The UK’s seemingly endless supply of fresh fruit and vegetables may be heading for a difficult test. A powerful El Niño climate pattern developing in the tropical Pacific is threatening to disrupt
China’s sweeping anti-corruption campaign is exposing a significant change in the politics of ethnic minority regions, as several senior officials from non-Han communities have come under investigation this year. The scrutiny began
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What do we make of it? A good result came of it. Trump moved away from his demand for a ceasefire and said that it was more important to work toward a permanent
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If you read the headlines in American and European newspapers you would conclude that the Alaska Summit failed. It did not. Washington changed direction and abandoned its support for a ceasefire. Here
More If you were watching the US “news” channels (I put that word in parentheses to emphasize sarcasm), the build up to the press conference was the equivalent of a virgin waiting for
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Haidar Eid is a Palestinian professor who used to teach postcolonial and postmodern literature at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza. That university no longer exists thanks to the missiles and the Zionist minds
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It has been a long time since a diplomatic event drew as much global attention as Friday’s meeting between the Russian and US presidents in Alaska. In terms of its significance for
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The last time I was in Washington DC I came out of my downtown hotel near the White House and asked the doorman which way to walk to a certain restaurant. ‘Turn left
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It is entirely understandable that, after such a long and bloody conflict—not to mention the ongoing genocide now entering its ‘final phase‘—the hastily arranged Trump–Putin summit in Alaska has caught many off
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The famous quote by Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci seems to have been written for the moment humanity is currently experiencing: “The old is dying, and the new cannot be born. In
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Yesterday President Trump in his public statements validated my conclusion that Trump does not know what the Russian position is and that he is going to the meeting to find out what
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Zelensky’s maximalist position, supported by the UK, France and Germany, is at odds with public opinion in Ukraine. A new, dramatic Gallup Poll makes clear that Zelensky and his hardline clique don’t
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U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Aug. 15. They had spoken many times over the phone, and though there were
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The United States and Russia have discussed a controversial plan to model a future settlement in Ukraine on Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, according to The Times UK. The proposal, reportedly
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China has sanctioned two European Union banks, fulfilling its promise to retaliate after the bloc targeted Chinese lenders over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Bloomberg reports. The Ministry of Commerce said Wednesday that
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An explosive report by Real Raw News has alleged that a Ukrainian assassin was killed in Alaska just days before a planned meeting between former US President Donald Trump and Russian President
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