Supplying Ukraine with “more effective” weaponry amid the ongoing conflict with Russia is essential to avoid the supposed looming “global famine,” German Agriculture Minister Cem Ozdemir has said. The official made the remarks in an interview published Sunday by the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper. “Russia’s war against Ukraine is increasingly …
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Ukraine and Scotland will meet in their rescheduled World Cup qualifying playoff semifinal on June 1, UEFA has confirmed, with the winners facing Wales four days later. The initial match between Ukraine and Scotland had been scheduled for March 24 but was postponed due to the conflict with Russia. There …
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CPI data around the world and political crises just this week show how the economic war against Russia is harming the poorest and destabilizing the world. Yesterday, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index (CPI) report for March, which is a key inflation metric, showed that year-on-year inflation rose …
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The World Bank’s President David Malpass said on Tuesday the lender is preparing a $1.5 billion support package for war-torn Ukraine. The loan will include a $1-billion payment from the development lender’s fund for the poorest countries. According to Malpass, who was speaking in Warsaw, the package was enabled by …
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Twitter investor, Marc Rasella, has accused the SpaceX founder and the world’s richest man, Elon Musk of making him lose money through “misleading statements” about his purchase of a large stake in Twitter on Tuesday. The plaintiff, who seeks class action status for his case on behalf of investors who …
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Former Liverpool and Scotland star Kenny Dalglish says that Ukraine should be handed automatic entry to the 2026 World Cup which is set to take place in the US, Canada and Mexico, if they are unable to fulfil their current fixture schedule. Ukraine had been due to play Scotland on March …
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North Korea marked ten years of Kim Jong Un’s rule, on Monday, with top officials praising the 38-year-old leader’s record. The country has been governed by three generations of the Kim family since 1948, and is considered to be the world’s most isolated state. The current premier’s grandfather Kim Il-sung …
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Russia’s military action in Ukraine is meant to put an end to the US-dominated world order, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has explained. Washington has been seeking supremacy by imposing ad-hoc rules and violating international law, he claimed, in an interview aired by Russian television on Monday. He was referring …
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The World Bank has taken measure of the economic devastation caused by the Russia-Ukraine conflict, predicting double-digit GDP declines in the two countries and recessions in neighboring Belarus and Moldova. Ukraine will be hardest hit, with its economy shrinking by 45.1% in 2022, the UN-affiliated bank said on Sunday in …
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Sanctions that the western nations have been continuously imposing against Russia since the start of its military operation in Ukraine only further erode the existing system of international institutions and the authority of the UN, Russia’s former president, Dmitry Medvedev, has said in a Telegram post on Friday. Initially, the word …
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