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Russia establishes partnership with the Taliban

Russia is initiating closer cooperation with the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. A few years ago, Norway believed that engaging with the Taliban could improve the situation for women in the Islamist country.

Trump: “Xi agrees not to send weapons to Iran”

Results are starting to trickle in from the Beijing summit: Xi has reportedly promised Trump that China will not supply Iran with weapons. This is a significant pledge — if it is kept. China, however, remains very interested in Iranian oil. Before the war, China imported 1.4 million barrels per day from Iran — accounting for a full 90 percent of Iran’s total exports.

Merz: More than two thirds of EU funds go to redistribution and subsidies

Germany has historically been skeptical of burdening the state with large amounts of debt. However, climate policy, the war in Ukraine, and military investments are now forcing Berlin to borrow. Chancellor Merz is therefore trying to get the EU to rethink its priorities.

Why did Norway send Kravik to Tehran – A rescue mission?

Norwegian News Media (NTB) has interviewed State Secretary Andreas Kravik following his return from Tehran. It makes for bizarre reading. Both NTB and the Foreign Ministry try to play the neutral middle ground, but when dealing with a regime that has many faces and where it is unclear who actually holds power, diplomacy becomes a farce. Kravik voices no objections whatsoever. He takes the regime at face value. We know that is a major lie.

Trump uses personal relationship to warm ties with Xi

First visit in nine years: The American delegation met their Chinese counterparts in Peking on Friday. Trump praised Xi Jinping as a great leader and said he fully deserved it. Everyone around the table knows that Trump said something completely different during the pandemic. He called Covid-19 the “China virus” and demanded that China pay compensation amounting to staggering sums. Now the tone was entirely different. The US is on the rise, while China is in a weakened position.

Swedish media’s tearful coverage of couple who defied 47 deportation orders

A family from Uzbekistan has been treated with great sympathy by the Swedish media because they have been denied residence permits in Sweden. The family arrived in Sweden in 2005 and has received a total of 47 deportation orders. Even the French newspaper Le Monde has covered the story.

Danish police show how to deal with thugs

Early Wednesday morning, around 80–100 activists/thugs turned up outside Maersk’s headquarters on Esplanaden in Copenhagen. Danish police brutally dragged the activists away, often after first giving them several good blows with the baton, and zip-tied many of them.

“I can’t let my children grow up here” – One of Germany’s top YouTubers leaves the country

The popular German YouTuber “Radical Living” takes on the political narrative that tries to conceal society’s decline and explains why he has decided to leave Germany for good.

Catastrophic results for immigrant children: Every second 15-tear-old cannot read or count

Every second 15-year-old with an immigrant background does not even possess basic reading and mathematics skills. This is shown by a closer analysis of the results achieved by Swedish pupils in the latest Pisa survey.

Norway to cooperate with Romania against disinformation

It almost sounds like a joke. Espen Barth Eide is in Bucharest to sign an agreement on cooperation against disinformation. Romania is the country where the EU used disinformation to overturn a lawfully elected president. Călin Georgescu won the first round of the presidential election, but the second round was cancelled for obscure reasons. Recently, […]