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Turkey fumes as Disney axes founding father series after Armenian outcry

admin August 1, 2023 0 Comment

Disney’s decision not to air a high-profile series dramatizing the life of Turkey’s founding father has sparked uproar, with top Turkish officials accusing the American network of bowing to pressure from Armenian groups. Turkish...

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Rishi Sunak could get mobbed (and bag a trade deal) when he heads to India

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Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — Rishi Sunak might struggle to set pulses racing at home. But Downing Street hopes for a different story when the U.K....

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Wagner forces are trying to ‘destabilize’ NATO, Polish PM says

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Russia’s Wagner Group might carry out “sabotage actions” and their threat should not be underestimated, said Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Thursday, warning that the mercenary group’s provocations are an attempt to destabilize NATO....

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Zelenskyy fires Ukraine’s ambassador to the UK

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KYIV – Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired Vadym Prystaiko as Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, after the envoy criticized the Ukrainian president in public. Zelenskyy’s decree, announcing the dismissal of the ambassador, does not give...

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Taiwan seeks Europe’s help to protect digital infrastructure against Chinese threat

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Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Taiwan wants to avoid going totally offline if its communications infrastructure is damaged — and it’s asking Europe for help. Taiwanese ministers visited...

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007 things the chief of MI6 told POLITICO

admin July 13, 2023 0 Comment

On the 55th anniversary of the Prague Spring, the head of Britain’s secret intelligence service sat down with POLITICO’s Anne McElvoy — a journalist with deep experience reporting from behind the Iron Curtain —...

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MI6 door ‘always open’ to Russian defectors, says UK spy chief Richard Moore

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The U.K.’s Secret Intelligence Service is “always open” to recruiting Russians unhappy with Vladimir Putin’s regime, the spy agency’s chief said Wednesday. In a rare speech in Prague, MI6 boss Richard Moore said Russians...

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Wagner troops won’t go back to fight in Ukraine, Prigozhin says

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Troops from Russia’s Wagner paramilitary group, who are relocating to Belarus following last month’s aborted mutiny, will not go back to fight in Ukraine and will stay in Belarus to train local troops, their...

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Scoop! Why Ben from Ben & Jerry’s blames America for war in Ukraine

admin July 13, 2023 0 Comment

Ben Cohen wasn’t talking about ice cream. He was talking about American militarism. At 72, the co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream is bald and bespectacled. He looks fit, cherubic even, but when...

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Zelenskyy puts brave face on lackluster NATO membership signal

admin July 12, 2023 0 Comment

VILNIUS — NATO didn’t give Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy what he was looking for, but on Wednesday he toned down his public anger over the alliance’s cautious stance on Kyiv’s membership bid. “Nobody is...