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The latest oil price-tracking data suggests Russian crude oil is selling far above price caps imposed by the G7 nations in 2022.

U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Wednesday laid out the U.S. vision for a post-war future in Gaza, urging Israel not to reoccupy the area before conceding there may be a “transition period.”

Data from two top ship tracking firms revealed that shipments of Russian crude oil to China and India, Russia’s top two buyers, rose by ten percent in May to hit record levels despite the Biden administration’s pleas to cut down on Moscow’s prodigious income stream by respecting sanctions and price caps.

Japan’s Nagoya District Court ruled Tuesday that failing to recognize same-sex marriages is unconstitutional, even though the Japanese Constitution currently stipulates that marriage requires a man and a woman.

President Joe Biden doubled down on globalism at the G7 summit this week, making clear that his administration is “not looking to decouple [the United States] from China” despite millions of American jobs lost.

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), the chief regulatory agency for Internet technology in the Communist tyranny, ruled on Sunday that some products from U.S. chipmaker Micron Technology Inc. failed a “security review.”

Socialist Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva proclaimed himself “upset” on Sunday that his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, scheduled an in-person meeting with him this weekend and failed to show.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Sunday that Ukraine currently does not meet the requirements to join the NATO military alliance.

President Biden claimed that Ukrainian’s Zelensky vowed American-made F-16 fighter jets will not be used to attack the Russian mainland.

President Joe Biden lied Sunday when he said he was responsible for establishing the Quad alliance: a diplomatic association that links the United States, Australia, India, and Japan in common political cause across the Indo-Pacific and South China Sea.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived Saturday in Japan for talks with the leaders of the world’s most powerful democracies,

Efforts by Trudeau to push his LGBT agenda at the G7 reportedly left Italian PM Giorgia Meloni looking “visibly” irate.

President Biden stumbled down steps while meeting G-7 leaders during his foreign trip on Friday as voters continue to hold looming concerns about his age.

Chinese state media are touting the China-Central Asia Summit, held on Thursday and Friday in the historic northwestern Chinese city of Xian, as a counter to the Group of Seven (G7) gather of democracies in Japan this weekend.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday that even though a planned meeting of the Quad alliance was canceled because President Joe Biden pulled out at the last minute, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of fellow Quad member India will still visit Australia next week and hold all of his scheduled events, as well as a bilateral meeting with Albanese.

China’s state-run Global Times had a field day on Wednesday, mocking President Joe Biden for canceling his trips to Australia and Papua New Guinea (PNG).

The White House on Tuesday canceled President Joe Biden’s planned trips to Papua New Guinea and Australia, which were to have taken place next week on his way home from the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Hiroshima, Japan.

The G7’s top financial leaders united Saturday to diversify supply chains and to support Ukraine but did not make any mention of China.

China’s state-run Global Times propaganda newspaper published an editorial on Wednesday dismissing calls by American Secretary of State Antony Blinken for Beijing to return to communications with Washington, stating the Communist Party has “no time” for “insincere people” like Blinken.

The U.S., UK, Canada, Japan, and France announced a nuclear power alliance “aimed at displacing Putin” from the international energy market.

Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio made a surprise visit to Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv on Tuesday for talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky. Russia flew two nuclear-capable strategic bombers over the Sea of Japan on Tuesday in an apparent gesture of disapproval.

Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss has warned that the rise of Communist China is a “threat” to the “free world”, and urged more military alliances and economic solidarity to contain it. 

China’s trade deficit with Russia tripled in 2022, a report revealed on Friday, thanks in part to skyrocketing energy prices that made Russia’s discounted oil and gas irresistible to Chinese buyers.

The Cabinet Office has had to report a spike in carbon emissions – much of it a result of jet use associated with climate-focused summits.

Under the so-called Conservative Party, the British public saw their tax burden rise at the second-highest rate among G7 nations in 2021.

Cargo data cited by The Hindu on Sunday showed Russia has become the top supplier of oil to India, with deliveries accounting for 22 percent of India’s total crude imports, vaulting past Iran with just over 20 percent and Saudi Arabia with 16 percent.

Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg to discuss “friendly relations” and “common interests.” 

British Prime Minister Liz Truss told the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday that free nations should band together and “act as an economic NATO” to defend prosperity against the malevolent influence of authoritarian regimes like Russia and China.

Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges connected recent Russian missile strikes with G7 and NATO summits, saying Russia was purposely “humiliating the leaders of the West.” he said.

President Joe Biden held a trilateral meeting with the leaders of Japan and South Korea – Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and President Yoon Suk-yeol, respectively – in Spain on Wednesday in which the two conservatives pressed Biden to prioritize the threat from communist North Korea.

Western leaders who mocked Russian President Vladimir Putin’s propensity to be photographed topless have been met with the riposte they would look “disgusting” if they tried to emulate his bare-torso bravado.

The UK should begin sending weapons to Taiwan in order to bolster their defence against an invasion from China, the foreign secretary said.

Boris Johnson has claimed the Ukraine invasion represents Putin’s “toxic masculinity” and that it would not have happened if he was a woman.

Leaders from the Group of Seven (G7) nations on Sunday announced a $600 billion infrastructure plan for developing nations – a program clearly intended to compete with China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). 

G7 Leaders pledged Monday to work together to curb climate change while ensuring energy security for their citizens.

U.S. President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada are reportedly blocking a British plan to fight food shortages and inflation by cutting back on biofuels in favour of edible crops, claiming it endangers their “net zero” ambitions.