Current Events

Freelance journalist based in Riga

19 Mar 2024 3 4

Maia Sandu

Inserted 1 month ago

“It is important to hold a referendum now because it is a historic occasion, awaited for three decades. The European Union member states are more open than ever, we have the necessary political will for this step, and our citizens want to be part of the EU.”

Seenews

President of Moldova

19 Mar 2024 2 2

Celeste Saulo

Inserted 1 month ago

“The World Meteorological Organization community is sounding the Red Alert to the world. What we witnessed in 2023, especially with the unprecedented ocean warmth, glacier retreat and Antarctic sea ice loss, is cause for particular concern. Ocean heat is particularly concerning because it is almost irreversible. The trend is really very worrying and that is because of the characteristics of water that keep heat content for longer than the atmosphere.”

Secretary General of World Meteorological Organization

19 Mar 2024 5 4

Tim Less

Inserted 1 month ago

“Putin is… planning to mobilise more men, once the election is over. Among other things, he has banned the exit of fighting-age men from the country and banned the antiwar candidate, Boris Nadezhdin, from standing in the election, for fear he may generate opposition to the war effort. Putin appears to have concluded that further mobilisation is essential to press home Russia's advantage on the battlefield and that this is what he will do.”

Lecturer at Cambridge University's Centre for Geopolitics

18 Mar 2024 5 2

Ella Pamfilova

Inserted 1 month ago

“This is a record figure. The turnout is a record - an unprecedented 77.44 percent. This has never happened in the history of the new Russia. We proved to ourselves that we are an independent nation … and in the face of the West we showed that we are united. We are proud of this.”

Aje

Russia electoral chief

18 Mar 2024 1 3

Vladimir Putin

Inserted 1 month ago

“No matter who or how much they want to intimidate us, no matter who or how much they want to suppress us, our will, our consciousness - no one has ever succeeded in anything like this in history. It has not worked now and will not work in the future. Never.”

President of Russia

18 Mar 2024 0 3

Florian Philippot

Inserted 1 month ago

“We have huge debts, we have no money for hospitals, we have no money for our farmers, we have no money for pensions, we have no money for our public services, but we are happy to invest billions in NATO. We are crazy. NATO controls every country like a slave. Yet, as a union, NATO should have disappeared with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. North Atlantic Alliance managed to continue its existence because the United States can always find or invent a threat. And they chose Russia as the enemy. I think by 2030, the enemies will be Russia and China. But France should not participate in this game.”

Msn

French Politician

17 Mar 2024 5 2

Benjamin Netanyahu

Inserted 1 month ago

“We will operate in Rafah. This will take several weeks, and it will happen.”

Prime Minister of Israel

17 Mar 2024 2 1

Amadou Abdramane

Inserted 1 month ago

“Niger regrets the intention of the American delegation to deny the sovereign Nigerien people the right to choose their partners and types of partnerships capable of truly helping them fight against terrorism. Also, the government of Niger forcefully denounces the condescending attitude accompanied by the threat of retaliation from the head of the American delegation towards the Nigerien government and people. The status and presence of U.S. troops in Niger are illegal and violated constitutional and democratic rules because it was unilaterally imposed on the African nation in 2012. Niger is not aware of the number of U.S. civilian and military personnel on its soil or the amount of equipment deployed and, according to the agreement, the U.S. military had no obligation to respond to any request for help against militants. In light of all the above, the government of Niger, revokes with immediate effect the agreement concerning the status of United States military personnel and civilian employees of the American Department of Defense on the territory of the Republic of Niger.”

Spokesperson for the Nigerien military junta

16 Mar 2024 2 4

Robert Fatton

Inserted 1 month ago

“Cherizier likes to compare himself to historical figures like South Africa's Nelson Mandela or Cuba's longtime President Fidel Castro. And he likes to say that he's essentially a revolutionary … and he's going to redistribute wealth. While Cherizier has distributed some food and resources to people in areas under the control of his G9 gang, that's hardly a vision of the future or some sort of revolutionary [act]. It's more that he [Cherizier] wants to control his turf. Those who have suffered the most from the continued gang violence in the Haitian capital are the very, very poor people in the major slums. Something like over 200,000 Haitians had to leave their houses. They had to move into really very poorly equipped camps. You have, in other words, a situation where the people who are suffering the most are the very poor, the very people that Barbecue says he wants to help.”

Professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia

16 Mar 2024 6 3

Svetlana Chunikhina

Inserted 1 month ago

“The deep split within the totalitarian reality is manifested through the way Putin fanatically clings to the necessity of extending his endless cadences through 'election' while fully neutering the very essence of competition and open ending. In Russia, they consider elections as the most prestigious way to legitimise power. But totalitarian reality doesn't generate any prestige. It only generates fear and submissiveness.”

