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Iranian President: US-Israeli attacks deal irreparable blow to Nuclear Non-Proliferation

9:24 01.07.2025

Iranian President: US-Israeli attacks deal irreparable blow to Nuclear Non-Proliferation

US and Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities deal irreparable blow to nuclear non-proliferation regime, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said, Sputnik quotes. "The military attack by the US and the Zionist regime on Iran's peaceful nuclear facilities, which are under the full control of the IAEA, is a gross violation …

View from Washington: Did Trump just dump the Ukraine War into the Europeans' lap?

9:23 01.07.2025

View from Washington: Did Trump just dump the Ukraine War into the Europeans' lap?

The aerial war between Israel and Iran over the past two weeks sucked most of the world’s attention away from the war in Ukraine. The Hague NATO Summit confirms that President Donald Trump now sees paying for the war as Europe’s problem. It’s less clear that he will have the …

WP: A well-intentioned Senate move against Russia is hopelessly messy

9:22 01.07.2025

WP: A well-intentioned Senate move against Russia is hopelessly messy

Senator Graham’s bill also imposes a 500 percent tariff on any country that “knowingly sells, supplies, transfers, or purchases oil, uranium, natural gas, petroleum products, or petrochemical products that originated in the Russian Federation,” ‘The Washington Post’ notes. A 500 percent tariff would essentially end U.S. trade with any of …

‘The Telegraph’: Putin is the victor from NATO summit

11:26 30.06.2025

‘The Telegraph’: Putin is the victor from NATO summit

NATO leaders departed their summit in The Hague with relief. All, except for Spain, promised to spend what much more money on defence (though the concept of “defence” is now being elasticated to includes things like another runway at Heathrow), writes Charles Moore, ‘The Telegraph’ observer. Thirty-one of those leaders …

WP: Ukraine’s economy teeters on the edge

11:25 30.06.2025

WP: Ukraine’s economy teeters on the edge

For the moment, the economy is holding on — albeit with major Western support. But the risk, officials and analysts say, is that the financial aid will not be enough going forward. The only major investment plan on the horizon — the recently signed deal with the United States to …

Calls for enhanced German access to Nuclear arsenal

11:24 30.06.2025

Calls for enhanced German access to Nuclear arsenal

In light of increasing tensions with Russia, Jens Spahn, the leader of the Union faction, has advocated for Germany to have more direct access to nuclear weapons. He emphasized that the current presence of U.S. nuclear bombs stationed in Germany is insufficient for the continent's security needs. Spahn stated that …

UK says it will buy F-35 jets capable of carrying nuclear bombs

11:23 30.06.2025

UK says it will buy F-35 jets capable of carrying nuclear bombs

Britain plans to enhance its nuclear capabilities. It will purchase twelve F-35 fighter jets from the United States. These jets are capable of carrying nuclear weapons. The UK will also participate in NATO's nuclear mission. This move signifies a major strengthening of Britain's nuclear defense. Keir Starmer announced this at …

Sergey Lavrov: Macron, Merz losing common sense

20:40 29.06.2025

Sergey Lavrov: Macron, Merz losing common sense

French President Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Friedrich Merz lost common sense finally and attempt to return to the times when Germany and France wanted to conquer the entire Europe, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a press conference after talks with Kyrgyzstan’s Foreign Minister Jeenbek Kulubayev, TASS reports. …

China space mail: A rocket delivers e-commerce packages in sea recovery test

10:03 29.06.2025

China space mail: A rocket delivers e-commerce packages in sea recovery test

A Chinese private rocket firm has successfully tested transporting packages from Taobao, one of the country's largest e-commerce platforms, using a reusable rocket. The rocket was later recovered from the sea, marking a significant advancement in commercial space logistics, Xinhua reports. SEPOCH, a Beijing-based startup, completed its inaugural "rocket delivery" …

View from Palestine: The real winners and the strategic fallout of the Israel-Iran war

10:02 29.06.2025

View from Palestine: The real winners and the strategic fallout of the Israel-Iran war

The descendants of one of the world’s oldest civilizations – Iranian – reacted with a dignity and pride that no amount of foreign aggression could extinguish, writes Dr. Ramzy Baroud, a journalist, author and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle, senior research fellow at the Center for Islam and Global …

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