by Editorial Staff Xi Jinping and Joe Biden held a fruitful telephone conversation, the news was reported by the official Chinese media which highlighted how "the two leaders exchanged sincere and in-depth opinions on the state of relations between China and the United States and on issues of interest reciprocal". The White House confirmed the meeting [...]
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by Francesco Matera Is it rhetorical or is something terrible really brewing? The fact is that Putin's threatening proclamations, followed by a trail of counter-arguments from some Western leaders, mitigated by the Pope's hope to "hoist" the white flag of peace and dialogue, are inexorably raising the bar of tension , in […]
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by Massimiliano D'Elia Benjamin Netanyahu does not loosen his grip on Gaza and continues to call for total victory. Regardless of the pressure from the United States and China but also from all the other Western countries, Tel Aviv continues with its military campaign with the destruction of Hamas on the horizon, even if to the detriment of the population [...]
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Netanyahu: "The war until all its objectives are achieved" Thus in a telephone call the Israeli Prime Minister reiterated to American President Biden the continuation of operations within the Gaza Strip. by Editorial Staff Israel continues its campaign to eradicate Hamas. Currently, Israeli forces continue to conduct intense air raids in [...]
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by Editorial Staff The United States has imposed sanctions on companies in Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and China to prevent the Russian defense industry from easily obtaining sensitive technologies for the continuation of the war in Ukraine. The measures involved over 250 entities, affecting the Russian economy in a sectoral manner. A provincial bakery was also sanctioned [...]
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by Francesco Matera The meeting between Biden and Xi Jinping in San Francisco, on the occasion of the Apec (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit, favors a "supervised" détente between the two superpowers. In the sense that if on the one hand progress has been made in mutually recognizing the interest in healthy economic competition, on the other the coldness remains [...]
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Biden-Xi agree for a responsible global confrontation. Reactivated line of communication between military leaders. Coldness over Taiwan
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Israel is taking revenge after the cowardly attack by Hamas on 7 September, launching a relentless attack on the Gaza Strip (operation iron sword) with the sole aim of definitively eradicating the militia group in government from 2006. If he ever manages to win the war, what will happen next? To […]
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The President of the United States Joe Biden, that of France Emmanuela Macron, the German Chancellor Olaf Sholz, the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak express firm and united support for the State of Israel and unequivocal condemnation of Hamas and of its appalling acts of terrorism. The White House reports this in [...]
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At the end of the meetings in Washington, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni from Villa Firenze, residence of the Italian ambassador to the USA, Mariangela Zappia, explains Italy's new international posture: "I was anticipated by false propaganda, which had recounted the hypothesis of a government as a disaster in the stability of international relations, economic stability and institutions. But […]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Finally, the Italian premier Giorgia Meloni will have a "one to one" conversation with US President Joe Biden, next Thursday and Friday the Italian delegation will leave Ciampino military airport for Washington DC, where it will land at Andrews military airport. After brief and fleeting meetings at the G7 and at the NATO summit in [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) There are many reasons for friction between the United States and China: Taiwan, free trade, the microchip industry, human rights, support for Russia and the Belt & Road Initiative. Just to mention the most important, leaving aside the question of the alleged spy balloons and the military training base in Cuba. The initiatives are weak [...]
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Next week, the leaders of the G7 countries will discuss China's use of "economic coercion" in foreign relations, according to a high-level US official. The issue will be part of a section of the final joint statement at the end of the May 19-21 summit in Hiroshima, Japan. They will also be referred to as […]
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China is very concerned about the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine which is escalating and also spiraling out of control. We call for dialogue to be promoted, said Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang. "We will continue to promote peace dialogue and we will work with the international community for this, to address the concerns of [...]
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President Joe Biden yesterday from the White House said he wanted to discuss with the Chinese president, Xi Jinping on the story of the alleged Chinese spy balloon that an American jet shot down in early February while transiting US airspace. “We are not looking for a new cold war,” Biden said. "Of course it's not [...]
