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WP: Trump administration plans major downsizing at U.S. spy agencies 10:59 05.05.2025

WP: Trump administration plans major downsizing at U.S. spy agencies

The Trump administration is planning significant personnel cuts at the Central Intelligence Agency and other major U.S. spy units, downsizing the government’s most sensitive national security agencies, according to people familiar with the plans, ‘The Washington Post’ reports. The administration recently informed lawmakers on Capitol Hill that it intends to …
Nigel Farage claims after election wins: “Reform UK is main opposition party” 10:57 05.05.2025

Nigel Farage claims after election wins: “Reform UK is main opposition party”

One Labour MP said: “It’s all very well for No 10 to say we’ve got to keep delivering. The problem is that it’s the stuff we’ve delivered that people hate.” Nigel Farage has claimed that Reform UK has overtaken the Conservatives as the main party of opposition after his party …
FT: How Ukraine could break the Western alliance 10:50 04.05.2025

FT: How Ukraine could break the Western alliance

The US and Europe have fundamentally different views on the threat from Russia and the protection of democracy, notes ‘The Financial Times’. Fear of Russia brought the western alliance together. Now fear of Russia threatens to break it apart. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed in 1949 by the …
Israel launches strikes near Syrian presidential palace 10:49 04.05.2025

Israel launches strikes near Syrian presidential palace

An Israeli airstrike near Damascus struck close to Syrian leader Ahmad al-Sharaa’s residence, as armed clashes intensify across southern Syria and tensions rise over Druze community security, Al Mayadeen informs. Israel launched airstrikes early Friday targeting a location just 400 meters from the Syrian Presidential Palace in Damascus, where President …
CNN: A real state of the American economy 10:46 04.05.2025

CNN: A real state of the American economy

Economic indicators released this week revealed the US economy is slowing down in the first quarter of 2025, but President Donald Trump and his administration are expressing confidence in his agenda, CNN reports. Most economists say Trump’s monumental bid to reshape global trade is likely to send inflation climbing in …
Attempted coup thwarted in Burkina Faso after nationalization of Gold industry 10:43 04.05.2025

Attempted coup thwarted in Burkina Faso after nationalization of Gold industry

Amid efforts aimed at nationalization and economic development, the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) slanders a leading member of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) Another plot to destabilize Burkina Faso was reported last week over the national television network in the West African state. Minister of Security Mahamadu Sana …
British life-style: Capital gains tax receipts fall 10% as wealthy exit UK 10:52 03.05.2025

British life-style: Capital gains tax receipts fall 10% as wealthy exit UK

The amount of capital gains tax paid to the Treasury over the past year dropped by more than £1 billion as fears grow of an exodus of wealth from Britain, ‘The Times’ writes. According to data from HM Revenue & Customs, capital gains tax (CGT) receipts fell to £13 billion …
The Times: Europe ‘would struggle to put 25,000 troops on the ground in Ukraine’ 10:50 03.05.2025

The Times: Europe ‘would struggle to put 25,000 troops on the ground in Ukraine’

Europe would struggle to collectively muster 25,000 troops to be part of a “deterrence” force in Ukraine because its armies are undermanned and underfunded, sources have disclosed. ‘The Times’ was given a rare insight into conversations between Europe’s defence ministers and military chiefs as they thrashed out plans for a …
State Department: The United States will no longer mediate in negotiations between Russia and Ukraine 10:48 03.05.2025

State Department: The United States will no longer mediate in negotiations between Russia and Ukraine

The State Department announced the US refusal from the role of mediators in the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. The United States has changed its approach to the conflict in Ukraine and will no longer mediate negotiations between representatives of Moscow and Kiev. This was announced on May 1 by …
The ideological war threatening NATO – the USA and Europe may be soon heading for a messy divorce 10:47 03.05.2025

The ideological war threatening NATO – the USA and Europe may be soon heading for a messy divorce

The strain in US-European relations under the second Trump administration stems primarily from a deepening ideological divide, not just policy disputes over trade or Ukraine/Russia. Focused on ideological jousting, many on both sides of the Atlantic seem to have forgotten that “Europe” as a unitary actor in international affairs exists …
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