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Iran leader vows regime will “not back down” and says vandals trying to please Trump as web blackout continues

10:19 11.01.2026

Iran leader vows regime will “not back down” and says vandals trying to please Trump as web blackout continues

The protests had spread across Iran for 13 days, leaving about 65 people dead and more than 2,300 detained by security forces, but despite the arrests and a nationwide internet and phone service blackout, the unrest escalated dramatically on Thursday night and into Friday, CBS reports. The protests began on …

NYT: Putin delivers a warning to Europe at Mach 10 – Russia just put Mach 10 missiles on Europe’s border

10:18 11.01.2026

NYT: Putin delivers a warning to Europe at Mach 10 – Russia just put Mach 10 missiles on Europe’s border

The message came screaming through the skies at 8,000 miles per hour. Early Friday morning, for just the second time since its all-out invasion of Ukraine, Russia fired a nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile — a hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic weapon that until recently was banned under international treaty, ‘The New York Times’ …

New hysteria in Britain – “Russia could cripple Britain by cutting just 60 undersea cables carrying nearly all UK data!” Not bad – let them go crazy…

10:16 11.01.2026

New hysteria in Britain – “Russia could cripple Britain by cutting just 60 undersea cables carrying nearly all UK data!” Not bad – let them go crazy…

Russia could cripple Britain by cutting just 60 undersea cables that carry 99 per cent of our data, a worrying new report warns, ‘The Daily Mail’ writes. And Britain is particularly vulnerable, experts say, with disruption to undersea cables 'akin to a major military attack' – throwing our economy and …

Chinese, Russian, South Africa and Iranian warships naval exercises in Indian Ocean come as tensions run high after US military intervention in Venezuela, seizures of several oil tankers

10:14 11.01.2026

Chinese, Russian, South Africa and Iranian warships naval exercises in Indian Ocean come as tensions run high after US military intervention in Venezuela, seizures of several oil tankers

Chinese, Russian and Iranian warships have arrived in South African waters for a week of naval drills as geopolitical tensions run high over the United States’s military intervention in Venezuela and its seizures of several oil tankers, ‘Al Jazeera’ reports. Strikes on maritime targets and “counter-terrorism” rescues will be part …

CNN: Thousands of Berliners lost power for days after climate activists struck

10:12 11.01.2026

CNN: Thousands of Berliners lost power for days after climate activists struck

Amid heavy snow in the German capital and temperatures plummeting to below freezing, nearly 100,000 people were left without power for several days after an alleged left-wing arson attack on Berlin’s power supply on Saturday, January 3, caused a major blackout, CNN reports. The activist group Vulkangruppe – or Volcano …

FP: Welcome to the Age of Chaos – The top global risks of 2026 show an ever more unstable world

10:32 10.01.2026

FP: Welcome to the Age of Chaos – The top global risks of 2026 show an ever more unstable world

Every year since 2017, ‘Foreign Policy’ has given their predictions for the greatest threats facing the world. If some of the top risks this year seem to echo those we anticipated for 2025, it is not that they are static, but that the peril continues, without reaching a denouement. The …

POLITICO: Trump admin sends tough private message to oil companies on Venezuela – The companies are in thought and doubt

10:29 10.01.2026

POLITICO: Trump admin sends tough private message to oil companies on Venezuela – The companies are in thought and doubt

The White House has told companies they must rebuild Venezuela's crude-pumping infrastructure if they want compensation for assets seized by Caracas. American oil companies have long hoped to recover the assets that Venezuela’s authoritarian regime ripped from them decades ago. Now the Trump administration is offering to help them achieve …

Can mice defeat a cat? Can Europe defend Greenland in its conflict with Trump?

10:28 10.01.2026

Can mice defeat a cat? Can Europe defend Greenland in its conflict with Trump?

If European governments didn't realize before that Donald Trump’s threats to seize Greenland were serious, they do now, POLITICO writes. Policymakers are no longer ignoring the U.S. president's ramped-up rhetoric — and are desperately searching for a plan to stop him. “We must be ready for a direct confrontation with …

The West became wary – Russia strikes western Ukraine gas infrastructure with Oreshnik ballistic missile, one of its most advanced weapons

10:25 10.01.2026

The West became wary – Russia strikes western Ukraine gas infrastructure with Oreshnik ballistic missile, one of its most advanced weapons

Russia fired a hypersonic Oreshnik missile at a target in western Ukraine overnight Thursday, near the border with NATO member Poland, in what has been labeled a brazen “warning” to the wider continent and the United States, CNN stresses. Russia said it launched its latest attack in response to Ukraine’s …

About Bishop St. Theophane the Recluse

0:10 10.01.2026

About Bishop St. Theophane the Recluse

Bishop St. Theophane the Recluse is one of the most significant figures in the XIX century Russian Orthodox Church - pastor, preacher and instructor, translator and editor of the Orthodox patristic heritage, prophet of the historical changes and tribulations in Russia and all over the world, herald and forerunner of …

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