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Drastic water levels in Woodhead Reservoir following driest British spring in 100 years

10:05 30.08.2025

Drastic water levels in Woodhead Reservoir following driest British spring in 100 years

Reservoirs across the Pennines have recovered since recent rainfall but are still only half full, ‘Manchester Evening News’ reports. Pictures have revealed the startling low water level at Woodhead Reservoir in Derbyshire, the result of the driest spring in the last 100 years. The pictures of Woodhead Reservoir illustrate the …

FA: America’s coming Crash… Will Washington’s debt addiction spark the next Global Crisis?

10:04 30.08.2025

FA: America’s coming Crash… Will Washington’s debt addiction spark the next Global Crisis?

A once-in-a-century U.S. debt crisis no longer seems far-fetched, notes at ‘Foreign Affairs’ Kenneth S. Rogoff, a Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, who was Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund from 2001 to 2003. For much of the …

View from India: Civilisational states will safeguard a Multipolar World

10:02 30.08.2025

View from India: Civilisational states will safeguard a Multipolar World

The decline of the collective West is a theme that has animated historians for the past century, writes Zorawar Daulet Singh, an award winning author and strategic affairs expert based in New Delhi, India. The devastating implosion of old Europe in the first half of the 20th century did indeed …

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman: Zelensky continues to sabotage the negotiations on Ukraine and continue the conflict

16:38 29.08.2025

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman: Zelensky continues to sabotage the negotiations on Ukraine and continue the conflict

Future security guarantees for Ukraine should not be a condition for negotiations, but the result of a peaceful settlement, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing, TASS quotes. According to the diplomat, Vladimir Zelensky continues to sabotage the negotiations on Ukraine and continue the conflict, while the …

Rusian Statement at a UNSC Briefing on the Nord Stream Sabotage

11:05 29.08.2025

Rusian Statement at a UNSC Briefing on the Nord Stream Sabotage

Statement by Chargé d'Affaires a.i. Dmitry Polyanskiy at a UNSC Briefing on the Nord Stream Sabotage. Main points. - Exactly one month from now, on September 26, it will have been three years since two branches of the Nord Stream gas pipeline were blown up in international waters of the …

View from Australia: Is Western influence over Ukraine a colonial meddling?

11:04 29.08.2025

View from Australia: Is Western influence over Ukraine a colonial meddling?

Ukraine’s former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko recently called for an end to what she called the western “colonial model” of interference in Ukraine’s domestic politics, notes ‘The Conversation’, Australia. In a speech to the Ukrainian parliament in July, she welcomed the passage of a law bringing two anti-corruption bodies under …

‘The Telegraph’: Britain is doomed – middle England has only one way out

11:04 29.08.2025

‘The Telegraph’: Britain is doomed – middle England has only one way out

Britain is going into ‘administration’. GDP is flatlining, debt is spiralling, productivity has collapsed to levels not seen since Stovepipe hats and frock coats, ‘The Telegraph’ states. The dashboard is flashing red, the situation so dire that senior economists are now warning we face a 1970s-style bailout. Chancellor Rachel Reeves …

Republicans invent ingenious plan to divvy up California: The ‘Two State Solution’

11:01 29.08.2025

Republicans invent ingenious plan to divvy up California: The ‘Two State Solution’

The resolution, Assembly Joint Resolution 23, would call on the state Legislature to consent to the formation of the new state and urge Congress to agree — a step required under Article IV, Section 3, of the U.S. Constitution. The resolution, however, is nonbinding and would not, by itself, split …

FT: Europe is selling its soul to Trump! It’s not pragmatism but self-harming opportunism

11:44 28.08.2025

FT: Europe is selling its soul to Trump! It’s not pragmatism but self-harming opportunism

A “humiliation”, “economic surrender” and rhetoric that “appears to have been stolen from the adult entertainment industry”. These are just a small selection of Europeans’ reactions to how their leaders have kowtowed to Donald Trump — first for accepting the US president’s demand that Nato countries spend 5 per cent …

View from China: Russia’s nuclear-powered cruise missile draws renewed media attention

11:43 28.08.2025

View from China: Russia’s nuclear-powered cruise missile draws renewed media attention

Russia's Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile has drawn renewed attention after multiple media reports speculated that Russia might recently conduct new tests, Chinese ‘The Global Times’ writes. US media outlet Newsweek reported that a US Air Force WC-135R aircraft designed to track nuclear testing in the atmosphere flew close to Russia's …

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