Ahead of Biden’s Middle East trip, alliances old and new are reshaping the region. As Turkey and Saudi Arabia draw closer, Israel is strengthening ties in the Gulf region and working on a regional “defense alliance” against Iran. by Seyed Alireza Mousavi After stops in Cairo and Amman, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman […]
For the first time in the history of the more conservatively governed Colombia, a leftist moves into the presidential palace. Former guerrilla Gustavo Petro has won the presidential election. However, the change of power in Bogotá could pose a problem for Germany’s energy plans. Gustavo Petro won the presidential elections in Colombia on Sunday with […]
The Minsk II agreement signed by Ukraine under President Petro Poroshenko should give the country time to build a stronger military, the oligarch said. Thus, the ex-president admitted that Kyiv never intended to implement the agreement. Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has admitted that the 2015 ceasefire in Donbass, which he negotiated as Ukraine’s president […]
16 June 2022 2:13 p.m The UN refugee agency UNHCR spoke in Geneva of a “dramatic milestone”. For the first time, more than 100 million people are fleeing the world. If ongoing conflicts are not resolved, the “terrible trend” could continue. Source: AFP © John MacDougall More than 100 million people are currently fleeing the […]
An analysis by Timofei Bordatschew If the growing conflict in and around Ukraine does not lead to irreparable consequences on a global scale in the near future, the most important result will be a fundamental demarcation between Russia and the Western-oriented states of Europe. This will make it impossible to maintain even small neutral zones […]
9 June 2022 10:33 am The “direct line”, a live question and answer session with the Russian President, will not take place in June this year as usual. The event will be postponed, the new date has not yet been set, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Source: Sputnik © Alexei Malgavko The “direct line”, a […]
Belarus has overtaken Germany in its exports to Russia for the first time, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. Germany’s gross domestic product is almost 60 times higher than that of Belarus. Economic relations between Russia and its European partners have almost come to an end in many areas, and Belarus is benefiting from this. In April, […]
Six months after leaving the Chancellery and a good three months after the Russian intervention in Ukraine, ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel has now answered questions from a loyal journalist at Spiegel and the Berliner Zeitung. There was something illuminating between the lines. An analysis by Anton Gentzen Angela Merkel’s first public appearance since the quite historic […]
A comment by Robert Bridge On June 11, 1999, then-President Bill Clinton, the adulterous Democrat who questioned the American public whether oral sex was real sex, declared June “Gay and Lesbian Pride Month”. And it’s been nothing short of a jaunt ever since. The celebration month has since developed some glorious wings in the spirit […]