Unable to stem the losses of his troops on the battlefield, Vladimir Putin has chosen to terrorize and kill ordinary Ukrainians as proof that Russia will not concede defeat in the seven-month war, writes The Guardian newspaper's Moscow correspondent Andrew Roth.more
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and US President Joe Biden spoke on the phone yesterday and agreed that Vladimir Putin's recent nuclear threats are "irresponsible" and that the partial mobilization ordered by the Russian leader is a "serious mistake," the German government said.more
Billionaire Elon Musk, who caused outrage recently with his proposal to end the Russian-Ukrainian war by, among other things, recognizing the annexation of Crimea, has now suggested that tensions between China and Taiwan could be resolved by giving Beijing some control over the island.more
The government has decided not to launch a public information campaign on reducing energy use this winter after the prime minister's office raised objections, the BBC has been told. more
A member of Putin's inner circle of associates lashed out at the president for criticizing the war in Ukraine and the mistakes being made in it, the Washington Post reported yesterday, citing intelligence service information. This is supposed to be a signal of growing tensions within the Russian government's inner circle.more
The process of awarding new licenses for exploration and production of oil and gas from the North Sea began yesterday in the UK. As expected, around 100 licenses will be awarded.more
The winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2022 are the head of the Belarusian Center for Human Rights Viasna Ales Bialiatski, the Russian organization investigating Stalinist crimes Memorial and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced today.more
British Prime Minister Liz Truss has finally decided that she believes French President Emmanuel Macron is a friend, not an enemy. Asked about this in August, she said that "it's still an open question."more
"Putin has been in power for more than 22 years, and this has chased away all institutions in Russia. Before he was a spy, he was a gangster. What do gangsters do? They make sure there are no new people except the ones they grew up with. There are no institutions in Russia to replace this gangster system." - says John Sweeney author of "Killer in the Kremlin", published this year.more
Actually, no one should be compared to Hitler, not even Putin. But the parallels in Hitler's fall to Putin's current situation are striking, notes Nikolaus Blome in the Spiegel weekly. Are these the last days not in Hitler's bunker in Berlin, but somewhere in the Kremlin? - the author wonders.more
In less than two weeks after Vladimir Putin announced mobilization, some 700,000 people left Russia, 200,000 of whom went to Kazakhstan, Forbes magazine reported in its Russian edition. It is unclear how many plan to return.more
The government of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced Tuesday that free rail travel on medium-distance and suburban routes will be in effect in the country in 2023.more
Surviving politically difficult moments, Prime Minister Liz Truss assured today that she will "take Britain through the storm" and "everyone will benefit" from the effects of her economic policies, whose priorities are "growth, growth and growth."more
UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman promised yesterday that the country will finally regain control of its borders. She stressed that stopping the uncontrolled flow of illegal immigrants is not racism or xenophobia.more
The chairman of oil company Shell yesterday called on the British government to impose a tax on windfall profits earned by companies in the energy sector, his company among others, to protect the poorest from rising energy prices.more
Former US President Donald Trump came close to relieving his daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner from their advisory role and flushed papers in the White House toilet - that's one of the many pieces of information in journalist Maggie Haberman's book, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America ".more
Ukrainian troops are on track to meet their main goals ahead of winter, including pushing Russians beyond the Dnieper in the Kherson region, Celeste Wallander, US Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security said today. She also added that the Ukrainian reflection of Lyman in the Donetsk region was of key importance.more
After criticism from several Conservative and opposition Labor Party MPs, Finance Minister Kwasi Kwarteng confirmed that the government is backing away from the highly controversial decision to cut tax for top earners, which was announced just 10 days ago.more
In not very good mood - and with loud protests in the background - the annual conference of the UK ruling Conservative Party began yesterday afternoon in Birmingham.more
Inflation exceeded analysts' expectations, yet they believe that it should start to decline in the next few months, reports Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. The CSO initially announced that in September inflation was 17.2 percent. per year and is "the highest in a quarter of a century".more
The President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, will be the first foreign leader to be adopted by the new King of Great Britain, Charles III, Buckingham Palace said. Ramaphosa's visit to the Islands will take place on November 22-24.more
King Charles will not attend the climate change conference COP27, which is due to be held in Egypt next month, Buckingham Palace has confirmed. It was responding to a story in the Sunday Times which claimed Prime Minister Liz Truss had "ordered" the King not to attend.more
Campaigners have accused the government of “unforgivable” failings after previously unreleased figures suggested that the majority of successful disability benefit appeals were because of errors by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).more
