The governor of the Lugansk People’s Republic has branded the satellite system a security threat The head of Russia’s Lugansk People’s Republic has banned all products from Elon Musk’s company SpaceX, including equipment for the Starlink satellite internet system, citing security concerns. “Starlink technology can be used by the enemy to coordinate its actions, transfer…
Over 400 people, including journalists, have sustained injuries, some from gunshots, according to a rights group At least eight people have been killed in Kenya during nationwide protests against police brutality and alleged government corruption, the East African country’s National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR), has reported. More than 400 people, including journalists and police…
Yaroslav Dronov aka Shaman has been blacklisted over allegedly contributing to Russia’s economic or strategic interests Australia has sanctioned the Russian pop singer Shaman, along with 36 other individuals and seven organizations, according to the Australian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The list, published on Thursday, also includes renowned actor and TV presenter Vyacheslav Manucharov. The…
Garry Kasparov introduced a local activist to an American financier to source weapons for arming rebels, the outlet reports Garry Kasparov, a former world chess champion and Russian opposition figure, has been implicated in an alleged coup plot in South Sudan, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The grandmaster is said to have introduced a local activist…
NATO member states have agreed to raise the Alliance’s defence commitment to 5 per cent of GDP by 2035, up from the current 2 per cent threshold, as the annual summit concluded in The Hague, the Netherlands, on 25 June. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán noted that, in contrast to recent years, member states this…
The War Thunder forum incident reportedly marks the ninth leak of restricted material linked to the game The developer of the War Thunder military simulation game has banned a player from its online forums for posting a page from a restricted US warplane manual, according to a report by the UK Defence Journal. Developed by…
The bloc has no wish to arm itself “endlessly” and should negotiate a new security framework with Moscow, the French president has said EU member states should consider resuming contact with Moscow, which was severed after the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, French President Emmanuel Macron has told reporters. According to Macron, despite…
Mark Rutte called the US president “daddy” during the bloc’s summit at The Hague Some EU officials are unhappy with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte’s use of flattery to win over US President Donald Trump, Politico has reported. During the bloc’s summit at The Hague on Wednesday, Trump was asked to comment on his use of…
The following is a translation of an article written by the Minister for Regional Development and Public Administration and a researcher at the Europe Strategy Research Institute Tibor Navracsics, originally published on the Five Minutes Europe blog of Ludovika.hu. The radical left-wing faction GUE/NGL, which has 47 of the 720 members of the European Parliament, has recently faced…
New Delhi has purchased 80% of the country’s seaborne Urals oil exports this year, according to Kpler data India has purchased 80% of Russia’s seaborne Urals crude exports this year, with two private refineries increasingly buying more of this variety, Bloomberg reported, citing data analytics provider Kpler. Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries and Nayara Energy have…
In what many are calling a national security alarm bell, former CIA operations officer Clare M. Lopez has issued a dire warning about New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Kwame Mamdani. The Democratic Socialist and sitting New York State Muslim Assemblymember just clinched the Democratic nomination after disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo withdrew from the…
The Israeli spy agency promised to “keep a watchful eye” on Iran Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad has thanked the CIA for its close cooperation during attacks on Iran, days after a US-brokered ceasefire came into effect. “I also wish to express my gratitude and appreciation to our key partner – the CIA – for the joint action…
President Donald Trump earlier accused the media of trying to downplay the effect of US strikes on enrichment centers CIA Director John Ratcliffe has said that it will take years for Iran to rebuild its nuclear program following US strikes on uranium enrichment sites. His comments came after days of uncertainty about the extent of…
On Wednesday June 25th I hosted a discussion with and of Niko Partners about the China video game market and how Chinese game firms are going global. Thank you , , , , and many others for tuning in! Join me for my next live video in the app. Get more from Bill Bishop in…
The US president has denounced the allegations against the Israeli leader as a “witch hunt” US President Donald Trump has called for an end to the corruption trial of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, days after Israel and Iran reached a ceasefire. Trump showered his Middle Eastern ally with praise in a post on his…
The president has labeled the Voice of America a “left-wing disaster” US President Donald Trump has called on Republicans to support his campaign to dismantle the state-funded news outlet Voice of America (VOA). Launched in 1942 to counter Nazi propaganda during World War II, the broadcaster later served as a key vehicle for pro-American messaging…
The Bush years are back. With the war drums now beating once more, America is stumbling, drunk on jingoistic fervour, to the bad old days of the early 2000s — from the platitudes about regime change, to the shock-and-awe campaigns, to the neocon hacks wheeled out from wherever they were cowering. Unfortunately, many of the…
“People who can’t be happy when something important happens for the country just because it gets Netanyahu good polling — their priorities are off.” So said the Israeli Prime Minister’s most reliably ferocious critic. Opposition Leader Yair Lapid has worked tirelessly for years to unseat Netanyahu, but even he fundamentally supported the strikes on Iran….
