Anna Netrebko returned to the Royal Opera House in London with a triumphant Tosca, her first appearance since 2019. Her performance comes after years of political bans and media hysteria, underscoring how the campaign to silence Russian artists has collapsed.
Soviet-era MiG-19s (China: J-6) Licensed from the USSR in 1958 and mass-produced in China as the Shenyang J-6. Over 4,500 built; thousands retired and stockpiled since the 1990s. Estimates suggest up to ~3,000 retired J-6 airframes available for drone conversion. China is converting thousands of its retired Cold War–era J-6 fighter jets into pilotless drones, […]
Here is the Chinese Ambassador to Nepal, Hou Yanqi, singing with her colleagues the Nepali folk song Resham Firiri as a Dashain greeting to the people of Nepal. Hou Yanqi served as ambassador from 2018 to 2022 and became known for her cultural diplomacy during a period when Nepal’s ties with China grew markedly closer. […]
World / Health / United States
President Donald J. Trump delivered what he described as “the biggest medical announcement in U.S. history,” linking the use of paracetamol (known in the United States under the brand name Tylenol) to autism risk and urging Americans to avoid the drug. He also recommended stretching childhood vaccinations over several years and delaying the hepatitis B […]
World / Argentina / South America
BUENOS AIRES — Argentina has grown accustomed to living at the edge of crisis. Inflation has been a permanent companion, the peso a fragile token of trust, and the state an omnipresent but unreliable guarantor of stability. Now, under libertarian President Javier Milei, the country has embarked on its boldest — and most divisive — […]
She remembers the knock on the door like it was yesterday. The sheriff’s deputy, the sealed envelope, the word she’d been dreading: lawsuit. Her son was gone, another casualty in the long tail of America’s opioid crisis. The pills came in bottles stamped with corporate logos, marketed as safe, and sold as profit engines. Her […]
In a landmark synchronized announcement timed for the opening of the 80th United Nations General Assembly, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia formally recognized the State of Palestine as a sovereign entity on September 21, 2025, elevating the total number of UN member states extending such acknowledgment to roughly 150 out of 193. Keir Starmer […]
BEIJING — China’s leadership on September 19 delivered one of its clearest warnings yet to Washington: cooperate on equal terms, or brace for a rupture that will hurt not only the world’s two largest economies but the global system they anchor. In remarks and statements that departed from the usual layers of diplomatic restraint, Beijing […]
The MiG-31, a Soviet-era interceptor built to race nearly three times the speed of sound and patrol vast frontiers, is not a plane often mistaken for routine traffic. Designed to hunt down high-flying threats with its powerful radar, it remains central to Russia’s long-range air defense. On Friday, three of them cut across the skies […]
Video credit: Travelling with Russell — YouTube channel. Please visit him. Embedded under YouTube’s Embedding Terms and Conditions. © Google LLC 2025. Russia’s economy is booming compared to Britain’s. In 2024 it grew by about 4.1 percent, while the United Kingdom managed only 1.1 percent. Against this backdrop, the Kremlin has introduced a new progressive […]
LONDON — Britain rolled out its oldest tricks of statecraft when President Donald J. Trump returned this summer for an “unprecedented” second state visit. The carriages, the uniforms, the banquets in Windsor Castle were not just theatre. They were a strategy — carefully designed to flatter a president known to crave ceremony while insulating him […]
Lieutenant General He Lei, retired vice-president of the PLA Academy of Military Sciences, shown in uniform at a Beijing forum. Source: CGTN (state media). A retired Chinese general has declared that Beijing could achieve unification with Taiwan using conventional weapons alone, even as analysts say last month’s military parade hinted at the development of a […]
The most revealing story of the month did not unfold in the Taiwan Strait or the Black Sea. It played out in the Caribbean, where the United States has surged warships and carried out lethal strikes on small vessels it says were narcotics traffickers departing Venezuela. One strike was announced by the White House as […]
With United States warships patrolling near Venezuelan waters and Caracas conducting large-scale exercises while advancing a new security pact with Moscow, the Caribbean has become the latest stage for a contest over power, sovereignty and alliances. The question is how long signaling can remain symbolic before it risks confrontation. The government of Nicolás Maduro has […]
NEW DELHI — The four-day war began before breakfast. On a pale May morning, Indian Air Force fighters rose from bases in Punjab and Jammu; across the line, Pakistani pilots climbed to meet them. By nightfall, both capitals were tallying victories and denying losses. It was not a battle of aerobatics so much as a […]
Donald Trump left Winfield House this morning, the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Regent’s Park, and flew to Windsor Castle. In the Walled Garden he was greeted by the Prince and Princess of Wales, then by King Charles and Queen Camilla. A guard of honour lined the grounds; carriages gleamed; medals and swords caught the light. […]
Nepal’s streets have forced a reckoning. In the space of a week, the country has gone from a government certain of its control to a caretaker administration scrambling to contain anger and restore a sense of direction. Youth-led protests—known in shorthand as the “Gen Z” movement—broke out after the state imposed a sudden social media […]
