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Trump’s Greenland threats unsettle Europe’s far-right allies
PARIS (Realist English). Donald Trump’s escalating rhetoric over Greenland is beginning to alienate even some of his potential allies in...
Read moreIran warns it is ready for war as Trump weighs military options
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has warned that Tehran is ready for war if the United States...
Read moreErdogan urges Turks to have more children, warns of looming demographic crisis
ISTANBUL (Realist English). Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has again stressed the need to boost the country’s population, warning that...
Read moreChina vows closer ties with Tanzania, reaffirms support for African sovereignty
DAR ES SALAAM (Realist English). China has pledged to deepen cooperation and exchanges with Tanzania, with Foreign Minister Wang Yi...
Read moreFrench PM asks interior minister to explore early elections amid no-confidence threat
PARIS (Realist English). Facing two motions of no confidence, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has asked Interior Minister Laurent Nunez to...
Read moreRussia remains EU’s fourth-largest gas supplier despite diversification push
BRUSSELS (Realist English). Russia remained the European Union’s fourth-largest supplier of natural gas in 2025, exporting almost 38bn cubic metres...
Read moreChina to upgrade J-20 stealth fighter with enhanced radar, engines and AI
BEIJING (Realist English). China is preparing a new round of upgrades for its J-20 stealth fighter, focusing on improved radar,...
Read moreFrom voice of support to figurehead: Pahlavi seeks to steer Iran’s uprising
TEHRAN (Realist English). Protests across Iran entered their third week on Sunday amid a markedly harsher crackdown by the authorities,...
Read morePublic opinion in Japan splits over future of Self-Defense Forces amid security concerns
TOKYO (Realist English). Nearly half of Japanese respondents believe the country’s Self-Defense Forces should remain at their current size and...
Read moreUK investment in Somaliland port draws scrutiny amid Sudan war and regional power rivalries
BERBERA (Realist English). The United Kingdom holds a stake in Somaliland’s strategically located Berbera port through British International Investment (BII),...
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Easter unites millions as Armenian, Catholic and Protestant churches celebrate together
ETCHMIADZIN (Realist English). Millions of Christians around the world are celebrating Easter — the central feast of the Christian calendar...
US aircraft losses mount as Iran claims downing of F-15E
WASHINGTON (Realist English). U.S. forces are searching for a missing crew member after an F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet went...
Iran says it can sustain Hormuz disruption for years amid standoff with US
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran could maintain the current disruption in the Strait of Hormuz for years, a senior Iranian security...
Trump fires Attorney General Pam Bondi, appoints Todd Blanche as interim chief
WASHINGTON (Realist English). US President Donald Trump has dismissed Attorney General Pam Bondi and appointed Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche...
Star Wars without fiction: how space became the next battlefield
MOSCOW (Realist English). “Star Wars” stopped being science fiction long ago. Unfortunately, over ten thousand years of civilisation, humanity has...
Dadivank: The Legacy of Christ’s Apostles in Artsakh
YEREVAN (Realist English). In Artsakh, before the ethnic cleansing and forced deportation – simply put, genocide – carried out by...
An unusual phenomenon at the Church of the Holy Savior in Shushi
YEREVAN (Realist English). In the distant year 1979, as a third-year university student, I used to visit the Church of...
War with Iran seen as inevitable, Armenia warned of looming regional storm
YEREVAN (Realist English). The war with Iran is drawing ever closer. And once again, this pulls Armenia into a zone...
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