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Germany and UK sign post-Brexit friendship treaty to boost defense, trade, and travel
LONDON (Realist English). Five years after the UK formally exited the European Union, Germany and the United Kingdom have signed...
Read moreU.S. announces Israel-Syria ceasefire after over 300 killed in Sweida clashes
DAMASCUS (Realist English). The United States announced on Friday that Israel and Syria have agreed to a ceasefire, following several...
Read moreZelensky accused of authoritarian drift as Kyiv regime targets anti-corruption voices
KYIV (Realist English). The head of the Kyiv regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, is facing mounting accusations of authoritarianism after security forces...
Read moreThaksin Shinawatra fights royal defamation charges amid political dynasty’s decline
BANGKOK (Realist English). Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand’s ousted prime minister and longtime political heavyweight, appeared in a Bangkok court this week...
Read moreUK government secretly relocated thousands of Afghans after major data leak
LONDON (Realist English). The UK government ran a secret multibillion-pound relocation programme for Afghans after a catastrophic data breach exposed...
Read moreJapan calls China’s expanding military operations its ‘greatest strategic challenge’
TOKYO (Realist English). Japan’s Defense Ministry has described China’s expanding military footprint across the Indo-Pacific as the country’s most pressing...
Read moreCameroon’s 92-year-old president Paul Biya announces bid for eighth term
YAOUNDÉ (Realist English). President Paul Biya, 92, the world’s oldest sitting head of state, announced on Sunday that he will...
Read moreOrban under pressure: Hungary’s ‘illiberal democracy’ faces a centre-right challenger
BUDAPEST (Realist English). Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, long hailed by right-wing leaders from Donald Trump to JD Vance, is...
Read moreIran slams Netanyahu over missile remarks, calls Israel’s war aims a failure
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has sharply rebuked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, declaring that Tel Aviv...
Read moreChina deepens strategic ties with Egypt amid Middle East tensions and global realignments
CAIRO (Realist English). Chinese Premier Li Qiang arrived in Cairo this week to reinforce Beijing’s expanding partnership with Egypt, pledging...
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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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