2025 • Dec 11
Pressure on Maduro grows after US seizes ‘dark fleet’ tanker off coast of Venezuela
Move interpreted as escalation of US policy as Vladimir Putin ‘reaffirms’ support for South American dictator
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2025 • Dec 07
Putin and Modi to meet amid politically treacherous times for Russia and India
Delhi visit gives Russian leader a chance to reduce Moscow’s isolation but both countries need each other to negotiate Trump’s US and a powerful ChinaWhen Vladimir Putin last set foot in Ind...
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2025 • Dec 07
Putin vows oil shipments to India will be ‘uninterrupted’ in defiance of US
Narendra Modi says energy security is ‘pillar of the India-Russia partnership’ as two leaders meet in DelhiVladimir Putin has told the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, that Russia is re...
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2025 • Dec 07
Macron denies warning Ukraine about potential US betrayal – as it happened
This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story hereRu...
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2025 • Dec 02
Ukraine war live: Trump envoy Steve Witkoff set to meet Vladimir Putin in Moscow amid US push for peace deal
Talks come after Witkoff led US discussions with Ukraine at weekend amid European concerns that Kyiv will be pressured to make concessions to Moscow
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2025 • Dec 02
The missile meant to strike fear in Russia’s enemies fails once again
One of Vladimir Putin's favorite sabres to rattle seems to have lost its edge. ...
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2025 • Nov 19
Poland rail sabotage blasts ‘act of state-sponsored terror’ by Russia, says Polish foreign minister – Europe live
Radosław Sikorski said Poland would respond to the weekend’s incidents ‘not only diplomatically’, without giving more detailsPoland’s foreign minister, Radosław Sikorski, is...
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2025 • Oct 30
Trump directs Pentagon to match Russia and China in nuclear weapons testing
US president makes threat in Truth Social post in wake of Russian nuclear-powered weapons tests, and shortly before meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping
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2025 • Oct 28
‘China is watching’: Finland warns defeating Russia’s invasion of Ukraine key to stability in Indo-Pacific
Defence minister says Xi Jinping should note resolve to stay the course by global democratic alliance, including AustraliaDefeating
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2025 • Oct 10
Musk’s X posts on ketamine, Putin spur release of his security clearances
Conditions of Elon Musk’s top-secret clearances may soon be exposed. ...
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2025 • Oct 04
Europe needs to ‘get serious’ about threat posed to it by Russia, Ukraine minister says
Sergiy Kyslytsya says Kremlin already at war with Europe and predicts that Vladimir Putin will ‘escalate escalating’Europe needs to “get serious” about the existential threat posed to it by ...
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2025 • Sep 28
Zelenskyy says Russia launched 500 drones and 40 missiles in ‘vile attack’ on Ukraine – Ukraine war live
Twelve-year-old girl among those killed in Kyiv as Ukraine president condemns ‘brutal’ Russian strikesZaporizhzhia’s regional head, Ivan Fedorov, said at le...
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