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Secret Service shoots armed man in confrontation near White House

11:34 12.03.2025

Secret Service shoots armed man in confrontation near White House

The Secret Service shot a man near the White House on Sunday shortly after midnight after an “armed confrontation” with law enforcement, according to the agency, NBC News reports. The encounter happened near the intersection of 17th and F streets NW. On Saturday, local police had reported a “suicidal individual” …

The biggest ecological disaster off the coast of Britain – oil tanker bursts into flames off the Yorkshire coast after being struck by container ship

11:32 12.03.2025

The biggest ecological disaster off the coast of Britain – oil tanker bursts into flames off the Yorkshire coast after being struck by container ship

Humber Coastguard raised the alarm after the ship carrying cyanide smashed into a US military oil tanker, causing a 'massive fireball' off the East Yorkshire coast, ‘The Daily Mail’ writes. A total of 36 mariners were rescued yesterday after abandoning ships as explosions rocked their doomed vessels amid fears of …

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview to the US bloggers Mario Naufal, Larri Johnson and Andrew Napolitano, Moscow, March 12, 2025

10:06 12.03.2025

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview to the US bloggers Mario Naufal, Larri Johnson and Andrew Napolitano, Moscow, March 12, 2025

Question: Mr.Minister, it’s a pleasure to speak to you Sir. The first question I have, as I speak to people here in Moscow – there’s a perception that the US has changed, they are describing the US completely differently under President Trump. Do you think the US as a culture, …

‘The American Conservative’: “Ukraine has lost the war and will almost certainly settle for a worse peace deal than it could have gotten in 2022”

11:27 11.03.2025

‘The American Conservative’: “Ukraine has lost the war and will almost certainly settle for a worse peace deal than it could have gotten in 2022”

The war in Ukraine is not ending the way the U.S.-led West had hoped. Russia has not been defeated, and Ukraine will not enter NATO or reclaim all its captured territory. Ukraine, Europe, Canada, and even some members of the Republican party have responded with fury to President Donald Trump’s …

Why does Kiev seek a longer war in Europe?

11:25 11.03.2025 Vladimir Kozin

Why does Kiev seek a longer war in Europe?

So, why does Kiev seek a longer war in Europe? A response to this question is being asked by many people – from academic community and from grass-root people. First of all, we must always remember that the Zelensky regime is the same forces that seized power in Ukraine after …

View from London: In Europe, they have money for war, but they can't feed the poor

11:23 11.03.2025

View from London: In Europe, they have money for war, but they can't feed the poor

“There is no way of defending the continent without cuts to social spending,” – in that rare thing, an Angela Merkel statement that aged well, the long-serving German chancellor worried that Europe accounted for 7 per cent of the world’s population, a quarter of its economic output and half of …

Bloomberg: US vetoes G-7 Russian ‘shadow fleet’ task force plan

11:22 11.03.2025

Bloomberg: US vetoes G-7 Russian ‘shadow fleet’ task force plan

The US has rejected a Canadian proposal to establish a task force that would tackle Russia’s so-called shadow fleet of oil tankers, as the Trump administration re-evaluates its positions across multilateral organizations, according to people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg informs. Canada, which holds this year’s revolving G-7 presidency, will …

Sergey Lavrov: “A new global divide was formed de-facto with the western minority on one side, and the World majority on the other”

17:17 10.03.2025

Sergey Lavrov: “A new global divide was formed de-facto with the western minority on one side, and the World majority on the other”

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the New Regions of Russia magazine, March 10, 2025 Question: Which general international and foreign political conclusions – both positive and negative – can Russia draw after three years of the special military operation? Did we get the very “experience, the son of difficult …

Sectarian violence sweeps Syria as security forces rampage in Alawite towns

11:12 10.03.2025

Sectarian violence sweeps Syria as security forces rampage in Alawite towns

At least 147 people have been killed in Syria in the past two days, as security forces from the country's Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) (banned in Russia) – led government carried out a series of massacres and extrajudicial executions against Alawites in the country's coastal regions as part of a …

View from Delhi: Trump’s policy for detente with Russia - is it durable?

11:09 10.03.2025

View from Delhi: Trump’s policy for detente with Russia - is it durable?

Each superpower’s survival and the fate of the planet itself depended on a stable relationship with the adversary based on a mutual understanding of vital interests, writes Zorawar Daulet Singh, an award-winning author and strategic affairs expert based in New Delhi. Decades of tension stemming from NATO’s expansion, Anglo-American prejudice …

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