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Italy’s gold reserves soar to record value as Rome resists calls to sell
ROME (Realist English). Italy, long accustomed to financial turbulence, is now quietly reaping the rewards of its enduring commitment to...
Italy’s ruling party proposes nationwide ban on Islamic face veils and tighter controls on mosque funding
ROME (Realist English). Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s ruling party has introduced a draft law that would ban face coverings...
Italy projects deficit to fall to 3% of GDP in 2025 amid stronger tax revenues
ROME (Realist English). Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government expects Italy’s public deficit to decline to 3% of GDP in 2025,...
Italy emerges as Europe’s new magnet for the ultra-rich
ROME (Realist English). Italy is attracting a wave of ultra-wealthy individuals, lured by its investor-friendly policies, expanding real estate market...
New research reveals Pompeii was resettled after AD 79 eruption
NAPLES (Realist English). The ancient Roman city of Pompeii, long seen as a perfectly preserved relic of the catastrophic AD...
Italy revives €13bn Sicily bridge project, framing it as NATO-aligned strategic infrastructure
ROME (Realist English). Italy’s government, led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, is preparing to approve the long-delayed construction of a...
“The world has changed”: Italian defense chief slams NATO and UN
PADUA (Realist English). Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto delivered a stark assessment of NATO and the European Union on Friday,...
Meloni balances between Brussels and Washington as global shifts loom
ROME (Realist English). Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is engaged in a form of "diplomatic acrobatics," seeking to simultaneously maintain...
Antonio Gramsci: The Soviet Union was ahead of its time, and that’s what ruined it
MOSCOW (Realist English). Mathematician and musician Antonio Gramsci answered these and other questions of the Realist News Agency, who told...
Sheaito Moussallam: Iran is the main obstacle to Greater Israel
BEIRUT (Realist English). The Middle East today is an echo of exploding bombs, diplomatic dead ends, and dozens of contradictory interpretations...
‘Capitalism is facing a crisis of legitimacy’: Larry Fink on inequality, AI and the evolution of markets
NEW YORK (Realist English). Larry Fink, founder and CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest investment company with $14 trillion in assets...
Maria Nikiforova: Young people of the liberated territories are waiting for peace and justice
MOSCOW (Realist English). Maria Nikiforova, an expert on youth policy at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian...
155 billionaires vs. 150 million people: Zyuganov on the social catastrophe in Russia
MOSCOW (Realist English). Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov presented the pre-election program "Victory...
UAE boosts production bypassing OPEC, but oil prices rise
MOSCOW (Realist English). Leading researcher at IMEMO RAS, Candidate of Historical Sciences Stanislav Ivanov has analysed for Realist English the possible consequences of...
Kurdish Genocide: From the Ottoman Empire to Erdoğan — a Chronicle of a Century of Terror
ISTANBUL (Realist English). Crimes against the Kurdish people have not been isolated episodes but have been carried out by successive Turkish...
Will Trump and Xi Agree on a New World Order?
BEIJING (Realist English). Relations between the United States and China in May 2026 can best be described as an “armed...
Pentagon withdraws troops from Germany: minus 5,000 soldiers in Europe and cancellation of a missile battalion
BERLIN (Realist English). On 2 May, the Pentagon officially announced the withdrawal of 5,000 US troops from Germany over the next...
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