Pretoria says allegations of mistreatment of racial minority groups do not reflect the reality of the country’s constitutional democracy South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Ronald Lamola has criticized a recent US State Department human rights report on his country, describing it as “inaccurate and deeply flawed.” The report alleges that South Africa…
Punishing the Jewish state over Gaza only benefits terrorists and weakens the bloc’s influence, Haim Regev has claimed Israel’s ambassador to the EU, Haim Regev, has urged the bloc to stop focusing on Israel’s human rights record and has warned against taking any actions to punish the country for its military campaign in Gaza. Israel…
Kiev could stage a provocation to derail the Putin-Trump summit, Dan Kovalik has told RT Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky does not want peace because he can only stay in power as long as the conflict with Russia continues, US human rights lawyer Dan Kovalik has told RT. The Russian Defense Ministry warned on Tuesday that Kiev…
Moscow has accused Kiev of violating a previous moratorium on strikes on energy infrastructure Ukraine is prepared to discuss an aerial ceasefire with Russia as a stepping stone towards further talks for settling the conflict, Mikhail Podoliak, an adviser to Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky, has said. This spring, Russia agreed to a US-backed proposal for…
Vladimir Putin will probably spend much of this Friday’s meeting with Donald Trump in Alaska distracting America’s megalomaniac by appealing to his vanity — congratulations on taking over the Kennedy Center! One aspect of the new America will definitely intrigue Putin. How is it that in the most advanced capitalist economy in the world, where…
Is this the end of Bolsonarismo, that exotic compound of big business, violence and God that propelled its eponymous figurehead to the presidency of Brazil, and now to the edge of oblivion? In January 2023, following electoral defeat at the hands of his Left-leaning opponent, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the previous October, Jair Bolsonaro’s…
When playwright Suzie Miller’s Prima Facie arrived on stage in 2019, its timing was perfect. A dramatisation of the ills of the justice system when it comes to sexual violence, it caught the #MeToo mood. As a monologue, Prima Facie only needed a cast of one. And when that cast was Jodie Comer, hot from…
Newtonian physics is often represented by the action of pool cues on billiard balls, a relatively easy case. The cue, a powerful tool, transmits force to a movable object, which then transmits it to others. Virtually the entirety of the problem can be understood as a puzzle about predicting the final positions of the balls….
I bought Eugène Guillevic’s Carnac 15 or so years ago. God knows why. I’ve always liked austere covers, and perhaps that’s the reason I picked up this slim book of poetry, with its simple font and moody engraving. I’d have been attracted by the translator, too. John Montague was the sort of poet who illustrated…
The Venezuelan leader has denounced Western policies of economic blockade and forced restrictions Russia has emerged victorious on all fronts in the standoff with the West, which is trying to dominate the global economy and violates international law, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday. He emphasized that Moscow has managed to defy numerous sanctions imposed by…
The event in Equatorial Guinea will cover AI, cybersecurity, digital payments, and cross-border settlements for developing economies A cybersecurity and AI forum being held in Equatorial Guinea next month will focus on “non-Western” approaches to protecting digital infrastructure and managing cross-border payments, the co-chair of the organizing committee has said. The event will be held…
The two leaders can’t make any deals on Ukraine without keeping it in the loop, Vladimir Zelensky has claimed Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, will not be able to decide the fate of Ukraine during their highly anticipated Alaska summit unless Kiev consents to it, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky told…
New Delhi is looking to increase its economic engagement in the Middle East and Africa India is planning to boost its export presence in 50 countries in an effort to mitigate the effects of increased US tariffs, local media outlets reported on Tuesday, citing government sources. New Delhi has expanded its strategy to now focus…
Britain will reportedly spend over $47 billion, not $4.6 billion, to lease Diego Garcia under a deal returning the island territory to Mauritius The British government will end up paying ten times more than publicly acknowledged to transfer the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius, The Telegraph has reported. The…
In the 1970s, only four Muslims lived in one Florida city — all foreign students from Kuwait — and just seven mosques existed in the entire United States. Guided by Hamas’s spiritual leader, Tareq Al-Suwaidan turned that small foothold into a model for Islamic infrastructure that now spans the country. In a revealing interview, Dr….