Vice president of the Association of Political Psychologists, a group in Kyiv

16 Mar 2024 4 2

Aleksandar Vucic

Inserted 1 month ago

“There are two scenarios. Either the West will go in the direction of a complete conflict with Russia, or with the help of the USA and China, some kind of truce will be established, which would mean a huge relief for the world. If they enter into [a] conflict, I'm afraid nobody will gain anything from it. A potential conflict could have more casualties than the Second World War, which is unimaginable for the 21st century. We are small and insignificant in that sense, but in any case, it will affect Serbia. We have to be ready for either solution, and we will find out within 100 days.”

Pravda

Serbian president

16 Mar 2024 5 3

Boris Bondarev

Inserted 1 month ago

“The low turnout of Putin's electorate could play in favour of the opposition's plan, but only if the anti-Putin electorate mobilises to show up at polling stations. One of the main obstacles to that is the perception among many antiwar Russian citizens that the election is just a spectacle and there is no sense in participating in it. If this reluctance to vote is overcome, then, we may well witness a protest vote significant enough to dent Putin's legitimacy claims, which could dampen the war fervour and plant a seed of doubt in the political elite.”

Former Russian diplomat

15 Mar 2024 3 2

Jimmy Cherizier

Inserted 1 month ago

“We're not going to recognise the decisions that CARICOM takes. I'm going to say to the traditional politicians that are sitting down with CARICOM, since they went with their families abroad, we who stayed in Haiti have to take the decisions. It's not just people with guns who've damaged the country but the politicians too. Now our fight will enter another phase - to overthrow the whole system, the system that is five percent of people who control 95 percent of the country's wealth. The presence of Kenyans in Haiti will be an irony because the same people who gave weapons to people in poor neighbourhoods to rise up against the former government, then lost control of those armed groups, are now appealing to a foreign force to save things. It is a mission that's failed in advance - it's a shame that William Ruto has to go in that direction.”

Haitian gang leader

15 Mar 2024 4 2

Viktor Orbán

Inserted 1 month ago

“If we want to defend Hungary's freedom and sovereignty, we have no other choice but to occupy Brussels. We will march to Brussels and bring the change to the European Union ourselves.”

Prime Minister of Hungary

15 Mar 2024 2 1

Jonas Horner

Inserted 1 month ago

“My impression is that there is momentum here - and my other accompanying sense is that it is in large part due to a boost in troops and technology that appears to be coming from Iran because the army can't get it from elsewhere. Many of the fighters battling the RSF are highly motivated Islamist forces seeking to reclaim Sudan. That ideological motivation counts for a lot next to those who are there for pay, as many RSF fighters are.”

Expert on Sudan who has worked with various think tanks such as the International Crisis Group

15 Mar 2024 3 3

Hagar Ali

Inserted 1 month ago

“I wouldn't be super optimistic, because it's one thing to take over territory and it's quite another to hold on to territory. The military is still fighting from a significant disadvantage despite its recent victories. In cities like Khartoum the RSF is more mobile and able to hide in alleyways, homes and buildings to avoid the army's air strikes. In vast open regions like Darfur - which is mostly controlled by the RSF - army aircraft have a clearer view of targets but they are also clear targets for anti-aircraft weapons.”

Expert on military-civilian relations in Sudan and a PhD candidate at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies

15 Mar 2024 4 3

Newton Ahmed Barry

Inserted 1 month ago

“In the case of Burkina Faso, Russia is making significant diplomatic gains by repositioning itself in areas that have traditionally been Western strongholds. And the best part is, it can achieve this at a lower cost.”

Burkinabe journalist currently in exile in France

15 Mar 2024 1 2

Marina Miron

Inserted 1 month ago

“Domestically, Putin is poised to prioritise addressing Russia's demographic challenges, a longstanding focus of legislative efforts. On the foreign policy front, Russia is likely to persist in its opposition to what the Kremlin perceives as a unipolar global order dominated by the United States. On the Ukraine war front Putin is committed to continuing the war. From a military standpoint, there is little indication of a shift in the overarching strategy, although some refinements may be made regarding the roles of specific branches of the Russian armed forces, notably the Black Sea Fleet. Russian forces might adopt a gradual territorial expansion approach, particularly focusing on northern regions such as Kharkiv … and southern areas like Odesa.”

Aje

Postdoctoral researcher in the War Studies Department at King’s College London

15 Mar 2024 6 3

Emmanuel Macron

Inserted 1 month ago

“If Russia were to win, the lives of French people would change. We would no longer have security in Europe.”

Politico

President of France

14 Mar 2024 3 4

Jens Stoltenberg

Inserted 1 month ago

“The Ukrainians are not running out of courage, they are running out of ammunition. NATO allies are not providing Ukraine with enough ammunition and that has consequences on the battlefield every day. It is one of the reasons why the Russians have been able to make some advance on the battlefield over the last weeks and months. It is an urgent need for allies to make the decisions necessary to step and provide more ammunition to Ukraine. That's my message to all capitals. We have the capacity, the economies, to be able to provide Ukraine what they need. This is a question of political will. To take the decisions and to prioritise support for Ukraine.”

