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The Ukrainian leader risks alienating the only power besides Moscow with a realistic approach to ending the war In a weekend interview with ABC News, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky accused US President Donald Trump of giving Russian President Vladimir Putin “what he wanted” at the Alaska summit in August. Whether a passing complaint or a calculated jab, it may come at a steep cost for Zelensky. To suggest that Trump bent to Putin’s will is to imply weakness, and weakness is something Trump never tolerates being accused of. This rhetorical swipe was directed at a man who holds significant sway over the trajectory of the Russia-Uk…

A group of European officials are expected in New Delhi this week to address longstanding disputes India and the EU are intensifying work on a free trade agreement, with two rounds of key negotiations to address longstanding disputes, India Today reported on Monday A group of European officials is expected in New Delhi this week, with discussions set to tackle key sticking points such as rules of origin, market access, and tariffs on agricultural items – especially wine and dairy products, the report added. The latest discussions come against the backdrop of 50% US tariffs on India, which include a 25% “penalty” for buying R…

The freighter, which was also carrying lithium batteries, derailed in northern Sweden, likely due to heavy rains, according to the local authorities A freight train carrying ammunition and lithium batteries has derailed in northern Sweden, according to local officials. The accident, which occurred at around 8am on Sunday near Skorped, in the Vasternorrland region, is believed to have been caused by heavy rainfall, which damaged the railway infrastructure. It is unclear what type of ammunition the train was transporting or what its destination was. Emergency services are managing the dangerous cargo, after which the site will be cle…

The deployment proposal is intended to butter up Donald Trump as the EU has nothing else to offer, Andrey Melnik has claimed Debates in Europe about deploying troops from NATO countries to Ukraine are largely a ploy to win favor with US President Donald Trump, Kiev’s envoy to the United Nations, Andrey Melnik, said in an interview published on Sunday. Moscow has ruled out any foreign military presence in Ukraine as part of a peace settlement. Speaking to Germany’s Stern magazine, Melnik dismissed the Western discussions as largely symbolic. “Unfortunately, at the moment, this is a sham debate,” he said. “No German politician can se…

Laotian Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone has highlighted economic cooperation and global trade opportunities in seeking to join both blocs Laos has confirmed its interest in joining both the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and BRICS. Laotian Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone said in an interview with RT that the country is looking to expand economic partnerships and open up new trade routes. Although not a full member of the SCO, Laos was recently granted dialogue partner status. President Thongloun Sisoulith represented the country at the recent SCO summit in China, underscoring the importance Laos places on this growing …

Russia has on numerous occasions accused Western intelligence services of targeting the pipelines Former Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny commissioned the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines in 2022, German newspaper Die Welt reported on Monday, citing an investigator familiar with the matter. DETAILS TO FOLLOW View the full article

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has mocked the bloc’s top diplomat for stereotyping Russians and Chinese Remarks by EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas stereotyping Russians and Chinese expose her as “critically uneducated,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Sunday. Speaking at an event organized by the EU Institute for Security Studies last week, Kallas argued that the two nations complement one another in their opposition to the West, describing Russians as strong in social sciences but weak in tech, and the Chinese as the reverse. “Chinese are very good at technology but they are not that …

Donald Trump will never be an ally, Josep Borrell has said, describing the president as a “geopolitical and economic shock” to Europeans The European Union is facing a world dominated by “continental empires” and risks slipping into a vassal role under the US, the bloc’s former top diplomat, Josep Borrell, has said. In a Politico column published on Monday, Borrell argued that the EU appears “dangerously fragmented and weak.” This, he said, became clear after the bloc made nonreciprocal concessions to US President Donald Trump on defense spending and trade, and accepted a junior role in managing the Ukraine conflict. Trump has pr…

The gathering will be successful regardless of whom Washington assigns to attend, Pretoria’s International Relations Minister has said South Africa has welcomed the decision by US President Donald Trump to send Vice President J.D. Vance in his place to the G20 world leaders’ summit in Johannesburg in November. Trump confirmed on Friday that he will skip the summit. He had earlier said he would not attend because of South Africa’s “very bad policies” and the “problems” he has with Pretoria. “I won’t be going this year, it’s in South Africa. I won’t be going, J.D. will be going, great vice president, and he looks forward to it,” Tru…

