Month: February 2023
Serbians protest against Kosovo plan
Hundreds of Serbian nationalists on Wednesday demonstrated against a Western plan to normalize ties with breakaway Kosovo. Protesters have demanded that President Aleksandar Vucic pull out of negotiations with Kosovo. Vucic called the protesters “anti-Serbian” and said they were funded by a foreign country. Serbia has not heeded Western calls to formally impose sanctions on
Canada, Mexico, US automatically qualify for WC 2026
FIFA Confirms Mexico, Canada, U.S. Automatically Qualify For 2026 World Cup. FIFA historically has given host nations the right to play in the World Cup without going through the usual qualification tournaments, though this is the first time FIFA had to set aside three host bids. The three countries won the right to host the
Ending Western hegemony
Russia Claims NATO Becoming More Involved In Ukraine Conflict, Russia’s upcoming new foreign policy concept will focus on terminating the West’s monopoly in international affairs, the country’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday. Washington and its allies are waging “an all-out hybrid war against Russia that has been prepared for many years,” Lavrov said.
China sanctions Lockheed Martin
China imposed trade and investment sanctions on Lockheed Martin and a unit of Raytheon on Thursday, saying the step was because of them supplying weapons to Taiwan. The companies will be banned from importing goods into China and investing in China. Their senior management personnel would not be permitted entry to China. Senior management personnel
Cyber attack on German airport websites
Several German airports had their websites disrupted on Thursday, with experts investigating a possible online attack. Among the airports affected were Düsseldorf, Nüremberg, Erfurt-Weimar and Dortmund. The websites were either not reachable or flagged up failure messages. Experts are investigating after several German airports reported website failures. The websites of German airports were among multiple
Fake AI social accounts
Sophisticated language processing systems like ChatGPT could impact so-called influence operations on social media. ChatGPT is based an an advanced language processing technology, developed by OpenAI. The artificial intelligence (AI) was trained using text databases from the internet, including books, magazines and Wikipedia entries. In all 300 billion words were fed into the system. Academics,
Crimes Against Humanity’ Over Chagos Islands
The release of the report comes as the British government is attempting to negotiate a settlement with Mauritius over the future of the islands after losing two court cases in international tribunals over the legality of their occupation. Ahuman rights group has accused the British government of lying, and the British and American governments of
Romania has joins in the initiative of banning Russia from 2024 world Olympics
Last month, the International Olympic Committee announced that athletes from Russia and Belarus could be allowed to earn their spots at the Olympic Games through the Asian qualifiers and participate as neutral athletes without national flags and anthems. This idea is strongly contested by Ukraine, as well as other countries such as Poland and the
China praises ‘solidarity’ with Iran
Raisi’s three-day visit to China comes as both countries have been condemned and sanctioned by the West on various issues. Chinese leader Xi Jinping noted the decades of cooperation between the two countries. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s visit to China comes amid tensions between both countries and Western governments. The meeting in Beijing comes as
Moscow denies claim of destabilizing Moldova
In a press briefing on Monday, Moldovan President Maia Sandu claimed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s statements about “Russia’s plans to destabilize the country” were allegedly confirmed by the country’s institutions. Russia does not pose a threat to Moldova’s national security, and has no intention of destabilizing the situation in the country, the Russian Foreign