Daily Archives: February 18, 2024

2024-02-18: News Headlines

albawaba (2024-02-18). ICJ to hold hearings on the consequences of Israeli occupation. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – Starting on Monday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will start hearing sessions on the legal consequences of Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories since 1967, with a record 52 countries likely to provide evidence.United States, Russia, and China along with several other countries will be addressing judges in a week-long session at the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands.Despite the ICJ resolutions not being legally binding, the opinions coming out at the end of the case brought forward by South Africa will have its toll on Israel as international pressure mounts up over the brutal…

Pepe Escobar, The Cradle. (2024-02-18). Axis Of Resistance: From Donbass To Gaza. popularresistance.org During my recent vertiginous journey in Donbass tracking Orthodox Christian battalions defending their land, Novorossiya, it became starkly evident that the resistance in these newly liberated Russian republics is fighting much the same battle as their counterparts in West Asia. | Nearly 10 years after Maidan in Kiev, and two years after the start of Russia's Special Military Operation (SMO) in Ukraine, the resolve of the resistance has only deepened. | It's impossible to do full justice to the strength, resilience, and faith of the people of Donbass, who stand on the front line of a US proxy war against Russia.

Larry Johnson (2024-02-18). Will Israel Invade Southern Lebanon? sonar21.com There is a lot going on in the world that is generating fear in the West because they have lost control of the narrative and the battlefield. Ukraine's retreat from Avdeevka has exposed the lie that the Russian military is a spent force comprised of coerced, untrained, poorly supplied conscripts. This has left NATO scrambling to try to find a way to keep Ukraine in the fight, but Ukraine's Army is being ground into dust and its morale is flagging. | But that is not where the real danger lies. Israel is signaling that it will invade southern Lebanon and fight Hezbollah. This is insane. Israel reminds me of t…

albawaba (2024-02-18). Navalny's Death Raises Questions: Europe and NATO Point Finger at Putin. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – The Russian Federal Prison Service (FSIN) has confirmed the passing of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, aged 47, in the penal colony where he was incarcerated on the Yamal Peninsula. This news has prompted reactions from European leaders and NATO.According to FSIN, Navalny fell ill and lost consciousness after going for a walk on February 16th in Penal Colony No. 3. Despite efforts by prison healthcare staff and emergency responders, Navalny could not be revived. The cause of his death is currently under investigation.Following the announcement of Navalny's death, European politicians and NATO…

Reuters (2024-02-18). Alexei Navalny death: hundreds detained in Russia at memorial events, rights group says. scmp.com This is the largest wave of arrests at political events since over 1,300 were detained at protests over partial mobilisation of reservists for the Ukraine war.

newarab (2024-02-18). Dozens detained in Russia as Navalny's family seek body. newarab.com Police detained dozens of Russians paying tribute to opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Saturday, as his spokeswoman accused authorities of stalling the release of his body to relatives. | The 47-year-old Kremlin critic His death, which the West has blamed on the Kremlin, deprives Russia's opposition of its figurehead just a month before elections poised…

albawaba (2024-02-18). The Russian weapons used in destroying Ukrainian arms depots this week. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – In recent news, the Russian Defense Ministry has reported that they've been targeting military sites and storage areas in Ukraine for the past week.They've been using modern weapons and drones to carry out these attacks, hitting important places like aircraft engine factories, electronics facilities, and places where ammunition is made and kept.The strikes didn't stop there. They also went after factories that supply fuel to the Ukrainian military, as well as storage areas for military gear and places where troops are stationed. These attacks caused significant damage, and the Russian military says the…

Pavel López Lazo (2024-02-18). Russia ¥s enemies worried about full control of Ukraine ¥s Avdiivka. plenglish.com Moscow, Feb 18 (Prensa Latina) The full control of the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka by Russian Armed Forces worries all Moscow's enemies, Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, posted on Telegram.

Agence France-Presse (2024-02-18). Joe Biden blames US lawmakers' 'inaction' for fall of Ukraine's Avdiivka. scmp.com US$60 billion in military aid for Kyiv is being stalled by Trump allies in the US Congress, allowing Russia to make its first notable gains in the war in months.

