Washington uses “bullying” and “naked force” to impose its will on other countries, Saeed Khatibzadeh has told RT The US is a “hegemonic power” that “bullies” other nations or uses “naked force” to block the global shift toward multipolarity, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh has said. Speaking to RT during an official visit to Moscow on Friday, he said many nations are striving for a multipolar system of equal participation, while the US and its allies and pursuing the opposite and are hindering that goal. “There are contradictory trends happening in the world right now. There are those trying to establish a multipolar order, but unfortunately… the Americans are not sharing this idea. They want to be the sole hegemonic power over other countries,” he stated. Khatibzadeh cited decades of “illegal” US sanctions on Iran as proof Washington believes it “can impose its will over other countries.” The US first sanctioned Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, freezi...
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Berlin and the EU must pressure Kiev to reverse its relaxed travel rules, Markus Soder has said The leader of Germany’s Christian Social Union (CSU), Markus Soder, has called on his country’s government and the EU to pressure Kiev into reinstating restrictions on young men leaving Ukraine. Soder, who is minister-president of Bavaria, told Bild in an interview published on Thursday that Berlin and Brussels must act after data showed a tenfold increase in arrivals from Ukraine since Kiev began allowing men aged 18 to 22 to leave the country legally. “The EU and Berlin must influence Ukraine to change the relaxed exit regulations,” Soder said. “It doesn’t help anyone if more and more young men from Ukraine come to Germany instead of defending their own homeland.” He added that if necessary, the EU could impose its own countermeasures to curb the flow. Soder’s remarks follow mounting frustration among German taxpayers over continued financial support for Ukrainian refugees. A poll c...
Changpeng Zhao and his crypto exchange were fined over $4 billion after a 2023 guilty plea to money laundering violations US President Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who was previously convicted of enabling money laundering at the crypto exchange, the White House has announced. Binance and then-CEO Zhao pleaded guilty in November 2023 to violating the US Bank Secrecy Act, admitting they failed to enforce anti-money-laundering rules. Prosecutors said the exchange failed to report more than 100,000 suspicious transactions, including those tied to terrorism and child exploitation. Binance was banned from operating in the US and agreed to pay $4.3 billion in fines, while Zhao resigned as CEO and paid $50 million. He was later sentenced to four months in prison. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday that Trump had “exercised his constitutional authority” by pardoning Zhao, claiming he had been “egregiously oversentenced” by the adminis...
The reshuffle followed a decision by several outlets to reject the Department of War’s new media access policy The Pentagon has unveiled the lineup of its new press corps, which is mainly comprised of conservative news outlets seen as supportive of US President Donald Trump’s administration. The reshuffle at the Department of War came after journalists from major outlets, including The New York Times, the Associated Press, CNN, and the Washington Post, rejected a revised media access policy introduced by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and returned their press passes last week. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a post X on Wednesday that more than 60 reporters, “representing a broad spectrum of new media outlets and independent journalists,” will make the “the next generation” of the Pentagon press corps after signing up to the new rules. They will be joining 26 journalists from 18 outlets that used to work at the Pentagon previously and also opted to agree to the new access ...
Prime Minister Bart De Wever insists that all members of the bloc must share the financial risks of the proposed “reparation loan” Belgium will not back the European Union’s plan to use frozen Russian sovereign assets as collateral for a massive loan to Ukraine unless the financial risks are shared across all member states, Prime Minister Bart De Wever has said. The European Commission is promoting a scheme to raise around €140 billion ($160 billion) for Kiev, arguing that the money could later be recovered from Moscow as “reparations.” Russia has denounced any use of its immobilized assets as outright theft. Belgium holds the largest portion of the funds through the Brussels-based Euroclear clearinghouse. Speaking ahead of an EU leaders’ summit in Brussels on Wednesday, De Wever reaffirmed his government’s opposition to the plan, vowing to “do everything in my power” to block it unless guarantees of collective risk-sharing are provided. Read more Italy’s Meloni issues warning ...
The Dutch authorities took control of semiconductor producer Nexperia in September under pressure from the US Germany’s largest carmaker, Volkswagen, could stop production at a key plant due to a shortage of semiconductors caused by the seizure of a Chinese-owned chipmaker by the Netherlands, Bild has reported, citing anonymous sources. The Dutch government took control of the Nexperia factory in Nijmegen late last month, citing intellectual property and security concerns. The New York Times reported last week after reviewing documents from an Amsterdam court that the move had been made following pressure from US officials. Nexperia’s parent company, Wingtech, was blacklisted by Washington in 2024 as part of an ongoing trade war with China. Beijing responded in early October by banning Nexperia from exporting finished chips from China, which are widely used in the electronic control units of VW vehicles. Bild reported on Wednesday that Volkswagen – which also owns the Skoda, Seat, ...