India’s oil purchases are driven by its own economic priorities, not external pressure, Nirmala Sitharaman has said India will “undoubtedly be buying Russian oil,” Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told news outlet Network18 on Friday. In the interview, she reiterated the government’s stated policy that the South Asian nation’s oil purchases are driven by its own economic priorities and not external pressure. ”Whether it’s Russian oil or anything else, it is our decision to buy from the place that suits our needs, whether in terms of rates or logistics,” Sitharaman said. “Where we buy our oil from, especially a big-ticket foreign…

The US is peddling lies to the world about the benefits of its system, a damning report has claimed The US spreads propaganda such as the myth of the “American dream” as part of a “global ideological warfare” campaign, a Chinese think tank has claimed in a report released on Sunday. The criticism comes amid heightened tensions between the US and China, with both nations frequently exchanging accusations over political systems, global influence, and ideological agendas. The Xinhua Institute said Washington is promoting a flawed system abroad that fails to deliver results at home. The document focused on what it described as “coloniz…

Moscow has repeatedly stressed it has no intention of seizing the neighboring country Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has claimed Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to occupy the whole of the country, and that Kiev can claim “victory” in the conflict as long as this does not happen. Russia has long stressed that it has no intention of occupying Ukraine in full. Putin reiterated this when the conflict escalated in February 2022, and again later that year when Russian troops reached Kiev but then withdrew. Since then, Moscow has consistently said any peace settlement requires Ukrainian neutrality, demilitarization, and recog…

The US president has also announced plans for talks with several European leaders US President Donald Trump has said he is preparing a new round of talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to take place this week, which will likely center on efforts to resolve the Ukraine conflict. Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Trump expressed confidence in ending the hostilities, stating that “we’re going to get it done.” As part of this push, he said he would speak to Putin “very soon, over the next couple of days,” without providing specifics on the agenda. Moscow has yet to comment on the matter, but has praised the Trump administ…

Beijing has denounced the passage of the vessels, calling it a provocation The Chinese military has condemned the passage of Canadian and Australian warships through the Taiwan Strait, calling it a provocation. China considers Taiwan – self-ruled since 1949 when nationalist forces retreated after losing the Chinese Civil War – as part of its territory under the One-China principle. It also claims the strait as its own. While neither Canada nor Australia formally recognize Taiwan as a sovereign state, many, including the US, Canada, the UK, France, and Australia, view the strait as an international channel and conduct regular transi…

The Ukrainian leader argued that Moscow was “playing games” with the US US President Donald Trump handed Russian President Vladimir Putin a public relations victory during their one-on-one summit in Alaska last month, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky claimed. Trump met with Putin on August 15 as part of efforts to mediate a peace deal between Moscow and Kiev. Although the meeting produced no breakthroughs, both sides described it as a positive step. “It’s a pity that Ukraine was not there, because I think that President Trump gave Putin what he wanted,” Zelensky told ABC News’ Martha Raddatz in an interview aired on Sunday. “He …

Ukraine lacked the expertise to bomb the Baltic Sea pipelines, Nikolay Patrushev said The sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines could not have been carried out without Western commandos, a top aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed, singling out Britain as the likely culprit. German prosecutors have attributed the explosions in international waters in September 2022, which disabled the twin pipelines supplying Russian gas to Germany via the Baltic Sea, to a group of Ukrainian nationals. In an article published Sunday in Kommersant, former head of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) Nikolay Patrushev argued tha…

Kiev’s forces struck Russia’s Donetsk on Sunday A Ukrainian kamikaze drone struck a park in Russia’s Donetsk on Sunday, injuring six people, including a teenage girl, according to regional authorities. Denis Pushilin, head of the Donetsk People’s Republic, said the UAV hit the Gulliver park in the western part of the city, an area that has often come under shelling during the conflict. He added that Kiev’s forces carried out 15 “armed attacks” on Donetsk and the nearby town of Makeevka, using 155mm artillery and drones. Footage from RT’s Murad Gazdiev, filmed shortly after the strike, shows debris, blood stains on the pavement, an…

