Last Ipse by Chronological Order

New York Times Opinion columnist

08 Sep 2024 6 3

Olaf Scholz

Inserted 11 hours ago

“I believe that now is the time to discuss how to arrive at peace from this state of war, indeed at a faster pace.”

Chancellor of Germany

08 Sep 2024 3 3

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 11 hours ago

“On the sidelines of the [Ambrosetti] Forum in Italy, I met with a delegation of the US Congress. We talked, in particular, about the victory plan for Ukraine - about some of its details, and we will present all the steps to US President Biden and both presidential candidates, Trump and Harris, in full. Our main focus now, at the beginning of the fall, is to strengthen the positions of Ukraine and Ukrainians as much as possible, protect our cities and villages from Russian terror, and, of course, provide more capabilities for our warriors on the frontlines.”

President of Ukraine

08 Sep 2024 8 4

Libby Lenkinski

Inserted 18 hours ago

“There were groups of protesters calling for a ceasefire as early as November and December [last year], and I think that number has been growing in a pretty steady way. The number of protesters had grown pretty dramatically in the past week, with an increasing number of Israelis protesting now understanding that a ceasefire is actually the only way that the captives will return to Israel. I think that's now a pretty common understanding among protesters. You do see a rising number of Israelis wanting this to end whether they are in the streets or not.”

Vice president for public engagement at the New Israel Fund

08 Sep 2024 3 3

Kelly Dittmar

Inserted 1 day ago

“Harris, I'm sure, is being advised in relation to things like tone and showing emotion and reaction to Trump's types of goading. Because women are more often subjected to claims that they're overly emotional. There are stereotypical tropes of Black women being angry that she is surely aware of, and you can see evidence in the way that she, very calmly, often in these types of settings, responds.”

Director of research at the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University-Camden

07 Sep 2024 5 3

Matthew Levendusky

Inserted 1 day ago

“She [Kamala Harris] will be looking to come off as tough and grill Trump and show that she can rebut him. But of course, the danger for her is that, as a woman of colour, she's in a tough position given race and gender stereotypes about appropriate behaviour. So far, she seems to be very effectively managing that tightrope, and this is her chance to highlight these skills on an even larger stage.”

Political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania

07 Sep 2024 3 3

Aaron Kall

Inserted 1 day ago

“They can't win you an election, but certainly they can lose it. In a 90-minute debate, you can make a mistake or gaffe or do something that brands you going forward - like Biden not having the stamina to do another four years.”

Professor at the University of Michigan

07 Sep 2024 4 3

William Burns

Inserted 1 day ago

“Ukraine's Kursk offensive is a significant tactical achievement that had boosted Ukrainian morale and exposed Russia's weaknesses. It has raised questions [...] across the Russian elite about where is this all headed.”

CIA Director

07 Sep 2024 4 1

Park Sang-byeong

Inserted 1 day ago

“The public is losing patience with the strained health care system. While doctors share some blame for turning their backs on patients, the government is also at fault for not taking an active role in persuading them to return. How the president [Yoon Suk Yeol] resolves the medical standoff will have a significant impact on his other reform agendas - labor, education and pension. The president, who approaches the halfway point of his term in a few months, faces a crucial dilemma. If he concedes to the doctors now, he risks losing momentum for other reforms. However, if he continues to dig in, the health care crisis may spiral out of control, making it even more difficult to recover his approval ratings.”

Professor at Inha University's Graduate School of Policy Studies

07 Sep 2024 2 2

William Burns

Inserted 1 day ago

“We will make this more detailed proposal, I hope in the next several days, and then we'll see.”

CIA Director

07 Sep 2024 2 1

Kyrylo Budanov

Inserted 1 day ago

“The turning point [in the war] has not yet happened. But everything is close. It can't go on like this forever - the resources are not infinite, neither ours nor theirs... As for the Russian side, they have serious changes planned for the security forces in the next two months. We'll see how that unfolds soon. It won't take long.”

Head of Ukraine's military intelligence service

07 Sep 2024 1 2

Diane de Vignemont

Inserted 1 day ago

“He's [Michel Barnier] a staple in French politics. He's been around long enough that we can criticise things he did in the '80s, which on one hand doesn't feel fair, but on the other, that's the lifecycle of politics. He visits Charles de Gaulle's memorial every year. He's a hardcore Gaullist, the traditional, conservative.”

French journalist focused on politics and history

07 Sep 2024 4 2

Philippe Marliere

Inserted 1 day ago

“Following the results of the legislative elections, Macron could not choose a prime minister from his own party when its coalition, Ensemble, came in second and only received 20 percent of the vote. Having lost the snap election, Macron couldn't possibly pick someone from his own party - that would have gone against the results of the election. It's a compromise choice, apparently, but it means that Macron will cohabitate with a conservative prime minister. Barnier comes from the fourth block in terms of electoral strength: the number of MPs. This is unusual, the prime minister should normally come from a more dominant block. Barnier is not a centrist. He's always been part of the Conservative Party. Macron could have gone for more moderate figures.”

