An email in the Jeffrey Epstein files that references U.S. President Donald Trump “blowing Bubba” has attracted scrutiny on social media. On Wednesday, U.S. lawmakers released more than 20,000 pages of documents connected to Epstein, a convicted sex offender who died by suicide in a New York jail in 2019 while awaiting sex trafficking charges. Some of the documents mentioned…
Russian President Vladimir Putin will be visiting India on 5 December. His visit will coincide with the Russia-India Forum 2025, scheduled for 4-5 December, the Roscongress has said. “The Russia-India Forum will be held in New Delhi, India, on December 4-5, 2025. The event will be timed to coincide with the state visit of Russian…
Kyiv, Ukraine – Pokrovsk, a key fortress and logistical hub for Ukrainian forces in the eastern region of Donbas, has been under siege for almost two years. But in recent weeks, tens of thousands of Russian soldiers have been storming the town around the clock, taking over the streets where buildings are mostly reduced to…
First Bakhmut, then Avdiivka, now Pokrovsk. In each of the last three years, Russia’s generals have identified a midsize Ukrainian town as their invasion’s next critical target, expending vast amounts of manpower and hardware to take it. The question is not whether Pokrovsk will fall, but what that will mean for the war. Pokrovsk’s capture…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has told top Kremlin officials to draft proposals for the possible resumption of nuclear weapons testing, as Moscow responds to President Donald Trump’s order that the United States “immediately” resume its own testing after a decades-long hiatus. The Russian leader told his Security Council on Wednesday that should the US or…
Even as Russia and China wage a relentless cyber war against the West, the United Nations is celebrating a new cybercrime treaty whose chief architects were none other than Moscow and Beijing. It should come as no surprise, then, that this U.N. convention, signed by 65 nations last month, is less about fighting cybercrime than about legitimizing authoritarian…
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov declared on Wednesday that conditions remain insufficient for organizing a summit between President Vladimir Putin and US counterpart Donald Trump. Addressing the State Duma in Moscow, Ryabkov emphasized that “any summit meeting requires in-depth preparation and careful consideration of all aspects,” noting that neither sufficient preparation nor proper conditions…
Russia could send its most advanced hypersonic missiles to Venezuela as tensions with the United States escalate. Alexei Zhuravlyov, deputy chairman of Russia’s parliamentary defense committee, told Russian news outlet Gazeta.Ru there were “no obstacles” to providing the Oreshnik or Kalibr missiles to the “friendly” nation. “Russia is actually one of Venezuela’s key military-technical partners….
Chinese leader meets Russian PM Mikhail Mishustin in Beijing just days after his summit with US President Donald Trump. Published On 4 Nov 20254 Nov 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share China seeks to deepen relations with Russia despite a “turbulent” external environment, President Xi Jinping has said. Xi made the…
President Xi Jinping reaffirmed Beijing’s commitment to Moscow, saying it was a “strategic choice” to strengthen ties, during a meeting with visiting Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on Tuesday. Xi told Mishustin that China-Russia ties were advancing with steady determination “despite the turbulent and challenging external environment”, according to state news agency Xinhua. “Safeguarding, consolidating…