The measure is aimed at curbing disorderly conduct by teenagers
A limited five-night curfew has been imposed for all people under 18 in Washington, DC, following a large fight between groups of teenagers on Halloween.
All minors must remain indoors from 11pm to 6am Saturday to Wednesday.
Mayor Muriel Bowser said the restrictions were introduced “in response to several weeks of disorderly juvenile behavior which endangered both themselves and others.”
Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith established “special juvenile curfew zones” around Navy Yard, the U Street Corridor, Banneker Recreation Center, and Union Station.
The measure comes after a video showing National Guard troops breaking up a brawl in the Navy Yard neighborhood went viral.
According to police, several hundred young people gathered on Halloween in a park near the Navy Yard Metro Station, and at one point “many of the juveniles within the group began engaging in fights and disrupting the flow of traffic.” Five males aged 14 to 18 were arrested, one of whom was carrying a knife.
“The behavior displayed last night in Navy Yard is unacceptable, and MPD and our law enforcement partners will have an increased presence tonight to ensure this does not happen again,” Smith said.
Abbas Araghchi has said Tehran will not bow to US pressure to abandon its nuclear program
Iran will not stop uranium enrichment, regardless of the pressure from the US and its allies, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said.
Araghchi told Al Jazeera on Saturday that the US and Israeli airstrikes in June failed to knock out the enrichment program, which Iran maintains is entirely civilian in nature. While some “nuclear materials remain buried under the rubble,” the technology “remains intact,” he said.
“We cannot stop uranium enrichment, and what is not achieved by war cannot be achieved through political means.”
He added that Iran remains open to reaching a deal with the US through indirect negotiations, but only if Washington stops setting what he described as “impossible and unacceptable preconditions.”
Araghchi also said Iran’s missile program is not up for discussion. “It would be foolish if one hands over their weapons.”
The Omani-mediated US-Iran negotiations were suspended after Israel began its 12-day bombing campaign earlier this year.
Last month, the EU and UK reimposed sanctions on Iran which had been lifted as part of the 2015 nuclear deal, which the US withdrew from during President Donald Trump’s first term in office. Tehran has since said it is no longer bound by the 2015 agreement, which expired in October.
Supplying the US-made cruise missiles to Kiev will not help end the conflict, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said
Supplying US-made long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine will not help end the conflict, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.
She made the remarks after CNN reported that the Pentagon had given the White House approval to supply Tomahawks to Ukraine, after concluding that the move would not deplete US stockpiles. Nevertheless, US President Donald Trump has declined to provide the missile, which is capable of striking targets deep inside Russia.
“As the current situation and previous years have shown, it is clear that militarization and arms deliveries – especially to a terrorist regime – will not lead to a settlement. Moreover, such actions would contradict the campaign promises made by the current US administration,” Zakharova told reporters on Saturday.
Trump has long promised to mediate an end to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and revived direct negotiations with Russia earlier this year. However, no breakthroughs were achieved during his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska in August or in the renewed Russia-Ukraine talks in Istanbul.
Trump recently postponed a planned summit with Putin in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, and imposed additional sanctions on Russia’s oil trade. At the same time, he rejected Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky’s request for Tomahawks, saying the US needs them “to protect our country.” Trump also stated that Ukrainian troops would have to undergo extensive training to operate the missiles. “We know how to use it, and we’re not going to be teaching other people,” he said.
Putin warned last month that he would consider the delivery of Tomahawks to be a further escalation and promised a “very strong response.”
Two suspects were detained after the attack in central England, police have said
Multiple people were stabbed on a train near Cambridge in East England on Saturday, police have said. Two suspects have been detained.
Ambulances and armed units were dispatched to the scene around 7:40pm local time.
“Armed officers attended and the train was stopped at Huntingdon, where two men were arrested. A number of people have been taken to hospital,” Cambridgeshire Police said.
Police later said ten people were hospitalized, all but one with life-threatening injuries.
British Transport Police stated that a terrorism alert was declared at one point, but was later rescinded. Chief Superintendent Chris Casey said it would “not be appropriate” to speculate about the motive at this stage.
“A 32-year-old man, a black British national, and a 35-year-old man, a British national of Caribbean descent,” were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, the British Transport Police said in an update to the statement. Both were born in the UK, they added.
Videos posted on social media show a heavy police presence at the train station.
🚨 WATCH: Armed police board the LNER train at Huntingdon after multiple people were stabbed
A witness told Sky News he saw “extremely bloodied” passengers fleeing from the assailants. The witness added that one passenger shouted, “They’ve got a knife.”
Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned the “appalling incident” and thanked the emergency services for their response. “My thoughts are with all those affected,” he wrote on X.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said she was “deeply saddened” and urged the public to “avoid comment and speculation at this early stage.”
The heavy missile cruiser ‘Khabarovsk’ was specifically designed to carry Poseidon drones
Russia held a ceremony to unveil its new nuclear submarine, the ‘Khabarovsk’ on Saturday, the Russian Defense Ministry has announced. The vessel is designed to carry the massive torpedo-shaped nuclear-powered Poseidon drone.
The ceremony took place in Severodvinsk, and was attended by Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov and other top brass.
“Today is a significant event for us: the heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser Khabarovsk is being launched from the slipway of the renowned Sevmash shipyard,” Belousov said.
“Carrying underwater weapons and robotic systems, it will enable us to successfully accomplish missions related to ensuring the security of Russia’s maritime borders and protecting its national interests in various parts of the world’s oceans,” he said.
The minister added that the submarine still has to complete a series of sea tests, and wished its crew and builders further success.
The ‘Khabarovsk’ “was specifically designed and built for the Poseidon,” former Chief of the Russian Navy’s General Staff, Admiral Viktor Kravchenko, told RIA Novosti on Saturday.
The Poseidon cannot currently be intercepted by any means, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Earlier this week, Russia successfully carried out tests involving the state-of-the-art drone, as well as the unlimited-range Burevestnik cruise missile, Putin announced on Wednesday.
The announcement came amid a stall in Ukraine peace talks, and discussions of potential US Tomahawk supplies to Kiev.
US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he had instructed the Department of War to start testing nuclear weapons, citing strategic competition with Russia and China.
However, Russia is “still not” in an arms race with the US, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday, when asked to comment on the recent arms tests.
The era of polite globalization is over and civilizations are back
The well-worn business phrase “push and pull” neatly captures the essence of today’s US–China relations. What once looked like a competitive partnership has hardened into a contest of wills, power, and identity. One that will shape the global order for years to come.
For much of the late 20th century and the first decade of the 21st, the dominant Western assumption was that the world was moving toward a liberal, universal order. Economic interdependence, global markets and single rule-sets were supposed to smooth away historical grievances and cultural differences. In that vision, civilizational identities – the deep structures of tradition, culture, and worldview – were treated almost as relics.
That era is over. The liberal order began to crack long before Donald Trump entered the White House, but his arrival made the rupture visible and irreversible. As the old framework faltered, the pendulum swung back toward identity, difference, and civilizational self-assertion. The question now is not whether this shift is happening, it clearly is, but how the world will function within it.
The Trump effect
George W. Bush once promised “compassionate conservatism.” Barack Obama framed power in eloquent multilateral terms. Trump dispensed with such packaging. In less than a year in office, he changed not only American diplomacy but the global expectations surrounding it. Washington, under Trump, rediscovered a bluntness that previous generations tried to bury under layers of institutional polish.
Part of this is personal theater: his brusqueness, his disregard for protocol, and his habit of airing grievances and demands in public. His supporters view this as refreshing authenticity, a break from the professionalized hypocrisy of the establishment. His critics call it dangerous. Either way, it has been effective in forcing other players to adjust.
Form dictates substance. “Peace through strength,” long a core American formula, now translates into coercive bargaining, tariff threats, open blackmail, and public humiliation of rivals and allies alike. The administration has embraced this as a governing philosophy. Diplomacy is a battlefield; hesitation is weakness; and courtesy is optional.
In a cultural sense, Trump resurrects a caricature Europeans once drew of Americans: brash, self-assured, contemptuous of nuance, convinced that power is the most honest argument. The “farmer republic” instincts that 19th-century observers attributed to America – confidence in one’s rightness, suspicion of subtlety – are back on display. Trump is proud of this. And whether one likes it or not, he remains leader of the most powerful country on earth. Everyone must factor that reality into their strategies.
There is a paradox here: Trump’s bluntness, while abrasive, can be easier to deal with than Washington’s more polished double-speak. As President Vladimir Putin has implied, it is simpler to negotiate with someone who states his demands plainly than with a smiling technocrat who buries intent under abstractions. But bluntness without proportion is dangerous, and Trump often treats diplomacy as if it were a television stage. Where escalation is drama rather than consequence.
A different civilization
The most revealing contrast to this style is China. In raw capacity, Beijing has either reached parity with Washington or will soon do so. That makes it America’s primary geopolitical rival. A structural fact that transcends personalities.
