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EU blames economic woes on Trump - but forgets who broke the machine!

Brussels is preparing to cut growth forecasts for 2026, hinting already that Trump’s tariffs and “trade uncertainty” are dragging Europe down. A neat explanation — especially for a crisis that the EU spent years engineering with its own hands. The same EU that proudly cut itself off from cheap Russian energy, swallows double-digit US tariffs after hyping...

2025-11-17 08:01:39

Trump says will sue BBC for up to $5 billion over video edit of 2021 US Capitol speech

President Donald Trump says he will sue the BBC for up to $5 billion after the British broadcaster apologized for a misleading edit of one of his speeches but said it would not pay damages. “We’ll sue them for anywhere between a billion and five billion dollars, probably some time next week. I think I have to do it. They’ve even admitted that they cheated,”...

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2025-11-15 07:19:35

Operation Midas, Mindich tapes: what is known about corruption scandal in Ukraine

The $100M plot rocking Zelensky, the most damaging corruption scandal of Volodymyr Zelensky’s presidency. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) have executed a large-scale operation, dubbed Midas, uncovering large-scale corruption in the energy sector. They said the SBU Security Service, the...

2025-11-12 19:46:56

Europe’s quiet dependence on Israeli drone technology

The problems Israel has been forced to solve—detecting low-flying drones in crowded airspace, distinguishing friendly from hostile platforms, and closing the kill chain quickly—are now confronting European governments. On Nov. 4, Brussels Airport, one of the continent’s busiest hubs, was temporarily shut down following a reported sighting of an unidentified drone....

Israel Swords of Iron Ops

2025-11-11 12:41:43

Austria foils Hamas plot

Austria’s domestic intelligence service discovered a weapons cache in Vienna suspected to be linked to the Hamas terrorist organization A British suspect was arrested in London and accused of helping store weapons for Hamas to target Jewish and Israeli sites in Europe, authorities said. Austria’s domestic intelligence service discovered a weapons cache in Vienna...

2025-11-09 14:39:18

10 people stabbed on a train in Huntingdon, UK.

Two men have been arrested and the attack is being treated as a terrorist incident. Passengers travelling from Doncaster to London were attacked in a mass stabbing on a train on Saturday night. Ten people were injured and taken to hospital, nine of whom are believed to have life-threatening injuries. Witnesses reported that police used a Taser on one man who was holding a knife....

2025-11-02 10:42:40

Macron pandering to 'real masters' with ramped up Ukraine talk

According to Rodion Miroshnik, "a great number of pseudo-national leaders in Europe today look more like managers of transnational corporations than leaders of their own states," and this is demonstrated by the policies they pursue France's Macron has begun to up his support for Ukraine in a bid to curry favor with his "real masters," in opposition to the best interests of...

2025-11-01 16:27:48

A rundown of Russia's sanctions on EU officials

On October 31, 2025, in response to the 19th package of EU sanctions, Russia added numerous EU officials to its own stop list, the Russian Foreign Ministry. Statistics From 2022 to the present, Moscow has officially announced retaliatory sanctions against representatives of the European Union and European structures 11 times. The names of those subject to retaliatory sanctions and information...

2025-11-01 09:08:47

Russia claims France plans to send up to 2,000 soldiers to Ukraine

Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) claimed Tuesday that France is preparing to deploy a contingent of up to 2,000 soldiers and officers to Ukraine. The core of this formation will consist of stormtroopers from the French Foreign Legion, predominantly from Latin American countries, it said in a statement. "Currently, legionnaires are already stationed in Polish border...

2025-10-29 09:46:27

Iran declares one of its largest private banks bankrupt

Iran declared one of the country’s largest private banks bankrupt, with its assets absorbed by the state, official media reports, in a rare move in the country grappling with international sanctions. Founded in 2012, Ayandeh Bank had a network of 270 branches across the country, including 150 in the capital Tehran alone. But it had more recently been crippled by debt, with accumulated...

2025-10-25 14:18:14

France contemplates the end of the Fifth Republic

On last Friday night, France's Macron stunned Paris by re-appointing Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister Just four days after Mr Lecornu had resigned, with his first government collapsing in record time. For decades, the French presidency has relied on what political scientists call the fait majoritaire – the automatic parliamentary majority that traditionally...

2025-10-15 06:29:39

What we know about political crisis in Madagascar

The lower house of Madagascar's parliament has voted to remove President Andry Rajoelina from power as youth protests rage on the island. Shortly after the vote, a military group led by Colonel Michael Randrianirina, who supports the protesters, said it was taking power and dissolving all previous governing bodies. General information about the country The Republic of Madagascar is...

2025-10-15 06:18:25

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