Secretary General of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

14 Mar 2024 6 2

Chuck Schumer

Inserted 1 month ago

“At this critical juncture, I believe a new election is the only way to allow for a healthy and open decision-making process about the future of Israel, at a time when so many Israelis have lost their confidence in the vision and direction of their government. Netanyahu surrounded himself with far-right ministers and has been too willing to tolerate the civilian toll in Gaza, which is pushing support for Israel worldwide to historic lows. Israel cannot survive if it becomes a pariah.”

Aje

New York’s Senator and the Senate Majority Leader

14 Mar 2024 3 3

Yang Uk

Inserted 1 month ago

“The South Korean-U.S. training is over, but the North's isn't over yet. They won't just stand still … they've been talking about war.”

Analyst at Asan Institute for Policy Studies

14 Mar 2024 3 2

Robert Fatton

Inserted 1 month ago

“It's a very long road, but the immediate problem is the formation of the new government, the selection of a prime minister by the new government. Then the next consideration will be addressing the gang violence. Can you have negotiations with the gangs? If you can't have the negotiations with the gangs, will the Kenyans arrive on time and will they have the capacity to deal with them?”

Professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia

14 Mar 2024 3 2

Mariano de Alba

Inserted 1 month ago

“We are not sure how much this dynamic will last. But they [the gangs] formed a joint alliance in September 2023, basically trying to respond to the possibility that a multinational security mission was going to be deployed to Haiti, and they wanted to prevent that. These are groups that increasingly think that the only way to retain not only their relevance but their existence is if they are able to at least manage some important degree of political power.”

Senior adviser at the International Crisis Group

14 Mar 2024 1 2

Maria Zakharova

Inserted 1 month ago

“As a result of the ill-considered provocative actions of even one or two EU or NATO member states, the Ukrainian crisis could absolutely go beyond its geographical borders, acquire a completely different scale and develop uncontrollably. Accordingly, the question today is how to avoid the risks of further escalation. They are obvious and frightening to all sensible people.”

Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman

13 Mar 2024 3 5

Mike Johnson

Inserted 1 month ago

“No one wants Vladimir Putin to prevail. I'm of the opinion that he wouldn't stop at Ukraine … and go all through the way through Europe. There is a right and wrong there, a good versus evil in my view and Ukraine is the victim here.”

Pravda

US House of Representatives Speaker

13 Mar 2024 3 3

Hassan Nasrallah

Inserted 1 month ago

“Even if you go to Rafah, you have lost the war. Despite all the massacres, Gaza's people will not surrender to you. The people of Gaza are still embracing the resistance. Who are you negotiating with if Hamas has been defeated? All Palestinian factions are unanimous in stopping the aggression, contrary to what is being reported that Hamas is obstructing the negotiations.”

Aje

Secretary-General of Hezbollah

13 Mar 2024 4 2

Wang Wenbin

Inserted 1 month ago

“In recent years, though the United States has never found any evidence of TikTok posing a threat to U.S. national security, it has never stopped going after TikTok.”

Spokesperson of China and deputy director of the Foreign Ministry Information Department of China

13 Mar 2024 2 2

Vladimir Putin

Inserted 1 month ago

“Nevertheless, their [the raiders'] main goal, and I am sure of it, is to disrupt the presidential election in Russia, or at least somehow interfere with the normal process of expressing the will of the citizens. That's the first thing. The second is the information effect, which I have already mentioned. But the third is, if they succeed in getting some opportunity, some advantage, some bargaining chip in a possible future negotiation process: [they will say] we will give this back to you, but you will have to give that back to us.”

Pravda

President of Russia

13 Mar 2024 1 1

Michael Deibert

Inserted 1 month ago

“Barbecue has made vague demands of a more just and equitable system, but of course the irony of this whole situation is that the armed groups in the capital and around are creating the hell that people are living through. Barbecue claims to have united Port-au-Prince's notoriously quarrelsome gangs in a coalition called Viv Ansanm (Live Together). It is hard to verify that claim. But while so far no rival gang leader has denied it, any alliance is likely to be short-lived. These groups feud mercilessly with one another all the time. The gangs appear to have found a modus vivendi while they try to tear down the pillars of the state. To what end I'm not exactly clear.”

Bbc

Journalist, author and researcher at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE)

12 Mar 2024 5 2

Robert Fatton

Inserted 1 month ago

“For the last the three years, the gangs started to gain autonomy. And now they are a power unto themselves. They are capable now of imposing certain conditions on the government itself. Those who created the gangs created a monster. And now the monster may not be totally in charge, but it has the capacity to block any kind of solution.”

Aje

Professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia

12 Mar 2024 1 2

Ursula von der Leyen

Inserted 1 month ago

“We have realised that it is not enough to just wait for the Western Balkans to move closer to us. It is not enough to say that the door is open. We must also take responsibility, and support their path towards our union in any possible way... More progress has been achieved in just over a year than in over a decade. First, Bosnia and Herzegovina is now fully aligned with our foreign and security policy, which is crucial in these times of geopolitical turmoil. The country is showing that it can deliver on the membership criteria, and on its citizens' aspiration to be part of our family. The message coming from Bosnia and Herzegovina is clear. So our message must be clear too. The future of Bosnia and Herzegovina lies in our union.”

