve had my three jabs and will be working from home while I isolate,” she wrote on Twitter on …
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A New Zealand reporter, who ended up pregnant and unmarried while working in Qatar for broadcaster Al Jazeera, has revealed that she had to turn to the Taliban for help after her own country said she couldn’t return due to Covid-19 curbs. Charlotte Bellis had previously become famous when she …
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Russia’s Ministry of Culture has published a draft order setting out “traditional values” that it says must be protected from encroachment by foreign ideas, terrorists, and extremists amid a “global crisis” for public morality. The document was posted on the ministry’s website this week for consultation, ahead of being presented …
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is speaking to four radio stations – Sputnik, Echo of Moscow, Govorit Moskva, and Komsomolskaya Pravda – on Friday about foreign policy issues including the current situation between his country and the West. You can also watch it on RT’s YouTube channel and Facebook page, or you can …
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Denmark must “immediately withdraw” some 90 troops it deployed to Mali last week “without [the government’s] consent and in violation of the protocols” allowing European nations to intervene in that African country, the government in Bamako said on Monday. Some 91 Danes from the Jaeger Corps special forces arrived in …
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British intel agency MI5 has contacted the speaker of the House of Commons to inform him that a Chinese government agent engaged with a Member of Parliament in an effort to “to subvert the processes.” All MPs have been informed. Speaking in the House of Commons on Thursday, Conservative MP …
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CPharm International (ECI), a German research and development firm, has said it is planning a multi-million-dollar investment in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, with the aim of producing weed for medical purposes. Following an unfortunate case of mistaken identity in late 2021, Vice media agency tracked down a German company, CPharm International (ECI), …
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The founder of the Russian protest group Pussy Riot, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, and fellow member, Veronika Nikulshina have been added to the Russian Ministry of Justice’s ‘foreign agents’ registry, over links to funding from abroad. In a statement on Thursday, officials said that the decision about the controversial punk rockers “was …
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