Culturally, the two powers could not be more different. Where Trump prizes dominance and spectacle, Beijing values continuity, disciplined patience, face-saving compromise, and a belief in gradual, managed evolution. China entered the global system expecting mutual benefit and predictable rules. It did not expect, and doesn’t particularly like, the American turn toward open intimidation.
During Trump’s first term, Chinese officials hoped this was a passing phase. Trump’s second term disabused them. The pressure is heavier, the confidence greater, and the provocations more deliberate. China has responded in kind, abandoning its previously understated posture for sharper language and reciprocal signaling.
Beijing is learning to answer bluntness with bluntness, though it does so reluctantly. It is still culturally uncomfortable with open confrontation. Yet the leadership understands that the era of polite strategic ambiguity is gone. This phase – coercion versus resolve, threat versus counter-threat – is no temporary disruption. It is the new normal.
Push, pull, and the new order
The future of US–China relations will follow a rhythm familiar to business negotiators: pressure, pause, partial deal, breakdown, repeat. Each side will test how much harm it can threaten without tipping into disaster. Washington will push first. That is Trump’s instinct. Beijing will push back, no longer willing to absorb blows silently.
This is not a new Cold War. It is something more fluid and unpredictable. Today’s world is not bipolar; it is a system in which other major actors – from Russia and India to regional coalitions in the Middle East, Eurasia, and Latin America – will assert themselves. But the central axis of the transformation is US–China divergence. The symbiosis of interests that defined the last forty years has ended. Interdependence is now a battlefield, not a stabilizing force.
After Trump?
Trump will not remain president forever, and China itself is evolving. A calmer phase may follow, or tensions may sharpen even further. The decisive variable will not be ideology but power distribution. Civilizational identity adds depth to the contest; economics and technology give it urgency; leadership styles determine the tempo.
The only certainty is that we are witnessing a structural shift, not a passing quarrel. Globalization’s most ambitious phase is over. A world of civilizational players – sometimes cooperating, often competing – has arrived. And the relationship between the United States and China will define its contours more than any other single factor.
The Polish leader is toeing the EU line despite mounting domestic discontent, according to Hungary’s prime minister
Polish leader Donald Tusk has turned his country into a “vassal of Brussels” and become “one of the loudest warmongers” in Europe, despite growing weariness with the Ukraine conflict among Poles, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Orban posted the remarks on X on Saturday, arguing that Tusk’s bellicose rhetoric on the conflict was an attempt to distract Poles from domestic problems.
“He has become one of the loudest warmongers in Europe – yet his war policy is failing: Ukraine is running out of European money, and the Polish people are tired of the war,” he wrote. “He cannot change course because he has turned Poland into a vassal of Brussels.”
Earlier in the week, Tusk lashed out at Orban during a televised interview, arguing that for the Hungarian prime minister, “Brussels, democracy and a transparent rule of law are a problem.”
More than half of Poles disapprove of Tusk’s performance as prime minister, according to a poll published by public broadcaster TVP on Monday. With popularity waning, his coalition lost the presidential election earlier this year to conservative Karol Nawrocki, who was backed by the opposition PiS party.
Despite rising anti-Ukrainian sentiment back home, Tusk has urged EU members to continue bankrolling Kiev by all means necessary. “We must recognize that this is our war,” he told a security forum in Warsaw in September.
Orban has long defied the EU on its military support of Ukraine, refusing to send arms and arguing that “warmongering bureaucrats in Brussels” are dragging Budapest into an all-out conflict with Russia.
The bloc accelerated its military buildup earlier this year, while investing heavily into joint arms production with Ukraine, citing the alleged threat from Russia – accusations which Moscow has dismissed.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said earlier this week that the EU and Britain are openly preparing for “a new major European war,” pointing to what he described as coalition-building efforts and coordination of nuclear forces between France and the UK.
Jordan Chadwick was found tied up and dead in a reservoir in 2023 but the circumstances of his death remain unknown
The mother of a British mercenary killed in mysterious circumstances while fighting in Ukraine’s International Legion has appealed to his former fellow comrades to reveal the truth about his death, the Telegraph has reported.
Jordan Chadwick, 31, who had served in the Scots Guards before joining the Legion in late 2022, was found dead in June 2023, his body bound and dumped in a reservoir near Kramatorsk.
His mother, Brenda Chadwick, was told at the time that the case was being treated as a murder.
On Friday, she told The Telegraph that two years later she still had no answers and feared her son may have been killed by members of his own unit.