Professor of French and European politics at University College London

07 Sep 2024 6 2

Israel Katz

Inserted 2 days ago

“Israel will respond forcefully to the execution of our hostages by Hamas. No country in the world wants a deal for the release of the hostages more than Israel, and as the US has made clear, Hamas is the obstacle to the deal.”

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Israeli Foreign Minister

06 Sep 2024 3 3

Ants Kiviselg

Inserted 2 days ago

“The Ukrainians have managed to slow down the Russian advance on the Pokrovsk front. While in previous months, the Russians advanced seven to eight kilometres per month on this front, we now see that in recent days, the pace of their advance has significantly slowed. Ukraine has also deployed additional units to the Pokrovsk front. At this point, I can say that the Russian Federation has not achieved this goal - as a result of these attacks [strikes on a military academy and a hospital in Poltava], the will to defend among Ukrainians remains strong and continues to grow. These attacks also keep the support for Ukraine from its allies high.”

Commander of the Estonian Defence Forces Intelligence Centre

06 Sep 2024 4 5

Jens Stoltenberg

Inserted 2 days ago

“I call on China to stop supporting Russia's illegal war.”

Secretary General of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

06 Sep 2024 1 2

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 2 days ago

“We need to have this long-range capability, not only on the divided territory of Ukraine, but also on the Russian territory, so that Russia is motivated to seek peace. We need to make Russian cities and even Russian soldiers think about what they need: peace or [Russian President Vladimir] Putin.”

President of Ukraine

06 Sep 2024 5 3

Pavel Durov

Inserted 2 days ago

“If a country is unhappy with an internet service, the established practice is to start a legal action against the service itself. Using laws from the pre-smartphone era to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third parties on the platform he manages is a misguided approach. Building technology is hard enough as it is. No innovator will ever build new tools if they know they can be personally held responsible for potential abuse of those tools. We take down millions of harmful posts and channels every day. Telegram's abrupt increase in user count to 950 [million] caused growing pains that made it easier for criminals to abuse our platform. That's why I made it my personal goal to ensure we significantly improve things in this regard. We've already started that process internally, and I will share more details on our progress with you very soon.”

Telegram CEO

06 Sep 2024 1 2

Rafael Mestre

Inserted 2 days ago

“Covering [robotic] devices with some sort of skin - just like our organs are isolated by our skin - to protect them and ensure they have the right conditions and nutrients is one of the first steps towards their actual use. But there is still a long way to go. Tissue produced for robots will need to be carefully evaluated because research on the interaction between skin cells and robotic surfaces is still in its infancy. I suspect the first examples we see will be of some artificial skin acting as a coverture for a small-scale and simple biohybrid robot based on muscle tissue that can perform some basic form of actuation or movement, rather than in a humanoid robot with a real skin face.”

Lecturer at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom

06 Sep 2024 3 3

Shoji Takeuchi

Inserted 2 days ago

“Our cultured skin aims to replicate the full range of biological functions found in human skin, including the activity of facial muscles, sweat glands, sebaceous glands, pores, blood vessels, fat, and nerves. This comprehensive functionality would enable more lifelike and interactive robotic applications. While we aim to create more lifelike robots, our goal is to enhance their utility and interaction capabilities.”

Professor at the University of Tokyo’s Biohybrid Systems Laboratory

06 Sep 2024 4 2

Cobus van Staden

Inserted 2 days ago

“Chinese investment offerings are attractive to African countries because they are often quicker to materialise than Western promises. They are also not viewed through an aid lens and not bogged down by fiscal conditions or even preaching, as loans from Western institutions tend to be. Western countries have cut funding to some countries based on issues like elections or LGBTQ legislation. Beijing, on the other hand, has positioned itself as an equal, a fellow Global South country sidelined by the imperial West.”

South-Africa-based researcher of the China Global South Project

06 Sep 2024 7 2

Astrid RN Haas

Inserted 2 days ago

“Although China as a country is not comparable to Africa as a continent, the two entities have a shared story of needing to rapidly develop and reduce poverty levels. The way that China harnessed productivity was through connectivity, connecting the hinterlands to the main cities. So for African countries, China is really the one to look at as an example.”

Hong Kong-based urban economist

06 Sep 2024 5 2

Jana de Kluiver

Inserted 2 days ago

“That narrative [of China exploiting Africa] makes sense for [Western countries] because of their declining influence in Africa. But it skips over a lot of the nuance that's in the very multifaceted relationship. For more than a decade, China has been Africa's largest trade partner. It is also the continent's main creditor, pumping more than $170bn in loans and credit into nearly all 54 nations. For China, the benefits lie in the diplomatic influence it is sure to command at the United Nations, and with which it can counter its US-led Western rivals.”

Researcher with the South Africa-based Institute for Security Studies

06 Sep 2024 4 3

Oleksandr Syrskii

Inserted 3 days ago

“Over the past six days, the enemy hasn't advanced a single metre in the Pokrovsk direction. In other words, our strategy is working.”

Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

05 Sep 2024 1 4

Victoria Rose

Inserted 3 days ago

“A lot of the children are so young, I don't think they understand the significance of the injuries they've sustained. There were a lot of situations where we amputated because we didn't have the ability to do the reconstruction. We knew if we didn't do the amputation, the risk of infection and then death from sepsis was a possibility.”

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British doctor who recently worked in Gaza

05 Sep 2024 4 1

Samar Saeed

Inserted 3 days ago

“The damage is immeasurable. Educational infrastructure is not just about imparting knowledge but also about building relationships between different segments of society, … building connections. Israel really destroyed that.”

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Doctoral candidate at Georgetown University's history department

05 Sep 2024 2 2

Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze

Inserted 3 days ago

“All the actions of the current authorities speak of the systematic centralization of power by the President and his office. This flurry of resignations from government officials now speaks to a severe governance crisis in the country.”

Ukrainian lawmaker from the European Solidarity opposition party

05 Sep 2024 2 2

Erdogan Aykac

Inserted 3 days ago

“Turkey and Egypt feel they are losing their grip on the situation in Gaza, and want to work together to increase their influence.”

Analyst who specialises in Turkish politics at the Netherlands’ University of Groningen

05 Sep 2024 2 2

Maria Zakharova

Inserted 3 days ago

“When the authorities resort to such primitive ways of influencing their voters, this is the decline of liberal democracies. There will be a response. It is an obvious operation, an information campaign … that was long prepared and that is needed ahead of the last stage of the electoral cycle. The response will be harsh and will make everyone shudder. We warn that attempts to expel Russian journalists from the territory of the United States, create unacceptable conditions for their work or any other forms of obstruction of their activities, including with the use of visa tools, will become the basis for taking symmetrical and/or asymmetric retaliatory measures against the American media.”

Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman

05 Sep 2024 5 2

Yaroslav Zhelezhyak

Inserted 3 days ago

“Zelenskyy says new energy is needed, but have you noticed that in this 'great re-introduced order' there is still no new person in sight? All the changes are just a rotation among people who are already in the government.”

MP from the Holos Party

04 Sep 2024 1 2

Volodymyr Fesenko

Inserted 3 days ago

“Zelenskyy's ruling style is to reshuffle the government from time to time, to make them more energetic and effective. Just see what happened with young reformer [Oleksandr] Kamyshin, who took over the strategic industries ministry from an ineffective former minister and in only a year managed to triple domestic weapons production. Now he's Zelenskyy's darling, so he took him closer.”

Political analyst of the Ukrainian Penta Center of Political Research

04 Sep 2024 2 2

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

Inserted 3 days ago

“I reiterate the joint stand of Egypt and Turkey calling for an immediate ceasefire, rejecting further escalation by Israel in the occupied West Bank.”

President of Egypt

04 Sep 2024 5 2

Benjamin Netanyahu

Inserted 4 days ago

“Israel will not withdraw its soldiers from the border area between southern Gaza and Egypt until there is a guarantee that it can never be used by Hamas. Until that happens, we're there.”

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Prime Minister of Israel

04 Sep 2024 4 2

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Inserted 4 days ago

“We are doing all that we can to bring the bloodshed to an end and to continue to deliver the humanitarian aid into Gaza. This remains on the top of our priorities today.”

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Turkish President

04 Sep 2024 3 1

Jana de Kluiver

Inserted 4 days ago

“For Beijing, the summit presents a massive diplomatic opportunity to flaunt its prominence on the world stage. Having African leaders as allies means Beijing can wield diplomatic influence at the United Nations. Africa is important to China because of the strength of its votes at the United Nations General Assembly. Those photos with African leaders, those big headlines on the papers, will be very important for President Xi to get.”

Researcher with the South Africa-based Institute for Security Studies

04 Sep 2024 6 2

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 4 days ago

“I have already spoken about resetting our Cabinet of Ministers, many of its ministries. I am very grateful to the ministers and the entire Cabinet team who have been working for Ukraine, for the sake of Ukrainians, for four and a half years, and some for five years. We need new energy today, and these steps are linked to strengthening our state in various areas. International politics and diplomacy are no exception. Today I cannot predict what this or that minister will do after resignation. We will get answers when they are offered certain positions. It is too early to talk about it now.”

President of Ukraine

04 Sep 2024 2 2

Nikolay Mitrokhin

Inserted 4 days ago

“Yes, the two campaigns are developing in parallel realities, and despite a small success in Kursk in the past two weeks, further goals are not quite understandable. Russia moved only small numbers of troops from the Ukrainian front line to Kursk, augmenting them with barely-trained conscripts and ethnic Chechen servicemen with dubious battlefield experience. But Kyiv dispatched thousands of servicemen to Kursk, leaving its forces in Donetsk with skeleton crews that cannot contain a front-line breach. In the coming two weeks, Ukraine is very likely to lose almost all of its front line in Zaporizhia if it doesn't deploy all of its reserves from somewhere or doesn't start a new advance on Russian territory.”

Research Fellow at Bremen University

04 Sep 2024 5 6

Kim Tae-hyo

Inserted 4 days ago

“If Trump is reelected, there is a possibility that the U.S. security umbrella may be weakened, as it may seek to discuss the costs associated with the deployment of strategic assets provided to us.”

