President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a meeting with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Ukraine Kuninori Matsuda before the end of his diplomatic mission. “I would like to thank you for building strong relations between our two nations, countries and leaders. This is very important. Never before have our states had such close ties,” […]
Former PM urges his own center-left party to put the national interest first. Outgoing EU economy commissioner and Italian socialist Paolo Gentiloni put party allegiance aside and threw his weight behind political rival Raffaele Fitto in an interview with POLITICO on Tuesday. The Italian right-winger is in line to become executive vice president of the
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The American UN ambassador, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, is a rare exception among Security Council members in refraining from criticizing Israel’s decision. Instead, she calls on the council to condemn Iran and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Iran has launched an unprecedented attack against Israel, firing a barrage of missiles at the country in the latest escalation amid weeks
The United States warned Iran at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday against targeting it or Israel as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the “deadly cycle of tit-for-tat violence must stop” in the Middle East. “Time is running out,” he told the council. The 15-member council met after Israel killed the leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah and began a ground assault
A TikTok star known to his followers as Mr Prada has been arrested in Texas following the gruesome murder of a therapist some 400 miles away in Louisiana. Terryon Ishmael Thomas was wanted on charges of aggravated criminal damage to property, resisting an officer, and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle following the death of William Nicholas Abraham, 69. The
The orders issued by the administration division of Bangladesh’s foreign ministry have not gone down well within the country’s foreign service. Bangladesh’s interim government issued orders this week recalling envoys to key capitals and world bodies, including the high commissioner to India, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. The orders issued by the
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Israel said eight of its soldiers were killed in combat in south Lebanon as its forces thrust into its northern neighbour in a campaign against the Hezbollah armed group. The losses were the deadliest suffered by the Israeli military on the Lebanon front in the past year of border-area clashes between Israel and its Iranian-backed
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Russia will swap chickpeas for Pakistani mandarin oranges under a new barter system launched in response to payment woes caused by international sanctions in place over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The Biden administration’s secondary sanctions targeting finance and trade flows that could aid Russia’s war efforts have spooked foreign lenders. The threat of sanctions has
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President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has informed African Chief Justices that it’s easier to administer justice if a country is prosperous. “Right from our student days, in our movement, we always advised the African intelligentsia [the academicians, technocrats, the Judiciary and lawyers] to always have an organic way of looking at issues. If the economy of
Brazil’s economy is experiencing a period of robust growth, but this success is accompanied by a series of challenges, mostly high borrowing costs which continue denting consumption among many Brazilians. The country’s central bank, Banco Central do Brasil (BCB), raised its main interest rate benchmark, the Selic, to 10.75% in September, bucking the trend of
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