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The government, lately uneager to greenlight large-scale nuclear projects despite energy shortages, is ready to invest $283 million into a Rolls-Royce project to construct Small Modular Reactors, or SMRs, for nuclear power generation. Rolls-Royce, which will own some 80% of the project, is to invest another $263 million along with …

Colonel Jaroslaw Kembrowski, the military attache of Poland’s embassy in Belarus, was summoned by the defence ministry in Minsk over the border migrant crisis. That’s what the ministry’s press service told Belarusian Belta news agency. An estimated 3,000-4,000 migrants have already gathered at the border on the Belarusian side. Over 10,000 …

The ongoing migrant crisis at the Belarusian border could devolve into an “armed” escalation, Polish government spokesman Piotr Muller told reporters on Monday. “We expect that there may be an escalation of this type of action on the Polish border in the near future, which will be of an armed …

The climate change conference COP26 is well under way, and 30,000 delegates have flown into Glasgow to try to convince everyone to burn less fossil fuels – unless you’re doing something really important, like attending a taxpayer-funded party in Glasgow to convince people to burn less fossil fuels. Why a …

Some 3,000 migrants from the Middle East and North Africa, who are seeking asylum in the EU, tried to cross from Belarus into Poland on Monday. But after being repelled by Polish security forces, they set up a makeshift camp along the border. “The night wasn’t calm” at the camp …

Footage and photos shared online show a law enforcement vehicle ramming a shirtless man in the Norwegian capital as he brandished a knife and reportedly threatened passersby. After being flung backwards by the police car, the knifeman manages to get back to his feet and opens the passenger door of …

The ultradeep quake rocked the remote Bonin (also known as Ogasawara) Islands off mainland Japan in 2015, coming as an aftershock to a 7.9 magnitude earthquake in the region. The tremor could not be felt at the surface and sensitive equipment was required to source the quake.  Occurring at a …

Speaking to RT, former BBC journalist Robin Aitken said that media consumers in the West don’t always get a fair picture of what is happening around the world due to the presence of the liberal agenda behind much Western reporting.  “You’ve got a media culture in Britain, but this extends …

In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Belarusian Ministry of Defense rejected reports that its forces were encouraging thousands of would-be asylum seekers to attempt to cross into the EU country. Instead, Minsk’s officials said, the presence of 10,000 Polish servicemen on the shared frontier “represents significant military activity,” insisting …

I pity the poor trainspotters. You know, those nerds in anoraks who stand on bridges and hang around railway stations so they can scribble down the latest sighting of iconic choo-choo trains such as the Flying Scotsman, the Mallard or the Tees-Tyne Pullman. I mean, what harm did those freaks …