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Montevideo, May 6th 2025 - 05:58 UTC

Tag: Ukraine conflict

  • Thursday, May 1st 2025 - 10:09 UTC

    US, Ukraine strike strategic minerals deal

    Trump persuaded Zelensky to go along because “Russia is much bigger and much stronger”

    The United States was granted access Wednesday to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals, critical for electronics, clean energy, and weapons, in exchange for establishing a joint investment fund. The economic partnership agreement signed in Washington after tense negotiations ensures Ukraine's full ownership of its resources while both nations contribute equally to and manage the fund.

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  • Thursday, March 20th 2025 - 05:58 UTC

    Germany voted to rearm, but can the 'rule of law' be kept alive?

    The Bundestag has voted to reform the 'debt brake,' paving the way for a landmark increased spending bill.

    By Gwynne Dyer - After the Second World War, the “rule of law” prevented borders from changing, explains Gwynne Dyer, but it's at risk due to Trump. On March 18, there was a vote in the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament that may have changed the course of history. When the vote came out ‘Yes’, you could feel the tectonic plates shift. Germany has voted to rearm.

  • Monday, March 3rd 2025 - 09:43 UTC

    Europe steps in behind Zelensky after Trump's withdrawal

    After Friday's diplomatic setback at the White House, Zelensky found in London some support from European leaders (Pic REUTERS)

    After being ejected from the White House last Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky found support for his cause in a European Summit in London, where British Prime Minister Keir Starmer picked up the baton Donald Trump dropped. Other regional leaders followed suit.

  • Wednesday, February 26th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Milei criticized for U-turn in foreign policy regarding Ukraine

    Milei and Zelensky once stood on the same side

    Argentine President Javier Milei took heavy flak from friends and foes alike after his country abstained at the United Nations from urging Russia to withdraw from Ukraine, thus making a notorious U-turn from the support he showed his colleague Volodymyr Zelensky during his Dec. 10, 2023, inauguration in Buenos Aires and last month at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos (Switzerland).

  • Thursday, February 13th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    End of war in Ukraine nearer after Trump-Putin talks

    Trump and Putin agreed: they both want peace

    US President Donald Trump held a telephone conversation Wednesday with his Russian colleague President Vladimir Putin, with whom he discussed for over 90 minutes the idea of starting negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. Both leaders expressed their eagerness to end the conflict at the earliest opportunity possible.

  • Monday, June 17th 2024 - 07:49 UTC

    Russia-Ukraine War: Argentina signs Bürgenstock Declaration; Brazil does not

    Lula chose to skip the convention “because Brazil would only take part in the discussion on peace when the two sides in the conflict were sitting at the table”(Pic AP)

    Argentine President Javier Milei joined the list of dignitaries endorsing the Bürgenstock Declaration in favor of peace in Ukraine while Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was among those very few who did not because in his view only negotiations involving both belligerent parties (Ukraine and Russia) were worth considering.

  • Tuesday, June 11th 2024 - 08:52 UTC

    Presidents Lula and Putin review ongoing world affairs over the telephone

    Putin expressed his solidarity with the victims of the floods in Rio Grande do Sul

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Monday received a call from his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin to discuss ongoing world affairs including the war in Ukraine and BRICS' possible role in solving that conflict.

  • Friday, June 7th 2024 - 11:55 UTC

    Milei skipping Ukraine's peace conference and meeting with Macron

    Milei will be returning to Spain for the first time after the diplomatic clash with Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez

    After contradicting rumors circulating in Buenos Aires over the past few days, it was reported that President Javier Milei would attend the G7 Summit in Italy, in addition to a trip to Spain.

  • Friday, December 8th 2023 - 08:38 UTC

    Ukraine's Zelensky attending Milei's inauguration

    Zelensky thanked Milei for his “clear support for Ukraine”

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Thursday announced he would be attending Javier Milei's inauguration in Buenos Aires on Dec. 10. His presence will add notoriety to a ceremony to be skipped by Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva among other world leaders politically not aligned with the future head of state.

  • Tuesday, December 5th 2023 - 07:22 UTC

    “In a time of danger and uncertainty we must respond with strength, resilience and unity”

    Lord Cameron, “Always, the conclusion I reach is the same. It is hard to recall in recent memory a time of such danger and uncertainty.”

    Writing in The Sun on Sunday edition, 3 December, Foreign Secretary David Cameron outlined how the UK must build up defenses, stay close to partners, and reach out to new allies. ”In the last fortnight, I’ve stood in a bombed-out cathedral in one of Ukraine’s most beautiful cities and watched as brave Ukrainian soldiers kissed families goodbye as they left for the front to fight Putin’s illegal invasion. 

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