Foreign policy aide to President Yoon Suk Yeol

03 Sep 2024 3 2

Ban Ki-moon

Inserted 5 days ago

“The Chinese view of South Korea is unlikely to change. It believes that Korea's military and security strategy is tilted toward the U.S. However, the South Korea-U.S. alliance is not aimed at confronting China. We need to put forth a balanced foreign policy and make efforts to persuade relevant stakeholders that unification based on peace and stability strengthens China's interests.”

Former U.N. Secretary General

03 Sep 2024 4 4

Nadav Shtrauchler

Inserted 5 days ago

“Mr. Netanyahu's right-wing supporters largely accept his argument for driving a hard bargain with Hamas. In fact, the strike and protests are likely to boost Mr. Netanyahu in the eyes of right-wing Israelis, because they feel he is being criticized in bad faith. His supporters see this strike as a prize for terror. For many people on the right wing, it's not reasonable.”

Political analyst and former strategist for Mr. Netanyahu

03 Sep 2024 5 3

Ariel Kahana

Inserted 5 days ago

“Politically, it could have been much worse for Netanyahu. It looks like the opposition has lost. Some political moderates may have been put off by the accusatory tone of the protests and strikes. Everyone wants, of course, the hostages back home now. But at the same time we want our security. The disagreement is about how to bring them home. Israelis of all backgrounds agree that the 2023 domestic unrest weakened Israel in the eyes of its enemies. The fear of creating a similar impression likely dented support for the protests among some Israelis. One of the main lessons for mainstream Israelis from 2023 was that we must keep our unity.”

Commentator for Israel Hayom, a leading right-wing newspaper

03 Sep 2024 6 3

Vladimir Putin

Inserted 5 days ago

“We invariably respond to requests from Mongolian friends for assistance in meeting the growing demand for fuel and lubricants, including on preferential terms.”

President of Russia

03 Sep 2024 3 3

Georgiy Tykhyi

Inserted 5 days ago

“The Mongolian government's failure to carry out the binding I.C.C. arrest warrant for Putin is a heavy blow to the International Criminal Court and the international criminal justice system. Mongolia has allowed an accused criminal to evade justice, thereby sharing responsibility for the war crimes. We will work with partners to ensure that this has consequences for Ulaanbaatar.”

Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman

03 Sep 2024 6 3

Milos Vucevic

Inserted 5 days ago

“It is nothing epochal or so terrible for Vulin [Aleksandar Vulin] to meet with Putin in Russia. We have not broken off diplomatic relations with the Russian Federation; it is not forbidden for someone to meet with representatives of the Russian Federation. We have voted for all the resolutions confirming Ukraine's integrity, but we are not giving up our friendship with the Russian Federation, we have not imposed sanctions, we have not expelled the ambassador. On the contrary, we maintain normal communication. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban had met with Putin. We will not apologize for our policy or justify it. We can explain our policy.”

Serbian Prime Minister

03 Sep 2024 6 3

George William Herbert

Inserted 5 days ago

“Although older models might be less resistant to electronic warfare than the current iteration of JASSM [Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles], the infrared seeker would help it find its target even amid heavy jamming. They're pretty stealthy, but not completely designed around maximum stealth. A few years ago, a bunch were fired at Syria after chemical weapons incidents, and Russian air defense systems in the country failed to shoot many down, possibly none of them. I would expect that carefully planned missile flight paths would let JASSM be effective almost anywhere in the war area.”

Adjunct professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey in California

03 Sep 2024 4 2

Ayman Safadi

Inserted 5 days ago

“We urge an expansion of this suspension and call on all countries to impose a complete arms embargo on Israel. Unless consequences are real, Netanyahu will not end his aggression on Gaza and the West Bank, and will not stop violating international law and threatening the security of the whole region.”

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Minister of Foreign Affairs of Jordan

03 Sep 2024 6 1

Altantuya Batdorj

Inserted 5 days ago

“President Putin is a fugitive from justice. Any trip to an ICC [International Criminal Court] member state that does not end in arrest will encourage President Putin's current course of action and must be seen as part of a strategic effort to undermine the ICC's work.”

Executive director of Amnesty International Mongolia

02 Sep 2024 4 2

Alon Pinkas

Inserted 6 days ago

“It's too soon to tell [what this means for the government]. The name of the game here is sustainability - meaning will these demonstrations continue? Will the strike that is taking place be a one-off thing that Netanyahu is not making a big deal of so people can vent frustration and anger? Or is this going to be a recurring theme? The fronts [in the West Bank and Lebanon] are real, but he did exacerbate them? Yes. Is he flirting constantly with escalation? Yes. He needs war to continue.”

Former ambassador and Consul General of Israel in New York

02 Sep 2024 4 2

Olaf Scholz

Inserted 6 days ago

“The results for the AfD in Saxony and Thuringia are worrying. Our country cannot and must not get used to this. The AfD is damaging Germany. It is weakening the economy, dividing society and ruining our country's reputation.”

