NEWS

05

Apr

bond, NATO, Russia, SANCTIONS, the United States, Ukraine crisis

U.S. stops Russian bond payments in bid to raise pressure on Moscow

PEJOURNAL - The United States stopped the Russian government on Monday from paying holders of its sovereign debt more than $600 million from reserves held at American banks, in a move meant to ratchet up pressure on Moscow and eat into its holdings of U.S. dollars. Under sanctions put in place after Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, foreign currency reserves held by the Russian central bank at U.S. financial institutions were frozen. But the Treasury Department had been allowing the Russian government to use those funds to make coupon payments on dollar-denominated sovereign debt on a case-by-case basis. On…

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05

Apr

North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, South Korea

North Korea says it will strike with nuclear weapons if South attacks

PEJOURNAL - North Korea opposes war but would use nuclear weapons if South Korea attacked, Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, said on Tuesday, in a warning that analysts said is probably aimed at the South's incoming conservative president. Kim Yo Jong, a senior official in the government and ruling party, said it was a "very big mistake" for South Korea's minister of defence to make recent remarks discussing attacks on the North, state news agency KCNA reported. South Korean Defence Minister Suh Wook had said on Friday that his country's military has a variety…

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25

Nov

Bahrain, Brett McGurk, Eyal Hulata, Manama dialogue, Middle East, National Security Council, Pooya Mirzaei, Regional Security Summit, Saudi Arabia, Security, the United States, Zionist regime

Manama dialogue: Gathering for security or insecurity?

BY: Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - In recent days, Bahrain has hosted a meeting in Manama called the Regional Security Summit. Although Bahrain was the nominal host of the Manama dialogue, the meeting could be considered to be hosted by Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, given Riyadh's godfather's ruling on Manama. The record of these countries, both domestically against their citizens and in the region against free nations like Yemen, shows that they are themselves part of the crisis and the cause of insecurity in the region, and therefore hosting Manama dialogue called the Regional Security Summit is a clear contradiction. Official…

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18

Nov

Afghanistan, Belarus, Belarusian-Polish border, EU, POLAND, Refugees, Russia, US

Refugees on the Belarusian-Polish border are victims of Western human rights

BY: Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - The humanitarian crisis, centered on refugees and refugees, has taken on new dimensions, with thousands of refugees settling on the Belarusian-Polish border in recent days, and Polish authorities preventing them from entering the EU by placing barbed wire and an army on the border. The situation on the border between Belarus and Poland is very difficult, and asylum seekers are facing food and water shortages in the extreme cold, and numerous reports of humanitarian catastrophe are published in these centers every day. A remarkable point in response to this humanitarian catastrophe is the reaction of…

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09

Nov

Israeli Intelligence, Justice for Palestine, secret information, Zionist regime

Hacker group leak secret information of Senior Israeli Intelligence

PEJOURNAL - A hacker group called 'Justice for Palestine' released confidential information of high-ranking Israeli intelligence and military officials in the cyberspace. The group, whose mission is said to be "revealing the identities of the Zionist regime's criminal elements who harm the innocent Palestinian people", has released first-hand information on the personal and private lives, addresses, telephone numbers and lifestyles of high-ranking Israeli military and security officials in the form of text, photos and videos in Persian on the Telegram channel @ justice_palestine. The channel, which describes itself as "an international popular network of freedom-seeking and noble supporters of justice,…

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08

Nov

Facebook, Francis Hagen, Instagram, Meta, Pratiti Raychoudhury, social network

Facebook ignores its users’ misuse of this social network

PEJOURNAL - Internal documents leaked from Facebook show that the company's researchers were aware of the misuse of users of the social network and ignored this issue. The documents show that one in eight Facebook users uses Facebook inappropriately, harming their sleep, work, and family and social relationships. Facebook experts have used the term problematic to describe the condition, but experts generally use the term Internet addiction to describe the condition. By 2019, Facebook had hired a group on this social network that sought to assess the well-being and comfort of users when using it.The group came up with ways…

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08

Nov

China, EU, Europe, nuclear submarine, South China Sea, USA

US secrecy over nuclear submarine incident in South China Sea

BY: Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - Nearly a month ago, the media reported that a US nuclear submarine had struck rocks under the waters of the South China Sea. The U.S. Army Pacific Fleet said in a statement that one of its fastest nuclear and nuclear submarines crashed into a rock while navigating international waters in the Indo-Pacific region. Since then, the Chinese government has demanded a clear and precise explanation from the United States in connection with the incident, but the US Navy has not yet provided any explanation on how the submarine behaved and continues to be secretive in…

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01

Nov

China, community defense, EU, foreign policy, NATO, Russia, the United States, USA

EU, NATO and the challenges for a foreign policy and community defense policy

BY: Paolo Mauri Translated BY: Costantino Ceoldo PEJOURNAL - The need to adopt a common defense and foreign policy has strongly returned to the agenda of the European Union. The triggering cause, or if we want “the straw that broke the camel's back”, was the unilateral management by the United States of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, which essentially excluded the Allies belonging to NATO from the decision-making processes of the Kabul evacuation operation. The prodromes of this renewed need had been advanced, as we well know, by French President Emmanuel Macron, who earlier this year stated that Europe needed “strategic…

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30

Oct

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, API, Carolyn B Maloney, climate, Exxon Mobil, Joe Biden, oil companies, US Congress, USA

Major US oil companies face grilling by Congress

PEJOURNAL - Top oil executives have appeared before US lawmakers to face allegations they misled the public about climate change. Major producers were quizzed about the impact of the fossil fuels they profit from and their environmental toll. The hearing on Thursday, which Democrats hailed as historic, marked the first time oil bosses had answered questions publicly and under oath. The six-hour session saw some heated exchanges, with firms such as BP and Shell facing tough questions. "Some of us actually have to live the future that you are all setting on fire for us," Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said.…

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16

Oct

Azerbaijan, Global Financial Integrity, Lady Green, Lakshmi Kumar, offshore, Pandora Papers, Qatari ruling family, Russia, Sir Philip, the United States, Uhuru Kenyatta

A simple guide to the Pandora Papers leak

PEJOURNAL - The Pandora Papers is a leak of almost 12 million documents that reveals hidden wealth, tax avoidance and, in some cases, money laundering by some of the world's rich and powerful. More than 600 journalists in 117 countries have been trawling through the files from 14 sources for months, finding stories that are being published this week. The data was obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in Washington DC, which has been working with more than 140 media organisations on its biggest ever global investigation. BBC Panorama and the Guardian have led the investigation in…

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