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. Caribbean CubaDec. 21, 2025 5:30 am ET  The U.S. is ratcheting up pressure on Havana’s key benefactor, Venezuelan strongman Maduro’s regime, which has kept the Communist-ruled nation afloat with cheap oil. Now Venezuelan oil exports are at risk thanks to a partial blockade targeting sanctioned…

. Europe HungaryDecember 19, 2025  Hungary’s paradox. For over a decade, Hungary, under the leadership of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, has faced relentless condemnation, legal battles, and staggering EU fines totaling hundreds of millions of dollars for its hardline stance against mass migration…

. Europe Russia December 20, 2025, Saturday // 12:02  Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has signed a decree instructing the Defense Ministry to end a series of military agreements with 11 Western nations, NATO countries. The decree specifies the termination of multiple bilateral defense…

. Space December 18, 2025  Satellites whizzing by each other at close range, maneuvering to gain strategic advantage, is a new development in the militarization of space. Orbital skirmishing has become so common that defense officials now refer to it as dogfighting. Tensions are rising amid…

. North America Mexico10 December 2025  Mexico rejected U.S. requests to expel more than two dozen Russian intelligence officers operating in the country under diplomatic cover, according to a Dec. 8 report by The New York Times. Mexican officials dismissed the warnings as paranoia. Since 2022,…

. Bulgaria11/12/2025  Sustained anti-corruption protests had intensified in recent weeks. The demonstrations were sparked by a 2026 draft budget, which protesters branded as an attempt to mask rampant corruption. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across Bulgaria yesterday to protest…

. United KingdomDecember 7, 2025  The United Kingdom has no desire to give up on the Ukraine War. It has signaled a desire for peace as a way to keep America on board. In just a few months, the British have gone from crying Havoc! and letting slip the dogs of war against Russia in Ukraine to…

. Caribbean Haiti30 November 2025  Haiti is in the grip of a security crisis as gangs battle for control of territory in the capital and beyond while continuing to expand their criminal activities. It is feared that gangs are increasingly working with international organized crime networks to…

. Belgium(3 December 2025)  The European Commission was due to make public later today details of its proposal to use the Russian money as collateral to help meet Ukraine’s considerable needs through a 'reparations loan.' Russia has described the scheme as 'theft.' Ukraine’s budget and military…

. Sunday 23 November 2025 18:49, UK  ’Europe's’ 28-point counter proposal to US-Russia peace plan for Ukraine, drafted by France, Germany and United Kingdom.   Reuters reports that the text is as follows:    1. Ukraine's sovereignty to be reconfirmed.    2. There will be a total and complete…

. EuropeNovember 22, 2025  In military history, there are instances in which one side unleashes a completely new weapon or form of combat, leaving the adversary so entirely off guard that they are unable to muster any effective defense. Europe is presently under attack from just such an unexpected…

.  Africa Nigeria(Saturday), 22 Nov 2025  Nigerian gunmen abducted a total of 303 schoolchildren and 12 teachers from St Mary's Catholic primary and aecondary school in Papiri, in north-central Nigeria’s Niger State yesterday. The attackers are still moving with the children into the bush. The…

. Europe France20.11.2025  France’s Chief of the Defense Staff Mandon’s call for the French public to accept losing its children in order to deter Russia has drawn widespread criticism from political figures. His controversial statement came in a context where he was saying that France has all the…

. Europe European CommissionNovember 10, 2025  Last week, the European Commission handed over grant agreements for EU transport infrastructure funding in Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Ukraine and Moldova. (EU Reporter - based in Brussels) 7 November 2025  Belgium, home to Euroclear - an…

. Germany9 November 2025  German 'far-right' activist seeks asylum in U.S. Seibt, 25, said she is being persecuted in Germany for her political views - the 'target of intelligence surveillance' and 'state media defamation' , and has received death threats from antifa. Seibt alleges that German…

. Europe Hungary (8 November 2025)  Orbán's key win: an exemption from US sanctions. Szijjártó, Hungary's foreign minister, said would be indefinite. 'A White House official told the BBC was time-limited to one year’. Trump clearly wants to help his friend win the election in April. ’The one-year…

. Asia China10/11/2025, Monday  China has successfully deployed another cluster of low Earth orbit communication satellites from the Hainan Satellite Launch Center today, as part of its ambitious space-based internet initiative. A Long March-12 carrier rocket lifted off at 10:41 a.m. local time…

. (Continuation) Balkans The EU’s China policy: no clear policy. The EU has framed its China strategy around three coexisting tracks: partnership, competition and rivalry, pulled the strategy in different directions in recent years, weakening the original compromise and producing fragmented…

. Europe Bulgaria October 31, 2025  Bulgaria is home to the sprawling Lukoil-owned Burgas refinery, which provides up to 80 percent of the country’s fuel. Bulgaria is exploring requesting an exemption to new U.S. sanctions against Russia’s largest private oil company, as it fears the measures will…

. Asia ChinaOct 30, 2025  Trump and Xi spoke today morning in Busan. Trump was accompanied by Secretary of State Rubio, Trade Representative Greer, Treasury Secretary Bessent, Commerce Secretary Lutnick, Chief of Staff Wiles, and U.S. Ambassador to China Perdue. Chief of Staff Cai, Foreign…

. France(Sunday), 26 October 2025  Two suspects have been arrested yesterday evening over the theft of precious crown jewels from Paris's Louvre museum. One of the suspects was preparing to travel to Algeria, while it's understood the other was going to Mali. The suspects arrived with a…

. Europe IrelandOctober 25, 2025  Ireland elected a lawmaker president, the left-wing, socialist  Connolly in anti-government landslide. (Source: Politico - U.S.) European Commission27 Oct (2025)  Europe’s Ukraine loan is a bad bet. France, hovering on the verge of a debt crisis, spends almost…

. ChinaOctober 23, 2025 8:57 PM GMT+2 Updated October 24, 2025  Chinese state oil majors have suspended purchases of seaborne Russian oil after the United States imposed sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil, Moscow's two biggest oil companies. Chinese national oil companies PetroChina, Sinopec, CNOOC…

. Europe Hungary20 October 2025  The euro is a ‘decaying currency’, Orbán is smart to stay out. Indeed, the euro has been a catastrophe for weaker, more exposed economies; in the case of Hungary, it would take away all the tools of independent, central bank-led economic recovery, increase…

. Europe Hungary15/10/2025  Hungary still imports a significant portion of its fossil fuels from Russia. The EU's REpowerEU roadmap plans to phase out all imports from Russia by 2027. This would also cut Hungary's oil imports from Russia through the Druzhba pipeline. "Currently, there are two oil…