President of the European Commission

12 Mar 2024 1 5

Oleksii Baranovskyi

Inserted 1 month ago

“We were well prepared. We chose the most convenient border areas for the incursion and entered … Belgorod and Kursk oblasts of Russia. Now there are combat clashes, and developments are unfolding as we speak. Literally every half hour or hour, some new geographical names [of places reached] appear. We won't name them, as we are still in full control of the initiative. We are Russian citizens. We are going home to liberate our homeland from Putin's dictatorship.”

Aje

Member of the Freedom of Russia Legion

12 Mar 2024 5 1

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 1 month ago

“For Putin, a ceasefire would be a breath of fresh air. This would not be [peace] negotiations, but a way to restore the combat capability of the army and train young conscripts.”

Aje

President of Ukraine

12 Mar 2024 4 4

Stanislaw Wziatek

Inserted 1 month ago

“We don't plan for our soldiers to take part in the war because the presence of Polish troops in Ukraine, even if it's for training purposes, would border on participation in the war.”

Aje

Polish Defence Ministry

12 Mar 2024 3 3

Marwan Bishara

Inserted 1 month ago

“There is definitely increasing heat between the prime minister and the president. But I think Biden is underlining a change of tone, not a change of policy. And that explains a bit why he sounds as if he's speaking from both sides of his mouth. On one hand, he talks about red lines, and on the other hand, he talks about continuing basically unconditional support. Biden administration made the mistake of making US support for Israel unconditional. But for more than five months now, Israel has gotten the support, the arms, and the money - but it has rejected the advice of the American president, and that's why he's getting a bit frustrated with the Israeli prime minister because he does not want to see - as he said - another 30,000 dead people in Gaza.”

Aje

Senior political analyst at Al Jazeera

11 Mar 2024 4 2

Philippe Lazzarini

Inserted 1 month ago

“Medical scissors are now added to a long list of banned items the Israeli Authorities classify as 'for dual use'. The list includes basic and lifesaving items: from anesthetics, solar lights, oxygen cylinders and ventilators, to water cleaning tablets, cancer medicines and maternity kits.”

Aje

Head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA

11 Mar 2024 3 1

Steven Basham

Inserted 1 month ago

“If you can actually control the economy, then you can probably move a little bit faster than other countries out there. But the West will have more sustaining power. The West is just starting their ramp-up of building the infrastructure to add in the munitions capability that is needed.”

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Deputy commander of US European Command

11 Mar 2024 3 4

Dmitry Peskov

Inserted 1 month ago

“It is quite understandable that he [the pope] spoke in favour of negotiations. Unfortunately, both the statements of the Pope and the repeated statements of other parties, including ours, have recently received absolutely harsh refusals.”

Kremlin spokesman

11 Mar 2024 3 3

Walid Habas

Inserted 1 month ago

“The families of the Israeli prisoners are not stupid. They know the Israeli army directly participated in operations that killed more than 10 captives. It also failed to free any of them, except for two who were not in the possession of resistance groups in exchange for money. Protests within Israeli society have escalated against the Netanyahu government due to its inability to return the captives; however, they are not enough to threaten the coalition government or overthrow it. However, if the protests are bolstered by the larger movement that was igniting the streets of Israel in the spring and summer of 2023, the equation may change.”

Aje

Researcher at the Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies – Madar

11 Mar 2024 3 1

Dalal Salamah

Inserted 1 month ago

“All Israeli violations in the West Bank and East Jerusalem must also cease, and a political framework that leads to an end to the occupation must be reached. This framework must be based on a two-state solution, and this requires coordinating with Arab and regional powers as well as the international community, including the US and the European Union.”

Aje

Member of Fatah’s Central Committee

10 Mar 2024 4 2

Nadège Rolland

Inserted 1 month ago

“They see technology as the solution to every problem they're facing - economic, environmental, demographic, social. If they cannot make sufficient advances in this domain, it's going to be very difficult for them.”

Researcher at the National Bureau of Asian Research who studies China's strategic thinking

10 Mar 2024 1 2

Antonio Costa Pinto

Inserted 1 month ago

“Portugal has entered the dynamic of many European democracies, in which the centre-right parties are being challenged by far-right parties.”

Political scientist and researcher at Lisbon University

10 Mar 2024 2 2

Serhii Kuzan

Inserted 1 month ago

“Russia's army is currently attacking multiple places all along the more than 600-mile front line to probe Ukraine's defenses. Which of them will be prioritized, for example, in two days or next week, will depend on how well they succeed in pushing through our defense. Where they succeed in pushing through, they will deploy additional reserves to build on their success. This is their strategy.”

Chairman of the Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Center, a nongovernmental research group

09 Mar 2024 1 2

Pasi Paroinen

Inserted 1 month ago

“Russian forces seem to be attempting to push forward using small infantry assault groups, but are being decimated in the relatively open terrain west of Avdiivka.”

