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UN blasts Meta for allowing hate speech against Russians The social media giant, however, insists the measure is needed to allow Ukrainians to express their opinions on the ongoing conflict The United Nations has condemned the move by Meta to allow hateful remarks and calls for violence against certain Russians, with Stephane Dujarric, the spokesman for the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, stating that the international body does not condone such calls coming from any side. “We stand clearly against all hate speech, all calls for violence. That kind of language is just unacceptable from whichever quarter it comes from,” Dujarric said during a news briefing on Friday. Meta, meanwhile, tried to downplay the impact of its controversial move, with the social media giant’s President for Global Affairs and former British Deputy PM Nick Clegg releasing a statement to clarify the decision. The main goal of the platform was to enable Ukrainians to vent their anger over the Russian offensi...

Russia-Ukraine conflict could trigger global food shortage – UN The two countries are major exporters of agricultural products Russia-Ukraine conflict could trigger global food shortage – UN In addition to Covid-related shortages, disruption to agricultural production in Russia and Ukraine because of Moscow’s attack on its neighbor could seriously exacerbate global food insecurity, Qu Dongyu, the director-general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, has claimed. In a statement on Friday, he outlined how the two countries play a substantial role in the world’s production and supply of foodstuffs. “Russia is the world’s largest exporter of wheat, and Ukraine is the fifth-largest. Together, they provide 19% of the world’s barley supply, 14% of wheat, and 4% of maize, making up more than one-third of global cereal exports,” he said. Qu added that the two nations are also lead suppliers of rapeseed, and account for 52% of the world’s sunflower oil export market. Global f...

Freeze of country’s assets could boomerang on Western investors Sanctions could see creditors lose billions in Russian loans Russia could leave Western investors with huge losses if it is not allowed to pay off bond holders due to its foreign currency holdings being frozen abroad. According to the World Bank, the country is edging closer to a default, however, analysts point out that this is a technicality due to the fact that Russia can pay its debt using the ruble instead of the currency in which the bonds were issued. Russia is “in square default territory,” said the World Bank’s chief economist, Carmen Reinhart, according to Reuters. She added that the country is “not rated by the agencies as a selective default yet, but mighty close.” According to Reinhart, the same goes for Belarus as well. Fitch ratings agency downgraded Russia’s sovereign rating further into junk territory on Tuesday, saying a default was imminent. Russia is due to pay $107 million in coupon payments on two bon...

Bloomberg news has taken CNN place as the most biased unprofessional controversial double agents working for the government that we have in the press. Anyone that could say Putin is losing because the war is still going on first and foremost they would have to be checked and see if they were insane. The little girl Maria Tadeo  that works for Bloomberg News. Said this is going bad for Putin he said it would be over in 2 days. First and foremost let me explain warfare to you American People, Americans believe in bombing countries into the Stone age then going in mopping them up and then rebuild them and you'll be there for 22 years defeating yourself spending billions in deficit spending. The classic fighting in warfare is very simple strategically you place your troops,surround cities starve them artillery shell them and keep everything in place and then the spoil and booty goes to the victors. This is exactly what's happened in Ukraine they've been surrounded captured, str...