(2023-10-17). Can U.S. Aircraft Carriers Counter Chinese and Russian Diplomacy in the Middle East? sonar21.com 
China's Special Envoy on Middle East Zhai Jun met the envoys of Arab states in Beijing at the latter's request for a group meeting to discuss the grave situation in Gaza, Beijing, October 13, 2023 | In the forty six years since the Six Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors, the United States has dominated the diplomatic agenda in the Middle East. That era is ended. China and Russia have emerged as players at the diplomatic table and are challenging the United States' status as the primary voice in trying to contain the war between Israel and Hamas. | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is just compl…
(2023-10-17). Attend the IYSSE anti-war public meeting in Colombo! Stop the Israel genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza! wsws.org We urge workers, youth and students to attend this meeting to oppose the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine and imperialist-backed Israel onslaught against the Palestinians.
(2023-10-17). US, Allies Defeat UN Security Council Resolution for Gaza Ceasefire. news.antiwar.com On Monday night, the US and its allies voted down a UN Security Council resolution that would have called for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza as civilians in the enclave are under a brutal siege. The resolution was proposed by Russia and was also supported by China, Gabon, Mozambique, and the UAE. But the US, …
(2023-10-17). Putin offers solution to stop further bloodshed in Israel-Gaza conflict while Zelensky fears losing US support. infobrics.org In a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin (the first since the conflict started), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that Israel would proceed with the Gaza offensive despite Moscow's warning that it would lead to massive casualties and possibly cause a strong reaction of the Muslim world, particularly Iran and its allies. Putin urged Netanyahu to engage in talks on the peaceful settlement of the conflict.
(2023-10-17). The West Has Taken the UN Security Council 'Hostage'. libya360.wordpress.com The work of the United Nations Security Council is being held up by Western interests, Russia's permanent representative to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, claimed on Tuesday. His comments came after the council rejected Russia's draft resolution on the Israel-Gaza conflict. The resolution condemned all acts of terrorism, as well as all violence against civilians, and…
(2023-10-17). UN Security Council Fails to Adopt Resolution on Gaza. telesurenglish.net On Monday, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) failed to adopt a Russian-drafted resolution that calls for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. | RELATED: | The draft resolution obtained five votes in favor and four against, with six abstentions. Four countries joined Russia in voting for the resolution: China, the United Arab Emirates, Mozambique and Gabon. | Four countries voted against the Russian-drafted resolu…
(2023-10-17). It Is A Party. smoothiex12.blogspot.com 
Mr. Putin (also increasingly known as the leader of the free world) arrives to Beijing. They will discuss among those representatives of 140 nations how to form unified Eurasian and global markets at Belt and Road Forum.
Meanwhile, Generalissimo Suvorov arrives to its base on Kamchatka to start its service. It is the newest Borei A-class SSBN (pr. 955A) and she is not as peaceful as the man who just arrived to Beijing but it is precisely because…
(2023-10-17). Putin: Initiative is 'correct top-level design'. ecns.cn Russian President Vladimir Putin has called the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative "a correct top-level design" and said it has made marked progress "because it aims to bring together the efforts of various countries to realize the goal of common development".
(2023-10-17). Russia to Coordinate With Partners to End Middle East Violence. telesurenglish.net On Monday, President Vladimir Putin said that Russia is ready to coordinate efforts with all constructively minded partners to bring an end to the violence in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and stabilize the situation. | RELATED: | He made the statement during separate telephone conversations with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Egyptian Presi…
(2023-10-17). Russian Lower House Approves National Guard's Volunteer Units. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Russia's Lower House (Duma) approved, in its first reading, bills that allow for the creation of volunteer units within the National Guard, should the head of state deem it necessary. | RELATED: | According to one of the bills, which still needs to go through a second and third reading before heading to the Senate, volunteers may be utilized in carrying out "specific tasks within the realm of defense d…
(2023-10-17). Tim Cook: Chinese app developers can succeed globally in AR in future. ecns.cn Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc, told China Daily on Wednesday that he has very high expectations for Chinese app developers to succeed in the era of spatial computing with the company's augmented reality device Vision Pro.
(2023-10-17). On the centenary of the founding of the Left Opposition. wsws.org These remarks were delivered by David North, chairman of the international editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Party (US), to a meeting of the Young Guard of Bolshevik Leninists in the former Soviet Union.
(2023-10-17). Moscow's Man on the Spot in Africa. tomdispatch.com One of modern history's major empires is falling apart right now, right before our eyes. Yet precious few in the media have reported on this extraordinary event, much less offered any analysis of its implications for the fast-changing shape of global power. Over the past 60 years, France has used every possible diplomatic device, overt and covert, fair and foul, to incorporate some 14 African nations into a neocolonial imperium called "Franàßafrique" — a vast region covering a quarter of Africa and stretching for nearly 3,000 miles from Senegal on the Atlantic coast to Chad in the continent's center.
(2023-10-17). A Strategic Nightmare Sneaks into Washington's Political Agenda. orinocotribune.com By Global Times — Oct 14, 2023 | A simultaneous war with China and Russia is a strategic nightmare that sober American strategists such as Henry Kissinger have been warning the US to avoid at all costs, and it is also a topic that some US media outlets have become more and more fond of talking about in recent years. At least from the publicly available information, Washington has never previously addressed it as a formal political agenda, supposedly aware of its seriousness and the terrible risks it carries. But the publication of a report by a congressionally appointed bipartisan panel titled America's Str…
(2023-10-17). Putin participa en el foro de la Franja y la Ruta. telesurtv.net Los jefes de Estados de 23 países estarán presentes en Beijing durante el tercer foro internacional dedicado a la Iniciativa de la Franja y la Ruta.
(2023-10-17). Raeisi: US, West 'blind support' for Israel root cause of genocide in Gaza. presstv.ir President Raeisi says the US and West's blind support for Israel has encouraged the Zionists to intensify their crimes against the Palestinian people in Gaza.
(2023-10-17). North Korea slams US for exacerbating tensions with 'nuclear supremacy'. presstv.ir Pyongyang's nuclear program is a self-defensive measure to preempt a nuclear war in light of the United States' pursuit of "nuclear supremacy," according to North Korean media.
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