Oil magnate ExxonMobil has just provided grist for the mill of supporters of the redistribution of wealth and whistleblowers of “war profiteering”. The black gold giant posted a record profit of $55.7 billion in 2022, almost $33 billion more than in 2021, and $10 billion above the previous record, which dates back to 2008.From January to December 2022, the stock soared more than 80% on the New York Stock Exchange. “Our results clearly benefited from a favorable market, but the...
11:46The Kremlin accuses the Baltic countries of having an "extremely aggressive position" on UkraineLithuania's calls to supply fighter jets to Ukraine are proof of the Baltic states' "extremely aggressive stance", the Kremlin said on Tuesday, adding that "big European countries" should counterbalance this stance .The news comes as Ukrainian officials have stepped up calls for allies to send fighter jets.10:58Air alerts heard across UkraineAs Kyiv Post reports, air alerts sounded across Ukraine on Tuesday."The air alert is related to the...
07:35 am: Disagreement in Europe on combat aircraftEuropeans are not all on the same line on combat aircraft deliveries. Berlin has already categorically rejected this idea, while Emmanuel Macron cautiously considered that "by definition, nothing is excluded", while assuring that the Ukrainians had not made any request to him to this day.The president also underlined "criteria" before any decision: a "request made" by Ukraine, that it "not be escalatory" and "not likely to touch Russian soil but to help the...
He hasn't changed his mind. Joe Biden on Monday categorically refused the idea of sending American F-16 fighter planes to Ukraine. “No”, said the American president when a journalist questioned him at the White House on the possibility of providing the devices demanded by the Ukrainian leaders.Westerners have just taken a step forward in military aid to Ukraine, after Germany and the United States announced the sending of tanks. President Volodymyr Zelensky is calling for even greater assistance, including the...
Find here all of our live #UKRAINE10:49 p.m. : Evidence of war crimes committed by the Russian military continues to mount. Two NGOs today published a new investigation, which concludes that the occupying forces have committed killings, "intentional attacks against civilians" and acts of torture in the towns of Motyzhyn, Kopyliv and Severynivka, near kyiv, between February and April 2022. Our journalist Valentine Pasquesoone details what their report describes.10:43 p.m. : The United States does not intend to send F-16...
by Jan Christoph Wiechmann 26.01.2023, 15:14 4 mins The files affair has added to Joe Biden. Difficult weeks are coming for the US President. And soon the decision will be made: Should he run for election again in 2024? If you ask people in California about Joe Biden's files affair, the most common reaction is: Biden is not that much better than Trump. Both took confidential documents with them. Both have a check on their throat. Both are old white...
It is a decision that will not please Pyongyang. US President Joe Biden on Monday appointed a special human rights envoy to North Korea, a post left vacant during the entire tenure of the former administration of Donald Trump. It had been created by a law in 2004 aimed at lobbying on the issue of human rights.The post, which has the rank of ambassador, was given to a career diplomat, Julie Turner, who currently heads the Asia section of the...
It's not the best of times for Joe Biden, with two unpleasant pieces of news circulating over the weekend. Word first got around that his chief of staff, Ron Klain, wanted to give up his post in the White House. Then, on Saturday evening, it became known in Washington that the day before, further papers classified as secret had been found in the US President's private home in Delaware.Accordingly, investigators from the Justice Department again secured files at the Bidens'...
The case continues to rebound. After the discovery of classified documents, dating from the time when Joe Biden was vice-president of Barack Obama, in an office of a Washington study center then in the garage of his family home in Wilmington in November then in early January, six new documents were found in the Delaware residence. "The Department of Justice took possession of documents (...) within the framework of its investigation, including six elements consisting of documents" classified, during a...
government records Investigators find more secret documents in Joe Biden's private home Among other things, the US Department of Justice seized six documents with confidential markings at Joe Biden's home in Wilmington © ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP Confidential documents have surfaced again in the private rooms of the US President. This time investigators searched for it for a whole day. Things are getting more and more uncomfortable for Joe Biden. In the search for government documents, investigators came across other...
