Former Romanian presidential candidate Calin Georgescu has stated that he will be withdrawing from politics, following the victory of a pro-EU candidate in a presidential election rerun from which he was banned, earlier this month. Georgescu, a former UN official, ran as an independent in Romania’s November 2024 presidential election, …
Read More »Trump rival quits race
Former US President Donald Trump has become the presumptive Republican nominee in the 2024 election, after Nikki Haley suspended her campaign following the Super Tuesday primaries. Trump swept 14 out of 15 states that held primaries, with Haley only winning in Vermont. At the end of the day, Trump stood …
Read More »Victoria Nuland quits
US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland is poised to leave her post in the coming weeks, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced. The senior official, widely regarded as a foreign policy hawk, played a key role in the Western-backed coup in Ukraine in 2014. In December 2013, she visited Kiev …
Read More »Former Austrian FM quits Russian oil giant
Former Austrian foreign minister Karin Kneissl has become the latest prominent non-national figure to step down from the board of Russian state oil giant Rosneft. The company announced Kneissl’s resignation on Monday, saying it was thankful for the “joint work over the past 10 months that went on against the …
Read More »Ex-German chancellor quits Russian oil giant
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Matthias Warnig, the executive director of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, are stepping down from their positions on the board of Russian oil giant Rosneft, the company reported on Friday. The two directors said they cannot keep their positions, a statement from the company …
Read More »Conservative superstar psychologist quits Twitter
After criticizing the incentive structure of the social media site and accusing it of being “dangerously insane,” famed Canadian psychologist and public intellectual Jordan Peterson announced on Tuesday that he is leaving his Twitter account and its 2.7 million followers behind. He has also committed to writing an article on …
Read More »Porn platform quits Russia over sanctions
OnlyFans, a subscription-based video platform commonly associated with pornographic content, stopped serving accounts belonging to Russian content creators, the company said in a statement on Thursday. The decision to “temporarily pause” accounts was made as OnlyFans could “no longer properly serve the Russian creator community due to a further tightening …
Read More »Ex-MSNBC analyst quits to fight against Russians
Malcolm Nance, a former MSNBC analyst who frequently claims his political adversaries are either Kremlin collaborators or white supremacists, has left the network to join the foreign volunteers fighting against Russian forces in Ukraine. “The more I saw of the war going on, the more I thought, I’m done talking,” …
Read More »Chinese energy major quits West – report
China’s state-owned oil and gas corporation China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) is reportedly preparing to exit from the US, UK and Canada due to mounting concerns about sanctions, regulations and rising costs. Relations between China and Western countries have soured over the past several years. Beijing’s ties with Washington …
Read More »Asian nation’s government quits amid economic crisis
Following the resignation of Sri Lanka’s Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal on Monday, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa dropped his brother, Basil Rajapaksa, as finance minister in an attempt to reshape the country’s government, amid massive protests over a deteriorating economic crisis. The Rajapaksa’s political clan has been accused of nepotism …
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