The shutdown, caused by cascading power line failures, affected several major cities and part of Moldova Several Ukrainian cities, as well as part of Moldova, have been hit by a large-scale blackout, local officials report, saying the shutdown was caused by a cascading failure on key power lines. Ukrainian Prime…
Anna Luna has sounded the alarm over the looming seizure of a parish in western Ukraine A US congresswoman has demanded answers from Ukraine’s ambassador over ongoing attempts to seize a parish of Ukraine’s largest Orthodox denomination in the western part of the country and hand it over to a…
The Arctic island is not a hotspot, Apostolos Tzitzikostas has said There is no evidence that “foreign adversaries” are targeting Greenland or that the island requires rapid investments to deploy troops there, the EU’s transport commissioner has said. European NATO members pushed back this month against renewed remarks by US…
Rallies over fatal shootings led to street confrontations in Los Angeles A coordinated ‘National Shutdown’ protest against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) erupted on Friday, with massive crowds filling the streets of Minneapolis, and culminating in intense confrontations in downtown Los Angeles. Organizers called on Americans to abstain from…
The unannounced visit comes amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed Ali Larijani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, to the Kremlin on Friday, in an unannounced high-level meeting. Larijani, a senior adviser to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, was appointed to his post last…
The US Central Command is worried about Iranian naval drills, despite staging its own war “readiness exercises” The US military has issued a formal warning to Iran over its planned live-fire naval exercises in the Strait of Hormuz, while simultaneously conducting major “readiness exercises” of its own across the Middle…
The cache includes more than 3 million pages, 180,000 images, and 2,000 videos related to the late sex offender The US Justice Department has published the final massive trove of documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a release mandated by Congress that reveals new details about the financier’s associations but contains…
Unpaid dues and reduced funding could halt the world body’s core operations by mid-2026, Antonio Guterres has warned The United Nations is at risk of running out of cash as unpaid dues and funding shortfalls by member states threaten to disrupt key operations, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned. Guterres issued…
Twenty-five men reached “secret settlements” with accusers, while four others were never charged, the late sex offender’s partner has claimed Twenty-nine alleged accomplices and co-conspirators of Jeffrey Epstein have avoided prosecution, most of them through “secret settlements,” the disgraced financier and sex offender’s partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, has claimed in court…
America narrows its focus, and sharpens its claws The United States has now published two of the three pillars of its main strategic doctrine: the National Security Strategy at the end of 2025 and, in January, the National Defense Strategy. Only the Nuclear Posture Review remains. Many observers described US…