Chancellor of Germany

02 Sep 2024 5 3

Ilan Pappe

Inserted 6 days ago

“The label [Israeli court called the strikes politically motivated] is just a game, it has nothing to do with legality or illegality. This is a balance of power by which, until now at least, the base of Netanyahu, his coalition allies and himself, are still the ones who determine Israeli policies inside Israel and towards the Palestinians in Gaza. These statements [reports that the United States is expected to hand Netanyahu a take-it-or-leave-it ceasefire deal] have come repeatedly, and the US is still a key mediator. Netanyahu is going to reject the American proposal, whatever it is… his main strategy is to continue the situation of the war because he believes that's the only way that can assure his political survival.”

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Israeli historian

02 Sep 2024 6 5

Hamdah Salhut

Inserted 6 days ago

“As Israelis take to the streets to force the government to agree to a ceasefire deal, it's still difficult to say how much this will change Netanyahu's mind, as the country's Labour Court rules the general strike must end early. Even though some of these strikes might end early, people are still going to be protesting in the streets. The last time we saw a large labour union strike like this was when the country was protesting a different issue, and it had an impact on the government that actually allowed them to change course in their legislation. It's the economic pressure that the demonstrators and the labour union are hoping to apply on Netanyahu and the government so that there can be a deal, ultimately to release the captives.”

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Al Jazeera’s journalist

02 Sep 2024 5 2

Yang Moo-jin

Inserted 1 week ago

“The regime's focus on flood recovery efforts, which has mobilized military personnel, may have shifted attention away from external issues. Preoccupied with domestic matters, a tit-for-tat response to our drills may have not been a top priority for the North's leadership. North Korea may be focusing more on the upcoming U.S. presidential election rather than the military exercises on the Korean Peninsula. With uncertainties surrounding the U.S. elections, Kim could be carefully considering when and how to engage in military provocations to influence the situation in his favor.”

President of the University of North Korean Studies

01 Sep 2024 3 4

Ron Huldai

Inserted 1 week ago

“The Israeli government abandoned them, but the State of Israel is us. As a sign of solidarity with the abductees and their families, the municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa joins the strike. Tomorrow, starting in the morning until noon, there will be no public reception and we will allow all female and male employees to go out and support the families' struggle. Take to the streets.”

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Mayor of Tel Aviv

01 Sep 2024 5 3

Joe Biden

Inserted 1 week ago

“Hamas leaders will pay for these crimes. And we will keep working around the clock for a deal to secure the release of the remaining hostages.”

President of the United States

01 Sep 2024 3 2

Sami Abu Zuhri

Inserted 1 week ago

“Netanyahu is responsible for the killing of Israeli prisoners. The Israelis should choose between Netanyahu and the deal.”

Hamas official

01 Sep 2024 4 3

Benjamin Netanyahu

Inserted 1 week ago

“Whoever murders hostages - does not want a deal.”

Prime Minister of Israel

01 Sep 2024 2 2

Daniel Hagari

Inserted 1 week ago

“According to our initial estimation, they were brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists a short time before we reached them.”

Chief Israeli military spokesperson

01 Sep 2024 2 1

António Guterres

Inserted 1 week ago

“I will never forget my meeting last October with the parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin and other hostage families. Today's tragic news is a devastating reminder of the need for the unconditional release of all hostages and an end to the nightmare of war in Gaza.”

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Secretary-general of the United Nations

01 Sep 2024 3 2

Sergey Lavrov

Inserted 3 days ago

“Zelenskyy said… that they will need this for future exchanges. That's why they are taking prisoners and want to seize square kilometers. It's so simple-minded and naive. We do not discuss our territory with anyone. We do not negotiate about our territory.”

Russian Foreign Minister

31 Aug 2024 3 3

Kamala Harris

Inserted 1 week ago

“Donald Trump is surrendering to his advisors who won't allow him to debate with a live microphone. If his own team doesn't have confidence in him, the American people definitely can't. We are running for President of the United States. Let's debate in a transparent way - with the microphones on the whole time.”

Vice President and Democratic nominee in the U.S. presidential election

31 Aug 2024 2 3

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 1 week ago

“A Ukrainian delegation - the first deputy prime minister, the minister of defence, officials from the General Staff [of the Armed Forces of Ukraine], and the head of the Office [of the President of Ukraine] - is currently in Washington. They held meetings at various levels. One of the most important issues for us is the [possibility of using Western-supplied long-range weapons to strike targets in Russia], which holds the key to preventing all the terror that Kharkiv and other cities and localities in Ukraine are forced to go through. Clearing the Ukrainian skies from Russian glide bombs would be a decisive step to force Russia to bring the war to an end and accept just peace. Ukrainian representatives have given our partners all the information they need. So I am asking the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Germany: we need a chance to truly and fully protect Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. We need permissions [to use long-range weapons to strike targets in Russia], and we need your long-range munitions and missiles. These vital decisions cannot be put off because they can impact the current situation in the most beneficial ways.”

President of Ukraine

31 Aug 2024 8 3

Jakov Milatovic

Inserted 1 week ago

“Now I truly believe, and I think that she also believes, that Montenegro can and will become [an EU] member state during her [Ursula von der Leyen] mandate.”

