Iraq’s Kurds are against joining the US attacks on Iran, and have voiced concerns about being left facing Iranian retaliation with no ground or air defense support, Axios reported on Saturday. The CIA began working to arm Kurdish forces hostile to the Islamic Republic after the US and Israel launched …
Read More »Hungary to deploy troops against potential ‘Ukrainian attacks’
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has ordered military units and additional police to guard energy infrastructure sites in his country’s east, citing the threat of potential Ukrainian attacks. Orban announced the deployment on Wednesday amid the continuing standoff between Budapest and Kiev over the Soviet-era Druzhba pipeline, which until recently …
Read More »EU reveals 18th sanctions package against Moscow
The EU has managed to approve its 18th sanctions package against Russia over the Ukraine conflict, targeting Moscow’s energy and banking sectors, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has said. The Kremlin has decried the unilateral restrictions by Brussels as “illegal.” A previous attempt to greenlight the package, which …
Read More »‘I have fought against white and black domination’: This man steered his nation away from civil war
Modern-day South Africa is a true melting pot, home to diverse nationalities. At the forefront of shaping the modern Republic of South Africa was Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, the country’s first black president, who dedicated his life to the fight for equality among all people, regardless of race. Mandela not only …
Read More »US Patriots struggling against Russian weaponry in Ukraine – WSJ
US-made Patriot air defense systems, long hailed as a cornerstone of Western military aid to Ukraine, are now struggling to intercept advanced Russian ballistic missiles, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing sources. One unnamed Ukrainian official told the outlet that Russian ballistic missiles have become more maneuverable, allowing …
Read More »Tulsi Gabbard releases ‘overwhelming evidence’ of Obama coup plot against Trump
Former President Barack Obama’s administration deliberately manipulated intelligence to frame Russia for interfering in the 2016 presidential election, according to newly declassified documents released on Friday by America’s Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Gabbard unveiled more than 100 pages of emails, memos, and internal communications, which she described as …
Read More »Europe once again rallying under Nazi flag against Russia – Lavrov
The EU has failed to learn the lessons of history by once again gathering under a Nazi flag to attempt to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday. Lavrov was responding to remarks by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who on Monday declared there were …
Read More »China retaliates against Trump tariffs
China has announced new tariffs and trade restrictions, following a similar move by the administration of US President Donald Trump, which views competition against China as a key foreign policy point. Last week, Trump ordered additional 10% tariffs on all goods from China, saying he is using his emergency authority …
Read More »Ukrainian chemical attack against staff of Russian defense plant thwarted – FSB
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has said it has foiled a Ukrainian terrorist plot targeting the staff of a Russian defense industry enterprise in the city of Yaroslavl. The suspect is a Russian citizen who was working for Kiev, and who planned to poison workers of the facility with toxic …
Read More »Ukrainian chemical attack against staff of Russian defense plant thwarted – FSB
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has said it has foiled a Ukrainian terrorist plot targeting the staff of a Russian defense industry enterprise in the city of Yaroslavl. The suspect is a Russian citizen who was working for Kiev, and who planned to poison workers of the facility with toxic …
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