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British life-style: Rough sleeping to be decriminalised with 1824 law finally scrapped – “Have a good sleep, pals…”

11:01 13.06.2025

British life-style: Rough sleeping to be decriminalised with 1824 law finally scrapped – “Have a good sleep, pals…”

Rough sleeping will no longer be a crime in the UK as the government abolishes a ‘cruel’ 200-year-old law. The Vagrancy Act 1824 was introduced amid a spiralling homelessness crisis after the Industrial Revolution. On any given night last autumn, 4,667 people were sleeping rough, a 164% increase from 2010, …

‘The Atlantic’: Anger in Washington

11:01 13.06.2025

‘The Atlantic’: Anger in Washington

Ukraine’s drone strikes deep into Russia delivered a humiliating blow to Moscow last weekend. Kyiv’s defenders celebrated the attack as a triumph of modern warfare and a warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin. But the extraordinary operation got a different response inside the White House: anger, ‘The Atlantic’ stresses. Donald …

NYT: Israel appears ready to attack Iran

10:59 13.06.2025

NYT: Israel appears ready to attack Iran

Israel appears to be preparing to launch an attack soon on Iran, according to officials in the United States and Europe, a step that could further inflame the Middle East and derail or delay efforts by the Trump administration to broker a deal to cut off Iran’s path to building …

IAEA cooperated with Israel against Iran — intelligence source

10:27 12.06.2025

IAEA cooperated with Israel against Iran — intelligence source

According to the report, the IAEA also allegedly disclosed to Israel the names of Iranian nuclear scientists, who were later assassinated in sabotage attacks, TASS informs. In an operation to gain access to a secret archive of Israeli documents, the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence discovered that the International Atomic Energy …

Bloomberg: US holds deep doubts about Palestinian State, USA Ambassador says

10:26 12.06.2025

Bloomberg: US holds deep doubts about Palestinian State, USA Ambassador says

The US no longer wholeheartedly endorses an independent state for Palestinians, Washington’s ambassador to Israel said, adding that if one were to be formed it could be elsewhere in the region rather than the West Bank. “Unless there are some significant things that happen that change the culture, there’s no …

View from Washington: “Do We Have a Nation? These aren’t rioters, they are invaders!”

10:24 12.06.2025

View from Washington: “Do We Have a Nation? These aren’t rioters, they are invaders!”

The past weekend saw one of America’s best-known and, for a long time, best-loved cities erupt in violent riots. Fires raged across Los Angeles as rioters waving foreign flags hurled everything from rocks and concrete slabs to fireworks and Molotov cocktails at federal law enforcement agents. Why? Those agents were …

TASS: Exchange of bodies of soldiers between Russia and Ukraine

10:22 12.06.2025

TASS: Exchange of bodies of soldiers between Russia and Ukraine

Moscow has handed over 1,212 bodies of Ukrainian servicemen to Kiev and received 27 bodies of fallen Russian soldiers in return, Russian Presidential Aide, head of the Russian delegation at the Istanbul talks Vladimir Medinsky said. He also noted that on Thursday, Moscow and Kiev will begin urgent "sanitary exchanges" …

Medinsky: conflict deepens differences between Russia and Ukraine

14:10 11.06.2025

Medinsky: conflict deepens differences between Russia and Ukraine

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky said that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine is exacerbating the differences between the two countries, that’s why Moscow is looking for ways to bring it to a speedy end. He noted that the West is mistakenly …

Russian ambassador to Ireland: Irish government ‘to face day of reckoning’ for supporting Ukraine

11:59 11.06.2025

Russian ambassador to Ireland: Irish government ‘to face day of reckoning’ for supporting Ukraine

Yuri Filatov, the Russian ambassador to Ireland, said governments in the West that support Ukraine’s government are “de facto accomplices” in “terrorist crimes”, quotes ‘The Times’. Irish bureaucrats nervously reacted. The Irish government will face a “day of reckoning” over its support for Ukraine, the Russian ambassador has warned. In …

‘The European Conservative’: Europe is sliding into a state of civil war…

11:57 11.06.2025

‘The European Conservative’: Europe is sliding into a state of civil war…

In the United States, if Americans know anything about the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, it’s that the AfD are a bunch of Nazi-adjacent hooligans who threaten to return Germany to Hitlerism. They know this because that’s what the American media tell them. Very few will bother to go online …

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