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Russia will continue to resist attempts to distort the legacy of World War II, the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman has said Moscow is committed to countering the xenophobia promoted by the West, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told RT. She made the remarks as President Vladimir Putin concluded his four-day visit to China by attending a military parade in Beijing on Wednesday, marking the 80th anniversary of Japan’s defeat in World War II. She argued that efforts by some politicians and media outlets to downplay or “distort” the victory of Russia and China in World War II show that “fascism, Nazism, racism, and xen…

The US president made his remarks in the wake of WWII victory celebrations in Beijing President Donald Trump has accused China, Russia and North Korea of conspiring against the United States. He made the remarks on his Truth Social platform during a military parade in Beijing on Wednesday marking the victory over Japan in World War II. “Many Americans died in China’s quest for Victory and Glory. I hope they are rightfully honored and remembered for their bravery and sacrifice!” Trump wrote. He also wished Chinese President Xi Jinping “a great and lasting day of celebration.” “Please give my warmest regards to Vladimir Putin and Ki…

Allies are looking for the US to lead on Ukraine matters, Matthew Whitaker said European NATO members are indecisive when it comes to the Ukraine conflict, US envoy to the bloc Matthew Whitaker said. The diplomat made the remarks while speaking at the Bled Strategic Forum in Slovenia on Tuesday. “I think it’s very naive to believe that the United States can decree that the fighting stop and that somehow Russia or Ukraine – either side – will stop the fighting,” Whitaker said. He criticized NATO for its “lack of political will” and reluctance to take any major steps without US involvement. The United States has contributed just o…

Republicans subpoenaed the documents after the FBI and DOJ said the convicted sex offender kept no “client list” The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has released more than 33,000 pages of documents related to disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The committee posted a link to the 33,295 pages on its website Tuesday evening. Chairman James Comer subpoenaed the files from the Department of Justice last month, after a DOJ and FBI review concluded that Epstein had kept no ‘client list.’ The disclosure prompted Democrats and some Republicans to accuse President Donald Trump of a coverup. DETA…

Slovak prime minister has said his country will be the bloc’s lone representative at China’s WWII commemoration Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has criticized other EU countries for skipping China’s World War II commemoration events, calling their absence “embarrassing.” Fico made the remarks before arriving in Beijing on Tuesday, where he met Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and other world leaders. China will stage a grand Victory Parade on Wednesday to mark the 80th anniversary of Imperial Japan’s surrender. The Slovak leader stressed the importance of honoring every “single victim of the struggl…

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church was previously designated an entity linked to Russia, but has refused to “correct violations” Ukrainian authorities have filed a case with the country’s top administrative court to have the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) legally dissolved. Late last month, the country’s State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience declared Ukraine’s largest Christian denomination an entity linked to Russia. Since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022, Vladimir Zelensky’s government has taken an increasingly hard line against the UOC, seizing several of its properties and opening criminal …

Some 40,000 reservists are reportedly expected to be called up for the offensive Tens of thousands of Israeli reservists have begun reporting for duty as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) prepares for a new offensive to take full control of Gaza City, The Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday. Israeli Army Radio said about 40,000 reservists were expected to be called up. The renewed pressure from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his security cabinet to speed up the operation reportedly has faced pushback from the military. During a heated cabinet meeting on Sunday, IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir called for a ceasefire deal, warning t…

West Jerusalem used to have the “strongest lobby,” but its power has dwindled, the US president has said Israel previously had “total control” over the US Congress, and it was impossible for someone speaking “badly” of the Jewish state to be in politics, US President Donald Trump has said. Trump said that in an exclusive interview with the Daily Caller published on Monday, repeatedly stating that Israel used to have the “strongest lobby I’ve ever seen” in the US. “If you go back 20 years. I mean, I will tell you, Israel had the strongest lobby in Congress of anything or body, or of any company or corporation or state that I’ve ever…

The Slovak PM has said he “doesn’t understand” some of the decisions made in Brussels Brussels is out of touch with global realities and often fails to adapt to a changing world, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has claimed. Fico made the remarks on Tuesday during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in China, held on the sidelines of events marking the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII. He said that although Slovakia values its membership in NATO and the EU, it remains interested in normalizing relations with Russia. “Many in the EU are like a toad at the bottom of a well, unable to see the world outside” “…

