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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...
Read moreUS adds 178,000 jobs in March despite rising economic uncertainty
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The US labour market showed signs of resilience in March, with non-farm payrolls rising by 178,000 jobs...
Read moreEuropean real wages still lag pre-pandemic levels
BRUSSELS (Realist English). Real wages across much of Europe have yet to recover to pre-pandemic levels, as the inflation surge...
Read moreIsrael blocks senior cleric from Holy Sepulchre amid tensions
JERUSALEM (Realist English). France and Italy have criticised Israel after authorities blocked Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem,...
Read moreUS shows higher poverty despite higher incomes, research says
LONDON (Realist English). A new study suggests that average poverty is significantly higher in the United States than in major...
Read moreDoeller awarded Leibniz Prize for cognitive mapping research
LEIPZIG (Realist English). Neuroscientist Christian Doeller has been awarded Germany’s prestigious Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, worth €2.5 million, for his...
Read morePeter Thiel’s Rome lectures raise Vatican concerns
ROME (Realist English). Billionaire investor Peter Thiel is delivering a series of private lectures in Rome focused on the concept...
Read moreActor and martial artist Chuck Norris dies aged 86
LOS ANGELES (Realist English). Actor and martial artist Chuck Norris, known for his roles in 1980s action films and the...
Read more“One Battle After Another” wins Best Picture at 2026 Oscars
LOS ANGELES (Realist English). Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another emerged as the biggest winner at the 98th Academy...
Read moreRussian Orthodox Church Synod approves leadership changes and structural reforms
MOSCOW (Realist English). The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church approved a series of leadership appointments, administrative reforms and...
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Sheaito Moussallam: Iran is the main obstacle to Greater Israel
BEIRUT (Realist English). The Middle East today is an echo of exploding bombs, diplomatic dead ends, and dozens of contradictory interpretations...
‘Capitalism is facing a crisis of legitimacy’: Larry Fink on inequality, AI and the evolution of markets
NEW YORK (Realist English). Larry Fink, founder and CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest investment company with $14 trillion in assets...
Maria Nikiforova: Young people of the liberated territories are waiting for peace and justice
MOSCOW (Realist English). Maria Nikiforova, an expert on youth policy at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian...
155 billionaires vs. 150 million people: Zyuganov on the social catastrophe in Russia
MOSCOW (Realist English). Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov presented the pre-election program "Victory...
UAE boosts production bypassing OPEC, but oil prices rise
MOSCOW (Realist English). Leading researcher at IMEMO RAS, Candidate of Historical Sciences Stanislav Ivanov has analysed for Realist English the possible consequences of...
Kurdish Genocide: From the Ottoman Empire to Erdoğan — a Chronicle of a Century of Terror
ISTANBUL (Realist English). Crimes against the Kurdish people have not been isolated episodes but have been carried out by successive Turkish...
Will Trump and Xi Agree on a New World Order?
BEIJING (Realist English). Relations between the United States and China in May 2026 can best be described as an “armed...
Pentagon withdraws troops from Germany: minus 5,000 soldiers in Europe and cancellation of a missile battalion
BERLIN (Realist English). On 2 May, the Pentagon officially announced the withdrawal of 5,000 US troops from Germany over the next...
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