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Chinese expert notices remarks 'unilateral,' no confirmation from Indian sideTHE INDEPENDENTTwo British men arrested in Benidorm after ‘staging fake kidnapping’ to extort £725MAIL & GUARDIANPolitical parties criticise budget speech amid stagnant growthTHE GUARDIANRobert Mugabe’s son charged with attempted murder over Johannesburg shootingMAIL & GUARDIANEkurhuleni’s moment: Why a University of Applied Science cannot waitLE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUEFebruary: the longer viewTHE DIPLOMATCambodia Rejects Thai Claims It Launched a Grenade at Thai TroopsBRASIL WIREInside Brazil’s X Ban: How Elon Musk Started–and lost–a Fight With Brazil’s JudiciaryLE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUEGaza: from witness to resistanceTHE GUARDIANTwo women arrested in Uganda for allegedly kissing in public could face life sentenceMAIL & GUARDIANSocial Grants get R292.8bn boostLE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUEIran unravelled, a littleTHE DIPLOMATThai Election Body Certifies Most Parliamentary Seats, Affirming Bhumjaithai VictoryTHE INDEPENDENTFour US residents killed, six captured after attempted ‘armed infiltration’ of Cuba, interior ministry saysTHE GUARDIANRoyal Artillery under fire after denying access to looted Asante treasureLE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUEMajor arms sellers and buyers
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Politics & Diplomacy

Politics & Diplomacy

News Roundup:

• Reports suggest President Trump is preparing a reconstruction fund and stabilization force for Gaza. • At the Munich Security Conference, debates on the collapsing global order continue. • In Bangladesh, the Nationalist Party claims victory in recent elections. • A UK High Court ruling declared the classification of Palestine Action as a terror group unlawful.

Analysis: The empire dresses its interventions in the language of “reconstruction” and “stabilization,” but Gaza knows too well that funds tied to Washington come with chains. Munich’s debates confirm what leaders admit quietly: the “international order” is fractured, and the U.S. grip is slipping.

Meanwhile, Bangladesh’s contested elections remind us how fragile democracy becomes under external pressure. And in London, the High Court’s ruling exposes the hypocrisy of labeling resistance as “terrorism” while shielding arms dealers.

Politics and diplomacy today are not about peace—they are about who controls the narrative, and who refuses to be silenced.

#PoliticsAndDiplomacy #Gaza #MunichSecurityConference #Bangladesh #PalestineAction #TheObserver #AlMuraqeb

Fire Over Ukraine

News: Russia has unleashed one of its largest renewed barrages against Ukraine this February. According to Ukraine’s Air Force, Moscow fired 11 ballistic missiles and 149 drones overnight, striking cities from Odesa in the south to Chernihiv in the north. At least 4 civilians were killed, including a woman and her 10-year-old son in Bohodukhiv (Kharkiv region), and a 71-year-old man in Chernihiv. Energy facilities in Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, and Donetsk were also hit, deepening nationwide blackouts.

Analysis: Washington talks of “peace talks” while Moscow spends $325 million in a single night of destruction. Strategic bombers—Tu-95MS, Tu-160, Tu-22M3—and cruise missiles like Kalibr and Kh-101 were used to cripple Ukraine’s power grid. This is not negotiation; it is coercion through fire.

Munich’s conference debates “global order,” but the order is already visible: empires bomb, civilians die, and courts in London rule that resistance groups like Palestine Action cannot be silenced by terror labels. The hypocrisy is global, the violence local.

#PoliticsAndDiplomacy #UkraineWar #Russia #USPeaceTalks #MunichSecurityConference #PalestineAction #TheObserver #AlMuraqeb