Minister Bruno Le Maire was speaking at a green finance summit in Paris when activists from the climate campaign group entered the venue to demand that the French government unveil stricter measures to tackle climate change, including ending investments in fossil fuels. Disrupting the speech, the activists unveiled a banner …
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The summit was hotly anticipated as Russia and Turkey appeared at odds over the current situation in Syria’s Idlib province, and following Erdogan’s speech at last week’s UN General Assembly calling Crimea a part of Ukraine “whose annexation we do not recognize.” Its results, however, remain veiled in mystery as …
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The group of four nations is, in all but name, a strategic anti-China pact set up to counter Beijing’s influence over the region, and the foundation stone of the so-called “Indo-Pacific strategy”. That strategy includes not only military co-operation, but also an array of joint initiatives on investment, infrastructure, technology …
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The virtual summit is being timed with the United Nations General Assembly, with the summit being planned for September 22, the day after the end of the UN conference. While the specifics of the talk are not yet known, White House officials announced on Friday that the president will be …
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What might come out of the head-to-head is anyone’s guess, but it is clear that regional affairs are firmly on the agenda, with the chancellor set to fly to Kiev on her way back to Berlin from Moscow. The farewell tour of Eastern Europe comes as Merkel prepares to stand …
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At a meeting of the bloc’s heads of state in Brussels on Thursday, opinion was divided about how such talks would be organized, and even whether they should go ahead at all. French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel led the charge in favor of opening up bilateral …
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Before taking a regular flight with Russian carrier Aeroflot, Antonov confessed that he was making the journey over the Atlantic in “an optimistic mood.” He said that he was expecting constructive cooperation with the US authorities in order to build an “equal pragmatic bilateral relationship.” The Russian ambassador was called …
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“We didn’t get anything. We gave a very big stage to Russia, and we got nothing,” Trump told Fox’s Sean Hannity on Wednesday night, going on to attack Biden for dropping sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, which is being built by Russia and will transport natural gas …
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Parsing Biden’s words is a thankless task, because whatever he actually says, his White House handlers and the compliant media will quickly ‘clarify’ if it clashes with their narrative. With that caveat in mind, some of his remarks at Wednesday’s solo press conference in Geneva, following the meeting with Russian …
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Biden and Putin met in Switzerland on Wednesday to discuss matters including foreign policy, climate change, the Covid-19 pandemic, and cyber security, during a summit both men hope will thaw the chilly relationship between the two countries. Not everyone wants that relationship thawed, however. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, …
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