Politics

Hezbollah Confirms Death Of Top Military Official In Israeli Airstrike

Lebanese health authorities reported at least 14 people killed and dozens more wounded in the attack in Beirut.

Israel launched a rare airstrike ...

21 September, 2024
What Russia Wants in the Middle East

Moscow Seeks to Exploit Instability but Avoid Escalation

Since Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, Russia has enjoyed watching the deteriorating ...

22 July, 2024
What Biden’s Exit Means for American Foreign Policy

A Conversation With Timothy Naftali

On July 21, following weeks of intense speculation, U.S. President Joe Biden announced that he would not run ...

22 July, 2024
TikTok tightens control over political content ahead of US midterm elections

TikTok announced on Wednesday, August 17, measures prohibiting video producers from posting paid political messages in the app ahead of the midterm ...

17 August, 2022
After the incident at the Vincennes Castle, the French Ministry of Defense allowed Russians access to tourist sites

The incident will not happen again. After denying access at the end of July to two Russian citizens wishing to visit Vincennes Castle (Val-de-Marne), ...

9 August, 2022
«Justice has prevailed»: Biden announced the elimination of the leader of «Al-Qaeda»

The US President announced on Monday, August 1, that he had carried out a deadly airstrike on the leader of the terrorist group «Al-Qaeda» Ayamn ...

2 August, 2022
China announced a program of accelerated training of fighter pilots

The first Air Force cadets trained on the J-10, a Chinese fighter-bomber, have just received combat training in three years instead of six, according ...

25 July, 2022
The US House of Representatives voted to protect same-sex marriage

The US House of Representatives voted on Tuesday, July 19, for the law on the protection of same-sex marriage throughout the United States, fearing ...

20 July, 2022
Saudi Arabia: Mohammed Bin Salman, the revenge of a criminal

The quarantine lasted for almost four years, from autumn 2018 to summer 2022. For most of this period, major Western leaders kept their distance from ...

15 July, 2022
The Scottish government wants to hold an «advisory» independence referendum

Despite the failure of previous consultations in 2014 and the refusal of the British government to authorize this vote, Scottish Prime Minister ...

28 June, 2022
Dmitry Muratov’s Nobel Peace Prize medal sold at auction for 98 million euros

About 103.5 million dollars (98.2 million euros). This is a record amount paid by the buyer on Monday, June 20, for Dmitry Muratov's 2021 Nobel Peace ...

21 June, 2022
London has approved the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States

American justice wants to try the founder of WikiLeaks for distributing more than 700,000 secret documents about American military and diplomatic ...

17 June, 2022
A new massacre attributed to the Islamic State has occurred in Burkina Faso

At least fifty civilians were killed in a town in the northeast, in the border area with Mali and Niger, at the epicenter of the jihadist threat.
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14 June, 2022
«Partygate»: Johnson refused to resign after tough Sue Gray report

Six months after the first revelations about parties in Downing Street during quarantine, British politicians are mired in excuses. The endless saga ...

25 May, 2022
Elizabeth Bourne confirms future index increase for government employees

The new Prime Minister of France confirms that civil servants will benefit from a general increase in the civil service index in 2022. Indeed, this ...

23 May, 2022
Russia has stopped natural gas supplies to Finland

Following Poland and Bulgaria, the Russian giant Gazprom has decided to stop supplying natural gas to Finland, which has just announced its intention ...

20 May, 2022
Two veterans of the KLA sentenced by the Special Court for Kosovo

On Wednesday morning, a Special Court sentenced two former veterans of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) «in the name of the people of Kosovo». Husni ...

19 May, 2022
Iran’s special services have arrested a scientist for undermining national security

Iran's security services have arrested a university researcher suspected of «committing acts that undermine national security». This was reported by ...

16 May, 2022
Sweden and Finland have become even closer to NATO membership

After Finland, Sweden, in turn, took a big step towards NATO membership, which is a direct consequence of Russian aggression against Ukraine. The ...

13 May, 2022
Switzerland has been accused of not seeking the assets of Russian oligarchs

Two months after the announcement of the European sanctions, Bern is suspected of bad faith. Because the seizures of assets of wealthy Russians in ...

11 May, 2022
The center-left criticized Canberra’s foreign policy towards China

The security agreement between Beijing and the Solomon Islands worries the Conservative majority, while the Labor opposition condemns «the most ...

28 April, 2022
Nicaragua withdraws from OAS and closes its offices in Managua

On Monday, April 25, Nicaragua left the Organization of American States, which will soon close its offices in Managua. This was reported by the press ...

25 April, 2022
Obama urged to control social networks to protect democracy

On Thursday, April 21, the 44th President of the United States Barack Obama noted the need to regulate social networks due to improper informing ...

22 April, 2022
The European energy sector will return to fossil sources

On Thursday, April 21, power engineers announced a great temptation to deviate from the course of preserving the environment and return again to the ...

21 April, 2022
Bloomberg ad touting relationship with Obama ‘jarring,’ former White House aides say

A new Michael Bloomberg campaign ad touts his ties with former President Barack Obama — but several former Obama aides have downplayed how closely ...

19 February, 2020
Mike Bloomberg referred to trans women as ‘some guy in a dress’

A newly unearthed video shows 2020 presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg referring to transgender women for a second time as “some guy in a dress.”
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19 February, 2020
Trump claims to know identity of ‘Anonymous’ author of White House tell-all

President Trump claimed on Tuesday to know the identity of the anonymous White House insider who penned a blistering tell-all about the ...

19 February, 2020
President Trump gave ‘clear direction’ to withhold Ukraine aid: report

President Trump gave “clear direction” to federal officials to withhold a nine-figure military aid package from Ukraine after asking that nation’s ...

3 January, 2020