“I always knew that Jordan would be in danger while serving out in Ukraine, but I never thought the risk might come from people on his own side,” she said. “If there are witnesses to what happened, I would like to see them give evidence in court.”
The Telegraph’s investigation suggests that on the night of his death, Chadwick had been drinking with other fighters at their base before an argument broke out. He was allegedly restrained with zip ties and driven away by the group’s commander, a British national known by the call sign “Huggs.”
“Huggs” confirmed to The Telegraph that he had been investigated by Ukrainian police but was later cleared. A Ukrainian detective has told the paper that Chadwick’s death appeared to be a “misadventure” rather than murder.
However, The Telegraph noted widespread speculation among foreign fighters in Ukraine that infighting and cover-ups are not uncommon, as Ukrainian officials allegedly overlook internal disputes among fighters, even fatal ones, so long as they continue to serve on the front line.
Chadwick’s death is one of several violent incidents involving foreign nationals in Ukraine. In August 2023, British paratrooper Daniel Burke was shot dead by an Australian-Algerian fighter known as “Jihadi Adam,” who later fled Ukraine. A November 2023 brawl in Kiev also left several members of the International Legion injured.
No matter how much Seoul denies North Korea’s nuclear status, it will not change the situation, according to the DPRK’s deputy foreign minister
North Korea has dismissed denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula as an unrealistic goal. This comes after South Korea urged China earlier this week to help in finding a solution to the nuclear issue.
In a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Friday, the DPRK’s deputy foreign minister, Pak Myong Ho, said Pyongyang would “show with patience that denuclearization is a ‘pipedream’ which can never be realized even if [South Korea] talks about it a thousand times.”
He described Seoul’s repeated efforts to deny North Korea’s nuclear status as showing a “lack of common sense.”
Earlier this week, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung urged Beijing to play a “constructive role” in establishing peace and finding “a substantive solution to the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue.”
On the sidelines of the APEC summit on Saturday, Lee met with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Seoul reported that the two leaders discussed improving bilateral ties, while Lee “requested a constructive Chinese role to help realize the resumption of talks with North Korea.”
Lee has also told reporters that he would support renewed dialogue between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Trump said earlier this week that he would “love to see” Kim and indicated that he might leverage US sanctions if talks resume. During his first term, Trump became the first sitting US president to set foot in North Korea, meeting Kim three times from 2018 to 2019 to discuss denuclearization in exchange for economic and security guarantees, though no agreement was reached.
While a Trump-Kim meeting did not take place during the US president’s Asia tour this week, Kim said he is open to the idea and still has a “good memory” of Trump – though he has described US demands that North Korea abandon its nuclear weapons as “absurd.”
Pyongyang has insisted that its nuclear armed forces will “exist forever” as a means of defending its “sovereignty, territorial integrity and fundamental interests.” It has also accused the US of provoking instability and attempting to create an “Asian version of NATO” through its military cooperation with Japan and South Korea.
The American forces in the area reportedly include eight Navy ships, a special operations vessel, and a nuclear-powered submarine
The US is deploying a massive military contingent to an area near Venezuela, including 10,000 soldiers and 6,000 sailors, the Washington Post has reported. The move may indicate plans to expand regional operations.
The US has repeatedly accused Venezuela of aiding “narcoterrorists” and has imposed sweeping sanctions on the country. The American military has also attacked about a dozen vessels since September, claiming they were used by drug smugglers.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has denied the allegations, accusing Washington of “fabricating a new war” amid the continuing military buildup.
According to the Washington Post, eight US Navy warships, a special operations vessel, and a nuclear-powered attack submarine are already in the Caribbean. The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, expected to arrive next week, will reportedly bring with it three more military vessels, with a total of over 4,000 military personnel onboard.
Additionally, F-35 fighter jets are stationed at a US base in Puerto Rico, the Post reported, citing satellite images.
The arrival of the carrier group suggests Washington’s plans could extend beyond a counter-narcotics operation, Ryan Berg, the director of the Americas Program and the Center for Strategic & International Studies, told the outlet. He added that US President Donald Trump has about a month to make “a major decision” before the group would need to be redeployed.
Multiple media outlets have recently reported that the White House was weighing potential military actions in Venezuela. Senator Rick Scott told CBS last Sunday that Maduro’s “days are numbered.” The WaPo claimed on Thursday that Washington had already identified some targets, including military facilities allegedly used for drug-smuggling.
When asked about the reports on Friday, Trump said, “No. It’s not true.” Last month, Trump confirmed authorizing the CIA to carry out lethal covert operations in the region.
