President-elect Donald Trump nominated the former Democratic congresswoman and a 21-year army reserve veteran to oversee the bewildering array of 18 US spy agencies in his incoming administration. “A foreign policy and national security appointment…
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Ekaterina Blinova is a freelance journalist and has been a Sputnik contributor since 2014. She has a specialist’s degree in history and specialists in US, European, Middle Eastern and Asian politics, international relations, sociology and high tech.
Humanity has forfeited its opportunity to limit global warming to below 1.5°C due to the inability to reduce carbon emissions, Professor Jim Skea, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), informed the British…
The US media defines an ‘October surprise’, a term coined by Reagan campaign manager William Casey in 1980, as a game-changing event ahead of Election Day. But can a bombshell really mean victory for one…
Over the past two weeks, Democratic hopeful Kamala Harris was endorsed by hundreds of former high-ranking national security officials from both sides of the partisan divide who “firmly oppose the election of Donald Trump.” US…
By the time the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) 2024 reconvened on September 23 in New York City, Volodymyr Zelensky had already arrived in the US to present his “victory plan” to President Joe Biden. Nonetheless,…
After a massive pager detonation, Lebanon faced another wave of blasts on September 18. Earlier in the day, a Lebanese source told Sputnik that devices other than pagers had exploded in different parts of the…
Global markets saw a sell-off on August 5 over fears the US might be heading for recession. Japan’s stocks plummeted to their lowest level in 37 years, European markets tumbled, while Mideast financial indicators went…
Barack Obama has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president, even though he was previously said to doubt her ability to beat Donald Trump. Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel has discussed with Sputnik why Obama…
The US and South Korea have inked joint nuclear deterrence guidelines to respond to what they call North Korea’s evolving nuclear threats. What’s behind the agreement? US President Joe Biden and his South Korean counterpart…
China experts told Sputnik that Chairman Xi Jinping’s recent visit to Europe won’t bring immediate changes but is part of Beijing’s broader and long-term geopolitical strategy. Xi Jinping’s recent European tour was largely perceived as…