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Trump seals $600B in deals with Saudi Arabia, including record defense contract and Syria policy shift
RIYADH (Realist English). U.S. President Donald Trump has launched his second-term Middle East tour with a high-profile visit to Saudi...
China declares victory in US trade deal as tariffs cut from 145% to 30%
BEIJING (Realist English). China’s government, state media, and online influencers are hailing a temporary trade agreement with the United States...
Trump’s tough talk jolted Europe into action, says DWS chief
FRANKFURT (Realist English). The CEO of DWS, one of Europe’s largest asset managers and part of the Deutsche Bank Group,...
US-China trade talks end without deal, but both sides cite ‘substantial progress’
GENEVA (Realist English). Two days of high-level talks between the United States and China concluded on Sunday with no formal...
Albanese re-elected, holds warm call with Trump amid tariff tensions
CANBERRA (Realist English). Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he had a “warm and positive” conversation with U.S. President Donald...
U.S. and Kyiv sign deal on mineral extraction fund as signal to Moscow
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The United States and the Kyiv regime have signed a new economic partnership agreement to jointly develop...
Xi Jinping launches diplomatic offensive against Trump’s anti-China trade bloc
BEIJING (Realist English). As the Trump administration gives U.S. allies a 90-day window to finalize new trade deals—excluding China—Beijing has...
Putin and Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff move closer on Ukraine
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin held his fourth meeting in Moscow with Steve Witkoff, the special envoy appointed...
Trump administration to offer $100 billion arms deal to Saudi Arabia in exchange for Israel ties
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The administration of President Donald Trump is preparing a landmark arms and defense technology package for Saudi...
Armenian battalion named after Marshal Bagramyan established in Donetsk: veterans of Abkhazia hand over their banner to Donbas volunteers
MOSCOW (Realist English). On 6 May, a historic ceremony of handing over a battle banner took place at the Cathedral of...
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...
Baku hysteria: Aliyev demands Russia remove Nagorno-Karabakh from Channel One map
BAKU (Realist English). Another bout of political allergy has struck Baku. Ilham Aliyev's dictatorial regime demanded "clear explanations" from Russia after...
Is Iran’s survival not a victory? Tehran under US and Israeli pressure
TEL AVIV (Realist English). For decades, Iran defined victory in expansive terms: exporting revolution, rolling back US influence, and ultimately eliminating...
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...
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