Russia launches counterattacks to retake Kursk after incursion stalls

Russia launches counterattacks to retake Kursk after incursion stalls

Russian President Vladimir Putin watches with binoculars the Tsentr-2019 military exercise at the Donguz range near Orenburg city on September 20, 2019. Alexey Nikolsky | Afp | Getty Images Russia said Wednesday it launched a major counteroffensive to retake large areas of its Kursk region that were seized by Ukrainian forces in the border incursion … Read more

Putin would ‘eat you for lunch’ Harris tells Trump in clash over Russia

Putin would ‘eat you for lunch’ Harris tells Trump in clash over Russia

Former US President Donald Trump and US Vice President Kamala Harris are shown on screen during a debate watch party at the Cameo Art House Theatre in Fayetteville, North Carolina, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. Donald Trump and Kamala Harris enter Tuesday’s debate in search of the same goal, a moment that will help … Read more

What problems is France facing as Michel Barnier becomes PM?

What problems is France facing as Michel Barnier becomes PM?

A French flag is seen on the Place de la Republique as people celebrate after the Nouveau Front Populaire, an alliance of left wing parties including the far-left wing party, La France Insoumise came in first on July 07, 2024 in Paris, France.  Remon Haazen | Getty Images News | Getty Images French President Emmanuel … Read more

Turkey’s bid for BRICS both strategic and symbolic step, analysts say

Turkey’s bid for BRICS both strategic and symbolic step, analysts say

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan attends the BRICS+ session on a two-day BRICS foreign ministers summit held in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia on June 11, 2024. Sefa Karacan | Anadolu | Getty Images Turkey’s request to join the BRICS alliance is a move seen as both strategic and symbolic as the Eurasian country of 85 million … Read more

Geert Wilders says the EU is a ‘monster’ that always wants more power

Geert Wilders says the EU is a ‘monster’ that always wants more power

The Netherlands far-right PVV Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders speaks to the media representatives following the European Parliament elections provisional results in The Hague on June 6, 2024.  Emiel Muijderman | Afp | Getty Images Dutch populist leader Geert Wilders has described the European Union as a “monster” that must not be given any more … Read more

Risk of Russia using nuclear weapon early in Ukraine war

Risk of Russia using nuclear weapon early in Ukraine war

CIA Director Bill Burns testifies next to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines during a House (Select) Intelligence Committee hearing on diversity in the intelligence community, on Capitol Hill in Washington, October 27, 2021. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters CIA Director William Burns believed there was a real risk in the fall of 2022 that Russia … Read more

EU economy survived ‘terrible prophecies’, now faces trade with China: EU’s Gentiloni

EU economy survived ‘terrible prophecies’, now faces trade with China: EU’s Gentiloni

The European Union has successfully avoided the “terrible prophecies” that threatened its economy in recent years, but must still contend with Russia’s war in Ukraine and a tenuous trade relationship with China, outgoing European Commissioner for Economy Paolo Gentiloni said Saturday. The bloc’s economy underwent “overall a weak growth, but nothing of the terrible prophecies … Read more

Elon Musk plan for government efficiency enters Trump platform

Elon Musk plan for government efficiency enters Trump platform

President Trump speaks at the Economic Club of New York on November 12, 2019. Adam Jeffery | CNBC NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump on Thursday unveiled a new batch of economic policy proposals that include Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s idea of creating a government efficiency commission to eliminate wasteful federal spending, a shot … Read more

Putin dodges arrest warrant in Mongolia, the Kremlin touts its triumph

Putin dodges arrest warrant in Mongolia, the Kremlin touts its triumph

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his spokesperson Dmitry Peskov at the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council meeting at the Congress Hall in Bishkek on Dec. 9, 2022. Vyacheslav Oseledko | Afp | Getty Images There was more than a whiff of self-satisfaction from the Kremlin on Wednesday, after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s trip to Mongolia at … Read more

House Democrats ask Trump for proof he did not take $10 million ‘cash bribe’ from Egypt

House Democrats ask Trump for proof he did not take  million ‘cash bribe’ from Egypt

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, meets with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi at the Plaza Hotel in New York, Sept. 19, 2016. Dominick Reuter | AFP | Getty Images Democrats on the House Oversight Committee asked former President Donald Trump to show proof that he never received any money from Egypt, following a recent … Read more