Pacific island PM skips Biden summit to avoid ‘lecture’

Solomon Islands leader Manasseh Sogavare has explained that he had more important things to do than attend a White House meeting Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has defended his decision to skip this week’s White House summit with the Pacific region’s leaders, saying he didn’t want to spend time hearing a “lecture” from President…

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Vladislav Surkov: Here’s why Russia will eventually ally with the US and EU

Moscow’s eventual victory in Ukraine will lead to profound changes in the global order, but not in the ways most commentators currently predict When the explorer Vasco da Gama set out to find a water route to India in 1497, King Manuel of Portugal ordered him to gain an audience with the powerful overseas rulers,…

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Ukraine F-16 training jeopardized by US government shutdown

The Pentagon has warned that an impasse in Congress could hinder efforts to teach Kiev’s pilots how to fly US fighter jets A looming US government shutdown amid partisan bickering in Congress threatens to slow the training of Ukrainian pilots as they prepare to fly American-made F-16 fighter jets against Russian forces, the Pentagon has…

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