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Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick to meet JD Vance during UK visit, but no meeting with Tory leader Kemi Badenoch
LONDON (Realist English). Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and senior Conservative Robert Jenrick will meet US Vice-President JD Vance during...
Read moreWife of South Korea’s ousted president arrested in widening special prosecutor probe
SEOUL (Realist English). Kim Keon Hee, wife of South Korea’s jailed former president Yoon Suk Yeol, has been arrested as...
Read moreMexican president rejects US military role in anti-cartel fight, warns against intervention
MEXICO CITY (Realist English). President Claudia Sheinbaum dismissed the possibility of US military intervention in Mexico, stressing that the country’s...
Read more‘Enough is enough’: Democrats go on the offensive to stop Trump in 2026
CHICAGO (Realist English). Eight years after Michelle Obama told Democrats, “When they go low, we go high”, party leaders are...
Read moreBank of England cuts rates to 4%, but warns inflation will constrain further easing
LONDON (Realist English). The Bank of England has lowered its benchmark interest rate by 0.25 percentage points to 4%, the...
Read moreUS doubles reward for arrest of Venezuela’s Maduro to $50mn, citing cartel links
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The US government has increased to $50mn its reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction...
Read moreCameroon opposition leader Kamto barred from 2025 election, accuses Biya’s camp of political sabotage
YAOUNDÉ (Realist English). Maurice Kamto, Cameroon’s most prominent opposition figure, has accused the ruling camp of President Paul Biya of...
Read moreTrump narrows Fed chair shortlist to Hassett and Warsh
WASHINGTON (Realist English). Donald Trump has confirmed that Kevin Hassett and Kevin Warsh are the leading candidates to succeed Federal...
Read moreTrump signals ‘great progress’ in talks with Russia ahead of ceasefire ultimatum
WASHINGTON (Realist English). President Donald Trump announced “great progress” in negotiations with Russia following a high-level meeting between his Special...
Read moreNetanyahu signals possible escalation in Gaza as Israeli ex-security chiefs call for war’s end
TEL AVIV (Realist English). Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hinted at a possible intensification of military operations in Gaza,...
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Putin speaks with Iran’s president amid escalating regional war
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Friday, expressing condolences...
China presses Iran for safe passage through Strait of Hormuz
BEIJING (Realist English). China is negotiating with Iran to ensure safe passage for oil tankers and Qatari liquefied natural gas...
Iran’s regional strikes shake global energy markets
DUBAI (Realist English). Iran’s expanding military campaign across the Persian Gulf and beyond is putting growing pressure on global energy...
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...
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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