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President Joe Biden has warned that the United States will protect itself if China threatens its sovereignty. In a bipartisan speech to Congress he warned China by highlighting the expansionary economic policies advocated by the White House. "I am committed to working with China where it can advance American interests and benefit the [...]
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Russia is ready to launch a massive attack before more than 100 new Western tanks arrive in late March. Therefore, it is urgent to remedy as soon as possible in order not to lose other territories. The Bakhmut area is at the center of the dispute in these hours. The USA have therefore decided to send new long-lasting missiles [...]
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An unknown number of classified documents were found by Biden's lawyers in an office he used at Penn Biden Center when he was vice president. The discovery dates back to November 2, just before the Midterm elections. On the same day, Biden's lawyers informed the National Archives, which took possession of [...]
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Zelensky met with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer. Schumer clarified that, according to the Ukrainian leader, failure to approve the aid that Congress is considering could cost lives. The Democrats are united in wanting to support Kiev, while among the Republican ranks there are [...]
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Something is moving in the face of the defeat of the Russian army. Raising the bar of war or favoring negotiations? This is the dilemma that is shaking the chancelleries of half the world and making the White House troubled. The Kremlin has sent, in fact, important signals to the US, opening Putin-Biden face to face at the G20 [...]
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Two hours and seventeen minutes, as long as the phone call between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping lasted, it is the fifth time that the two leaders have heard each other over the phone on the hottest issues in the world. Next time, they vowed, they will meet in person. Apparently, reading the press releases launched at the end of the phone call, [...]
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The dossier on Ukrainian wheat could be resolved shortly, as confirmed by the Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar: "a matter of days and there will be a new meeting, an opportunity to define the details and review the points on which an agreement has already been reached. reached up". It is important that the agreement is reached as soon as possible for [...]
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Diplomatic relations are fervent between the countries, everyone is looking for a way out for the issue of energy and wheat but also to re-establish a balance in the world order which has become more and more precarious every day and in function of the Ukrainian war. Almost all the states that are facing economic problems are affected by this new course [...]
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Democratic and Republican lawmakers are pushing the White House to fund the Indo-Pacific region with more money to counter China. The news is reported in the Financial Times. Ami Bera, Democratic Chair of the House's Subcommittee on Foreign Affairs for Asia, and Steve Chabot, the first Republican on the panel, hope their “IndoPacific […]
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Biden thunders from Los Angeles: “I know, many thought I was exaggerating, but I knew I had solid information to predict Putin's impending aggression. There was no doubt, but Zelensky, like many others, did not want to listen to us “. The response from Kiev was not long in coming. The spokesman for the Ukrainian president, Sergei [...]
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(by Paolo Giordani) Almost 100 days after the beginning of what Moscow calls a "special military operation" (the post-Soviet version of the British understatement almost always has ironic implications), the hypothesis of a ceasefire in Ukraine and the start of "serious" negotiations still appears remote, for various reasons. The first and most evident is that not only [...]
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Joe Biden in Tokyo, at a press conference, declared himself in favor of the use of force to defend Taiwan in the event of war with China. Furthermore, he argued that this is not a change in US strategy for the self-governing island issue. The feeling, however, is that Washington has taken a clearer stance than in the past to contain [...]
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“In Italy and in Europe, people want an end to these massacres, this violence, this butchery. People think what we can do to bring peace ”. "We must use every channel for peace, for a ceasefire and the start of credible negotiations". "What is happening in Ukraine has led [...]
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Biden signed a law to speed up the supply of arms to Ukraine inspired by a 1941 measure that allowed the United States to arm the British army against Hitler. The 'Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act' had been approved by an overwhelming majority by Congress ten days ago, but Biden wanted to sign it, not surprisingly, today, on [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The British secret services are certain: the Russian military is one step away from humiliating defeat in Ukraine, they have already lost 25 percent of their war capacity. The findings from the bulletin published yesterday from London tell us that the Ukrainians, thanks to weapons and Western know-how, are [...]