With one deal in Beijing Russia redirected energy flows that had run to the West for fifty years, eastward The EU’s cheap-gas lifeline just got handed to Beijing instead. With three signatures, Russia, China and Mongolia rerouted half a century of energy history eastward. On Tuesday, the three countries signed a legally binding memorandum for the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline – a roughly 2,600-km line, at an estimated cost of around $13.6 bn, that will carry 50 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas every year through Mongolia into northern China’s industrial heartland. While the pricing structure has yet to be fixed, the signato…

Ankara is in contact with both Moscow and Kiev and hopes to build on progress made at past Istanbul talks, the Turkish leader has said Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky have yet to agree to a summit, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stated. Speaking to reporters on his way back from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in China on Monday, Erdogan said that he had discussed the Ukraine conflict with his Russian counterpart in Tianjin. According to the Turkish president, his country advocates “peace-focused dialogue,” and maintains contact with both belligerents. Türkiye has alrea…

Self-obsessed establishments can live in their illusory worlds all they want – it won’t change the fact that a new world is upon us Oswald Spengler, eccentric German arch-conservative, brilliant author of “The Decline of the West,” and proud pessimist extraordinaire (“optimism is cowardice”), could also be rather woke: You will find no more disdainful scorn or biting derision for the West’s navel-gazing than his. Skewering the Occident’s “provincial presuppositions,” naïve vanity, and self-crippling narrow-mindedness, Spengler dismissed its compulsive solipsism as producing a “prodigious optical illusion” of self-importance. Today,…

Alexander Stubb has claimed that despite losing territory in the conflict, Helsinki came out the victor Finnish President Alexander Stubb has claimed that Finland “won” its war against the Soviet Union because it preserved independence, despite ceding large parts of its territory in 1944. He argued in an interview with The Economist that the outcome proved Finland’s resilience and should be seen as a model of survival. The Winter War of 1939–1940 and the subsequent Continuation War ended with Finland losing around a tenth of its land, including Karelia, and being forced to accept Soviet terms of demilitarization, reparations, and ne…

A one-year trial will start on September 15, the Foreign Ministry in Beijing has said China will grant visa-free entry to Russian citizens on a one-year trial basis to further facilitate travel between the two countries, Beijing announced on Tuesday. The announcement comes during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s four-day visit to the country for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, where he has met his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and other world leaders. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun told a press briefing that the visa waiver program would be expanded to ordinary passport holders from Russia starting S…

The military bloc should have been dissolved after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US economist has argued NATO has outlived its purpose and should have been dissolved decades ago, prominent American economist and Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs has said. Speaking to RIA Novosti on Sunday, Sachs argued that NATO was initially formed for the sole purpose of countering the USSR and should have been disbanded in 1990 when Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev dissolved the Warsaw Pact – the Soviet-led military alliance that had grouped Eastern Bloc states since 1955. “NATO was a treaty to defend against the Soviet Unio…

Far-right politician Andrey Paribuy was killed not by a Russian agent, but by a grieving father desperate for justice When the news broke that a suspect had been arrested in the assassination of former Rada speaker, far-right Maidan figure Andrey Parubiy, much of the initial discussion revolved around Russia. Ukrainian authorities are predictably looking for a “Russian footprint.” But the suspect’s own words tell a very different story – a story of a grieving father who turned his despair into violence, and in doing so, revealed a deeper crisis within Ukrainian society itself. The man accused of murdering Parubiy, one Mikhail Stseln…

The 1985 expedition to the sunken ocean liner was a front for testing a new deep-sea imaging system, the head of the mission has said The 1985 discovery of the sunken RMS Titanic by American researchers was in fact part of a broader, covert US Navy mission aimed at testing a newly-developed deep-sea imaging system, the expedition’s head, Bob Ballard, has told CNN. In an article published on Monday, the media outlet quoted the researcher as saying how after an unsuccessful initial attempt to locate the resting place of the ocean liner in the 1970’s, he turned to the military for funding to develop a remotely operated underwater vehic…