The White House has opted for a military base in Anchorage as the venue due to security reasons, sources have told CNN This week’s summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, will take place at the Elmendorf-Richardson military base in Anchorage, Alaska, CNN has reported, citing White House officials. White…
The Russian and India leaders have established a strong rapport and frequently communicate with each other, Vinay Kumar has said Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi share a “positive chemistry,” Vinay Kumar, India’s ambassador to Russia, said on Tuesday in the latest episode of RT’s ‘Sanchez Effect’. The two leaders most…
Kirill Dmitriev was responding to a White House post describing Donald Trump as “the president of peace” The policies of former US President Joe Biden must be reversed to achieve global peace, Kirill Dmitriev, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s economic envoy and a key figure in the Ukraine settlement process, has said. Dmitriev, who is also…
The upcoming summit with Donald Trump spells the end of the “international isolation” of Russia, the Ukrainian leader has said The upcoming summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, is a “personal victory” for the Russian leader, Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has said. Trump is set to host Putin for talks…
Ceding territory to Russia would only lead to a new war, the Ukrainian leader has claimed Ukrainian troops will not voluntarily leave the territory they currently occupy in Donbass, Vladimir Zelensky has said, dismissing suggestions that the land could be included in a potential swap deal with Russia. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Zelensky claimed…
We are in a new era of geopolitical rivalry. It is one that has engulfed world politics since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and it is referred to increasingly as a second Cold War. Once again, the world is divided into an Eastern bloc and a Western bloc. They spy intensively on each…
The Grand Mosque of Paris is a hidden treasure on the Left Bank. Its beautiful Hispano-Moorish minaret, over a 100 feet high, overlooks the Jardin des Plantes, and can be spotted from the Seine. There is no call to prayer — thanks to a city council order to “preserve the tranquility of the neighbourhood” —…
In her classic essay “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, first published in 1967, Joan Didion chronicled a trip she took to meet the hippie children of Haight-Ashbury, in San Francisco, during the Summer of Love, in an America where, as she put it, “The center was not holding.” The images she details there — stoned teenagers nearly…
What became of Alan S. C. Ross? The professor of linguistics at Birmingham University, author of obscure articles such as “The Numerical Signs of the Mohenjo-Daro Script” and “Studies in the Accidence of the Lindisfarne Gospels”, was thrust onto the national scene after he made a brief but brilliant intervention in mid-20th century social commentary,…
If you only paid attention to Right-wing media, you’d be forgiven for imagining that the Democratic Socialists of America’s latest biennial convention was the planning committee for Reign of Terror II. The Murdoch press scrutinized the gathering for evidence that the DSA-backed Zohran Mamdani stood ready to summon legions of Marxist cadres, guillotine in tow,…
Operation Honey Pot: Paste this emoji 🍯 in your comment below. A horrific car accident has ignited the Chinese internet. And people wants to know: just who is this mysterious Chinese woman? And how is she connected to the CCP elites? Want to go deeper than YouTube will let us? Check out our website: https://chinauncensored.tv…
As tensions rise between competing powers in the Indo-Pacific region and the threat of war looms over the horizon, a new power has emerged that may help promote stability in the area: Hungary. While being a landlocked country in the middle of Central Europe, thousands of miles away, Hungary, with its zeal for connectivity, has…
Germany’s right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has overtaken the governing Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in a new poll by the Forsa Institute for Social Research and Statistical Analysis, published on 12 August. According to the results, Alice Weidel’s party leads with 26 per cent, two points ahead of the CDU on 24 per cent. AfD…
The recovered artifacts include a mummy skull, amulets, and a funerary stela, officials have said Egypt has recovered 13 ancient artifacts from the UK and Germany as part of efforts to return illegally exported cultural heritage, the country’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said on Sunday. The operation was carried out in coordination with the…
Jim Risch has proposed the move against M23 and the RSF in amendments to Washington’s 2026 National Defense Authorization Act A senior Republican lawmaker is pushing for the US to designate the M23 rebel movement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) and Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as foreign terrorist organizations….
