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EU leaders abandon reparations loan plan, agree on €90bn joint debt to fund Ukraine
BRUSSELS (Realist English). European Union leaders have failed to agree on an unprecedented reparations-backed loan for Ukraine and instead decided...
Read moreMaduro rejects Trump’s claims over Venezuelan oil and land, accuses US of colonial ambitions
CARACAS (Realist English). Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has said recent remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump about “reclaiming” Venezuelan land...
Read moreDrone strikes kill more than 100 civilians as Sudan war escalates in Kordofan
KHARTOUM (Realist English). At least 104 civilians have been killed in a wave of drone attacks across Sudan’s Kordofan region,...
Read moreTrump designates fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction
WASHINGTON (Realist English). President Donald Trump has signed an executive order classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, a...
Read moreKast wins Chile presidency in sharp rightward shift
SANTIAGO (Realist English). Jose Antonio Kast has won Chile’s presidential election, riding voter anxiety over rising crime and irregular migration...
Read moreBystander disarms gunman during Bondi Beach attack, is hailed as hero
SYDNEY (Realist English). An Australian bystander who tackled and disarmed one of the attackers during a deadly shooting at Sydney’s...
Read moreLukashenko pardons 123 foreign nationals following talks with Trump
MINSK (Realist English). Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned 123 foreign nationals following agreements reached with U.S. President Donald Trump...
Read moreU.S. forces intercepted China–Iran cargo ship in rare maritime operation, WSJ reports
WASHINGTON (Realist English). U.S. forces last month boarded a cargo vessel travelling from China to Iran, marking a rare interception...
Read moreGermany invites U.S. to Berlin talks on Ukraine ceasefire as Europe pushes for role in negotiations
BERLIN (Realist English). Germany has invited the United States to join a high-level meeting in Berlin early next week focused...
Read moreThailand dissolves parliament amid border clashes with Cambodia and looming no-confidence vote
BANGKOK (Realist English). Thailand has dissolved its parliament and will hold a general election within 45 to 60 days, after...
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Lavrov warns of global consequences from Middle East escalation
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned that the escalating conflict in the Middle East could have serious...
Venezuela signs gold export deal with Trafigura for U.S. market
CARACAS (Realist English). Venezuela’s state-owned mining company has signed a multimillion-dollar agreement to sell up to 1,000 kilograms of gold...
Putin increases size of Russia’s armed forces
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree increasing the authorized number of servicemen in the country’s...
Trump says US-Israeli strikes have crippled Iran’s military
WASHINGTON (Realist English). President Donald Trump said Tuesday that joint US-Israeli strikes had severely weakened Iran’s military capabilities, claiming the...
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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