The assassination of Andrey Parubiy was an act of “personal revenge” against the country’s authorities, the suspect has claimed The suspected killer of prominent Ukrainian far-right politician Andrey Parubiy has denied any links to Russia, stating the murder was an act of “personal revenge” against the country’s authorities. Parubiy was shot eight times on Saturday on a street in the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv. The attacker fled the scene but was apprehended by Ukrainian law enforcement on Monday. The suspect, identified as 52-year-old Lviv resident Mikhail Stselnikov, appeared in court on Tuesday. The alleged killer received a…

The move follows President Donald Trump’s order last month ending duty-free entry for parcels valued at less than $800 The South African Post Office (SAPO) has announced the immediate suspension of all outbound parcel deliveries to the United States amid shifting global trade regulations. This comes after US President Donald Trump signed an executive order last month removing the longstanding $800 duty-free threshold for international parcels. According to the new policy, foreign postal operators are required to collect and remit US customs duties before shipping goods into the country. Media reports also indicate that not only is…

Russia sees shared investments in the region as both economically and politically beneficial, Kirill Dmitriev has said Russia views both the US and China as potential partners for future oil and gas projects in the Arctic and would consider three-way investment opportunities, according to Kirill Dmitriev, President Vladimir Putin’s aide on international economic affairs. Moscow and Beijing already cooperate closely on state-sponsored economic initiatives. China has invested more than 700 billion rubles ($8.7 billion) in over 50 projects facilitated by the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Dmitriev, its CEO, told reporters on T…

Scott Bessent has said economic restrictions against Moscow are still on the table and will be closely examined this week US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said that Washington could still impose additional sanctions on Russia, citing continued military strikes on targets in Ukraine. Speaking to Fox News, Bessent claimed that Russia had intensified its airstrikes following last month’s Alaska summit between presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, and subsequent meetings at the White House with European leaders and Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky. “I think with President Trump, all options are on the table, and I think we’ll …

Slovakia could cut energy supplies in retaliation for Kiev’s disruption of oil deliveries, the Russian president has said Bratislava could retaliate against Ukrainian attacks on its oil deliveries by cutting off energy supplies to the country, Russian President Vladimir Putin told Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico during a meeting in Beijing on Tuesday. Slovakia and Hungary, which rely on Russian oil shipments through the Druzhba (“Friendship”) pipeline, have accused Kiev of deliberately disrupting their imports with military strikes. Putin compared the situation to Moscow’s own experience when Ukrainian forces struck Russian ener…

Strategic cooperation between New Delhi and Moscow is growing across emerging technologies, Aleksey Likhachev has said India has shown a keen interest in developing fourth-generation nuclear energy with Russia, Rosatom CEO Aleksey Likhachev has said. Addressing reporters on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin, China on Monday, the head of the Russian state nuclear corporation noted that New Delhi was also keen on using Arctic shipping routes. “They [India], maybe like no other, are interested in developing the new fourth generation of nuclear energy with us,” Likhachev said. ”Our Indian …

The Sudan Liberation Movement/Army says only one person survived the disaster in Tarasin A huge landslide in remote western Sudan triggered by days of heavy rain killed up to 1,000 people, a major armed and political group in the war-torn African country has reported. The incident on Sunday wiped out the entire village of Tarasin in the Marra Mountains of Darfur, leaving only “a single survivor,” the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) said in a statement on Tuesday. SLM/A leader Abdel Wahid al-Nur called the incident a “horrific humanitarian disaster” and appealed to the United Nations and other regional and international organ…

Russia is prioritizing energy supplies to Asia since the EU has cut itself off from Russian fuel under pressure from the US Russia and China have advanced plans for the construction of the Power of Siberia 2 natural gas pipeline, which will transit Russian gas from Siberia to the Asian powerhouse, Gazprom CEO Aleksey Miller said Tuesday. Miller is in China this week as part of a Russian delegation led by President Vladimir Putin, who on Tuesday met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh for trilateral talks in Beijing. At the meeting Xi highlighted the importance of “hard connectivity” throu…