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Spain and Portugal power outage: what caused it, and was there a cyber-attack?

10:11 30.04.2025

Spain and Portugal power outage: what caused it, and was there a cyber-attack?

Several countries in Europe have been scrambling to restore electricity after a huge power cut caused blackouts, writes ‘The Guardian’. Spain, Portugal and some of south-west France suffered a massive power cut on Monday, with major cities including Madrid, Barcelona and Lisbon among those affected. Houses, offices, trains, traffic lights …

Vladimir Putin: “We firmly believe that the global community should join forces to create a new architecture of equal and indivisible security, which would safely protect all states without detriment to the interests of others. This is especially important for Eurasia”

19:40 29.04.2025

Vladimir Putin: “We firmly believe that the global community should join forces to create a new architecture of equal and indivisible security, which would safely protect all states without detriment to the interests of others. This is especially important for Eurasia”

The presidents of Russia and Belarus took part in the plenary meeting of the “Great Heritage, Common Future” International Forum of the Union State. April 29, 2025. Volgograd. The Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin and Speaker of the House of Representatives of the National …

Sergey Lavrov meets Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi

15:31 29.04.2025

Sergey Lavrov meets Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi

Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the sidelines of the BRICS Foreign Ministers Council: “On April 28, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of China Wang Yi on the sidelines of the BRICS Foreign Ministers …

Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Director: Few Western countries behind all big conflicts of past 300 years

11:01 29.04.2025

Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Director: Few Western countries behind all big conflicts of past 300 years

A small group of Western European countries have been behind every large-scale armed conflict in the past 300 years, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Director and President of the Russian Historical Society Sergey Naryshkin said. "The upcoming celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory is an opportunity to …

View from London: Fall guy – Trump’s Russia deal is aimed at ousting Zelensky

11:00 29.04.2025

View from London: Fall guy – Trump’s Russia deal is aimed at ousting Zelensky

The intense time pressure piled on the Zelensky government was not only because Trump was hungry for a victory lap before the 100-th day of his administration, which falls on April 30, but because Putin wants to celebrate his own military victory on May 9, the day of an 80th …

FT: Ukraine on the brink of default – Kyiv failed to reach deal with investors to restructure $2.6bn of debt

10:59 29.04.2025

FT: Ukraine on the brink of default – Kyiv failed to reach deal with investors to restructure $2.6bn of debt

Ukraine said that it had failed to reach a deal with holders of $2.6bn of its debt, in a blow to its hopes of securing a restructuring ahead of a payment deadline next month, ‘The Financial Times’ reports. The country’s finance ministry said it would “consider all available options” on …

WD launches HDD recycling process that reclaims rare earth elements

10:58 29.04.2025

WD launches HDD recycling process that reclaims rare earth elements

China, a major source of REE, recently announced export restrictions on seven of them, potentially limiting the U.S. tech industry’s access to materials such as dysprosium, which is necessary for magnetic storage, motors, and generators. Western Digital announced that it has created a large-scale hard disk drive recycling program in …

Peter Hitchens: “You've been fed propaganda nonsense about Ukraine and the invented Russian menace. These are the lies you've been told”

12:15 28.04.2025

Peter Hitchens: “You've been fed propaganda nonsense about Ukraine and the invented Russian menace. These are the lies you've been told”

In my trade I have long grown used to the way governments lie and get others to lie for them. It is what they do. But I have seldom seen such a cloud of lies as we face now, writes Peter Hitchens, ‘The Daily Mail’ columnist and commentator. Hardly anyone …

Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova: “Following the Kursk Region, all territories of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation still under the Kiev regime's control, including the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, the Zaporozhye and Kherson Regions, will definitely be liberated”

12:14 28.04.2025

Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova: “Following the Kursk Region, all territories of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation still under the Kiev regime's control, including the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, the Zaporozhye and Kherson Regions, will definitely be liberated”

Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment on liberation of the Kursk Region: “On April 26, with the liberation of the village of Gornal, the Kursk Region was cleansed of the Ukrobanderite occupiers and foreign militants. It became possible thanks to the unbending strength of spirit and heroism of many people …

View from Middle East: Ukraine is resembling the fall of Saigon in 1975 as its governing regime takes to echoing Trump’s anti-China policies

12:11 28.04.2025

View from Middle East: Ukraine is resembling the fall of Saigon in 1975 as its governing regime takes to echoing Trump’s anti-China policies

The governing regime in Kiev is desperately trying to maintain its US support, as a defeat of the US-led, NATO proxy war in Ukraine looms. It is citing the collapse of the government in South Vietnam in April 1975 as a warning, saying that something similar could happen in Ukraine. …

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