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Sep 08 2022
News
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken makes an unannounced trip to Ukraine
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unannounced trip to Ukraine Thursday -- paying his second visit to the country's capital city since the war with Russia began more than six months ago.
While in Kyiv, Blinken met with top officials, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, and visited a children's hospital.
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CNN (Online News)Jul 05 2022
Analysis
WTI Drops Below $100 As Recession Fears Grow
Despite serious supply problems in the market, oil prices crashed on Tuesday morning due to renewed recession fears and the prospect of demand destruction.
Whilst most of 2022 could only be characterized as a period of hardship for Europe’s embattled industries, things are about to get even worse as Russian pipeline supply falls and power prices across the continent soared.
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OilPrice.comMar 18 2022
Opinion
Column: Years Late and Millions Short on Hunter Biden
Michael Isikoff, once the top investigative reporter for Newsweek, tweeted something unintentionally humorous about a New York Times story.
“In the category of -- didn’t see this coming,” he wrote, “The @nytimes confirms the authenticity of Hunter Biden emails derived from his laptop that had been previously dismissed as Russian disinformation.”
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NewsBustersNov 11 2021
News
DOJ and FBI gave cover to Steele dossier source accused of lying
The Justice Department and the FBI continued defending their use of information from Christopher Steele’s main source, Igor Danchenko, even after interviews with the bureau during which special counsel John Durham says the Russian lied repeatedly.
Danchenko, a U.S.-based and Russian-born researcher, was charged “with five counts of making false statements to the FBI” that Durham claims
Washington ExaminerJul 18 2022
News
Zelensky fires top security chief, prosecutor over alleged treason
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky fired the country’s security service chief and prosecutor general while accusing dozens of their employees of collaborating with Russia.
Zelensky, 44, announced the moves during a nightly address Sunday while citing hundreds of criminal proceedings into treason and corruption within the country.
“In particular, more than 60 employees of the
New York Post (News)Jun 16 2015
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OPM audit: Federal background check system vulnerable to cyberattack
The federal agency that lost millions of Americans most personal data to hackers has long been delinquent on its cybersecurity controls - including in two particularly sensitive systems that govern most of the governments background checks, an inspector general will tell Congress on Tuesday.
Washington TimesNov 24 2021
News
Biden Aims to Quash Nord Stream 2 Sanctions in Defense Bill
While Russian troops amass on Ukraine’s border, sparking fears of a renewed invasion, the Biden administration has been quietly lobbying Democratic allies on Capitol Hill to nix sanctions on Russia’s controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline that are included in the must-pass annual defense bill.
Foreign PolicyJul 04 2022
News
Russia Not Wishing US Happy Independence Day
Russia said Monday it will not be sending kind words to mark the Independence Day holiday in the United States.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that congratulations “can hardly be considered appropriate” and cited what he called the “unfriendly policies” of the United States.
The U.S. has opposed Russia’s war in Ukraine, sending weapons and helping train Ukrainian
Voice of America (VOA)Feb 15 2022
News
US Embassy in Kyiv Shuttered, As Kremlin Signals It May Be Prepared to Continue Dialogue With West
The State Department on Monday announced the temporary closure of the U.S. Embassy in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and also widened its travel advisory, urging U.S. citizens in neighboring Belarus and Moldova to leave.
At the same time, the Kremlin signaled that Russia may be prepared to continue diplomatic efforts – for now – in its quest for security guarantees from the West that
CNSNews.comFeb 24 2022
Analysis
Is Taiwan Next?
As Russian tanks roll over Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s crisis will reverberate around the world, possibly most dangerously in the Taiwan Strait. An attempt by Beijing to claim Taiwan by force has just become more likely. That’s not necessarily because there is a direct link between Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and Beijing’s menacing of Taiwan, but because the war for Ukraine is the most
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