Month: February 2023
AU-China relations
Xi pledged that he stands ready to work with leaders of African countries to build a high-level China-Africa community with a shared future. Since the launching of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation . China’s multilateralism in Africa has long history. One needs to recall the Afro-Asian solidarity of the 1950s-1960s, particularly the Bandung Conference in
Iran to announce countermeasures against European Union sanctions
EU sanctions 32 Iranian people, two entities for alleged human rights violations, The EU Council said it had agreed to slap restrictive measures on an additional 32 Iranian people and two organizations as part of a fifth wave of sanctions in response to what the council called Tehran’s crackdown on the recent unrest. TEHRAN- In
The $69bn Microsoft Activision deal
Nvidia and Microsoft have announced a partnership which would enable both Xbox PC games and Activision Blizzard titles to become available via Nvidia’s cloud-streaming platform GeForce Now. The tech firm has to convince regulators around the world that the deal – the largest in gaming history – would not harm its competitors. Microsoft has defended
Italy: no jets for Kyiv
Italy’s far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni arrived in Ukraine on Tuesday morning as the latest Western ally to meet with President Zelenskyy and discuss military aid. Following talks with Ukraine’s president, Meloni said that supplying Ukraine with fighter jets was “not on the table.” Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said that Rome could instead provide
Russia’s most advanced hypersonic missiles recovered by Ukrainian soldiers
The Vympel R-37 hypersonic missile and its variants are some of the Russian Air Force’s most devastating modern weapons. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have recovered the intact wreckage of a rare Russian hypersonic air-to-air missile that has been used against Ukrainian jets since the beginning of the war. The R-37M is the most long-range
Germany has used €100 billion to support the war in Ukraine
German government interventions and a mild European winter have cushioned the blow of the war and its consequences, but Europe’s largest economy is likely heading for a recession. The war in Ukraine and the growing energy prices have cost the German economy about 2.5% of its GDP. While the impact milder than expected, the country
Russian Center for Culture and Science in Bucharest suspended
The Russian Center for Culture and Science in Bucharest was established based on the agreement between the governments of Romania and Russia regarding the opening and operating conditions of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Moscow and the Russian Center for Culture and Science in Bucharest, signed in Moscow on July 9, 2013.Romanian authorities decided to
The implementation of Iran, China industrial agreements
During President Raisi’s visit to China, Tehran, and Beijing signed a number of bilateral cooperation documents in the fields of agriculture, trade, tourism, environmental protection, health, disaster relief, culture, and sports. Head of Iran’s Trade Promotion Organization (TPO) has said that the agreements reached between Iran and China during President Ebrahim Raisi’s visit to Beijing,
Iran and Taliban to tackle drug narcotics together
Since the establishment of the Taliban government, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been pursuing the issue of combating drugs and preventing the transfer of narcotics to the borders of Iran. The 20-year performance of Western countries in Afghanistan had no results except for increasing production, and these countries must be responsible for their performance.
The U.S.-imposed “proxy war” on Europe
Western Europe is not accustomed to participating in military operations, and as a result, military spending has decreased over the past several decades of peace, making it less able to provide Ukraine with the necessary military hardware. However, the United States is “the main supporter of Ukraine with weapons and money,” making the conflict a