Articles from ‘Independent News Roundup’

In this episode of Moscow Mules, Chay Bowes and his crew watch as the US pretends to be a new Rome while failing to control the barbarian hordes of European warmongers. Also in the episode, our (hopefully) final laughs at two-faced Kier and Zelensky’s crocodile tears. Tune in.

As the push for peace between the US and Iran gets underway in Switzerland, Donald Trump still splashes his threats online, promising to hit Tehran hard, while his vice president says the issue with Lebanon is just messy. It comes after Israeli strikes on the country on Saturday, reportedly left 16 people dead. · But even as negotiations begin, JD Vance seems to think the best way to do diplomacy, is to take a swipe at Tehran. · Russia opens…

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who had negotiated a much-touted rare earth minerals deal with Kiev, was reportedly worried that the “little fker”* Vladimir Zelensky would mess up the signing ceremony in the Oval Office, according to a new book by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. The infamous confrontation last year took place as the Ukrainian leader sat down with US President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D.…

By Barbara Boyd · Through a sweetheart deal with the National Archives, the Obama Foundation controls which records get released — burying the files on the surveillance and coup against Trump. · Summary · Barbara Boyd argues that the newly opened $850 million Barack Obama Presidential Center on Chicago’s South Side is not a true presidential library but a "cover-up," alleging that Obama-era records — especially those tied to surveillance of…

A Hamilton doctor who spent more than five decades in medical practice has been sentenced to prison after admitting a pattern of sexual offending against three girls spanning more than 30 years. William James Reeder, 79, was sentenced in the Hamilton District Court on 15 sexual assault charges, with the court hearing that his offending stretched from the late 1980s through until 2024. · Judge Arthur Tompkins sentenced Reeder to four-and-a-half…

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has issued an ultimatum to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, threatening him with military action if Belarus fails to dismantle the air defense radar array along its southern border, just days after a deadly Ukrainian drone strike on a bus carrying a children’s soccer team from the country. Earlier this week, Lukashenko said that those seeking to drag his nation into the conflict “will have to pay dearly for…

The Strait of Hormuz is again to close to all vessels. That's the latest declaration by Iran - who states the IDF's continued strikes on Lebanon is the reason why. · The assault is a violation of Washington's deal with Tehran. Cross-border Israeli attacks kill 16 in Lebanon's south this Saturday according to local authorities. That's also despite reports of a renewed ceasefire between West Jerusalem and Hezbollah. · Vladimir Zelensky…

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing mounting pressure from Labour MPs, party heavyweights and even cabinet ministers to step down as early as this weekend, the Guardian has reported, citing lawmakers and government sources. Calls for Starmer’s resignation have grown since Labour lost nearly 1,500 seats in local elections in May. The pressure reportedly intensified after former Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham won Thursday’s Makerfield…

The West should not have expelled Russia from the G8, US President Donald Trump has said, adding that keeping Moscow in the group could have prevented the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022. Trump made the remarks in a wide-ranging interview with Axios published on Friday, in which the US president reflected on the G7 summit in France and a dinner French President Emmanuel Macron hosted for him at Versailles. · He praised Macron for his…

Polish President Karol Nawrocki has stripped Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky of Poland’s highest state honor, the Order of the White Eagle, after Kiev named a military unit after a nationalist group implicated in the wartime massacres of Poles and Jews. Nawrocki announced the decision in a video statement on X on Friday, saying that “historical truth is not and can never be a bargaining chip” and that “the memory of the victims is the moral duty of…