President of Montenegro

31 Aug 2024 2 4

Aleksandar Vucic

Inserted 1 week ago

“There are no 'both sides'. We are on the EU path. Yes, we have traditionally very good ties - and we are not hiding it and I'm not ashamed of that - with Russia; it has always been the case between Serbs and Russians.”

Serbian president

31 Aug 2024 4 2

Alon Pinkas

Inserted 1 week ago

“I don't believe there is a plan for Israel to annex a wide swath of the West Bank. This government is intent on weakening the Palestinian Authority. With this [West Bank] operation, Israel is weakening the Palestinian Authority to the point that there's not going to be anyone to negotiate with, and that is the grand plan that the government has. Mr Netanyahu is doing something very problematic here, very ominous here, in that he is creating a situation, an environment in which further negotiations with the Palestinians three, four, five years from now would probably be impossible because of the weakness and fragility of the Palestinian Authority.”

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Former ambassador and Consul General of Israel in New York

31 Aug 2024 3 2

Ricardo Pires

Inserted 1 week ago

“It's been a completely catastrophic humanitarian crisis for children over the last 10 months. They've seen and been through everything that a child should not have to go through at that age, or any age for that matter, in terms of scale of conflict, in terms of loss of their homes, of the infrastructure that is so vital for their daily lives and livelihoods. It's completely hellish circumstances for children on the ground now, and it has been for over 10 months now. UN's figures are very certainly an underestimate of the reality on the ground.”

Aje

UNICEF spokesperson

30 Aug 2024 1 2

Hakan Fidan

Inserted 1 week ago

“Israel is not only committing genocide in Gaza, but it is now extending this war to the West Bank, Lebanon, and potentially other nations it deems as enemies which we cannot know or predict. The Netanyahu government continues to play with fire. It is endangering the future of the entire region to maintain its position. Everyone who remains silent on the Gaza issue, especially those who support Israel unconditionally, is under a burden. Israel's barbarity must finally come to an end.”

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Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Türkiye

30 Aug 2024 7 2

Malik Traina

Inserted 1 week ago

“People don't know what's going on. The new board of directors is in control of the building. The outskirts of the central bank are being highly guarded. There's a huge security presence by the Ministry of the Interior. While al-Kabir had called on employees to stay away from the bank's premises, the new board of directors had told them to come in and start working. The staff of the central bank are really confused about what they should do. Banking transactions have been suspended for nearly a week now, so people can't transfer money. There's a huge liquidation problem, so they can't pull out their money either. Also, there are threats that the salaries of public employees will be delayed.”

Al Jazeera's correspondent reporting from Tripoli

30 Aug 2024 4 2

Sadiq al-Kabir

Inserted 1 week ago

“Militias are threatening and terrifying bank staff and are sometimes abducting their children and relatives to force them to go to work.”

Libya’s central bank Governor

30 Aug 2024 2 2

Mikitaka Masuyama

Inserted 1 week ago

“It has become more like an American primary race for the president due to the number of candidates. This situation is very unusual. It used to be that factions functioned as the mechanism to select candidates, so usually it's only those politicians who rank high or have become factional leaders. But factions have lost the mechanism to coordinate competition for leaders, so now we have many candidates seeing whether they have a serious chance of being elected.”

Political science professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies

30 Aug 2024 2 3

Rintaro Nishimura

Inserted 1 week ago

“The scandal has also fuelled a desire for change, priming September's leadership race as a contest between the old guard and a younger generation. There's a desire within the party to see a fresh face. Not just in the sense that they need someone new at the top of the ticket, but someone who can really show the public that the LDP is changing. A lot of the attention seems to be on the fact that this is going to be a generational battle between the elder and younger candidates.”

Associate in the Japan practice at the Asia Group, a Washington-based strategic advisory firm

30 Aug 2024 2 3

Nico Lange

Inserted 1 week ago

“The best thing the Russian conscripts can do is to turn themselves in to the Ukrainians immediately. They will not survive this.”

Defence expert at Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

29 Aug 2024 5 2

Pavel Luzin

Inserted 1 week ago

“Some of those captured were drafted in May or June and may have had only the minimum 45 days of training.”

Non-resident Senior Fellow with the Democratic Resilience Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

29 Aug 2024 3 2

Zhang Youxia

Inserted 1 week ago

“China demands that the US halts military collusion with Taiwan, ceases arming Taiwan, and stops spreading false narratives related to Taiwan.”

Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China

29 Aug 2024 3 5

Xi Jinping

Inserted 1 week ago

“China's commitment to the goal of stable, healthy, and sustainable development of China-US relations hasn't changed. We hope that the US will work with China to meet each other halfway.”

President of the People's Republic of China

29 Aug 2024 3 2

Dmytro Kuleba

Inserted 1 week ago

“The success of Russia depends on one thing: on the preparedness of partners to make bold decisions. If decisions are taken, Ukraine is successful on the ground. If they are not taken, then do not complain on Ukraine, complain on yourself. Ukraine only wants to strike legitimate military targets in Russia. If we are supplied a sufficient amount of missiles, if we are allowed to strike, we will significantly decrease the capacity of Russia to inflict damage on our critical infrastructure and we will improve the situation of our forces on the ground.”

