Politics

Over the weekend, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan engaged in “frank” discussions with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Malta. These talks come as the world’s two largest economies strive to mend strained relations related to trade and the militarization of the Pacific region. During the two days of talks on Saturday and Sunday, […]

In a rare meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Western nations have voiced concerns over the possibility of an impending arms deal. Both the United States and the United Kingdom have raised alarm bells, suspecting that Kim could potentially supply weapons and ammunition to Russia, which has depleted […]

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has said Ukraine made a major error by summoning Warsaw’s envoy over remarks from a high-level presidential staffer, who suggested Kiev should be more grateful for the vast sums of foreign aid it has received. Responding in a tweet on Tuesday, Morawiecki said the decision to summon the Polish ambassador […]

In sending Kiev cluster bombs, the US government is “dragging us further toward World War Three,” former US president Donald Trump warned on Tuesday. President Joe Biden “should be trying to end the war and stop the horrific death and destruction being caused by an incompetent administration,” Trump said in a statement posted on his […]

As mercenary troops bore down on Moscow on June 24, 2023, it likely wasn’t only Russian President Vladimir Putin and his governing elite in Russia who were looking on with concern. Over in China, too, there may have been some concerned faces. Throughout the war in Ukraine, Beijing has walked a balancing act of sorts […]

The Russian president is facing the most serious threat to his hold on power in all the 23 years he’s run the nuclear state. And it is staggering to behold the veneer of total control he has maintained all that time – the ultimate selling point of his autocracy – crumble overnight. It was both […]

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the chief of private military company (PMC) Wagner, has refused to surrender following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s address describing his actions as a betrayal. Prigozhin said on Telegram that the president is “deeply mistaken.” “Regarding the ‘betrayal of the motherland,’ the president is deeply mistaken. We are patriots of our Motherland, we fought […]

The Russian Defense Ministry has accused PMC Wagner head Evgeny Prigozhin of spreading falsehoods, after a video made the rounds on social media on Friday purporting to show a rocket strike on one of the company’s bases from Russian territory. “All messages and video distributed on social networks on behalf of [Evgeny] Prigozhin about the […]

Romanian prosecutors have sent divisive internet personality Andrew Tate, his brother Tristan and two other suspects to trial on charges of human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. The anti-organised crime prosecution’s unit (DIICOT) on Tuesday “ordered the indictment” of the four defendants for offences, including “setting up an organised […]

The US does not see any signs that Russia is gearing up to use its nuclear arsenal, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said. His statement came after Moscow revealed that it had deployed the first tactical nuclear warheads to neighboring Belarus. “We have no reason to adjust our own nuclear posture,” Blinken told reporters […]