Czech President Milos Zeman lashed out at the US intelligence community for their claim that Russia would invade Ukraine, which so far has failed to materialize. It adds to their track record of making wrong predictions about crucial events, he argued in an interview published by the newspaper MF DNES …
Read More »Ex-president arrested at US request
Law enforcement in Honduras on Monday arrested the country’s ex-president Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is wanted in the US over his alleged involvement in drug trafficking and other crimes. Hernandez said he was willing to surrender himself. The former leader, who ruled Honduras between 2014 and January this year, was …
Read More »Ukraine’s president asks West to share evidence of alleged Russian invasion
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on his allies to share information about the alleged Russian invasion, prompting Russia to accuse the West of “mocking” the Ukrainians and common sense. Zelensky’s remarks come as the crisis over Ukraine is deepening, with NATO forces building up their presence in Eastern Europe. …
Read More »Czech president contradicts intelligence agencies on ‘Russian bombing’
The Czech Security Information Service has no information that Russian agents were connected to two explosions of ammunition warehouses in 2014, despite Prague’s intelligence service pointing the finger at Moscow, the country’s president said on Sunday. Speaking to CNN Prima NEWS, Milos Zeman directly contradicted statements put out by his …
Read More »Putin offers Ukrainian ex-president political asylum after talks with Macron
Moscow is ready to offer political asylum to Ukraine’s former president Petro Poroshenko and others who face political persecution by Kiev, Vladimir Putin said in a joint press conference with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Monday. The Russian president noted that he’d first floated an offer of asylum to …
Read More »Putin offers Ukrainian president political asylum after talks with Macron
Moscow is ready to offer political asylum to Ukraine’s former president Petro Poroshenko and others who face political persecution in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a joint press conference with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Monday. Putin noted that he’d first floated an offer of asylum to …
Read More »Turkey’s president gets Covid-19 after Ukraine visit
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan revealed that he had been infected with Covid-19 on Saturday afternoon. “Thank God, I have a mild illness, which I learned is an Omicron variant. I’m on duty. I will continue to work from home,” Erdogan announced on Twitter. The president visited Kiev on Thursday, where …
Read More »West ‘only makes things worse’ in row over Ukraine – Turkish president
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Western countries haven’t succeeded in trying to resolve the current crisis with Russia. He made his remarks on Friday after returning from a visit to Ukraine. “Unfortunately, the West until now has not made any contribution to resolving this issue. I can say …
Read More »US trying to prevent Brazilian president visiting Russia – media
The US has been putting pressure on Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to cancel his upcoming trip to Moscow in an attempt to isolate Russian President Vladimir Putin on the world stage, amid escalating tensions on the border with Ukraine. That’s according to Brazilian broadsheet Folha de São Paulo, citing sources …
Read More »Croatian president calls PM ‘Ukrainian agent’
Croatian President Zoran Milanovic accused his Prime Minister Andrey Plenkovic of behaving like a “Ukrainian agent” on Friday, two days after the latter apologized to Kiev over the head-of-state’s comments on NATO deployments. In a televised address on Tuesday, Milanovic said Zagreb would withhold its troops from Eastern European NATO contingents …
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