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Putin and Trump discuss Israeli strikes on Iran and future of nuclear talks
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin held a 50-minute phone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday, focusing...
Russian envoy sees “window of opportunity” in US ties under Trump despite deep rifts
WASHINGTON (Realist English). Russia’s new ambassador to the United States, Alexander Darchiev, said Moscow is seeing the first “tangible results”...
US oil output to decline in 2026, raising doubts over Trump’s energy agenda
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The United States will see its oil production fall next year for the first time since the...
Los Angeles imposes downtown curfew as immigration protests intensify and Trump expands troop deployment
LOS ANGELES (Realist English). City officials in Los Angeles imposed a curfew across a section of downtown Tuesday evening, following...
“Arrest me, let’s go”: Newsom defies Trump amid immigration raid unrest
LOS ANGELES (Realist English). California Governor Gavin Newsom publicly challenged the Trump administration’s threats of arrest on Sunday, refusing to...
Trump orders National Guard to Los Angeles amid immigration protests
LOS ANGELES (Realist English). President Donald Trump has ordered 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles, escalating a confrontation with...
Trump and Musk alliance collapses in public feud over policy, ego, and influence
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The alliance between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk imploded in spectacular fashion on Thursday, unraveling in...
Pentagon’s new drone program aims to match battlefield speed with real-time innovation
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The U.S. Department of Defense has launched an ambitious new program designed to dramatically speed up the...
Healthcare flashpoint: Obama sounds alarm on Republican plan
WASHINGTON (Realist English). Former President Barack Obama has issued a rare public warning about efforts by Congressional Republicans to significantly...
Iran war exposes global reliance on fragile energy routes
LONDON (Realist English). The war involving Iran has exposed the global economy’s dependence on vulnerable fossil fuel supply routes, intensifying...
Taiwan fears US weapons use in Iran could aid China
TAIPEI (Realist English). Taiwan has raised concerns that extensive US use of long-range cruise missiles in the war involving Iran...
Strait of Hormuz disruption sends shockwaves through global trade
LONDON (Realist English). Escalating military tensions around the Strait of Hormuz are rapidly disrupting global shipping and energy markets, as...
Iran war puts Vice President JD Vance in difficult political position
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The ongoing war with Iran has placed US Vice President JD Vance in a politically sensitive position,...
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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