Government lawyers reportedly believed the ex-president failed to properly vet the criminals whose sentences he commuted Former US President Joe Biden’s own officials objected to how his team handled the sweeping pardons issued shortly before he left office, Axios reported on Sunday, citing internal emails and people familiar with the matter. Biden faced widespread criticism for granting clemency to his son Hunter, despite pledging not to do so. Hunter Biden had previously pleaded guilty to tax evasion and gun violations. “There was a mad dash to find groups of people that he could then pardon – and they largely didn’t run it by …

Carlo Acutis, a teenage gamer and computer whiz, used his skills to help bring the Catholic faith into the digital age The Vatican has canonized as the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint an Italian teenager who used his computer skills to spread the faith online, earning the nickname “God’s Influencer.” Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia in 2006 at the age of just 15, inspired a worldwide youth following as one of the first to bring the Catholic faith into the digital age. During his illness, he created a multilingual website cataloging accounts of Eucharistic miracles – events in which believers say bread and wine consecrated…

Governments and corporations should be aware of the risks associated with electronic communications, Dmitry Peskov has said Messaging apps are “absolutely transparent” to intelligence agencies and security services, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. People who use them to share sensitive information should be aware of the risks, he added. “All messengers are absolutely transparent systems, and people who use them should understand that they are transparent…. to the security services,” Peskov told journalists on Friday at the Eastern Economic Forum in Russia’s Vladivostok. He added it was particularly important to consider the r…

Home Office figures show that accommodating asylum seekers is costing taxpayers nearly £6 million a day The UK Defense Ministry plans to house illegal migrants in military barracks after widespread protests over the government’s use of taxpayer-funded hotels. Demonstrations broke out across Britain after a 14-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in July by a migrant housed in a hotel in the town of Epping. As of July, 45,000 asylum seekers were being housed in hotels at a cost of nearly £6 million ($8.1 million) per day – an expense that has fueled public anger amid Britain’s worsening financial crisis. On Saturday alone, more than…

Kiev Mayor Vitaly Klitschko and several Ukrainian media outlets have reported that a fire in the building was caused by a downed drone Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko has accused Russia of striking a government office in central Kiev, posting a video from inside a damaged corridor. However, reports by Kiev Mayor Vitaly Klitschko and Ukrainian media suggested that the blaze was sparked by debris from a downed drone, not a direct hit. In the video posted to social media on Sunday, Sviridenko said “you can see the consequences of the attack” while standing in a corridor with some scattered debris. She also claimed that the fi…

The breakthrough drug reduced tumor size and growth by up to 80% in early testing, according to Veronika Skvortsova Russia’s newly developed cancer vaccine has shown high effectiveness in preclinical trials and is ready for rollout, according to Veronika Skvortsova, head of the Federal Medical-Biological Agency. The breakthrough drug is awaiting approval from the Russian Health Ministry. The vaccine showed excellent results in three years of preclinical trials, the official told Izvestia on Friday on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. “The [trials] have proven the safety of the vaccine, including its repea…

23-year-old Irina Zarutskaya was allegedly killed by a homeless career criminal on a North Carolina train A video released by the authorities in North Carolina shows the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian woman on a Charlotte train, with the attacker – identified as a homeless man with a long criminal record and mental health issues – stabbing her from behind without warning. Surveillance footage, which was released by the Charlotte Area Transit System on Saturday and went viral on social media, shows the moments leading to the death of Irina Zarutskaya, 23, on August 22. In the video, Zarutskaya, who had fled the fighting in Ukraine, i…

The unilateral measures were associated with more than 560,000 excess deaths annually from 1971 to 2021, a recent study suggests Western sanctions contributed to nearly 29 million excess deaths worldwide over five decades – a toll comparable to that of wars, according to a recent study. The research, published last month in the Lancet Global Health, has gained attention around the world. Examining age-specific mortality in 152 countries from 1971 to 2021, using statistics from the Global Sanctions Database, researchers compared mortality rates before and after sanctions, tracking long-term trends to estimate their toll in excess de…