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A newly released email reportedly alleges that two foreign girls were strangled during “fetish sex” and buried in New Mexico · ©  Sotheby's International Realty · [RT] Public land near what was once Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch has gone under criminal probe after a newly released email alleged that two foreign girls were buried there after being killed during violent sexual acts, Reuters reported Thursday. · The probe…

“It would be fine if they took it all,” Mike Huckabee said · FILE PHOTO: Mike Huckabee testifying during his Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing. © Getty Images / Kevin Dietsch · {RT} Israel has the right to almost the entire Middle East because the Bible says so, the US envoy to West Jerusalem, Mike Huckabee, has told American journalist Tucker Carlson. · Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas,…

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…

Alex Krainer · As I discussed in yesterday’s report, ECB President Christine Lagarde’s remarks during the 62nd Munich Security Conference should have come as a cold shower for the capital markets. Only two months ago, Lagarde was warning that Europe was facing an “existential crisis,” and called for urgent reforms. · In Munich, she expressed doubts about European economy’s competitiveness and again warned about financial instability…

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…

Washington has been using trade talks to persuade New Delhi to give up on Russian supplies · FILE PHOTO: US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor © Getty Images / Anna Moneymaker · [RT] The US is in “active negotiations” with India, which it hopes to persuade to import oil from Venezuela instead of Russia, the American ambassador in New Delhi has said. · The US issued licenses to two trading houses to distribute oil produced in…

Budapest has accused Kiev of breaching its commitments to the EU by halting oil transit through the Druzhba pipeline · FILE PHOTO: Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto. ©  Global Look Press / Mohammad Abu Ghosh · [RT] Budapest has imposed a veto on a €90 billion ($106 billion) EU loan for Ukraine agreed in December. The move was made in response to Kiev “blackmailing” Hungary and violating its obligations to the EU…

Finally admitting the obvious – that the CIA knew of the attack in advance – is a step towards normalizing it ByTarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/tarik-cyril-amar/@tarikcyrilamartarikcyrilamar.substack.comtarikcyrilamar.com · ©  …