Toplines US President Donald Trump’s October 17 meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly ended with Trump supporting a ceasefire on the current frontlines and not Russian President Vladimir Putin’s demands that Ukraine cede territory in Donetsk Oblast to Russia. Western reporting, citing sources with knowledge of the Trump-Zelensky meeting, …
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Iran Update, October 20, 2025
Toplines A senior Iranian official suggested in an interview with Nour News on October 13 that the Iranian regime is unable to develop a long-term strategy because it continues to suffer from shock and paralysis after the Israel-Iran War.[1] Nour News interviewed Iranian Deputy Vice President for Strategic Affairs Ali …
Read More »Frontline report: How Tomahawk missiles could reshape Ukraine’s deep strike capability
With negotiations underway for Tomahawk missile delivery to Ukraine, the first targets have been publicly confirmed. The Yelabuga Shahed factory – producing thousands of kamikaze drones – tops the list, as Ukraine plans strikes on over 1,600 military targets deep inside Russian territory. Today, there are important updates from Ukraine. …
Read More »Statement from HAMAS regarding their meeting with Ministers Fidan and Kalın
The Islamic resistance movement Hamas announced that a delegation from the movement’s leadership met with Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and National Intelligence Organization (MIT) Director İbrahim Kalın to discuss the implementation of the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip and ways to deliver humanitarian aid to the Strip. In a …
Read More »German media bias falsely inflates crime by foreigners
“We are charting something like the fever curve of society,” journalism professor Thomas Hestermann said of his new study, “Crime and Migration: Perception in German Media,” which examined how the nationality and ethnicity of crime suspects has been reported since 2007. Hestermann’s team at the Macromedia University of Applied Sciences …
Read More »The Stagnant Order: And the End of Rising Powers
In 1898, as the United Kingdom joined other powers in carving up the once mighty Qing empire, British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury warned a London audience that the world was dividing into “living” and “dying” nations. The living were the rising powers of the industrial age—states with growing populations, transformative …
Read More »Europe’s Broken National Politics Hamper its Geopolitical Power
For the fourth time since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to the White House, his position on the Russian invasion of Ukraine has his European counterparts in a state of shocked consternation. What’s striking this time around is that it hasn’t been accompanied by the previous string of bravado-laced statements …
Read More »Le Gambit de Budapest : Trump et Poutine réécrivent les règles du pouvoir. Où est l’Europe ?
Trump et Poutine se retrouvent à Budapest : un sommet chargé de symboles où se joue bien plus que le sort de l’Ukraine. Derrière la mise en scène diplomatique, c’est l’équilibre des puissances qui se renégocie. L’Europe, elle, observe – mais pourra-t-elle encore peser sur les règles du jeu ? …
Read More »Trump met Zelensky en garde : acceptez les conditions de paix de la Russie ou l’Ukraine «sera détruite»
Zelensky espère être invité au prochain sommet entre Trump et Poutine en Hongrie… Le président américain Donald Trump a appelé le président ukrainien Volodymyr Zelensky à accepter les conditions de Moscou pour un accord de paix, avertissant que la Russie «détruira» l’Ukraine s’il ne donne pas son accord, a rapporté …
Read More »We Are Not Fooled by You, Hamas
On October 13, 2025, at Israel’s Knesset (Parliament) in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the company of US President Donald J. Trump, declared the war in Gaza over. Oh, really? Sadly, the probability of an enduring peace with Hamas or allied Islamists appears close to zero. After all, …
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