Pavel López Lazo (2024-02-18). Ukraine matter of life and death for Russia, claims Putin. plenglish.com Moscow, Feb 18 (Prensa Latina) Events on the battlefield in Ukraine are a matter of "life and death" for Russia that could determine its fate, President Vladimir Putin said in remarks aired Sunday.

Eric Toussaint (2024-02-18). Russia: Origin and consequences of the debt repudiation of February 10, 1918. cadtm.org


img.piri.net (2024-02-18). Putin'den Türkiye ile ilgili dikkat àßeken aà߃±klama: En gàºvenilir enerji partneri. img.piri.net Türkiye ve Rusya arasƒ±ndaki ili≈ükiler her geàßen gàºn daha saƒülam bir ≈üekilde ilerliyor. | Bunu ise sƒ±k sƒ±k Cumhurba≈ükanƒ± Recep Tayyip Erdoƒüan ve Türkiye'ye yà∂nelik à∂vgຠdolu aà߃±klamalar yapan Putin, destekliyor. | Rossiya 1 televizyonuna demeàß veren Putin son yaptƒ±ƒüƒ± aà߃±klamada da, Rusya'nƒ±n hiàßbir àºlkeye enerji kaynaklarƒ± sunmayƒ± r…

eng.belta.by (2024-02-18). Belarusian Belavia launches direct flight from Brest to Moscow. eng.belta.by Flights from Brest to Moscow (Sheremetyevo) will be operated twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, by Embraer 175 aircraft with comfortable economy and business class cabins. The flight from Brest to the Russian capital takes 1 hour 45 minutes.

eng.belta.by (2024-02-18). Belarusian automaker MAZ expands service network in Russia. eng.belta.by Director of the MAZ Service Center Aleksei Grishkevich presented a certificate of the authorized service station to the Surgutdrive company. At the moment, this company is being accredited for the status of an official dealer of OAO MAZ, managing company of the holding company BelavtoMAZ.

eng.belta.by (2024-02-18). Belarus, Oman intend to intensify business ties. eng.belta.by Director of the National Center for Marketing Nikolai Borisevich held a meeting with Ambassador of the Sultanate of Oman to the Russian Federation and concurrently to the Republic of Belarus Hamood bin Salim bin Abdullah Altowaiya on 17 February.

teleSUR, YSM (2024-02-18). Rusia confirma que tomó control de Avdéyevka, en Donbás. telesurtv.net El presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, felicitó a los militares rusos por esta importante victoria.

Zbigniew Charnas (2024-02-18). School Globe Model for Infrastructural Global Warming. indybay.org What about if the global warming is now not only in the atmosphere and on the surface, but 1.5 *C or more is the geophysical warming inside the Earth. This is the theoretical conception with some practical cases in our reality. Let the Earth be bigger than earlier, 4.5 bln years ago, in the Expanding Earth Theory [search in Internet] process with nuclear-thermic mechanism for its widening. This means with the radius of the planet longer now of about 70 % than in the beginning of expansion. In this case the volume of the globe should increase to five times from primeval one, due to the thermal expansion effect of…

presstv.ir (2024-02-18). Putin lauds Russian servicemen for capture of Ukraine's Avdiivka. presstv.ir Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulates the country's servicemen for the capture of the Ukrainian city of Avdiivka, according to the Kremlin.

Brian Berletic (2024-02-17). Ukraine Flees Avdeevka as Russian "Aggressive Attrition" Takes Toll. thealtworld.com Update on the conflict in Ukraine for February 18, 2024… | — UPDATE: Russia takes all of Avdeevka after Ukrainian forces begin fleeing crumbling defenses; | — Despite attempts to portray a change in Ukrainian military leadership as necessary to address Ukraine's many and growing problems on the battlefield, the change reflected political motivations rather than improving strategic or tactical capabilities; | — The Western media continues to depict Ukraine's military deficiencies as resulting from delayed Western funding, however the actual problem stems from unsolveable military industrial limits…

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