Category: Asia / Australia / Oceania

Mogherini reiterates support for Iran, Pompeo failed
13. 5. 2019 No Responses

Mogherini reiterates support for Iran, Pompeo failed

European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on Monday she would continue to support the 2015 nuclear pact because Iran continued to comply with inspections. Mogherini made the remarks before a meeting of the three European countries party to...
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Trump doesn’t know who pays the tariffs
11. 5. 2019 No Responses

Trump doesn’t know who pays the tariffs

President Donald Trump, who has been officially in business since 1971, and after 48 years of experience of all sorts he has earned during his business, including 4 bankruptcies according to one methodology and 6 bankruptcies according to a stricter...
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Marines Seize Tiny Pacific Island As Training For Real War
22. 3. 2019 No Responses

Marines Seize Tiny Pacific Island As Training For Real War

The 31st U.S. Marine Expeditionary Unit (31st MEU) seized a tiny island and airfield with special operations airmen and soldiers as part of a new island-hopping strategy. Last week, 31st MEU, backed by the 3rd Marine Division, 3rd Marine Logistics...
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The wreck of another combat aircraft was found in Kashmir
2. 3. 2019 No Responses

The wreck of another combat aircraft was found in Kashmir

This week, several air force operations by Indian and Pakistan Air Forces took place in the airspace above Kashmir. During the air duels, India lost one MiG-21, whose pilot successfully catapulted and was already returned to the Indian side. The...
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Trump – Kim summit in Hanoi collapses
28. 2. 2019 No Responses

Trump – Kim summit in Hanoi collapses

Kim asked for partial sanctions relief in exchange for shuttering nuclear facilities. Trump’s answer: “Basically, they wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety, and we couldn’t do that. They were willing to denuke a large portion of the are...
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India-Pakistan tensions escalate with airstrikes across Kashmir border
26. 2. 2019 No Responses

India-Pakistan tensions escalate with airstrikes across Kashmir border

India has carried out aerial attack over the disputed border in Kashmir for the first time since it went to war with Pakistan in 1971, escalating tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours. Pakistan, which was the first to announce the...
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Daily Mail: Spy agency sent shoes equipped with spy bugs to Gaza
18. 2. 2019 No Responses

Daily Mail: Spy agency sent shoes equipped with spy bugs to Gaza

Shoes equipped with spy “bugs” in the heels sent for espionage to the Gaza Strip. Microphones in the heels of the shoes should serve to spy on the original Semitic population. The policy of brutal Zionism, so different from what...
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Trump called on the governments of European countries to take back 800 ISIS terrorists
17. 2. 2019 No Responses

Trump called on the governments of European countries to take back 800 ISIS terrorists

President Donald Trump today at 5 A.M. on the Twitter media platform called on governments of European countries to take back their 800 terrorists who fought in Syria against the local population. The short text also contains a threat: If...
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Today Is The 20 Year Anniversary Of The Bank Of Japan Cutting Rates To 0%
12. 2. 2019 No Responses

Today Is The 20 Year Anniversary Of The Bank Of Japan Cutting Rates To 0%

It is a bit of a memorable anniversary for financial markets – it’s the 20-year anniversary of the Bank of Japan cutting rates to 0% and the start of two decades of extreme monetary policy which Japan has not been able...
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South Korea retained the global crown in the 2019 Bloomberg Innovation Index
23. 1. 2019 No Responses

South Korea retained the global crown in the 2019 Bloomberg Innovation Index

South Korea retained the global crown in the 2019 Bloomberg Innovation Index, though improvements by Germany in research and education brought Europe’s largest economy to near-parity in the annual ranking. The U.S. moved up to eighth place, a year after...
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Sikkim – To Conduct World’s Largest Experiment In Universal Basic Income
19. 1. 2019 No Responses

Sikkim – To Conduct World’s Largest Experiment In Universal Basic Income

  Sikkim – Indian State With 600,000 People To Conduct World’s Largest Experiment In Universal Basic Income A tiny Himalayan state bordering China is about to embark on the world’s largest experiment in universal basic income. All 610,5...
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China offers Iran $3bn oilfield deal despite US sanctions
18. 1. 2019 No Responses

China offers Iran $3bn oilfield deal despite US sanctions

State-run Chinese energy giant Sinopec has offered Iran a $3-billion deal on further development of an Iranian oilfield the two countries are already working on, the Wall Street Journal has reported.  The offer made by the China Petroleum & Chemical Cor...
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Turkey Tops China As World’s Top Jailer Of Journalists
2. 1. 2019 No Responses

Turkey Tops China As World’s Top Jailer Of Journalists

The Committee to Protect Journalists, an advocacy group, has released its annual census showing the number of journalists imprisoned across the world. More than 250 journalists are behind bars for the third consecutive year and the CPJ said that an authorita...
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Saudi-led Coalition Uses Sudanese Child Mercenaries In Yemen War
31. 12. 2018 No Responses

Saudi-led Coalition Uses Sudanese Child Mercenaries In Yemen War

Saudi Arabia allegedly offered approximately $10,000 to families in Darfur, Sudan if their sons joined the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen, the New York Times reported on December 28th. According to the report, as many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been ...
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