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David Hawkins · A newly declassified intelligence summary has revealed that U.S. taxpayer funds intended for Ukraine were secretly laundered and diverted as part of a scheme to benefit Democrat political efforts. · Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is now pressing federal agencies to examine the evidence, with a potential criminal referral under consideration. · According to officials familiar with the matter, Gabbard…

The US president has said Riyadh has to be nice to America amid the Iran war · US President Donald Trump jokes with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a meeting in the White House on November 18, 2025 in Washington, DC. ©  Win McNamee/Getty Images · US President Donald Trump has boasted that Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the country’s de facto leader, is “kissing my ass” and must “be nice” to the US.…

Iran launches an attack on a warehouse holding Ukrainian anti-drone systems and 21 of Kiev's military personnel in the UAE. Israeli Forces target and kill three journalists covering the military action in Southern Lebanon. While the IDF links one of the slain reporters to Hezbollah, Beirut condemns the attack as a war crime. Yemen’s Houthis confirm the group’s first military operation against Israel amid the war on Iran threatening trade…

26 people are reported killed in a strike on a neighbourhood in the central Iranian city of Isfahan. Meanwhile in Tehran - a search is on for potential survivors from a series of overnight attacks. Iran condemns the US and Israel at the UN accusing them of intentionally striking a school killing 175 people. Still, European powers stopped short of placing blame as they insisted on redirecting attention to alleged rights violations…

Critics say the move politicizes currency and risks blurring the line between national symbols and personal branding · RT composite. ©  Getty Images/Scott Olson;Kativ;Phil Ashley · US President Donald Trump’s signature is set to appear on US paper currency starting this summer, the Treasury Department said on Thursday. · It will mark the first time a sitting US president’s signature has appeared on legal tender. · The …

The critics of the initiative have slammed the facilities as detention centers located in “legal black holes” · FILE PHOTO. Refugees from Afghanistan and Pakistan protest against their deportation at a detention center in Lesbos, Greece. · European lawmakers have endorsed the opening of talks with the EU Council on a new controversial legal framework to establish block-wide mechanisms to expel illegal migrants, including creating the…

Tehran violated none of its international commitments while Kiev trampled on them for years, the foreign minister has said · Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Moscow, on January 28, 2026. ©  Sputnik/Yuri Kochetkov · [RT] The US-Israeli war against Iran stands in stark contrast with the Ukraine conflict, Russian Foreign Minister…

The US president has previously made disparaging remarks about Mojtaba Khamenei · US President Donald Trump. © Getty Images / Roberto Schmidt · [RT] US President Donald Trump has said that the CIA told him that Iran’s newly appointed supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, may be gay, quipping to Fox News that it puts the cleric “off to a bad start.” · The claim comes amid failed US-Israeli regime change efforts in Iran, a…

The participants of the US-Israeli war on Iran have offered a rationale for the conflict that goes well beyond geopolitics · Both the US-Israel tandem and Iran have offered religious reasoning for hostilities in the Gulf to go on, painting the conflict as an existential standoff. RT’s Oumaima Ichchar looks into the arguments the warring sides have been providing, which appear to go well beyond geopolitics. · On Wednesday, US…

Tehran has detailed dozens of cases of US fighter jets and drones allegedly conducting missions over the Gulf states during strikes · FILE PHOTO. A general view of Tehran with smoke visible in the distance after explosions were reported in the city, on March 02, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. © Getty Images / Contributor · [RT] Iran has formally accused the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia of allowing the US military…