Video via YouTube advance party arriving several aircraft Donald J. Trump lands in Britain this evening for a three-day state visit that will splice royal ceremony at Windsor with talks at Chequers. It is a rare second state visit for a U.S. president, a distinction London is billing as “historic.” Gun salutes, a white-tie banquet […]
When Charlie Kirk walked onto the stage at Utah Valley University on a September evening, the scene looked familiar. The founder of Turning Point USA, one of the country’s most prominent conservative activists, was in the middle of his “American Comeback Tour.” He had made a career out of confrontation, thriving on debate with students […]
Since the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, a wave of employer terminations, suspensions, and removals from duty has grown across the United States—often not for violence or threats, but for criticism, refusal to “mourn,” or social media posts deemed offensive. What is emerging is less a ban on criticism of Kirk per se, and […]
On a late summer day in Murmansk, the Russian nuclear icebreaker Arktika noses out of its berth, a slab of steel and reactors bound for the Northern Sea Route. Far to the east, Chinese tankers are steaming south from Siberian LNG terminals, their cargoes bound for ports in Zhejiang and Guangdong. And in Washington, Pentagon […]
On Saturday London felt less like a capital city and more like a verdict. A sea of St. George’s flags, “take our country back” placards, and a battery of phones filming Tommy Robinson as if he were a head of state. Police counted crowds in the six figures; reporters on the ground described one of […]
It began, oddly enough, with a visit most Nepalis barely registered: Victoria Nuland, then U.S. Under Secretary of State, touched down in Kathmandu in 2024 after a swing through Wellington. On paper, it was a routine regional stop — democracy, civil society, and the familiar rhetoric of “partnership.” In hindsight, it reads like reconnaissance. Within […]
Within the first six months, the outcome was already a foregone conclusion. Russia had shifted to a war of attrition, sanctions had failed, and Ukraine’s manpower was collapsing. Yet the West continued to encourage Kyiv to fight — not to secure victory, but to weaken Russia. What followed was a proxy war: tens of thousands […]
Four days on, the framing remains deliberate: a narrative of escalation, not the forensic reality of decoys that drifted across the border. WARSAW, LVIV, BERLIN European leaders continue to build the narrative as Russian escalation. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz condemned it as “a reckless assault on NATO territory by armed Russian drones.” The BBC has […]
Atmosphere and Key Moments Right Now • Peaceful but charged: Drums, anthems, and chants like “Patriotism is the future” and “Borders are the future” are echoing through the streets. Robinson just addressed the crowd from the stage, declaring “Britain has finally awoken—this is never going away.” Other speakers including Ant Middleton, Katie Hopkins, and Steve […]
Under the banner “Unite the Kingdom,” Robinson (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) has mobilised a mass of supporters, casting the demonstration as both a free speech crusade and an anti-immigration revolt. What the crowd actually looks like tells a different story: flags, fury, and a dangerous appetite for something bigger. Numbers Game: Magnitude vs Manipulation Robinson’s camp is […]
Tommy Robinson has been laying the groundwork for months. The rally that London is seeing today did not appear out of thin air. It was seeded in encrypted chat groups, cultivated in livestream rants, monetised through merchandise drops and donor appeals, and fertilised by every cultural panic that Robinson could harness. The killing of Charlie […]
Introduction: A Murder Becomes a Meme The sniper’s bullet that killed Charlie Kirk on September 10 did more than end the life of a conservative firebrand. It detonated across X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, where eyewitnesses, partisans, and conspiracy theorists turned the crime into a collective psychodrama. By the time Utah’s governor confirmed […]
The arrest of Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old Republican voter from Utah, is more than just another entry in America’s calendar of political killings. It is a fracture line running straight through the conservative base itself — a gunshot that came not from an imagined left-wing extremist, not from the immigrant scapegoats so often invoked, but […]
Charlie Kirk is gone; the questions he animated remain. As investigators sift evidence from the Utah campus where he was shot, the larger story is not the crime scene but the audience that rose with him—a dissatisfied cross-section of Americans who heard in his certainty something like recognition. In a season when politics often functions […]
Days after Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at a Utah Valley University event, investigators continue their work while a sharper public question takes hold: how the Christianity he professed aligned with the policies he advanced—hailed by supporters as moral clarity, described by critics as punitive—from calls for mass deportations to hard-line positions on Gaza […]
According to a 2009 U.S. diplomatic cable later published by Wikileaks, American officials privately warned that Israel was becoming “a promised land for organized crime.” The cable described a country struggling to contain syndicates whose reach extended far beyond its borders.
