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Russia condemns US seizure of Venezuela’s president as “armed aggression”
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russia has accused the United States of committing an “act of armed aggression against Venezuela” following reports...
Abduction of Venezuela’s president marks sharp escalation in US power projection
WASHINGTON (Realist English). Few demonstrations of state power are more stark than the nighttime seizure of a sitting president from...
US removes Venezuela’s president in unprecedented overnight operation
CARACAS (Realist English). The United States has carried out an unprecedented operation to seize Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from the...
Trump says Maduro captured after US strike on Caracas
WASHINGTON / CARACAS (Realist English). Donald Trump said the United States has captured Nicolás Maduro following what he described as...
Trump and Iran trade threats as protests spread across the country
TEHRAN (Realist English). Donald Trump and senior Iranian officials exchanged sharp warnings on Friday as protests widened across parts of...
US approves over $500m for military infrastructure projects in Poland
WARSAW (Realist English). The United States has approved more than $500 million in investments for the development of military infrastructure...
CIA carried out drone strike on Venezuelan port facility, sources say
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The Central Intelligence Agency was behind a drone strike last week on a docking facility believed to...
EU squeezed between US and China as trade pressures intensify in 2025
BRUSSELS (Realist English). The European Union has come under mounting pressure in 2025 from both the United States and China,...
Trump says Russia and Ukraine are closer to peace after talks with Zelenskyy
PALM BEACH (Realist English). Donald Trump said on Sunday that Ukraine and Russia are “closer than ever before” to a...
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,...
Hormuz crisis reshapes global tanker market as shipping routes collapse
LONDON (Realist English). The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz following the escalation of the Iran war has triggered...
Iran’s new leader Mojtaba Khamenei calls for unity and vows continued resistance
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran’s newly appointed Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei delivered his first public address...
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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