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Nicolai Patrushev is one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest advisers and wields considerable influence on government policy as the head of the powerful Security Council of Russia. The co…
The attacks came amid denials by Russian President Vladimir Putin that the global food shortage was brought on by the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
The New Indian Express
The protest in the Arab world has also quickly snowballed, with shops pulling Indian goods off their shelves.
Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East
The Palestinian Authority has refrained from implementing the decision of the PLO to freeze its recognition of Israel ahead of US President Joe Biden’s visit to the region.
WTO has lost the trust of the people – all governments must keep agricultural matters out of free trade agreements.
Human rights advocates from around the world have written a letter to U.S. lawmakers in defense of digital assets.
www.bbc.com
Decades ago, researchers set a goal to ensure famine never again takes the world by surprise. Despite huge successes, immense untapped potential remains in their forecasting tools.
NBC News
European Union leaders agreed Monday to embargo most Russian oil imports into the bloc by year-end as part of new sanctions on Moscow worked out at a summit
Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East
Kobani, Manbij and Tel Rifaat stand out as the main targets in a prospective new Turkish operation in northern Syria, but Erdogan might narrow his objectives to avoid tensions with the United States.
The Strategist
Now that we have entered a new period of geopolitical conflict, protectionism and regionalism, one wonders whether the cosmopolitan, globalised world of Davos is gone forever. Returning after a two-year pandemic-induced hiatus, this year’s World ...
NBC News
Russia's war has crippled Ukraine's farmers, making it difficult to export grain that is crucial to global supplies. The West accuses Putin of weaponizing food to help fuel a crisis.
www.abc.net.au
Finland plans to join NATO, but beneath the surface of the famously neutral nation is a country scarred by painful memories of war, and a fear of history repeating itself.
Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East
The Turkish president announces plans for another invasion of Syria, while digging in on rejecting admitting Sweden and Finland to NATO.
AP NEWS
KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (AP) — Moscow-backed separatists pounded eastern Ukraine’s industrial Donbas region Friday, claiming the capture of a railway hub as concerns grew that besieged cities in the region would undergo the same horrors experienced by the people of Mariupol in the weeks leading up to the port's capture.
Newsroom
New Zealand and Australia have belatedly hit back at the Chinese foreign minister's sudden and rapid blitz of the Pacific.
werewolf.co.nz
May 27, 2022 2 - Second Front Page, Articles, Columns, Gordon Campbell 0
A country has to be sick if it values its guns more than it values its children’s lives.
Russian attacks destroy or damage 47 civilian sites, as Moscow threatens to shut off last main civilian escape route.
www.abc.net.au
China will seek a region-wide deal with almost a dozen Pacific islands, covering policing, security and data communications cooperation.
AP NEWS
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — China wants 10 small Pacific nations to endorse a sweeping agreement covering everything from security to fisheries in what one leader warns is a “game-changing” bid by Beijing to wrest control of the region.
Newsroom
The Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi arrives in the Pacific today to sign deals and hold talks with the leaders of 11 island states, including NZ realm nations Niue and Cook Islands. It's described as a trip of unprecedented scope and ambition.
www.ips-journal.eu
While the war in Ukraine brutally illustrates the costs of conventional warfare, non-military means are gaining a strategic role in conflicts
Asia Times
The United States’ approach to India since the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis has reignited India’s historical grievances toward Washington. But outreach by other major powers, such as Russia and C…
the Guardian
Cluster bombs, fléchettes and unguided missiles on residential areas: as prosecutors investigate alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine, our reporters reveal the evidence they discovered on the ground
France 24
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