This past Saturday in Provincetown, Massachusetts, Chase Strangio, the staff attorney who is co-director of the ACLU’s LGBT and HIV Project, faced a group of supporters to debrief the historic loss of the United States v. Skrmetti at the Supreme Court. The justices had ruled that restricting minors’ access to puberty blockers in Tennessee did…
The dish, if it could even be called that, was the colour of tar. It slumped on the white plate, soft and steaming, giving off a pungent smell: burnt, with traces of sweet. A dead rat would have been more appetising. The two men hesitated for a moment before digging in. But they hadn’t eaten…
The scale of the grooming gangs operations, and the sheer length of time in which the perpetrators operated with near impunity, have prompted uncomfortable questions about the diaspora in which these crimes flourished. For many years, those questions could not even be voiced without risking serious reputational consequences. It is only now, with the announcement…
New York City has evidently forgotten all about the horrors of 9/11. New York State Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani just won the Democratic nomination for the mayoral election after disgraced Andrew Cuomo conceded. He is a radical Muslim communist, and if elected (which is almost a certainty), he will finish off the Big Apple. A Democratic…
Summary of today’s top items: 1. Premier Li at Summer Davos – In his speech, Premier Li decried that “some nations invoke “de‑risking” to intervene, altering international division of labor. There’s a heightened trend toward friend‑shoring, near‑shoring, and reshoring, with redundant capacity, lowering economic efficiency.” Some other highlights from his comments: As global economic momentum…
The Russian president will attend remotely, while Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will represent Russia in person Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend the upcoming BRICS summit in Brazil via video link, according to his foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov. This year’s event, which will be the trade and development group’s 17th annual summit, is set…
Patriot missile systems are “very hard to get,” and the US needs them too, the president said US President Donald Trump says he will think about whether or not to supply more Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine, as Kiev has been requesting. Speaking at a press conference in The Hague after meeting with Ukraine’s…
Activists have been gaslit into believing that protecting labor rights is racist and defending women’s spaces is bigotry What do Greta Thunberg, Simone Biles, and the American anti-ICE protesters have in common, besides a flair for theatrics and a knack for setting fire (sometimes literally) to the causes they claim to champion? The latest chaos…
The US president has dodged questions about support for Kiev during a press conference at the NATO summit US President Donald Trump has denied discussing a Ukraine ceasefire during his meeting with Vladimir Zelensky on the sidelines of the NATO summit in The Hague, directly contradicting the Ukrainian leader’s earlier remarks. Zelensky had described the…
Mark Rutte was referring to the US president’s on-camera ‘F-bomb’ over Israel and Iran NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has rushed to defend US President Donald Trump’s recent expletive-laden rant about Iran and Israel as merely “daddy” using “strong language.” Trump on Tuesday lashed out at both countries for allegedly breaching a Washington-brokered ceasefire, telling…
Bavarian police conducting an apartment raid for internet “hate speech.” Apollo News reports on the newest, most irregular German holiday, which consists of the police conducting coordinated raids on and interrogations of ordinary people who are alleged to have said rude things on the internet: On Tuesday morning police across Germany conducted raids targeting “hate…
Putin says the world needs a new growth model. He might be right. When Russian President Vladimir Putin told the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum last week that the world needs “a new model of global growth,” many Western commentators heard only a familiar plea: lift the sanctions, drop the tariffs, stop using trade as…
Law enforcement officers will mostly focus on crimes allegedly involving insults against politicians, local media reports Germany’s law enforcement authorities have launched a nationwide crackdown on alleged internet ‘hate speech’, the Federal Criminal Police (BKA) have announced. Two thirds of the cases being investigated are linked to “right-wing” ideologies, the BKA said, with the media…
Washington’s bombing of Tehran’s nuclear facilities stopped its conflict with Israel, the US president has claimed President Donald Trump has compared recent US airstrikes on Iran to its World War II atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Speaking to reporters at the NATO summit in The Hague on Wednesday, Trump claimed the US strikes on…
Anwar Kenneth. (File photo) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – The Supreme Court of Pakistan today (June 25) ordered the acquittal of an elderly Christian on death row for 24 years on a blasphemy conviction, declaring that a person of unsound mind could not be held liable for such a crime, his lawyer said….
Anwar Kenneth. (File photo) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – The Supreme Court of Pakistan today (June 25) ordered the acquittal of an elderly Christian on death row for 23 years on a blasphemy conviction, declaring that a person of unsound mind could not be held liable for such a crime, his lawyer said….
