By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s consumer protection agency has received about 70 complaints since initiating a probe into aggressive discounting by BYD dealers that has left some buyers feeling they overpaid for their Chinese electric vehicles. Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin told BYD Chief Executive Wang Chuanfu, who was in Thailand […]
The United States government has provided an assurance regarding the treatment of Julian Assange if he was extradited, the WikiLeaks founder’s wife has said. Assange faces prosecution in the US over an alleged conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information following the publication of hundreds of thousands of leaked documents relating to the Afghanistan and […]
The Biden administration will be requiring countries that receive weapons from the U.S. to provide “credible and reliable” written assurances to the State Department that they will use those weapons in accordance with the laws of war, according to a national security memorandum released Thursday. The executive action applies globally to the more than 100 […]
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — Bidding to salvage a border deal in Congress that also would unlock money for Ukraine, President Joe Biden offered fresh assurances Saturday night that he would be willing to close the U.S.-Mexico border if lawmakers would only send him a bill to sign. Biden — also eager to disarm GOP […]
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, speaking in the UK Parliament, has not used the term “security assurances” in relation to the agreement with Ukraine. Source: European Pravda Details: During his speech, which was mainly devoted to strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen, Sunak mentioned his visit to Kyiv last Friday. He noted that the UK […]
Canada has sent a draft of its plans for security assurances for Ukraine, said Natalka Cmoc, the Canadian ambassador to Ukraine, in an interview with Ukrainska Pravda published on Jan. 15. Ukraine’s efforts to gain security guarantees from its Western allies have picked up speed since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. The Group of […]
The Ukrainian President’s Office has stated that the security guarantees that Ukraine hopes to receive from Western countries will not feature the word “assurances”. Source: European Pravda; Ihor Zhovkva, Deputy Chief of the Ukrainian President’s Office, in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine news agency Quote: “We call it ‘guarantees’. And we will make sure that our […]