A week after firing warning shots at a British military ship off the coast of Crimea, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a belligerent speech against Western forces during his annual interview with voters on Wednesday (30) – the first since the start of the Covid pandemic and on the 18th of the mandate. Last week, … Read more
Donald Rumsfeld, secretary of defense under Presidents Gerald Ford and George W. Bush and responsible for commanding American strategies during the Cold War in the 1970s and, decades later, the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, died this Tuesday (30) at his home in Taos, New Mexico, at age 88. The cause was multiple myeloma, according … Read more
On July 1, the Chinese Communist Party celebrates its 100th anniversary. China is Brazil’s largest trading partner, the destination for more than a third of national exports, but there is little debate in the country about the impacts of the Asian nation’s political system on Sino-Brazilian relations. The centenary of the festival is an important … Read more
Last Monday (28), Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin exchanged jokes during a video conference during which the friendship treaty between China and Russia was renewed. “As the world has entered a period of upheaval and change, and humanity faces various risks, the close Sino-Russian cooperation brings positive energy to the international community,” said the Chinese … Read more
How many have blood on their hands? How many of those with blood on their hands will be freed? And how many more will continue to be welcome in the restaurants frequented by the elites of Brasilia and Washington? The cowardly, anti-Christian silence of Carlos Wizard Martins, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ … Read more
The UK and the European Union have reached an agreement to impose a truce in the so-called “sausage war”, a day before the deadline to ban the entry of chilled British meat into Northern Ireland. After threats from British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to unilaterally disregard the rules of the withdrawal agreement signed in Brexit … Read more
The main banner of the Chinese Communist Party’s centennial celebrations and obsession over the past decade, China’s poverty eradication has been compared to a “miracle” by leader Xi Jinping. The “complete victory” announced by the Chinese government has even awarded medals to the bureaucrats involved, but the feat has sparked controversy and is contested by … Read more
Scientists have identified a man who could be “patient zero” of the plague that caused the bubonic plague in the Middle Ages. A man who died more than 5,000 years ago in what is now Latvia was reportedly infected with the oldest known strain of the disease, according to new evidence. The plague swept across … Read more
In the 1960s, the defense of the principle of non-interference cost Argentine presidents Arturo Frondizi (1962) and Arturo Illia (1966) their governments, among other reasons, for opposing US intervention in Cuba and Dominican Republic. The defense of this principle by these governments, overthrown by the military who found support in Washington, was justified to protect … Read more
Two days after telling the WHO (World Health Organization) that there were no cases of Covid-19 in North Korea, dictator Kim Jong-un fired several members of the Party’s elite workers for a “serious incident” linked to the coronavirus, “which has created a great crisis for the security of the country and its population”. The warning … Read more