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WriteerNg:
⚡INDIA'S MODI REFUSED TRUMP'S CALLS 4 TIMES IN RECENT WEEKS, GERMAN NEWSPAPER FAZ CLAIMS

WriteerNg:
⚡ Volodin Meets Xi Jinping in Beijing.

Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin met with Chinese President Xi Jinping during his official visit to Beijing.

Volodin conveyed personal greetings from Vladimir Putin and thanked Xi for preserving the memory of Soviet soldiers. He also praised China’s contribution to WWII, saying:

"It is very important for us to remember those who sacrificed their lives so that we could develop today. It was at the cost of huge losses that our peoples did everything to win freedom," emphasized the Chairman of the State Duma."

Dvdpity:
Why can't they start mining their ports and beaches now?

WriteerNg:
⚡Zelensky does not plan to go to Moscow for a meeting with Putin – Canadian Prime Minister Carney

I was in Kyiv two days ago, met with President Zelensky, and he confirmed: Kyiv is ready to meet with President Putin anywhere, on neutral territory.

In other words, he does not expect Putin to come to Kyiv, and he himself does not plan to go to Moscow for such a meeting. But any other place is possible.

'Zelensky does not plan to go to Moscow for a meeting with Putin' – Canadian Prime Minister Carney

'I was in Kyiv two days ago, met with President Zelensky, and he confirmed: Kyiv is ready to meet with President Putin anywhere, on neutral territory. In other words, he does not… pic.twitter.com/Fp8cHXAIsX

— Zlatti71 (@Zlatti_71) August 26, 2025

🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇸 The US may impose sanctions and customs duties not only against Russia but also against Ukraine, Trump said. pic.twitter.com/gdix9H8O5J

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) August 26, 2025

seunny4lif:
If the news is true, then Modi knows Trump will utilise the conversation and unilaterally declare that India promised not to buy Russian Oil and take the credit.
Taking Trump's call is risky - he'll immediately say that India has agreed on this new trade deal

Lawag3:
Dey play. And only you in the whole wide world has this video?

For the past eight years I have worked as a stringer for Reuters news agency. My photos covering stories in the prairie provinces have been published by the New York Times, Al Jazeera, and other media outlets across North America, Asia, Europe, and elsewhere. At this point it’s become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.

When Israel murdered Anas Al-Sharif, together with the entire Al-Jazeera crew in Gaza City on August 10, Reuters chose to publish Israel’s entirely baseless claim that Al-Sharif was a Hamas operative – one of countless lies that media outlets like Reuters have dutifully repeated and dignified. Reuters’ willingness to perpetuate Israel’s propaganda has not spared their own reporters from Israel’s genocide. Five more journalists, including Reuters cameraman Hossam Al-Masri, were among 20 people killed this morning in another attack on Nasser hospital. It was what’s known as a “double tap” strike, in which Israel bombs a civilian target like a school or hospital; waits for medics, rescue teams, and journalists to arrive; and then strikes again.

Western media is directly culpable for creating the conditions in which this can happen. As Jeremy Scahill from Drop Site News put it, “every major outlet – from the New York Times to the Washington Post, from AP to Reuters – has served as a conveyor belt for Israeli propaganda, sanitizing war crimes and dehumanizing victims, abandoning their colleagues and their alleged commitment to true and ethical reporting.”

By repeating Israel’s genocidal fabrications without determining if they have any credibility – willfully abandoning the most basic responsibility of journalism – Western media outlets have made possible the killing of more journalists in two years on one tiny strip of land than in WWI, WWII, and the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, and Ukraine combined, to say nothing of starving an entire population, shredding its children, and burning people alive.

The fact that Anas Al-Sharif’s work won a Pulitzer Prize for Reuters did not compel them to come to his defence when Israeli occupation forces placed him on a “hit list” of journalists accused of being Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants. It did not compel them to come to his defence when he appealed to international media for protection after an Israeli military spokesperson posted a video making clear their intention to assassinate him following a report he did on the growing famine. It did not compel them to report on his death honestly when he was hunted and killed weeks later.

I have valued the work that I brought to Reuters over the past eight years, but at this point I can’t conceive of wearing this press pass with anything but deep shame and grief. I don’t know what it means to begin to honour the courage and sacrifice of journalists in Gaza – the bravest and best to ever live – but going forward I will direct whatever contributions I have to offer with that front of mind.

Mikasaobi:
https://www.rt.com/news/623533-reuters-journalist-quits-gaza-israel/

Journalist publicly quits Reuters over Gaza ‘culpability’ "Canadian photojournalist Valerie Zink has resigned as a Reuters stringer after eight years, alleging the agency has been “justifying and enabling” Israel’s killing of journalists in Gaza, including members of its own staff. Her announcement came hours after an Israeli airstrike on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on Monday, the largest medical facility in southern Gaza, that killed at least 20 people, including five journalists, according to local health officials.

In a Facebook post, Zink accused Reuters and other Western media of amplifying unverified Israeli claims linking reporters to Hamas militants, arguing that this has contributed to conditions in which dozens of journalists have been killed since October 2023. She cited the case of Anas al-Sharif, a prominent Al Jazeera reporter, who was killed with his crew in Gaza City earlier this month. ”Reuters chose to publish Israel’s entirely baseless claim that al-Sharif was a Hamas operative,” she wrote. Prior to the attack, the Israeli military alleged al-Sharif was a Hamas commander but provided no evidence.

”The fact that Anas Al-Sharif’s work won a Pulitzer Prize for Reuters did not compel them to come to his defence when Israeli occupation forces placed him on a hit list,” she added.

Zink also criticized Reuters’ response to the killing of its own staff, noting that cameraman Hossam al-Masri was among those killed at Nasser Hospital. Western media, she said, were “culpable” by repeating Israeli claims without verification, acting as “a conveyor belt for Israeli propaganda.”The number of journalists killed in Gaza since 2023 has now reached 245, according to press freedom groups."

Gerrard59:
If the pressure continues, we might see a change as it happened during Apartheid South Africa. In my opinion, I think today's West does not want to repeat that scenario where they lost political power in South Africa. If things change as they did in Apartheid South Africa, it means they have lost settler statuses in two different regions within a period of almost 40 years, and if you extend this to the Civil Rights legislation in the US, it means they have lost a lot of demographic and political control within a 70-year period. This is a demographic with a very anaemic fertility rate. So, they want to crush Palestine entirely. Two, the mentality of those in the UK and US, where White settlers derived power, differs significantly from today's Israelis.

But then, wealthy Arab states are culpable. In South Africa's case, Nigeria and the rest of sub-Saharan Africa lent support to Black South Africans. Qatar owns Al Jazeera, and Saudi Arabia is too rich to talk to its US' masters (can a servant command his master anyway?). What are they doing to end the situation?

Nevertheless, every mallam to his kettle. I cannot recall when any Middle Easterner called for the end to the massacres across various parts of Nigeria or sub-Saharan Africa.