Analyst from the Black Bird Group, which analyzes satellite imagery and social media content from the battlefield

09 Mar 2024 3 2

Thibault Fouillet

Inserted 1 month ago

“The capture of Avdiivka has not led to the collapse of Ukrainian lines, the possibility for the Russians to move onto open ground or even to make major gains. There's no decisive action or breakthrough.”

Deputy director of the Institute for Strategic and Defense Studies, a French research center

09 Mar 2024 3 2

Kim Jong-un

Inserted 1 month ago

“It is necessary to more vigorously push forward the work for making preparations for regular combat mobilization so that all the artillery sub-units can take the initiative with merciless and rapid strikes at the moment of their entry into an actual war.”

Koreatimes

Leader of North Korea

08 Mar 2024 3 2

Korean Central News Agency

Inserted 1 month ago

“The drill started with the power demonstration firing of the long-range artillery sub-units near the border who have put the enemy's capital in their striking range and fulfilled important military missions for war deterrence.”

Koreatimes

Statement by Korean Central News Agency

08 Mar 2024 2 2

Jeremy Laurence

Inserted 1 month ago

“Any ground assault on Rafah would incur massive loss of life and would heighten the risk of further atrocity crimes. This must not be allowed to happen.”

Spokesperson for the U.N. Human Rights Office

08 Mar 2024 2 1

Volker Türk

Inserted 1 month ago

“The West Bank is already in crisis. Yet settler violence and settlement-related violations have reached shocking new levels, and risk eliminating any practical possibility of establishing a viable Palestinian state.”

Aje

UN high commissioner for human rights

08 Mar 2024 3 2

Benjamin Netanyahu

Inserted 1 month ago

“There is international pressure and it's growing, but particularly when the international pressure rises, we must close ranks, we need to stand together against the attempts to stop the war. The military would operate against Hamas all through the Gaza Strip including Rafah, the last Hamas stronghold. Whoever tells us not to act in Rafah is telling us to lose the war and that will not happen.”

Aje

Prime Minister of Israel

07 Mar 2024 4 2

Hamdah Salhut

Inserted 1 month ago

“This round of talks has concluded with no substantial answer or solution for [a] ceasefire or pause in the fighting. It is worth mentioning that the Israelis themselves chose not to send their own delegation to Cairo for this round of talks because they were hoping to receive a list of names of all of the captives who are alive and currently being held in Gaza.”

Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from occupied East Jerusalem

07 Mar 2024 3 2

Eugenia Gutul

Inserted 1 month ago

“I told (Putin) about the illegal actions of Moldova's authorities who are taking revenge on us for our civic positions and for standing by our national interests. Chisinau is taking away our rights step by step, limiting the budget, violating our legal rights provoking instability and destabilisation in Gagauzia and throughout the country. Putin promised to extend support to Gagauzia and the Gagauz people in upholding our legal rights, our authority and positions in the international arena.”

Pro-Russian leader of Moldova's restive Gagauzia region

06 Mar 2024 5 2

Mohamad Elmasry

Inserted 1 month ago

“Israel and Hamas remain far apart in negotiations for a new deal to reach a truce in Gaza. I think that it's hard to square Israel's endgame. Their objective remains trying to finish off Hamas, which the US has said is impossible. Effectively, what this means is that they want to continue to bomb Gaza and further destroy it, even though they've already destroyed most of it. Hamas, on the other hand, wants a permanent ceasefire. So how do you square those two opposing aims and conditions? That's the problem right now. US is pushing hard for a deal before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. I don't think the Israelis care so much about Ramadan. Last year, Israel was beating Palestinian worshippers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound with batons. But I think the US understands that they're going to look really bad if Israel is systematically preventing aid and bombing Palestinians during the Muslim holy month, and that's why I think they're ramping up pressure.”

Aje

Associate Professor and Chair in the Media and Cultural Studies and Journalism programs at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies

06 Mar 2024 5 2

Maria Zakharova

Inserted 1 month ago

“I can assure you that all attempts to interfere in the domestic affairs of the Russian Federation, in particular, in the process of our [presidential] election are, first of all, doomed to failure, and, secondly, will backfire on them [the Western countries].”

Aje

Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman

06 Mar 2024 0 2

Jimmy Cherizier

Inserted 1 month ago

“If Ariel Henry doesn't resign, if the international community continues to support him, we'll be heading straight for a civil war that will lead to genocide. Either Haiti becomes a paradise or a hell for all of us. It's out of the question for a small group of rich people living in big hotels to decide the fate of people living in working-class neighbourhoods.”

Haitian gang leader

06 Mar 2024 2 3

Cindy McCain

Inserted 1 month ago

“Millions of lives and the peace and stability of an entire region are at stake. Two decades after the world rallied to respond to famine in Sudan's Darfur state, the people of the country have been forgotten.”

Executive director of the World Food Programme

06 Mar 2024 1 2

Margrethe Vestager

Inserted 1 month ago

“We need to get that transatlantic balance right, irrespective of election electoral dynamics in the US. We must take more responsibility for our own security, while, of course, remaining fully committed to our NATO alliance.”

