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Europe Arming Ukraine and Itself
At the height of Ukraine’s summer counter-offensive, it was using some 7,000 shells a day, significantly more than the Russians. This has reversed: since last month, while Ukrainian forces have been rationed to 2,000 shells a day, the Russians have been firing five times that number. Russia’s economy is nearly 14 times the size of
The American great economy
For the past two years it has bounced around at levels last seen during the global financial crisis of 2007-09. Even with an improvement in December, it is still 30% below its recent peak on the eve of the covid-19 crisis in early 2020.From an array of hard data, there is reason to think that
Donald Trump campaigns in Iowa
The former president won the state comfortably in the 2016 and 2020 general elections. Yet his current popularity makes it easy to forget that his first electoral foray in Iowa did not go well: despite leading in surveys ahead of the 2016 caucuses, he had an anaemic on-the-ground operation and finished second behind a better-organised
Maritime navigation in danger
China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, has called for an end to the attacks on civilian vessels in the Red Sea, though he did not mention the Iran-backed Houthi militia responsible for those attacks. Hezbollah leader says Houthis will continue to target ships in the Red Sea and US actions have endangered all shipping.Hezbollah, founded in
Lebanon fires at Israel
The deadly strike came on the 100th day of a conflict between Israel and Hamas that has killed nearly 24,000 Palestinians, devastated vast swaths of Gaza, driven around 85% of its 2.3 million residents from their homes and pushed a quarter of the population into starvation.Two civilians were killed in northern Israel on Sunday after
Ukraine-Russia peace talks
Ukraine presents peace formula to meeting of national security advisers at Davos. China needs to be involved in efforts to end the war between Ukraine and Russia, Switzerland’s co-chair of a meeting in Davos of top diplomats to prepare the ground for a peace plan said on Sunday. There is unlikely to be peace in
The Chinese Belt and Road Initiative in Asia
Ten years on after China’s leader, declared his intention to make a world-girdling web of infrastructure China’s gift to the planet, there is no missing the wave of Chinese money that has broken over the region, bringing giant earth-moving machines, Chinese construction crews, Chinese business folk and diplomats, and not a few criminal chancers. Many
Moscown Opinion on Taiwan being part of China after this year elections
The president-elect said it was a “victory for the community of democracies” around the world and that Taiwanese voters had successfully resisted efforts from “external forces” to influence the election a reference to Beijing’s efforts to have the DPP ousted. Moscow continues to consider Taiwan an integral part of China, a spokesperson for Russia’s foreign
Taiwan’s ruling party candidate wins for a third term
Lai Ching-te, the presidential candidate for Taiwan’s ruling party, has won a crucial election that will chart the trajectory of the island‘s democracy and relationship with China over the next four years. The Chinese government responded to his win by calling Taiwan “China’s Taiwan” and adding that their commitment to “reunification” remained “as firm as
Israel Ambasador to UN: “The UN should be sit on trial in Hague”
The U.S. has classified Hamas a foreign terrorist organization. Hamas’ sponsor, the Islamic Republic of Iran, has been designated by the U.S. State Department as the world’s worst international state sponsor of terrorism. South Africa’s use of the top United Nations court to charge Israel with genocide sparked an angry response Friday from the Jewish