Hundreds of French filling stations have run dry as drivers rushed to fill up vehicles, after fuel-price caps were introduced because of global supply disruptions caused by the Middle East war. Out of 900 stations that have run out of at least one type of fuel, 700 of them belong to TotalEnergies SA, the energy ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. That’s being caused by logistical issues, rather than domestic supply shortages, it said. The fallout from the conflict and effective...

Great Britain, China, the Republic of Korea, France and Japan have directly or indirectly declined calls by the US administration to ensure the passage of oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz. In particular, China and France pointed to the need for a diplomatic settlement of the dispute in the region. Great Britain and Japan unequivocally refused, while South Korea promised to "review the proposal and hold consultations." Diplomatic refusal The Chinese authorities stated that they...

Nigerien presidential chief of staff Gen. Amadou Ibro has called on his countrymen to prepare for “war with France,” citing Paris’s attempts to destabilize the West African nation.   France “wants to bring us back at any cost,” Ibro said, accusing Paris of building its prosperity on the back of its neocolonial relationship with Niger, and suffering a deteriorating economic picture without its resources.   👉 Uranium is at the heart of the dispute. A...

Paris is preparing neo-colonial coups d’etat on the African continent and seeking opportunities for "political revenge" in Africa, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service’s (SVR) press bureau reported.   "France is preparing neo-colonial coups in Africa," the statement said. According to information received by the SVR, "Emmanuel Macron's administration is feverishly seeking opportunities for 'political revenge' in Africa." According to the press bureau, Paris has...

Iran is under a coordinated blackout aimed not only at security control but at concealing the truth. Internet cuts, crippled communications, media shutdowns, and intimidation of journalists and witnesses point to one goal: preventing a vast and historic crime from being seen.   In recent days, after receiving scattered but shocking and deeply troubling reports, Iran International has focused on verifying information to build a clearer picture of the scale of repression and the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited a command post of the Russian armed forces this morning and held a meeting with Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov and the commanders of the battle groups. He heard a report on the liberation of Gulyaipole in the Zaporozhye Region and Dimitrov in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). Putin said that the establishment of a buffer zone on the Russian-Ukrainian border is proceeding well, and that Russian Armed Forces are advancing in Donbass...

The invitation to the Hanukkah event at the Chabad house, which according to reports was the target of the shooting Reports indicate that ten were murdered, 60 people have been wounded and 20 people are still missing   Blood-stained tzitzit have been discovered at the scene. There are reports that one of the Chabad workers was murdered.     New footage just released shows medics performing CPR on multiple victims, and one person dead on the ground. Authorities...

US and NABU closing in on Zelensky: How much aid money could he steal?    📌 The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) has reportedly got a US tip-off about $1 billion of Volodymyr Zelensky's personal wealth, linked to Washington's aid to Ukraine   What’s known so far? 🌏 On December 8 in London, British, French, and German leaders allegedly told Zelensky that NABU had received US data on his offshore funds, according to Ukrainian journalist Anatoly Shariy on Telegram...

FSB publishes declassified data on Nazi collaborators who took refuge in Canada Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has released its predecessor KGB’s archives on 12 Nazi collaborators who fled to Canada to escape prosecution, according to the agency's website. The documents reveal that the war criminals were from the Belarusian, Ukrainian, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Estonian Soviet Socialist Republics, as well as the Kirov and Smolensk Regions. Theodor Adamtau, an...

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 prosecutor's office, high-ranking government officials and businessmen, including Timur Mindich,...

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. Two people were arrested and counter-terror police have joined the investigation. Prime Minister...

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 his own people, Russian Foreign Ministry’s Ambassador-at-Large for the Crimes of the Kiev...