Source link The Wall Street Journal has quoted the academic as explaining that Washington’s commitment to Israel’s defense has caused envy in Kiev There is growing disenchantment with the US among Ukrainians over its perceived lack of commitment to their defense, the Wall Street Journal has reported, citing the director of the Center for International […]
Source link Berlin remains highly dependent on Beijing for various products and raw materials, data shows It would take decades for German businesses to end their reliance on imports from China, the chief financial officer of industrial giant Siemens told the Financial Times on Sunday. Last year Berlin drew up a strategy that policymakers called […]
Source link Russia does not station heavy weapons at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi told reporters on Monday. Moscow and Kiev have been accusing each other of shelling Europe’s largest nuclear plant, which sits close to the front line. Kiev and its Western backers have also […]
Source link Yury Borisov acknowledged that the technical issues encountered during the launch frayed many nerves The launch of Russia’s new heavy-lift rocket Angara-A5 was a major success despite technical issues that prompted several delays, Yury Borisov, the chief of national space agency Roscosmos, has said. The rocket blasted off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in […]
Source link Geopolitical tensions and political polarization at home threaten “America’s global leadership role,” Jamie Dimon has warned The US is facing grave risks in the wake of rising global geopolitical tensions and the nation’s domestic political polarization, Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase chief executive, has warned. In an annual shareholder letter on Monday the CEO […]
Source link Pension savings will run out because people are living longer, Larry Fink has warned Larry Fink, the head of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management firm, has warned that demographics will inevitably strain pension systems and that longer lives are projected to force workers to retire later. In his annual letter to chief […]
Source link The European bloc will double its production of artillery shells by the end of 2024, Charles Michel said The EU must reimagine its military strategy and drastically ramp up its defense production in order to help Ukraine in its ongoing conflict with Russia, European Council President Charles Michel said on Monday. He made […]
Source link Dozens of children rescued from the conflict zone have been reunited with their families Some Ukrainian children that were relocated to Russia from the conflict zone prefer to stay there instead of coming back to their own country, Alexander Pavlichenko, head of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union for Human Rights, said on Tuesday. According […]
Source link Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said Paris supports the candidacy of outgoing Dutch leader Mark Rutte France would like to see outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte at the helm of NATO, French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has stated. The military bloc’s current secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg, is expected to leave office on October 1 […]
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Source link Germany needs a stronger leader, as Chancellor Olaf Scholz is too slow and timid, former Danish PM and NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said. He also urged the US-led bloc to admit Kiev immediately. Rasmussen was the prime minister of Denmark from 2001 to 2009, and after that the head of NATO […]
Source link The American espionage network is even larger than what the US press describes, Moscow believes The CIA has “many” bases in Ukraine, the head of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Aleksandr Bortnikov told Russian television on Thursday, when asked about a New York Times report on the spy network. The US newspaper […]
Source link A Japanese national sought to smuggle uranium and plutonium from Myanmar, the investigators said US federal prosecutors on Wednesday unsealed an indictment against Takeshi Ebisawa, alleging he was a leader of a Japanese organized crime syndicate who offered to sell weapons-grade nuclear materials to Iran. Ebisawa, 60, was already charged with drug and […]
Source link Khabib Nurmagomedov was congratulated by the Russian leader moments after a crucial title win, UFC chief Dana White says Khabib Nurmagomedov, one of Russia’s top combat sports athletes in history, received a telephone call – and some lavish gifts – from his country’s president Vladimir Putin in the moments after his victory over […]
Source link Ursula von der Leyen is too hawkish on Russia for the job, Olaf Scholz reportedly told the White House German Chancellor Olaf Scholz intervened last year to prevent European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen from becoming NATO’s next secretary general, Germany’s Die Welt newspaper has said. Scholz reportedly felt that von der […]