Day: February 15, 2025

China calls for all stakeholders in Ukraine war to be in peace process

Post author By Mike Nova
Post date February 15, 2025

China believes all stakeholders in the Russia-Ukraine conflict should participate in the peace talks, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday, underscoring Europe’s role in them after a flurry of U.S. messaging on how to end the war.

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New Yorkers protest erasing words transgender, queer from Stonewall National Monument website

Post author By Mike Nova
Post date February 15, 2025

The official government website for the Stonewall National Monument has replaced the acronym LGBTQ with “LGB,” eliminating the words transgender and queer, and now, the Army is officially banning transgender recruits. New Yorkers gathered together Friday to show their support for the trans and queer community. CBS News New York’s Derick Waller reports.

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Analysis: Russia is relishing a series of contradictory White House messages on Ukraine

Post author By Mike Nova
Post date February 15, 2025

As Ukraine’s brutal war nears its third year, two visions risk becoming irreconcilable. On one side, a White House whose policy is in turns strident, revisionist, and then – it seems, sometimes – in urgent need of clarification. On the other, Ukraine, where President Volodymyr Zelensky is outside, looking in, on peace talks, while hundreds die daily on frontlines where Moscow is winning.