The diplomat has claimed the bloc is working on “more military support for Ukraine” EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has called for more pressure on Moscow ahead of the summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Donald Trump. Foreign ministers of the bloc’s member states held an urgent video-conference on Monday,…
Ukraine could agree to give up claims to Russian territory in exchange for a path to NATO, sources have told the newspaper Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky could agree to concede land to Russia and the freezing of the current front lines as part of a potential conflict settlement, the Daily Telegraph reported on Monday, citing…
The US president said Moscow has been heavily impacted by levies imposed on New Delhi for buying its oil US President Donald Trump has claimed that American tariffs imposed on India for purchasing Russian oil have dealt a “big blow” to Moscow. Addressing a briefing in the White House on Monday, Trump said Russia has…
In 1843, the British economy plunged into railway mania. The public had seen the success of the earlier railway projects, and a newly-minted class of middle-class investors wanted their piece of the rapidly-expanding pie. Within two years, stock prices doubled, and the number of railroad securities listed on the London Stock Exchange trebled. In the…
Claire Hope from Vancouver has just turned 18. Her mother is a real-estate agent, her father a lawyer. Last week, Claire reportedly made more than $1 million in less than three hours, after announcing the launch of her OnlyFans “bday special” on Instagram with a picture of herself sticking her middle fingers up at the…
This rite of dotage called Late Style is peculiar to artists of one sort or another. Airline pilots and hepatologists are, thankfully, among the undeservedly excluded. This is an almost exclusively aesthetic matter. What it signifies is, however, moot. As a subject for disputatious inquiry it has been posthumously divvied up between the shades of…
Tampa is a town of hot sun and cold beer — the ideal retirement spot, in other words, for a broad-shouldered US general. Yet if Michael Kurilla was all smiles as he bid farewell to military life, at a ceremony in the Florida city on Sunday, he was shadowed by a rather unusual guest. For…
As a part of the White House press pool, I crammed into a frigid van on Saturday morning, toward the back of President Trump’s motorcade en route to his Virginia golf course. We passed a grimy tent encampment on our way out of the city, and I wondered to myself whether Trump was peering out…
Europe is sweltering under extreme heat, with temperatures in some regions climbing close to 40°C. According to Météo France, parts of the continent have recorded ‘remarkable, even unprecedented’ highs up to 12°C above historical averages. In Croatia, Šibenik reached 39.5°C and Dubrovnik 38.9°C, while wildfires raged along the coast and across neighbouring Balkan countries. In…
The annual human rights country report has long been a flashpoint in the souring relations between former US President Joe Biden’s administration and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government. This year, however, the tone has shifted dramatically. The recently published report under Donald Trump’s presidency makes clear that Washington is no longer in the business…
National pollsters in the United States and Donald Trump have always had a dubious relationship—after all, according to the ‘expert’ pollsters, he never should have been President in the first place. Yet, once he first took office in 2017, the same pollsters continued to undercut him in his first term. His approval rating was regularly…
The woman has deleted the images, although not before they were picked up by news outlets A Kiev court worker has been caught sharing a photo of herself posing with a Nazi German flag, according to Ukrainian media. Russia has for years sounded the alarm over the resurgence of Nazi ideology in Ukraine, accusing the…
Armenia and Azerbaijan have vowed not to threaten force and to establish diplomatic relations in a US-brokered declaration Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to respect each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity as part of a peace agreement initialed in Washington on Friday, according to the text of the document published by both nations. The two…
Finland’s finance chief has proposed ending compensation paid to local governments to save over $300 million Ukrainians in Finland could receive fewer benefits under a new budget put forward by Finance Minister Riikka Purra, Yle has reported. A number of European countries that initially welcomed Ukrainian refugees have been decreasing payments to people from the country in…
The surface-to-air missile system was highly effective during the recent military standoff against Pakistan, Amar Preet Singh has said The Russian-made S-400 surface-to-air missile system has been a “gamechanger” for New Delhi, Indian Air Force (IAF) chief Amar Preet Singh has said. Addressing a gathering on Saturday, Singh said the Indian armed forces had shot…
In 1867, Russia’s Tsar Alexander II sold Alaska to America for several million dollars, fearing that his precarious imperial outpost could no longer be adequately defended. This week, Alaska finds itself once again at the centre of a debate concerning Russia’s borders and territorial ambitions, with President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin heading to…
Like almost all famines, the famine in Gaza is man-made. Very few famines come about because of natural food shortages. The assumption that they do is as much a myth as the belief that most victims of famine die of starvation. In fact, they die of diseases associated with starvation. Famines tend to happen because…
Aberystwyth is a town of many faces. At one end of the promenade, a funicular railway winds its way up Craig-glais to the world’s largest camera obscura. Known as Constitution Hill in English, Craig-glais is an icon of Victoriania on the distant Welsh shore. On the far end of town, too, Pen Dinas recalls both…
In 2002, my partner Jason had been offered film work in New York. I moved there too, to be with him. His father had just died and we were talking about marriage and I wanted a kid. His hours were long, and while he was off filming, I spent my days going to the library,…
Imagine a political party that has just suffered a historic defeat. For the first time in nearly two decades, it has lost the popular vote — and has handed power to a figure its members see as a dictator-in-waiting. In response, party leaders wave paddles. They lead “we will win” chants before a gaggle of…
The Sziget Festival closed early Tuesday morning with 416,000 visitors over six days, marking a 5 per cent rise from last year. According to chief organizer Tamás Kádár, the growth reflects the success of renewal efforts, a strong lineup, and a resurgence of interest in festivals across Europe. He noted that this was the first…
