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Indonesia: Members of the Group of 20 leading economies ended their summit Wednesday with a declaration of firm condemnation of the war in Ukraine and a warning that the conflict is making an already delicate world economy worse. The summit’s closing statement was noteworthy because world leaders managed to highlight a denunciation of the war […]
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Russia has threatened World War Three if its foe Ukraine is granted membership into NATO, a Russian Security Council official was quoted
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Post-World War II, Europe invested in regional cooperation, but now with Russian invasion of Ukraine, even pacifist countries like Germany have decided to increase their defence budget.
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Kharkiv: Ukrainian troops continued to pile unrelenting pressure on retreating Russian forces on Tuesday, seeking to hold on to their sudden momentum that has produced major territorial gains. Fresh yellow-and-blue flags fluttered from the tallest buildings left in partly destroyed towns around Ukraine‘s second city, Kharkiv, while Ukrainian soldiers inspected charred Russian tanks left along […]
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Liz Truss is very annoyed with the ‘ lack of depth’ of present British curricula, particularly the soft underbelly of the study of mathematics in Britain.
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Helsinki: In a leaked video, Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin is seen dancing and singing with friends at a private party. The 36-year-old leader poses for the camera. She sits on her knees, hands behind her head. She’s entangled in a group hug. She’s having a good time. Countless similar videos are shared daily on […]
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Kiev: Ukraine has become an associate member of the Multilateral Interoperability Program (MIP), which coordinates technological cooperation of the armies of NATO member states, Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov has said. “Ukraine has strong IT (Information Technology) potential and it is a worthy NATO ally. I am sure that we will bring our expertise to […]
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By Stefan Wolff Against a backdrop of unprecedented turmoil – the first major war in Europe in three decades, the highest inflation rates in decades and a rapidly worsening global food crisis – western leaders have met for two major summits. The G7 met in Germany and Nato leaders gathered in Madrid. The outcomes of […]
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By Dhananjay Tripathi In 2012, the European union (EU) was awarded the Nobel peace prize to acknowledge its contribution “to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe”. Indeed, regionalism played a vital role in the transformation of Europe after the end of World War (WW)-II. The European integration process brought […]
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Hyderabad: Two days before he ordered the invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin in his long-winded, unhinged and bizarre speech while expressing his grievances against the West for its eastward expansion of NATO allegedly threatening Russia’s security, dismissed Ukraine’s existence as a state, stating it was a fiction and created by Lenin in 1922. […]
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By Adrianus Harsawaskita If the ancient Greeks are to be believed, the rivalry between the current great powers, America and China, will lead to war. American political scientist, Graham Allison popularised the situation as ‘Thucydides’s Trap’. In a 2013 article for the New York Times, he lamented the “dynamic inherent when a rising power becomes […]
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By Siddiq Wahid The world is at an inflection point. The war in Ukraine shows no signs of abating, and the principals in the ‘new’ cold war, are asking other states to choose a side. The challenges for India are daunting. How can it contribute to world events in proportion to its demographic bulk, its […]
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By Stefan Wolff, Tatyana Malyarenko Russians gathered on May 9 for the annual Victory Day celebrations, a hugely symbolic commemoration of Nazism’s defeat in the second world war. Elsewhere in the world, there is general agreement that Russia’s military has so far failed to achieve the strategic territorial gains that would have allowed Vladimir Putin […]
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Washington: Days after the Joe Biden administration announced an additional USD 800 million in military assistance to Ukraine, Russia warns the United States of “unpredictable consequences” if the country continues to transfer weapons to Ukraine. Washington Post reviewed a diplomatic note that Russia sent the US this week and said that the note warned that […]
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By Pramod K Nayar Imagining a world without humans, a fictional character says: “It’s not the end of the world at all. It’s only the end of us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan’t be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.” This would […]
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A ray of hope finally appears on the horizon amid the dark clouds in the war-ravaged Ukraine. While there could still be many hurdles along the way, there is a certain sense of optimism surrounding a tentative, 15-point draft peace deal reportedly worked out by Russia and Ukraine. The plan involves a ceasefire and an […]
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By Amitabh Mattoo The war in Ukraine may reverse non-proliferation measures including the fragile détente between India and Pakistan. When the ‘father’ of the atomic bomb, scientist J Robert Oppenheimer, witnessed the first nuclear test in New Mexico in July 1945, he was reminded of Hinduism’s most important text, the Bhagvat Gita. “Now I am […]
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I reiterate that if you do not close our sky, it is only a matter of time before Russian missiles fall on your territory, on NATO territory, on the homes of NATO citizens.
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By Amitava Mukherjee While holding ‘Lenin and his associates’ responsible for the birth of Ukraine as a separate geographical identity, Vladimir Putin, the incumbent Russian President, has certainly failed to grasp the real message of history. Putin thinks that ‘Lenin and his associates did it in the sloppiest way in relation to Russia — by […]
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Washington: Russia will pay a severe price for the use of chemical weapons, US President Joe Biden said on Friday, stressing that Washington will not fight Moscow in Ukraine as a direct confrontation between NATO and Kremlin would trigger World War III. On February 24, Russian forces launched military operations in Ukraine, three days after […]