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British intelligence has informed the government of the beginning of a new phase in Ukraine marked by a war of attrition that could last several months. A spokesman for Downing Street said this, correcting the shot with respect to forecasts according to which Moscow, in the event of an initial failure, would risk finding itself soon without sufficient resources [...]
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"Russian troops have started the battle for Donbass," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said last night. Many explosions were heard early in the night in Mykolaiv, east of Odessa. Bombings have also been reported in Kharkiv. A village in the Belgorod border region was reportedly bombed from the side [...]
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The United States to help Europe for the energy crisis and for independence from Russian gas, this is the proposal of the CEO of JpMorgan, Jamie Dimon. For Dimon, sources close to the dossier explained to ANSA, a plan modeled on the historic aid package launched by the United States in 1948 to contribute to the reconstruction of Europe is urgently needed [...]
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A condemnation of the Russian military intervention in Ukraine is contained in a letter signed by 4 teachers, academics, students, graduates and staff of the prestigious 'Lomonosov' Moscow State University, the oldest in Russia. 'We categorically condemn the war our country has waged in Ukraine', the document states. Meanwhile, Maria Ovsiannikova, the woman [...]
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The systems of the International Atomic Energy Agency monitoring the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia have stopped transmitting data; yesterday there was a similar interruption from the Chernobyl site: the IAEA says it is "worried". Meanwhile Zelensky believes "that the threat of nuclear war is a bluff" by Putin. "Bombing a children's hospital is proof [...]
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The European Parliament voted with a very large majority the resolution condemning the Russian aggression and proximity to Ukraine which also contains the commitment to grant the country the status of candidate country for EU membership. The text obtained 637 votes in favor, 26 abstentions and 13 against. Among the opponents, several MEPs of the de La group [...]
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"This war will last a long time" and "we must prepare": French President Emmanuel Macron said today during a visit to the Agricultural Fair. Macron has ensured that weapons will be sent to Zelesky while Biden has sent 350 million dollars. Meanwhile, the Russian para are trying to leave Kiev without light, but they were [...]
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The West is compact in imposing sanctions on Russia, while on the ground the battle is pressing by the hour, with deaths and injuries registered. The Moscow bulletin reports 74 military targets destroyed, including 11 runways. According to the Ukrainian presidency, "more than 40 Ukrainian soldiers and about 10 civilians have been killed". Another 18 victims, including [...]
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Today at 04.00 the rhetoric of diplomacy was replaced by war, Vladimir Putin launched 'the special military operation in Ukraine. The announcement came during a live broadcast where Putin said his goal is to demilitarize but not occupy Ukraine. Then he turned to the West: "Anyone who tries to interfere or threaten us, he must [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) First night of quiet in the Donbass, after days of high tension with sabotage, bomb blasts and the first tests with the artillery attacks of both sides. The tension has risen because diplomacy has not achieved the desired results and because Moscow cannot afford, for a long time, to [...]
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The very latest on the crisis in the Donbass About 40 thousand refugees have fled the Donbass and arrived in the Russian region of Rostov. This was reported by the Interfax agency citing Alexander Chupriyan, interim minister for emergency situations. “More than 40 thousand people, who had to leave the neighboring regions, arrived in Russia. At this point […]
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The situation hangs by a thread, Moscow continues to move its troops to the eastern borders of Ukraine while Kremlin diplomacy is said to be working on a 10-page response to the US security proposal. Yesterday was the German Chancellor Scholz who facilitated dialogue between [...]
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While the CIA is almost certain, there will be an invasion on Wednesday, diplomacy is trying to avoid the irreparable. Unfortunately, from the conversation between the US and Russian presidents, Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin, there was not the hoped-for turning point, both have firmly reaffirmed their positions. Biden was peremptory: "in the event of an attack, the West [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Conventional attack with aviation bombing and invasion with armored vehicles or simply massive cyber attacks, followed by a coup? The hybrid war has probably already begun, thousands would be fake social accounts that have been making propaganda for the Russian separatists of the Donbass for months. It would therefore be [...]