European Commission Vice President

05 Mar 2024 2 4

Josep Borrell

Inserted 1 month ago

“After decades of underspending, we must invest more on defence, but we need to do it better and together. A strong, resilient, and competitive European defence industry is a strategic imperative.”

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

05 Mar 2024 1 3

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Inserted 1 month ago

“WHO team found severe levels of malnutrition, children dying of starvation, serious shortages of fuel, food and medical supplies, hospital buildings destroyed. The situation at Al-Awda Hospital is particularly appalling, as one of the buildings is destroyed. Kamal Adwan Hospital is the only paediatrics hospital in the north of Gaza, and is overwhelmed with patients. The lack of food resulted in the deaths of 10 children. The lack of electricity poses a serious threat to patient care, especially in critical areas like the intensive care unit and the neonatal unit. We appeal to Israel to ensure humanitarian aid can be delivered safely, and regularly. Civilians, especially children, and health staff need scaled-up help immediately. But the key medicine all these patients need is peace. Ceasefire.”

Aje

Director-General of the World Health Organization

04 Mar 2024 8 2

Bezalel Smotrich

Inserted 1 month ago

“Only more pressure on Hamas in Ramadan will force them to kneel and release the Israeli captives. We must not allow Hamas to choose who is released from among our abductors, and the demand must be the release of all abductees.”

Aje

Finance Minister of Israel

04 Mar 2024 3 2

Volker Türk

Inserted 1 month ago

“Any spark could lead to a much broader conflagration. This would have implications for every country in the Middle East,and many beyond it.”

UN high commissioner for human rights

04 Mar 2024 2 1

Jagan Chapagain

Inserted 2 months ago

“In Gaza, the needs are staggering and will only continue to increase if the hostilities persist. Civilians are facing an unprecedented level of indignity, misery, and suffering. They are in desperate need of food, water, shelter, and medical care, with no sense of safety.”

Aje

Head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

03 Mar 2024 1 2

Hussein al-Ezzi

Inserted 2 months ago

“Yemen will continue to sink more British ships, and any repercussions or other damages will be added to Britain's bill. It is a rogue state that attacks Yemen and partners with America in sponsoring ongoing crimes against civilians in Gaza.”

Deputy foreign minister in the Houthi-led government

03 Mar 2024 4 3

Melanie Ward

Inserted 2 months ago

“Instead of dropping packages from the sky - some of which end up in the sea or outside of Gaza and which the most vulnerable cannot reach in any case - the US, the UK and others should ensure that Israel immediately opens all crossings into Gaza for aid and aid workers to assist those in need. This includes the Karni and Erez crossings, which give direct access to the north of Gaza. Only safe and unfettered access for aid and aid workers, the lifting of the siege and an immediate ceasefire can end starvation in Gaza.”

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Chief executive of Medical Aid for Palestinians

02 Mar 2024 (approx) 8 2

Robert Ford

Inserted 2 months ago

“Forcing [the] USA to do airdrops of aid to Gaza as if [the] USA is no better than Egypt [and] Jordan is Israel's worst humilitation of [the] USA [I've] ever seen. I should add that [the] USA will do humanitarian aid airdrops to Gazans if the Israeli Air Force graciously agrees not to shoot down the American planes over Gaza.”

Aje

Fellow at the Middle East Institute

02 Mar 2024 7 3

Pasi Paroinen

Inserted 2 months ago

“Outside of Avdiivka there are new positions being prepared, but they do not yet constitute a particularly formidable defensive line and are not comparable in scale to Russia's fortifications in the south.”

Analyst from the Black Bird Group, which analyzes satellite imagery and social media content from the battlefield

02 Mar 2024 3 2

Yair Lapid

Inserted 2 months ago

“You ask us whether we are doing enough to return the hostages, and the answer is no. If we were doing enough, then they would already be returning home.”

Aje

Israeli politician and former prime minister

02 Mar 2024 1 1

Stephane Sejourne

Inserted 2 months ago

“The humanitarian situation in Gaza has been catastrophic for several weeks, if not several months. And this is creating indefensible and unjustifiable situations for which the Israelis are accountable. Our efforts with the Israeli authorities to increase the number of crossing points and humanitarian trucks have gone unanswered. Starvation is adding to the horror. People are attacking the few convoys that do get through; the responsibility for blocking this aid clearly lies with Israeli.”

Aje

France’s Foreign Minister

02 Mar 2024 4 1

Joe Biden

Inserted 2 months ago

“We need to do more and the United States will do more. Aid flowing to Gaza is nowhere nearly enough.”

President of the United States

01 Mar 2024 1 1

Bernie Sanders

Inserted 2 months ago

“The United States, which has helped fund the Israeli military for years, cannot sit back and allow hundreds of thousands of innocent children to starve to death. As a result of Israeli bombing and restrictions on humanitarian aid, the people of Gaza are facing an unprecedented humanitarian disaster. Whether Netanyahu's right-wing government likes it or not, the United States must immediately begin to airdrop food, water, and other lifesaving supplies into Gaza.”