Foreign Minister of Ukraine

29 Aug 2024 4 5

Josep Borrell

Inserted 1 week ago

“The weaponry that we are providing to Ukraine has to have full use, and the restrictions have to be lifted in order for the Ukrainians to be able to target the places where Russia is bombing them. Otherwise, the weaponry is useless.”

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

29 Aug 2024 3 3

Alice Weidel

Inserted 1 week ago

“We want to end the failure of the state, the loss of control. That can only be done through a sustainable change in migration and asylum policy.”

AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) co-leader

28 Aug 2024 2 2

David Cohen

Inserted 1 week ago

“We can be certain that Putin will mount a counteroffensive to try to reclaim that territory. I think our expectation is that that will be a difficult fight for the Russians. Putin is not only going to have to face the fact that there is a front line now within Russian territory that he's going to have to deal with, he has to deal with reverberations back in his own society that they have lost a piece of Russian territory. Ukraine's success in Kursk has the potential to change the dynamic of the conflict a little bit going forward.”

Deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency

28 Aug 2024 8 2

Olaf Scholz

Inserted 1 week ago

“The United Kingdom has always been an indispensable part of solving the big issues that affect the whole of Europe. This has not changed since it left the EU.”

Chancellor of Germany

28 Aug 2024 3 3

Keir Starmer

Inserted 1 week ago

“A reset would not mean reversing Britain's 2020 exit from the EU under the Conservatives, or re-entering the bloc's single market or customs union. But it does mean a closer relationship on a number of fronts, including the economy, including defence, including exchanges.”

UK Prime Minister

28 Aug 2024 3 3

Aleksandar Djokic

Inserted 1 week ago

“The French judicial authorities will be very careful not to frame the ongoing proceedings with Pavel Durov and Telegram as a free speech issue. Outside of the judiciary, however, Durov's arrest will be viewed through a political lens as well. Overlapping with the free speech debate is the Cold War angle - specifically, the question of whether an uncensored Telegram serves Russian interests. It is moderated on a very low level, while it's being used both by Russian official circles and their media, as well as the Russian opposition and the Ukrainian side.”

Political Scientist

28 Aug 2024 5 1

Avigdor Lieberman

Inserted 1 week ago

“It is not our job to take care of the civilian humanitarian effort in Gaza, against those who brutally murdered and kidnapped our sons and daughters. The only arrangement that should be in place with Gaza is to stop all transfers of humanitarian aid, equipment, fuel, electricity and water and leave operational freedom of action to the [Israeli forces] in order to prevent renewed military intensification.”

Aje

Member of the Israeli Knesset

28 Aug 2024 1 2

Mustafa Barghouti

Inserted 1 week ago

“The ongoing Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank is not just raids … it's an act of war. What Israel is doing is conducting a war on occupied people which is a total violation of international law on how an occupying power should behave. They are using air strikes, air force, tanks, bulldozers, and what they are trying to do is to transfer the actual genocide and ethnic cleansing ongoing in Gaza into the West Bank. The amount of damage Israeli forces inflicted on the Palestinian territory's infrastructure also indicates their goal to make it uninhabitable for its citizens. They destroyed water pipelines, electricity lines, houses, schools - what do they want? They want to create a situation where we cannot live in our country and that is exactly what the settlers' plans are about. It's about Judaization of the West Bank, about annexing the West Bank and killing any opportunity for the Palestinians to be free and to have a state of their own.”

Aje

General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative

28 Aug 2024 8 2

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 1 week ago

“As of today not just compromise but dialogue in general with Putin…is empty, pointless. He does not want to end the war in a diplomatic way. He seems to be ready from a diplomatic standpoint but [he wants Ukraine - ed.] to concede 30% of our land. I think we should not play along. The operation in Russia's Kursk Oblast helped Ukraine a lot to decrease active discussions around this topic.”

President of Ukraine

27 Aug 2024 5 3

Yair Lapid

Inserted 1 week ago

“We won't be able to return 108 abductees in special operations. They don't have time. We must make a deal and return them home, now.”

Aje

Israeli opposition leader

27 Aug 2024 1 1

Jung Jae-hoon

Inserted 1 week ago

“They are status hunting. Their high spending habits show young people are working on their own emblems of success online rather than focusing on the impossible goals of settling down and have children.”

Sociology professor at Seoul Women's University

27 Aug 2024 4 2

Louise Wateridge

Inserted 1 week ago

“Israel's latest evacuation orders in Gaza have forced UN staff over the past 48 hours to move and reconfigure operations. UN operations have not stopped despite the huge challenges created by the Israeli forces imposing new rules. It is nothing short of a struggle to provide what people need here because we don't have enough aid. We don't have enough supplies coming in; we don't have enough access to distribute to people. There are so many people dying in Gaza from things that can be treated, people can be saved, but we do not have the means to do this for them. We do not have the means to operate to our best ability.”

