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"Andrzej Duda told the BBC that the Nord Stream gas pipelines, which have not been used since 2022, "should be dismantled". This, he said, would mean the likes of Germany would not be tempted to restore Russian supplies to boost its own struggling economy. "I can only hope that European leaders will learn lessons from Russia's aggression against Ukraine and that they will push through a decision to never restore the pumping of gas through this pipeline," he said. The Polish president, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, insisted that economic sanctions against Russia were working and European...

“I’m also going to ask Saudi Arabia and OPEC to bring down the cost of oil. You got to bring it down, which frankly, I’m surprised they didn’t do before the election,” Trump told the global elites gathered at the yearly meeting. “If the price came down, the Russia-Ukraine war would end immediately. Right now, the price is high enough that that war will continue. You’ve got to bring down the oil price. You’re going to end that war.” Kellogg explained that the price of oil is roughly $70 per barrel, meaning huge cash flows for Moscow to continue funding...

The best possible future — the one with fewer climate disasters, extinctions, and human suffering — involves limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. But for this to happen, a new report warns, greenhouse gas levels must start dropping by 2025. “We are on a fast track to climate disaster,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday while announcing the new report by the United Nation’s preeminent climate body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “This is not fiction or exaggeration,” he added. “It is what science tells us will result from our current energy policies. We are on...

Washington (AFP) - Donald Trump's personal lawyer on Sunday called for an investigation into special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe, claiming it was tainted from the outset under former FBI director James Comey. "We want the Mueller probe to be investigated the way the Trump administration has been investigated," Rudy Giuliani said on CNN's "State of the Union." "This is a case where it's crying out for someone to investigate the investigators," he later told CBS. Giuliani's comments were the latest in a barrage of attacks on the probe by the president and his lawyers as Mueller appears to be...

Even with Calculators on the Floor, the Senate Still Comes Up With a Zero on the BudgetBy Sunlen Miller | ABC OTUS News – Wed, May 16, 2012 You would have thought that starting the day with a vote permitting the use of calculators on the Senate floor today was a good sign that it could potentially be a productive day for the U.S. senators. But you would have been mistaken. The Senate spent the whole day today, with over six hours of straight floor speeches, debating five nonbinding budget resolutions that everyone knew in advance would not pass. And,...

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs revealed that the White House believes the unemployment rate will remain the same three months from now. When asked if the White House anticipated on asking for another extension on unemployment benefits in three months, Gibbs said the following: "If the unemployment rate stays where I think we all expect it to, it is, it may be, we may need to extend those benefits."

/begin my excerpts Kim Jong-il Has at Most Three Years to Live: Special Clinic at Guard Command Concludes Mood swings worsened due to depression He says, "I am not what I used to be," showing tears He had to have 30 minute intermission while watching a comedy "Echo"(1 hr 40 min long) More frequent watching of art performance in recent days is for psychological treatment According to information we obtained on Jul 7 from high-level source in N. Korea, “Special Clinic" under No. 1 Bureau at N. Korea's Guard Command conducted a comprehensive check-up on Kim Jong-il's health and concluded...

U.S. official expects N. Korean leader to live three more years: sources SEOUL, March 17 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's aging leader Kim Jong-il appears to have three years left to live, a senior U.S. official was quoted Wednesday as saying, as the health of the reclusive 68-year-old remains a focus of international attention. , U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, made the remark on Feb. 3 when he met with a group of South Korean lawmakers and North Korean defectors at the U.S. embassy in Seoul, according to multiple The diplomat was quoted as saying...

Ah, the travails of a tiny country caught at the crossroads of greater powers. Sound familiar? Lithuania? Armenia? Israel? There have been so many holocausts that we could easily pick one out of a hat and discuss it. But because of recent developments in Damascus and Beirut, we’ll discuss Lebanon today. In a move I found quite surprising, the U.N. Security Council voted Friday in, support for a free and fair electoral process in Lebanon's upcoming presidential election, conducted according to Lebanese constitutional rules devised without foreign interference or influence. The new U.N. resolution also called for, the restoration of...