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Russia is really ready to invade and the first city to fall could Mariupol, halfway between Crimea and Donbass, a territory occupied by pro-Russians since 2014. In addition to US intelligence, the number one of the White House, Biden, also announced it during a press conference when he talked about a minor raid by the Russians. [...]
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The Washington Post, after interviewing some senior American military officials, has raised the alarm of a possible civil war following the results of the next presidential elections in 2024. The terrible prediction, after the internal crisis among the American defense apparatuses, to following the attack on Capitol Hill a year ago. To report it to [...]
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Joe Biden at the UN presents the new face of America that relies on a softer approach to global tensions. "A new era of relentless diplomacy" and "peace" in the world after the withdrawal from Afghanistan and ensures that America does not seek "a new cold war" with China, even if the warning remains [...]
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Yesterday the first aircraft since it was closed following the deployment of Western forces, a freighter from Qatar, landed at Kabul airport. It is clear to everyone that Qatar played a key role in the return of the Taliban to Afghanistan but it also played a key role in organizing flights [...]
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While ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack on Kabul airport, according to the group's account on Telegram, all Italian civilians, diplomats and soldiers left Kabul this night. Among others, the consul in Kabul Tommaso Claudi, the ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo, the civilian representative of NATO in the country, will leave Afghanistan. The Chief of Staff of the [...]
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The Pentagon told the press that in the past 24 hours, Americans have evacuated 19 people from Kabul airport. Five flights carrying 1.220 evacuees landed at Washington International Airport. "We are racing against the clock," said General Taylor, deputy chief of staff. For the BBC they rose to 82.300 [...]
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“A difficult, painful operation: I am heartbroken to see those images”, so Joe Biden told the Nation yesterday, during his third unified network television intervention. We will use civil aviation to take away as many civilians as possible, the US president said. To echo him, Donald Trump who called the US exit from Afghanistan a [...]
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Yesterday, the Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio was heard by Copasir (Parliamentary Committee for the Security of the Republic) on the Afghanistan dossier and the descending repercussions on national security in relation to migratory flows and the probable resurgence of terrorism risk. At the Copasir the director of Dis, Elisabetta Belloni had already been heard while [...]
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LAST HOUR. The Taliban are entering Kabul from all fronts, the Afghan interior ministry reports directly. Shots are heard in the streets of the city, but there is no fighting. The militiamen launched the decisive attack: the prison was attacked and thousands of prisoners were released. According to some sources, he specifies [...]
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Global plan for the prevention of future pandemics, a plan on infrastructures for low-income countries, these are just two of the main cornerstones of the strategy launched by the G7 countries to establish itself in the world trying to counter, as far as possible, the initiative of the New Chinese Silk Road. To support the new policy [...]
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"The troops have proved capable of guaranteeing the defense of the country". Thus the Russian Defense Minister Serghej Shoigu, who spoke yesterday at the military exercises organized in Crimea with the participation of dozens of ships, hundreds of warplanes and thousands of men. "The goal has been completely achieved and Russia withdraws [...]
read moreThe British Chief of Defense General Nick Carter is not at all happy with the American decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan by 11 September, after twenty years of military campaign. General Carter, in his first interview since the announcement of Biden's withdrawal, told the BBC last Tuesday: “It's not […]
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Surprise visit yesterday to Kabul by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the day after Joe Biden announced the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan by 11 September. An inevitable decision for the American president, but probably made not without some stomach ache within his administration. According to some sources close to the House [...]
read moreMoscow must "ease tensions", this is the message that Joe Biden wanted to send to Putin after the siege of the Kremlin troops deployed close to the borders with Ukraine. At least 100 thousand units would be employed on the western borders by Moscow. Biden phoned the Kremlin tenant proposing a meeting in the coming months in a [...]
read moreBiden opens to the extension of the Nuclear Treaty with Russia to keep the number of nuclear warheads balanced between the two countries. The treaty, renewed in 2010, will expire on 6 February next. Biden asks for some conditions behind the signature that Moscow considers unacceptable. Meanwhile the UN votes a resolution banning weapons [...]
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