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Vermont Senator

01 Mar 2024 4 2

Omar Ashour

Inserted 2 months ago

“The [Israeli military's] first priority is to destroy the armed wing of Hamas and the other Palestinian factions, to undermine them in any way, even if it costs the lives of some of the hostages. The latest captives' reported deaths also indicates that Israel's war strategy is not achieving its objectives after more than 140 days of fighting. We are in the 147th day of war and there are more and more hostages dying, the majority of them by Israeli fire. The only way to release the hostages safely is the way it was done before - through some sort of negotiations. The Israeli government knows that… They just don't want to admit it.”

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Professor of security and military studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies

01 Mar 2024 3 2

Chris Gunness

Inserted 2 months ago

“This tragic massacre, as some are calling it, is an illustration of why UNRWA needs to be distributing aid in Gaza to stave off mass starvation, which has already begun. It's an illustration that you cannot leave the protection of the Palestinians in Gaza in terms of food security to the Israelis.”

Former UNRWA spokesman

01 Mar 2024 6 2

Ivar Dale

Inserted 2 months ago

“I noticed during Putin's speech that he said Russia did not start the war. He thought about the risks, he decided to do it, and he failed. The right thing to do now is to withdraw all troops from Ukraine, and not continue to threaten innocent people with a nuclear holocaust.”

Senior policy adviser with the rights watchdog Norwegian Helsinki Committee

01 Mar 2024 4 3

Alisher Ilkhamov

Inserted 2 months ago

“Putin's regime has not once used the scare of a nuclear war to frighten the West and convince it not to provide military aid to Ukraine. In the past, the scare was usually voiced over by Medvedev and all sorts of propagandists, now it's Putin's turn to announce them. And it wasn't Macron's assumption that irked Putin - it was Ukraine's success in striking airfields, fuel depots, warships and military planes deep in Russia and Russia-occupied areas.”

Head of Central Asia Due Diligence, a think tank in London

01 Mar 2024 5 3

Aleksey Kushch

Inserted 2 months ago

“Medvedev used to write posts about the riders of the apocalypse in the style of [US filmmaker Quentin] Tarantino, and Putin brought his threats back to the limits of sanity. Now it is Putin who clearly draws a red line about using the nukes.”

Kyiv-based analyst

01 Mar 2024 3 2

Tom Andersson

Inserted 1 month ago

“Right now we're at an early curve where there's loads of interest in humanoids, and I think that will continue for a while. There will need to be several step changes before it can be rolled out broadly.”

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Co-founder and principal analyst of STIQ Ltd.

29 Feb 2024 1 2

Peter Stano

Inserted 2 months ago

“This is another opportunity for him to spread well-known lies. He continues to deceive his own nation and mislead the public abroad, because there are those who still continue to listen to him. Putin is deceiving the nation, the nation lives under an iron fist and Stalin-style repression, the army is in a catastrophic state, the economy is collapsing, the country's credibility is completely destroyed and his efforts to destroy Ukraine have failed.”

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European Commission spokesperson

29 Feb 2024 4 3

Vladimir Putin

Inserted 2 months ago

“They have announced the possibility of sending Western military contingents to Ukraine … The consequences for possible interventionists will be much more tragic. They should eventually realise that we also have weapons that can hit targets on their territory. Everything that the West comes up with creates the real threat of a conflict with the use of nuclear weapons, and thus the destruction of civilisation.”

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President of Russia

29 Feb 2024 3 4

Hassan Fadlallah

Inserted 2 months ago

“The war in the south [of Lebanon] is linked to the aggression on Gaza on the one hand, and to securing means of protection for our country on the other. When the [Israeli] occupation halts its aggression on Gaza, this front stops, because it is a supportive front.”

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Senior Hezbollah politician

29 Feb 2024 3 1

Mustafa Barghouti

Inserted 2 months ago

“I've never seen the atmosphere so close to unity as it is today. I think [that is] mainly because people feel the responsibility after all these massacres that our people have been subjected to. The meetings were geared towards the creation of a national consensus government in the future. A government that all parties would agree with, a government that devotes its attention and its work mainly to alleviate this terrible suffering in Gaza, to prevent the Israeli efforts to enforce ethnic cleansing on the people of Gaza, to allow the supplies of everything that is necessary for the people to survive there. We are not talking about something that will end in two days; we are talking about an initiation of a process that hopefully will lead eventually to complete unity within the ranks of a unified Palestinian leadership.”

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General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative

29 Feb 2024 2 1

Israel Katz

Inserted 2 months ago

“You said that Israel's just war against Hamas in Gaza is the same as what Hitler and the Nazis did to the Jews and you have desecrated the memory of the six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust. We will not forget nor forgive. Shame on you and apologise!”

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Israeli Foreign Minister

28 Feb 2024 6 1

Ismail Haniyeh

Inserted 2 months ago

“This is a call on our people in Jerusalem and the West Bank to march to Al-Aqsa since the first day of Ramadan.”

Hamas leader

28 Feb 2024 4 1

Dmytro Lykhoviy

Inserted 2 months ago

“Our forces withdrew from the small villages of Syeverne and Stepove.... Heavy battles for Syeverne went on yesterday in the evening and night. Russia had taken significant losses in the fight. Ukrainian forces have consolidated new defensive positions west of Avdiivka.”

