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EU capitals fear Russian retaliation and cyberattacks after asset freezes
BRUSSELS ― The more governments look into confiscating frozen Russian assets to help fund Ukraine’s reconstruction, the more complicated it gets. For months, European Union officials have been looking...
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EU faces pressure to sanction Russian aluminum
European aluminum producers — supported by four EU countries — are pressing the bloc to slap an embargo on cheap imports of the metal from Russia as part of an expected sanctions package that will...
View ArticleTucker Carlson confirms he’s interviewing Vladimir Putin
American pundit Tucker Carlson, who is currently on a visit to Moscow, has announced he is interviewing Russian President Vladimir Putin. The conservative provocateur and former Fox News anchor said...
View ArticleTucker Carlson faces media fury over Putin interview
Tucker Carlson is interviewing Russian President Vladimir Putin. The reaction has been apoplectic. Carlson, a conservative pundit and former Fox News anchor who has repeatedly questioned support for...
View ArticleUK government comms chief quits to spin for Gulf petrostate
LONDON — Britain’s long-serving government communications chief Alex Aiken is stepping down to spin for the United Arab Emirates instead. In a statement Wednesday, the U.K. Cabinet Office confirmed...
View ArticleBiden mixes up Angela Merkel and Helmut Kohl
It’s happened again! U.S. President Joe Biden got confused at a recent campaign event, mixing up former German Chancellors Angela Merkel and Helmut Kohl, the latter of whom died in 2017. It was...
View ArticleAnti-war Putin rival barred from Russian presidential race
Vladimir Putin is taking no chances with his reelection for a fifth term. Boris Nadezhdin, the only presidential hopeful critical of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has now been removed from the ballot....
View ArticleTucker Carlson joins long line of ‘useful idiot’ journalists helping tyrants
Tucker Carlson is far from being the first Western journalist to have aligned himself with the enemy. There’s a long tradition of the likes of Hitler and Stalin finding pliable Brits and Americans to...
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Tucker Carlson’s Putin interview — Bingo
Tucker Carlson has been teasing his interview of Russian President Vladimir Putin, which is set to release any minute now. Grab your popcorn. If you are familiar with the American pundit — and with...
View ArticleGermany’s Scholz urges US, EU to ramp up Ukraine aid
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz urged the West to increase aid for Ukraine and send “a clear signal” to Russian President Vladimir Putin, shortly before departing on a 24-hour trip to Washington D.C.,...
View ArticleEU isn’t sanctioning Tucker Carlson over Putin interview (for now)
BRUSSELS — The European Union is not planning to sanction American far-right pundit Tucker Carlson for interviewing Russia’s President Vladimir Putin — or at least not yet. “Currently there are no...
View ArticlePutin tells Tucker Carlson Ukraine war can be ‘over in a few weeks’
Russian President Vladimir Putin can’t remember the last time he spoke with his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden, had a “personal relationship” with his predecessor Donald Trump, and reckons his country’s...
View ArticleCan the EU defend Ukraine (and itself)?
Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play Acast Europe is waking up to the urgent need to strengthen its own defenses — especially as Donald Trump seems poised to capture the Republican nomination and...
View ArticleRussia ‘ready to talk’ about Gershkovich release, Putin says
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow is “ready to talk” with Washington about the release of imprisoned Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. “There is no taboo to settle this issue....
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Tucker Carlson’s Putin interview: 9 takeaways
It was never going to be a hard-hitter. Few expected anything ground-breaking to emerge from Tucker Carlson’s sit-down with Vladimir Putin, conducted in Moscow on Tuesday and published on the...
View Article6 questions Tucker Carlson should have asked Putin
It was understandable Tucker Carlson might have needed a moment or two to recover from Vladimir Putin’s interminable quirky history lesson that took up a quarter of the rogue broadcaster’s mammoth...
View Article5 lies and 1 truth from Putin’s interview with Tucker Carlson
How much — if any — of what Russian President Vladimir Putin said in his interview with Tucker Carlson can we believe? Putin, after all, struggles to recall his last conversation with his counterpart...
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World’s cartoonists on this week’s events
First published on caglecartoons.com, Bulgaria, Feb. 8, 2024 | By Christo Komarnitski First published on PoliticalCartoons.com, Germany, Feb. 7, 2024 | By Rainer Hachfeld First published on...
View ArticleUS aid ‘indispensable’ for defense of Ukraine, Scholz says
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he and U.S. President Joe Biden agree that Ukraine would not be able to defend itself from Russia without American aid. The two leaders met in Washington on Friday...
View ArticlePoland tempers reparation demand from Germany
Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski significantly softened Warsaw’s demand for reparations from Germany and proposed an alternative settlement to the long-standing dispute, such as investments...
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