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Iran warns it is ready for war as Trump weighs military options
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has warned that Tehran is ready for war if the United States...
Read moreChina vows closer ties with Tanzania, reaffirms support for African sovereignty
DAR ES SALAAM (Realist English). China has pledged to deepen cooperation and exchanges with Tanzania, with Foreign Minister Wang Yi...
Read moreFrench PM asks interior minister to explore early elections amid no-confidence threat
PARIS (Realist English). Facing two motions of no confidence, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has asked Interior Minister Laurent Nunez to...
Read moreFrom voice of support to figurehead: Pahlavi seeks to steer Iran’s uprising
TEHRAN (Realist English). Protests across Iran entered their third week on Sunday amid a markedly harsher crackdown by the authorities,...
Read moreVenezuela’s real power lies beyond the presidency after Maduro’s arrest
CARACAS (Realist English). A day after U.S. special forces swept into the Venezuelan capital and detained former president Nicolas Maduro,...
Read moreKhamenei says Iran will not retreat in face of foreign-backed unrest
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Friday that the Islamic Republic would stand firm...
Read moreMacron warns of erosion of global rules amid Trump’s confrontational rhetoric
PARIS (Realist English). French President Emmanuel Macron warned on Thursday that the United States is “breaking free from international rules”...
Read moreChina and African Union call for respect for sovereignty after U.S. raid on Venezuela
ADDIS ABABA (Realist English). China and the African Union issued a joint call on Thursday for strict adherence to international...
Read moreIran faces internet disruptions as protests intensify amid economic crisis
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran experienced widespread disruptions to internet connectivity on Thursday as protests against economic hardship intensified across the...
Read moreImprisoned Turkish opposition leader vows to challenge Erdogan from jail
ISTANBUL (Realist English). Former Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival, has declared that his imprisonment...
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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...
Vance says Iran nuclear talks collapsed before launch of Operation Epic Fury
WASHINGTON (Realist English). Vice President JD Vance said Monday that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program broke down after...
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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