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Ukrainian military spokesman

27 Feb 2024 5 2

Joe Biden

Inserted 2 months ago

“Ramadan is coming up, and there's been an agreement by the Israelis that they would not engage in activities during Ramadan, as well, in order to give us time to get all the hostages out.”

President of the United States

27 Feb 2024 4 3

Robert Fico

Inserted 2 months ago

“I can confirm there are countries that are prepared to send their own troops to Ukraine, there are countries that say never, among which Slovakia belongs, and there are countries that say this proposal needs to be considered.”

Slovak Prime Minister

26 Feb 2024 2 3

Emmanuel Macron

Inserted 2 months ago

“There is no consensus at this stage ... to send troops on the ground. Nothing should be excluded. We will do everything that we must so that Russia does not win. Many people who say 'Never, never' today were the same people who said 'never tanks, never planes, never long-range missiles' two years ago. Let us have the humility to note that we have often been six to twelve months late. This was the objective of this evening's discussion: everything is possible if it is useful to achieve our objective.”

President of France

26 Feb 2024 2 2

Maria Pevchikh

Inserted 2 months ago

“At the beginning of February, Putin was offered to swap the FSB killer, Vadim Krasikov, who is serving time for a murder in Berlin, for two American citizens and Aleksei Navalny. I received confirmation that negotiations were at the final stage in the evening of February 15. On February 16, Aleksei was killed. Aleksei Navalny could have been sitting here now, today. It's not a figure of speech.”

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Chairwoman of Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation

26 Feb 2024 3 1

Agnes Vadai

Inserted 2 months ago

“Finally it is done, Sweden is the 32nd member of the alliance, and this way NATO has become stronger.”

Hungarian lawmaker of the opposition party Democratic Coalition (DK)

26 Feb 2024 2 5

Montaser Sammour

Inserted 2 months ago

“In February, Israeli forces arrested 110 residents, mostly former prisoners and wounded men. In January, the occupation re-arrested a child, who was among those who were released in the exchange deal that took place in November 2023. This isn't just about numbers. The brutality with which the detainees and their families are being treated is unprecedented. This includes incidents of abuse, torture, severe beatings, and the use of family members, including women, as hostages to pressure a family member to surrender.”

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Head of the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society in Jenin

26 Feb 2024 5 1

Omar Shakir

Inserted 2 months ago

“The Israeli government has simply ignored the court's ruling, and in some ways even intensified its repression, including further blocking lifesaving aid.”

Israel and Palestine Director, Human Rights Watch

26 Feb 2024 3 2

Hani al-Masri

Inserted 2 months ago

“Israeli government is still unclear on the type of restrictions it will take in the Muslim holy month against worshippers trying to pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque. It's due to pressure from the more right-wing ministers who are calling for matters to be resolved with a firm hand. But the army knows that Ramadan is a powder keg that can lead to an explosive situation, especially with the ongoing war in Gaza. Netanyahu is looking to side with Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, who don't want to see any restrictions lifted during Ramadan, while the military is concerned about things spilling over in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.”

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Director of the Masarat Center for Policy Research

25 Feb 2024 7 1

Tarek Megerisi

Inserted 2 months ago

“Haftar needs Wagner. Furthermore, while he's hosting them in Libya, [Wagner] can use its position to prop up operations in Syria, Sudan and elsewhere. It's a network. It's not just military support, either. They're using their position in eastern Libya to transport [illegal narcotic] Captagon from Syria, shift gold to evade sanctions, as well as help traffic migrants from southern Africa and as far away as Bangladesh. Libya is a hugely profitable area for Wagner.”

Senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations

25 Feb 2024 6 6

Mads Gilbert

Inserted 2 months ago

“This is not a tragedy; it is man-made. Starvation is being forced upon the people of Gaza by the Israeli occupation forces. Just two days ago, the international nutrition cluster came out with a very alarming report … that there is a sharp increase in the drivers of malnutrition in Gaza - food insecurity, a lack of diversity in the diet and decreasing infant and young child feeding possibilities. How can the world just sit idly by and watch children die from starvation?”

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Norwegian physician and humanitarian advocate

25 Feb 2024 4 2

Willem Marx

Inserted 2 months ago

“It looks like there will be around 40 Israeli hostages being released - that would be women civilians, female soldiers, older men with serious medical conditions - in return for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners currently held in detention or Israeli jails. An agreement could also lead to a considerable increase in humanitarian aid going into the Gaza Strip and a potential return of Palestinians to the heavily bombarded and attacked areas in the northern part of the enclave.”

Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from occupied East Jerusalem

25 Feb 2024 5 2

Jens Stoltenberg

Inserted 2 months ago

“It is not a question of if, but of when. As we prepare you for that day, NATO will continue to stand with Ukraine.”

Secretary General of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

24 Feb 2024 1 2

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 2 months ago

“We have been fighting for this for 730 days of our lives. We will win on the best day of our lives.”