The bloc’s declaration pledged to keep supporting Kiev but mainly focused on commitments by member states to spend 5% of GDP on defense The NATO states only mentioned Ukraine two times in their joint communique, which was released on Wednesday following the bloc’s summit in the Hague. The document mainly focused on raising defense spending…
The EU has become a militarized Russophobic organization, the former Russian president has said The European Union has emerged as a hostile force to Moscow, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has claimed, accusing the bloc of arming the “neo-Nazi Kiev regime” to attack Russia. In a Telegram post on Wednesday, Medvedev stated that the old…
The following is an adapted version of an article originally published in Hungarian in Magyar Krónika. Light installations on city façades, street theatre, contemporary circus, and music: Pécs will once again host one of Europe’s most prestigious light festivals this year. The Zsolnay Light Festival will be held in Pécs between 3 and 6 July this year….
Show Notes: On today’s show Andrew and Bill begin with PRC perspectives on the past two weeks of attacks on Iran. Topics include: dispelling notions that U.S. involvement was welcomed by the PRC, why regional stability in the Middle East is stressed in every PRC statement, and how Iran and other PRC partners may view…
Alexus Grynkewich has said Kiev is fighting with tenacity the US can barely imagine Ukraine can still achieve a military victory over Russia, US General Alexus Grynkewich said during a Senate hearing on Tuesday. He was confirmed as NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe and head of the US European Command earlier this month. “I believe…
Imagine a group of individuals. All they want to do is have a big event to celebrate their sexual identity. Then, the local government, citing some dubious public safety concerns, puts the kibosh on the whole thing, stopping the group from exercising their free expression rights. When and where could such an injustice be allowed…
The main danger for the bloc is losing economic competitiveness, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban has warned Russia does not pose a primary threat to the EU, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has stated, warning that the bloc’s shrinking role in the global economy is its main concern. Speaking to reporters ahead of the NATO…
Operation Honey Pot: Paste this emoji 🍯 in your comment below. After Trump dropped many bunker buster bombs on Iran, the Chinese Communist Party is worried China is next. China Has a Way into US Military Bases https://chinauncensored.tv/programs/chinese-company-on-us-bases Make sure to subscribe to our free China Uncensored newsletter: https://chinauncensored.substack.com ______________________________ Subscribe for updates: youtube.com/ChinaUncensored?sub_confirmation=1 ______________________________…
Imposing tougher restrictions could undermine peace talks efforts, the US secretary of state has warned Introducing more sanctions against Russia could derail ongoing peace efforts in the Ukraine conflict, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Politico on Wednesday. US President Donald Trump has refused to launch new sanctions targeting Moscow, despite pressure from G7 allies…
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán praised US President Donald Trump for managing the conflict between Israel and Iran with ‘common sense’. ‘The fact that the President of the United States is a man of common sense means that new wars will be shorter, and old wars will run out of fuel,’ Orbán told reporters during…
The shooting in the war-torn African country reportedly left two servicemen dead on the spot, while three others died later of their injuries A “drunken” member of the Democratic Republic of Congo armed forces has shot and killed at least five fellow soldiers, according to local media. The incident reportedly occurred on Tuesday morning in…
Britain is set to lose tens of thousands of wealthy individuals in 2025 due to tax reforms and uncertainty, according to new research cited by the Times The UK is set to lose a record 16,500 millionaires in 2025, The Times has said, referring to a Henley Private Wealth Migration Report published on Tuesday. The…
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that President Donald Trump will reject calls from European counterparts to impose further sanctions on Russia during the annual NATO leaders’ summit in The Hague, the Netherlands. ‘If we did what everybody here wants us to do, and that is come in and crush them with more sanctions,…
Shashi Tharoor has said that Islamabad continues to provide a safe haven for terrorists in its largest province Pakistan’s denial that it sponsors terrorism in South Asia cannot be taken seriously, Indian member of parliament Shashi Tharoor has said. In an exclusive interview with RT’s Rick Sanchez on Tuesday, Tharoor, who is also the head…
The US vice president joked that critics of Republican candidates use it to say “we are number one in Washington” US Vice President J.D. Vance offered critics ‘the bird’ during a Republican Party event in Lima, Ohio, on Tuesday, in a thinly-veiled criticism of political culture in Washington, DC. Vance, the second-highest official in the…
“Accomplices of Ukrainian special services” were allegedly planning to kill a Russian military service member Two Russian citizens who were collecting an improvised explosive from a cache outside Moscow, have been killed after opening fire on law enforcement, the Federal Security Service (FSB) reported on Wednesday. The deceased were identified by the agency as “accomplices…
The Israel-Iran conflict has renewed Beijing’s interest in Power of Siberia 2, according to the outlet China’s interest in the construction of Russia’s proposed Power of Siberia 2 pipeline, which would deliver gas via Mongolia, has intensified following the outbreak of the conflict between Iran and Israel, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing…