Londoners woke up Friday to a city edging back toward normal after a week of stoppages that turned the Underground into a patchwork of shuttered gates, sporadic services and crowded alternatives. The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union’s rolling action, which began on 5 September and ran through late on 11 September, forced commuters onto […]
An Israeli airstrike in Doha has cast a long shadow over the latest round of ceasefire diplomacy. Hamas negotiators, assembled under Qatari protection, became the targets of a strike that killed the son of Khalil al-Hayya, the group’s chief negotiator, along with a member of Qatar’s security services. Senior Hamas figures survived. How the meeting […]
The Tube strike entered its second full day on Tuesday, intensifying disruption across London as commuters grappled with packed buses, long walks and overloaded journey planners. With negotiations stalled, the capital is facing a week of rolling shutdowns that have turned routine journeys into logistical puzzles. Virtually all Underground lines remain closed, including major arteries […]
Prince Harry during an Invictus-related engagement, 2019. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Prince Harry’s return to the United Kingdom this week is more than a diary of engagements. It is a reminder of his commitment to service, his enduring ties to Britain, and his capacity to connect with people not as a distant royal but as a […]
Broadcasting House, the BBC headquarters in London. Photo: Oxyman, via Wikimedia Commons. LONDON — 8 September 2025 Yes, a widely respected organisation’s report suggests that the licence fee — which is sold as a guarantee of independence — is in practice underwriting a state-aligned media machine. Instead of protecting audiences from propaganda, the BBC’s failures […]
Birmingham residents paint the St George’s Cross on mini-roundabouts. Descriptive footage of the street-level flag campaign. “Operation Raise the Colours” footage: flags painted and flown in Birmingham neighbourhoods. If your theme blocks iframes, link directly instead: Video 1 · Video 2 The flag, above all, has become central to this story. Across towns and cities, […]
Jeremy Corbyn, 2019. Zarah Sultana, official parliamentary portrait. The start of this new political realignment comes as Britain drifts headlong into an economic crisis. The divide between rich and poor is widening, with wealth concentrating at the very top. For the working and middle classes, the system now feels rigged against them — a daily […]
Exterior of an Aldi supermarket. Photo via Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Exterior of a Morrisons supermarket. Photo via Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0). Aldi has taken the crown as the UK’s cheapest supermarket this month. It beat Lidl by just a few pence on a standard 75-item basket. The figures, released this week, show […]
Londoners faced one of their most chaotic mornings yet today, as a London Underground strike entered its first full day in force. With almost no Tube service before 08:00 and journeys advised to be complete by 18:00, commuters resorted to creative workarounds—including walking, cycling, and enduring grinding waits for overloaded buses and Elizabeth line services. […]
KYIV — The claim landed like a hammer blow in a war already defined by attrition and exhaustion: “142,000 servicemen deserted.” In a few words it compressed two and a half years of fear, flight and discipline into a single number large enough to bend the narrative. It ricocheted through Telegram channels and regional outlets, […]
Russian accounts describe custom malware, a OneDrive trove and a casualty ledger; Kyiv rejects the story as information warfare NY-Style Enhanced — Excerpt (No Headline) MOSCOW — The story began with a single post on a Telegram channel, buried in a feed of battlefield footage and provincial news. But within hours, it had been transformed […]
LONDON — Jeremy Corbyn’s inquiry has shifted the debate back onto the government, forcing ministers to confront allegations of complicity in Gaza that will now circulate in public reports and international forums. Last week Corbyn convened a two-day tribunal in Westminster to examine Britain’s role in Israel’s war in Gaza, after Parliament blocked his bid […]
PARIS — When Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer convened a “coalition of the willing” in Paris to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine, they were not speaking from a position of strength. Twenty-six capitals signed the communiqués. None could answer the basic question: what can Europe actually guarantee? The answer lies on the battlefield. Russia dictates […]
In a single post, Donald J. Trump captured a sobering truth: America’s influence over two great powers has slipped away. The story runs deeper than one president. It is the result of decades of triumphalism, coercion, and missed opportunities. The Post Itself “Looks like we’ve lost India and Russia to deepest, darkest, China. May they […]
BIRMINGHAM — In 2021, Reform UK was little more than a footnote. Its inaugural conference drew a few hundred activists to a function room in Manchester, far overshadowed by the Conservative Party gathering down the road. Nigel Farage, the perennial agitator of British politics, was not even in the room. The party was polling at […]