Video from Radio Free Europe. The situation on September 24 has become more difficult for the Ukrainians, with the Russians making major gains. Embedded under YouTube license. Russian forces in eastern Ukraine say they...
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.
The question is not whether whales, crows, or AIs “deserve” rights. It is who decides the hierarchy of intelligences — and in whose interests. The jungle of minds is coming. The real predators will be those who control the definitions.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
For decades, sunlight has been cast as the enemy—something to block, screen, or fear. Yet beneath the warnings lies a quieter truth: our bodies are wired to thrive on light, and pills alone cannot...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
An entire industry has grown up around appeasing a single master. It is called SEO, and it has only one purpose: to win Google’s favor. Every publisher, business, and campaign bends its words to...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
For decades, cancer was understood as a disease of rogue cells, growing uncontrollably, feeding themselves through blood vessels and oxygen supplies. But a wave of discoveries is reshaping that picture, and with it, the...
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...
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...
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...
LONDON — On a rainy Tuesday in a East London University, English literature lecturer Helen Atkinson set her second-year undergraduates an essay on Shakespeare. Halfway through, she watched as one student opened his laptop,...
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...