“I want that Super Bowl in Britain. I don’t care when it takes place but I want it announced while I’m ambassador,” Mandelson added, to audience laughter. “We love it, we love it.”
London Mayor Sadiq Khan last year called for…
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Europe, the ‘Sleeping Beauty’ – The Atlantic
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Garry Kasparov: I was born on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. When I visited Ronald Reagan’s Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, California, in 2016, they had a…
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How an Asylum Seeker in U.S. Custody Ended Up in a Russian Prison
On the afternoon of August 15, 2024, Leonid Melekhin, a thirty-three-year-old small-business owner from Perm, a Russian city near the Ural Mountains, approached the U.S. border in Calexico, California. The previous winter, he had flown to Mexico,…
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Ukrainians In Frontline Kramatorsk Conflicted Over Trump-Putin Meeting
Speaking with Current Time correspondent Borys Sachalko in the frontline city of Kramatorsk, war-weary Ukrainians shared conflicting views of the meeting in Alaska between the US and Russian leaders on August 15. While some local residents say…
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5 Things To Know Ahead Of The Trump-Putin Summit
As US and Russian Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin meet face-to-face for the first time in six years, here’s what you need to know.
What Does Putin Want?
Many analysts see a meeting with Trump as a victory in and of itself for Putin, as…
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Palestinians condemn Israel’s Ben-Gvir over Marwan Barghouti threat | News
Footage shows far-right minister taunting 66-year-old Palestinian leader during jail visit.
Palestinian officials have condemned far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s taunting visit to the jail cell of long-imprisoned…
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Russia Is Facing Labor Crunch and ‘Hidden Unemployment’ Simultaneously
Russia’s jobless rate is at a record low due to a labor crunch — but that’s only part of the story.
A wave of “hidden unemployment” is building as companies slash hours and quietly cut staff. Russian President…
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Sergey Lavrov’s Alaska outfit hints at Soviet nostalgia – POLITICO
The current Russian regime has repeatedly exploited USSR nostalgia to pursue its political and imperial goals, according to experts, with Putin calling the break-up of the Soviet Union the “greatest political catastrophe” of the 20th…
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Russia Will Send ‘Clear’ Message to U.S. at Alaska Summit, FM Lavrov Says
Russia will deliver a clearly defined message to the United States at an upcoming bilateral summit in Alaska, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday after arriving in Anchorage.
“We never try to…
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