Aje

Senior communications officer at UNRWA

27 Aug 2024 4 2

Marshall Kosloff

Inserted 1 week ago

“Everyone on right-wing Silicon Valley Twitter is going crazy, and no one left of center cares or comments. Telegram is anti-moderation - that makes it right-wing coded.”

Media fellow at the right-leaning tech think tank the Foundation for American Innovation

27 Aug 2024 (approx) 4 1

Chris Krebs

Inserted 1 week ago

“There is no legitimate defense of a platform that allows material such as child sexual abuse imagery, which researchers say has been traded on private channels on Telegram. In liberal democracies, we make laws, and there are some things that are, of course, not permissible. There are curbs that governments can put in place and the French government has taken action here. I wonder why the guy felt comfortable going to Paris, given some of the scrutiny.”

Former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

26 Aug 2024 4 1

Natalia Krapiva

Inserted 1 week ago

“Civil society has had a complicated relationship with Telegram over the years. We have defended Telegram and its users against attempts by authoritarian regimes to block and coerce the platform into providing encryption keys, but we have also been raising alarms about Telegram's lack of human rights policies, reliable channel of communication, and remedy for its users. Telegram fails on most measures of corporate responsibility including transparency and accountability.”

Senior tech legal counsel at Access Now

26 Aug 2024 5 1

John Kirby

Inserted 1 week ago

“The talks actually progressed to a point where they felt like the next logical step was to have working groups at lower levels to sit down to hammer out these finer details.”

White House national security spokesperson

26 Aug 2024 3 1

Dmytro Kuleba

Inserted 1 week ago

“There are two specific decisions that our partners can make to help us put an end to Russian terror sooner. First, affirming Ukraine's long-range strikes on all legitimate military targets on Russian territory. Second, agreeing to use partners' air defence capabilities to shoot down missiles and drones close to their airspace. Neither of these decisions would lead to an escalation of war. On the contrary, they will deter Russia, help reduce terror and the number of Russian attacks, as well as the resulting casualties. Act now, not later. Help us save lives.”

Foreign Minister of Ukraine

26 Aug 2024 6 4

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 1 week ago

“Ukraine cannot be constrained in its long-range capabilities when the terrorists face no such limitations. Weakness and inadequate responses fuel terror...Every leader, every one of our partners, knows the decisive actions required to end this war justly.”

President of Ukraine

26 Aug 2024 2 3

David Mencer

Inserted 1 week ago

“The current situation is not sustainable. Israel will do its duty and return its population [evacuated from their homes in northern Israel] to our sovereign territory.”

Israeli government spokesman

26 Aug 2024 1 2

Vitaly Sarantsev

Inserted 1 week ago

“We felt relief in tactical aviation. The enemy has significantly reduced its use in our direction. If in previous periods we had 30 to 50 antiaircraft missiles per day only [in the Sumy region], then yesterday the enemy used air strikes twice, using four antiaircraft missiles and 11 unguided air missiles.”

Ukrainian Colonel

25 Aug 2024 4 4

Park Won-gon

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“There's a chance North Korea could try to exploit the U.S. election to its advantage. If Kim Jong-un really wants Trump back in the White House, he might calculate that a well-timed provocation could weaken the Biden administration, making Trump's re-election more likely. From North Korea's perspective, Trump might offer a better chance to be recognized as a de facto nuclear state. He could be more open to a deal where North Korea declares a moratorium on certain activities in exchange for partial sanctions relief.”

Professor of North Korean studies at Ewha Womans University

25 Aug 2024 7 3

Daniel Hagari

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“It goes without saying that the return of the hostages is a noble goal, but it is not the only goal of the war. At the same press conference, I also referred to the destruction of Hamas's military wing, which is also one of the goals of the fighting. The IDF works day and night to achieve the goals of the war - all of them.”

Timesofisrael

Chief Israeli military spokesperson

25 Aug 2024 4 3

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“I just spoke with Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi. We are advancing in Kursk Oblast - by one to three kilometres. We have taken control of two more settlements. Active operations are underway in another settlement. We are replenishing our 'exchange fund'.”

25 Aug 2024 4 2

Benjamin Netanyahu

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“We are determined to do everything we can to defend our country. Whoever harms us - we harm him.”

Prime Minister of Israel

25 Aug 2024 2 2

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“I believe the Indian government understands this. We will gladly work on alternative solutions. You are a big country; we're talking here not about millions, but about billions returning to Putin, to Russia, and then being used by him, because he officially now has a war economy. This implies that the priority is war rather than peace. Not only for its military, but also for its economy, which is primed for war if billions of dollars arrive from any market, including India, Arab countries, and China. Of course, this benefits him greatly, so he should feel that war is a very expensive and costly thing, as should his society, because even if he does not receive billions, he will not feel it. He is stealing billions from his people. They are poor, so he did not feel it; however, if his society does, they will push him to peace. This is critical because his society is either unaware of what is going on or understands and supports him. There is media influence in their country because Putin has complete control over the media and social media... If you stop importing oil, Putin will face huge challenges.”