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Support for Ukraine softens: Recent poll shows how shortsighted and selfish Americans are about aid

Support among the American public for providing Ukraine weaponry and direct economic assistance has softened as the Russian invasion nears a grim one-year milestone, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Forty-eight percent say they favor the U.S. providing weapons to Ukraine, with 29% opposed and 22% saying they’re neither in favor nor opposed. In May 2022, less than three months into the war, 60% of U.S. adults said they were in favor of sending Ukraine weapons. Americans are about evenly divided on sending government funds directly to Ukraine, with 37% in...

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Stained with blood: IOC’s corruption betrays Olympic spirit with refusal to ban Russians from Paris games

Russian athletes have “no place” at next year’s 2024 Olympics while their country’s invasion of Ukraine continues, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told a summit of sports officials from 36 countries, saying that their potential presence in Paris was a “manifestation of violence.” Critics contend that the longstanding greed and corruption of International Olympic Committee, and its appeasement of Putin, is the basis of the organizations argument that it would be discriminatory to exclude Russia and ally Belarus from sports ahead of the 2024 Paris Games. “While Russia kills and terrorizes, representatives of the terrorist state have no place at...

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President Maia Sandu details Putin’s violent plot to topple her government as prelude to seize Moldova

Moldova’s president outlined on February 13 what she described as a plot by Moscow to overthrow her country’s government using external saboteurs, put the nation “at the disposal of Russia” and derail its aspirations to one day join the European Union. President Maia Sandu’s briefing comes a week after neighboring Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country had intercepted plans by Russian secret services to destroy Moldova, claims that were later confirmed by Moldovan intelligence officials. “The plan for the next period involves actions with the involvement of diversionists with military training, camouflaged in civilian clothes, who will undertake...

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U.S. launches international initiative for responsible use of AI and autonomous weapons by militaries

The United States launched an initiative in mid-February promoting international cooperation on the responsible use of artificial intelligence and autonomous weapons by militaries, seeking to impose order on an emerging technology that has the potential to change the way war is waged. “As a rapidly changing technology, we have an obligation to create strong norms of responsible behavior concerning military uses of AI and in a way that keeps in mind that applications of AI by militaries will undoubtedly change in the coming years,” Bonnie Jenkins, the State Department’s under secretary for arms control and international security, said. She...

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Support of Iran regime by China’s Xi seen as enabling Russian terror campaigns against Ukraine and Syria

Chinese leader Xi Jinping expressed support for Iran during a visit on February 14 by its president as Tehran tries to expand relations with Beijing and Moscow to offset Western sanctions over its nuclear development. The official Chinese account of Xi’s meeting with Ebrahim Raisi gave no indication whether they discussed Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Tehran supplied military drones to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government but says they were delivered before the war began. Xi expressed support for Raisi’s government in language Beijing uses to criticize Washington’s domination of global affairs. China and Iran portray themselves, alongside Moscow, as...

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Already hard-hit by war: Syrians struggle to get aid and rebuild after devastating earthquake

After years of war, residents of areas in northwest Syria struck by a massive earthquake are grappling with their new and worsening reality. Days after the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck northern Syria and neighboring Turkey, the United Nations has acknowledged an international failure to help Syrian quake victims. In Atareb, a town that Syrian rebels still hold after years of fighting government troops, survivors dug through the debris of their homes, picking up the remnants of their shattered lives and looking for ways to heal after the latest in a series of humanitarian disasters to hit the war-battered...

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