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Lebanon plunges into crisis as cabinet approves US-backed Hezbollah disarmament plan
BEIRUT (Realist English). Lebanon’s fragile political balance was shaken after the government of Prime Minister Nawaf Salam approved a U.S.-backed...
IRGC vows Iran is ready to crush any enemy front
TEHRAN (Realist English). The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) declared that the Iranian nation remains fully prepared to confront and...
China opposes ‘snapback’ sanctions on Iran, urges diplomatic solution to nuclear issue
BEIJING (Realist English). China reaffirmed on Friday its commitment to a peaceful resolution of Iran’s nuclear issue, rejecting the possibility...
BlackRock seals $11bn leaseback deal for Saudi Aramco gas facilities
RIYADH (Realist English). BlackRock has agreed an $11bn deal to lease and lease back natural gas processing facilities in Saudi...
Saudi wealth fund cuts $8bn from value of domestic gigaprojects as costs rise and oil prices fall
RIYADH (Realist English). Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has reduced the book value of its domestic gigaproject holdings by...
Trump 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...
Israel pledges safe passage for UN aid convoys into Gaza amid rising famine warnings
TEL AVIV (Realist English). Israel has pledged to ensure secure passage for United Nations humanitarian convoys delivering food and medicine...
France to recognize Palestinian state in September
PARIS (Realist English). French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Thursday that France will officially recognize the State of Palestine in...
Iran says E3 have ‘no authority’ to trigger snapback sanctions under nuclear deal
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has rejected what he called any legal, political, or moral right for...
“Armenians are the autochthonous people of the South Caucasus”: geneticist Levon Yepiskoposyan on the Armenian gene pool and its neighbors
YEREVAN (Realist English). Levon Yepiskoposyan – Doctor of Biological Sciences, head of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Genomics at the Institute of...
“The main Russophobes are the enemies of communists”: Dmitry Novikov responds to attacks on the Communist Party
MOSCOW (Realist English). In an article published in the newspaper Soviet Russia on April 4, 2026, Deputy Chairman of the CPRF Central Committee...
Oleg Morozov: Mintimer Shaimiev is a sage with political genius
MOSCOW (Realist English). Oleg Morozov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Control and a member of the United Russia party,...
US and Iran agree two-week ceasefire as Strait of Hormuz reopens
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The United States and Iran have agreed to a two-week ceasefire, with U.S. President Donald Trump suspending...
“Playing the Kurdish card isn’t working for the CIA and Mossad”: expert on the position of Kurds amid the war in Iran
MOSCOW (Realist English). The war between the United States and Israel against Iran has not led to the activation of Kurdish...
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...
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