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Nation in revolt: Peru’s youngest leader battles crime wave and public fury
LIMA (Realist English). Less than a week after taking office, Peru’s new president José Jerí is already facing a wave...
Read moreTrump cuts U.S. funding to Colombia, calls President Petro “an illegal drug dealer” amid escalating tensions
WASHINGTON / BOGOTÁ (Realist English). President Donald Trump announced Sunday that the United States would end all financial assistance to...
Read moreU.K. Chancellor Rachel Reeves vows fiscal discipline, warns of global headwinds
WASHINGTON (Realist English). U.K. Finance Minister Rachel Reeves reaffirmed her commitment to the government’s self-imposed fiscal rules but warned that...
Read moreZelensky says he is ready for peace talks “in any format” after White House visit
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, said after his visit to the White House that...
Read moreColonel Michael Randrianirina sworn in as Madagascar’s new president after military takeover
ANTANANARIVO (Realist English). Until a few days ago, few in Madagascar had heard of Colonel Michael Randrianirina, head of the...
Read moreTrump holds talks with Putin ahead of Zelensky meeting amid debate over new weapons for Ukraine
WASHINGTON (Realist English). President Donald Trump said Thursday that he was speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of a...
Read moreJapan’s opposition leaders fail to agree on joint candidate as ruling party struggles to retain power
TOKYO (Realist English). Japan’s three main opposition leaders met in Tokyo on Wednesday to discuss a unified strategy for selecting...
Read morePakistan and Afghanistan agree to 48-hour ceasefire after deadly border clashes
ISLAMABAD (Realist English). Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to a temporary 48-hour ceasefire after some of the worst fighting since...
Read moreKenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga dies in India at 80
NEW DELHI (Realist English). Kenyan opposition leader and former prime minister Raila Odinga, one of Africa’s most influential political figures,...
Read moreFrench prime minister freezes Macron’s pension reform to save 2026 budget and avert political collapse
PARIS (Realist English). French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has announced a suspension of President Emmanuel Macron’s contentious pension reform, in...
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Israel planned assassination of Iran’s supreme leader months before strike, defense minister says
JERUSALEM (Realist English). Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved plans to assassinate Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei as early as...
Iranian Shahed drones reshape battlefield as Gulf states face mass attacks
DUBAI (Realist English). The ongoing confrontation involving Iran, the United States and Israel has brought a weapon long familiar to...
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...
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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