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The attempt to topple the government in Tehran is pushing the Middle East into an increasingly deadly spiral of destruction · https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/rt-newsroom/ By RT newsroom, a team of multi-lingual journalists with over a decade of experience in Russian and international reporting, delivering original research and insights often missing from mainstream coverage https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/rt-newsroom/ ·…

South Africa should work more closely with the Latin American country and stop buying foreign arms, President Lula da Silva has said · ©  AP Photo/Luis Nova · [RT] Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has called on fellow BRICS member South Africa to boost defense cooperation and reduce their reliance on foreign arms, warning that the two nations could be vulnerable to “invasion.” · US President Donald Trump has…

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has acknowledged that the bloc’s nuclear phase-out was a “strategic mistake” · EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. © Getty Images / Thierry Monasse · [RT] The EU’s decades-long retreat from nuclear energy was a “strategic mistake,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has admitted, stating the bloc must now rebuild the industry. · Speaking at the…

The bloc has given Kiev €195 billion in aid since 2022, top diplomat Kaja Kallas has said · EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas speaks during the EU Ambassadors Conference in Brussels, Belgium, on March 9, 2026. ©  EU COUNCIL / POOL / HANDOUT · [RT] The European Union has spent €195 billion on Ukraine since the escalation of its conflict with Russia four years ago, according to the bloc’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas. She…

A Masterclass in Talking Past Each Other and Missing the Real Question. · Geert Vanden Bossche · I watch with growing dismay how vaccine zealots and vaccine critics continue to argue stubbornly, often bitterly, in an endless attempt to prove each other wrong. To an outside observer, the spectacle has become increasingly absurd. Both sides appear convinced they are defending science, yet they largely talk past one another. · The…

Trump might be receptive to Putin’s speculative peace plan for ending the Gulf and Ukrainian Conflicts at once in order for the global energy market to recover in time for early November’s midterms. · Andrew Korybko · Trump and Putin spoke for the first time this year on Monday in a conversation that touched upon the Third Gulf War, the content of which Putin’s senior aide Yury Ushakov described as “very substantive” and “useful”, among other…

Alex Krainer · To defeat U.S. and Israel, Iran does not have to win the ongoing war in the Middle East. They only need to survive and it looks like they are more than surviving. This shouldn’t surprise anyone paying even casual attention to the events. · According to The Washington Post, US intelligence community produced a classified assessment of the situation shortly before the US and Israel launched their military operations…

Published by Tyler Durden - Via Rabobank, · Anybody thinking US payrolls, even at -92K, matters much in the current environment is probably at the head of the queue to be replaced by an AI soon. That data series is always volatile and 2.5m undocumented workers are estimated to have left the US since Trump was re-elected: 394K foreign-born workers lost their jobs in the reported month while the native-born series rose 877K, albeit after a…

He hopes to prove Ukraine’s worth in defending against Iranian drones so that NATO’s Eastern Flank then agrees to his earlier proposal for swapping some US troops with Ukrainian ones to defend against Russian drones as the quid pro quo for the bloc deploying troops to Ukraine after the conflict ends. · Andrew Korybko · Zelensky confirmed in an interview with the New York Times that he dispatched Ukrainian drone experts and interceptor drones …

Trump's "we will remember" post wasn't aimed at Starmer — it was aimed at the City of London. Lloyd's engineered oil spike, Chatham House's legal theatrics, and the offshore laundering network are all under assault. The special relationship is over. · Barbara Boyd · Barbara Boyd argues President Trump’s Truth Social post aimed not to humiliate Keir Starmer but to warn the City of London, claiming Britain stayed out of the Iran…