Articles from ‘Independent News Roundup’ in ‘World News’

The Art of the Deal… or the Art of Disclosure · Dr. Robert W. Malone · By Justine Isernhinke, Fellow and Head of Geopolitics and UAP Research, The Malone Institute · Imagine that you were falling asleep on the sofa watching some random TV show about vampires (like I was), and then this drops: · !Image Text · A Truth Social post followed a short interview on Air Force One this afternoon, when a journalist asked President Trump about…

German exports to America fell by more than 9% last year, the state statistics agency has said · FILE PHOTO: Flags of Germany and China. ©  Global Look Press / Kay Nietfeld · [RT] China has overtaken the US as Germany’s biggest trading partner, the German Federal Statistics Agency said in a report published on Friday. The nation’s trade deficit with the Asian country reached a record level of €89.3 billion ($105…

Two of the late financier’s top aides join the settlement to finally resolve claims from at least 40 women · ©  Patrick McMullan/Patrick McMullan via Getty Image · [RT] The estate of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has agreed to pay up to $35 million to settle a class-action lawsuit, according to a court filing from Thursday. · The suit accused two of the financier’s advisers of aiding and abetting his sex…

The detention of the King’s brother and Britain’s moment of reckoning · By Marina Yudenich, writer and publicist -©  Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images · [RT] February 19, 2026, will undoubtedly enter British history. Whether it will also come to be seen as a marker of the British Empire’s final unraveling remains an open question. That discussion can wait. For now, the facts themselves are striking enough. · At eight…

The US president has cited “tremendous interest” in extraterrestrial life, hours after accusing Barack Obama of leaking “classified information” · ©  Getty Images/Ignatiev · [RT] US President Donald Trump has announced he will order the Department of War and other agencies to release government files related to alien life because of “tremendous interest.” · In a Truth Social post on Friday, Trump said the records marked…

by Marcia Merry Baker (EIRNS) — Feb. 19, 2026 · The police arrest Thursday morning of former Prince Andrew, now Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the brother of Britain’s King Charles III, in connection with revelations from the international Jeffrey Epstein file, swings the gates even wider for potential clean up longtime oligarchical filth. The arrest was made on the royal property of Sandringham, Norfolk; then began police searches of…

Former General Valery Zaluzhny, considered a top presidential contender, has said the Ukrainian leader employed the security service against him · Ukrainian ambassador to the UK and former commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny. ©  Danylo Antoniuk / Anadolu via Getty Images · [RT] Former Ukrainian commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny has accused Vladimir Zelensky of attempting to intimidate him with a security service raid on …

The bloc’s troubles go beyond economic indicators and reflect a lack of clear vision in Brussels, according to the Slovak prime minister · Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico © Simona Granati / Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images · [RT]The EU is facing the deepest crisis in its history, with economic problems compounded by a lack of leadership and long-term vision in Brussels, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has warned. · Fico made the…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted Tehran must be barred from enriching uranium · Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ©  Amir Levy / Getty Images · [RT] Any deal with Iran on its nuclear program must strip the country of the ability to enrich uranium, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded. · The remarks came ahead of a second round of indirect US-Iran talks scheduled for Tuesday…

Europeans are “assembling” to expand in order to spite Russia, the top diplomat has said · EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas “assembling” with the prime ministers of Finland and Belgium, Brussels, January 22, 2026. ©  Thierry Monasse / Getty Images · The EU sees itself as a team of superheroes with an anti-Russian expansionist agenda, according to its top diplomat, Kaja Kallas. · The EU is urging member states to invest…