Sat 04 February 2023: Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said late Friday his country is going through the EU membership and integration process but does not want to join NATO. Vucic’s remarks came on the second day of a special session of the Serbian Assembly where the Franco-German Plan, supported by the US and the EU, was comprehensively discussed […]
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Fri 03 February 2023: China’s foreign ministry has expressed regret over what it called a civilian balloon straying into United States airspace. In a statement on Friday, the ministry said the balloon suspected by the US of conducting surveillance was a civilian “airship” used for research, mainly for meteorological purposes. The statement said the airship […]
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Fri 03 February 2023: Russia’s monthly budget revenues from oil and gas fell in January to their lowest level since August 2020 under the impact of Western sanctions on Russian exports, finance ministry data shows. Monthly tax and customs revenue from energy sales was down 46 percent in the space of a year, according to […]
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Fri 03 February 2023: A bipartisan group of senators in the United States Congress has stated that Washington will not support the $20 billion sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey until Ankara ratifies Sweden and Finland’s NATO memberships. After Russian President Vladimir Putin launched’special military operations’ against Ukraine, which quickly escalated into a full-fledged […]
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Assault rifles and missiles seized by the French navy lay on the deck of a ship at an undisclosed location [US military’s Central Command via AP] Fri 03 February 2023: French naval forces in January seized thousands of assault rifles, machineguns and anti-tank missiles headed from Iran to Yemen, officials have told the Wall Street […]
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Fri 03 February 2023: Muslim-American legislator says her ‘voice will get louder and stronger’ after vote punishing her criticism of Israel. Washington, DC – United States Republicans have removed progressive Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee over her past criticism of Israel, drawing rebuke and accusations of bigotry from Democrats. In a 218-211 vote along […]
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Thu 02 February 2023: Lord Jo Johnson, the younger sibling of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has resigned as a non-executive director of a UK-based investment company associated with the now-withdrawn Adani Enterprises Follow-on Public Offer (FPO). Jo Johnson, Boris Johnson’s brother, confirmed to Financial Times that he stepped down on February 1. In […]
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Thu 02 February 2023: Three out of four registered voters consider police violence against the public to be a serious problem in the aftermath of the death of Tyre Nichols after he was beaten by police officers, according to a new poll. A POLITICO-Morning Consult poll released Wednesday showed 44 percent of respondents said police violence is […]
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Thu 02 February 2023: The value of Gautam Adani’s conglomerate has lost $100 billion due to the stock market collapse, and shares of his companies continued to decline on Thursday. This was despite the Indian billionaire’s efforts to calm his anxious investors, CNN reported. “For me, the interest of my investors is paramount and everything […]
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Thu 02 February 2023: Canada’s parliament on Wednesday unanimously passed a motion to take in 10,000 Uyghur refugees who fled China but are now facing pressure to return. The move builds on a February 2021 move by Canadian lawmakers to label Beijing’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in its northwestern Xinjiang territory as […]
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