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Combined, Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea possess over 12,000 nuclear weapons, these countries and their citizens are most at risk from nuclear catastrophe
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Russia and Turkey, which support opposing factions in Syria's more than six-year civil war, have had a tumultuous relationship in recent years. Turkey's geographic and political position as a bridge between East and West has given it strategic leverage with both the Western military alliance NATO, of which it is a member, and Russia, an important economic partner. With Turkish-backed Syrian rebels facing major defeats by both the Russia-backed Syrian military and the U.S.-backed Kurdish militants, Thursday's announcement that Turkey and Russia agreed to allow international forces into areas of respective influence in Syria comes as Ankara attempts to retain its stake in the conflict.
Related: Iran and Turkey, at war in Syria, back Qatar in Gulf crisis with food and military exercises
"We will probably be most prominent in the Idlib region with the Russians, mostly Russia and Iran around Damascus; and a mechanism involving the Americans and Jordan in the south in the Daraa region is being worked on," Ibrahim Kalin, spokesperson for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was quoted as saying, according to Reuters . What has happened
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THE WEST IS HELL-BENT ON PROLONGING ITS PROXY WAR ENDLESSLY. IAN SINCLAIR PROVIDES THE EVIDENCE
Since 1976 the award-winning US media watchdog Project Censored has printed an annual list of the most under-reported news stories in the US media – the “news that didn’t make the news.”
Should someone start publishing a similar book about the UK media, the top under-reported story of 2022 will almost certainly be the news the British government worked to prevent a negotiated settlement to the Ukraine war in March-April 2022.
Here’s what we know.
Following Russia’s aggressive and illegal invasion of Ukraine on February 24, in March Ukrainian and Russian negotiators met in Istanbul for talks. On March 17 a Sky News headline summarised: “‘15-point’ peace deal being ‘seriously discussed’ as Putin says he’s ‘ready to talk’”.
The deal included “a ceasefire and a Russian withdrawal, with Kyiv having to accept neutrality and curbs on its armed forces,” the report noted. “Citing three sources involved in the negotiations, the FT [Financial Times] said Ukraine would have to give up its bid to join Nato – something Mr Zelensky has already hinted at.”
“It would also have to promise not to allow foreign military bases or weaponry into the country in exchange for protection from allies such as the US, UK and Turkey.”
Quoted in a March 20 Al-Jazeera report, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu stated “We see that the parties are close to an agreement.”
This is also the conclusion of Fiona Hill, a Russia specialist in the Bush and Obama administrations, and Angela Stent, an ex-intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the US National Intelligence Council.
Writing in the September/October issue of the establishment Foreign Affairs magazine after having spoken to “multiple former senior US officials,” they note “Russian and Ukrainian negotiators appeared to have tentatively agreed on the outlines of a negotiated interim settlement” in April 2022.
“Russia would withdraw to its position on February 23, where it controlled part of the Donbass region and all of Crimea, and in exchange, Ukraine would promise not to seek Nato membership and instead receive security guarantees from a number of countries.”
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The Baltic Sea is one of the most polluted bodies of water in the world. The seabed contains 300,000 tonnes of wartime weapons, including bombs, grenades, missiles, and chemical agents. These weapons have been leaking toxic chemicals into the water for a century, including TNT, mustard gas, phosgene, and arsenic. Due to Approximately 40,000 tonnes of chemical munitions were dumped into the Baltic Sea after the Second World War. It is estimated that these chemical munitions contained some 13,000 tonnes of chemical warfare agents . Germany dumped chemical munitions in the Baltic Sea in the following areas: East of Bornholm, South-east of Gotland, and South of Little Belt.
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