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The Russian Foreign Ministry has welcomed the US-Iran memorandum of understanding and expressed its readiness to help facilitate further diplomatic efforts toward establishing peace in the Middle East. The 14-point document was signed remotely by US President Donald Trump and his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian late on Wednesday, with immediate effect, according to Pakistani mediators. · In a statement on Thursday, the Foreign Ministry in…

Bans on social media for teenagers might seem like a protective measure, but without trust, family accountability, and overall digital literacy, they often backfire. Instead of disappearing from the internet, kids gravitate toward less visible and secure internet spaces, resorting to VPNs, anonymous accounts, and the use of less monitored platforms. By Lesya Ryabtseva, journalist and blogger · Pavel Durov recently made a similar statement,…

For decades, Japan has quietly played a central role in the global financial system. · While most central banks moved interest rates up and down through economic cycles, Japan kept rates near zero for almost three decades. The result was an enormous flow of Japanese capital into overseas markets and the creation of one of the most important funding mechanisms in global finance: the yen carry trade. Report By INR · Now, according to geopolitical…

They couldn’t tolerate someone showing fellow Westerners that they’ve been lied to about Russia so they grossly overreacted, sanctioned her, and thus inadvertently turned her into a free speech martyr. By Andrew Korybko · The EU’s 21st sanctions package against Russia surprisingly targeted Russian-American travel blogger Alexandra Jost, more popularly known as “Sasha Meets Russia”, who they accuse of “spreading Russian propaganda and…

A newly released independent inquiry into Britain's grooming-gang scandal has reignited debate across the United Kingdom over child protection failures, institutional accountability and the handling of one of the country's most controversial social issues. An INR Report · The report, commissioned by Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe, argues that organised child sexual exploitation was far more widespread than previously acknowledged and calls…

A discussion on the Redacted News podcast featuring veteran broadcaster Rick Sanchez has painted a bleak picture of Ukraine's position in the war with Russia, with Sanchez arguing that Ukraine's military situation continues to deteriorate while Western leaders publicly insist the opposite. An INR Report · The interview came amid renewed tensions following reports from Russia of a drone strike on a civilian bus in the Bryansk region near the…

US President Donald Trump used his closing press conference at the G7 Summit in France to declare what he described as a major breakthrough in the Middle East, announcing that Iran has agreed not to pursue nuclear weapons and signalling what he believes could become a wider regional peace framework. Report by INR · US President Donald Trump used his closing press conference at the G7 Summit in France to declare what he described as a major…

A Ukrainian drone strikes a bus full of children in Western Russia. The youth football team from Belarus were on the way to a coastal city on a summer trip. · Top Russian officials react to the deadly UAV attack with Vladimir Putin denouncing Kiev's strike as a terrorist act. · Donald Trump says that the peace agreement with Iran is not set in stone and warns that fighting could resume even with the Geneva signing ceremony just days away.

At least 250,000 British girls suffered sickening sexual abuse by Pakistani gangs, who were enabled by police, social workers, and even Prime Minister Keir Starmer, to commit “child rape on an industrial scale,” British MP Rupert Lowe’s ‘Rape Gang Report’ has detailed. Published on Tuesday, the 218-page report makes for sobering reading. It details the decades-long abuse of hundreds of thousands of white British girls – and smaller numbers of…

Spy agencies in the EU and the US are spending millions of taxpayers’ money to access commercially available personal data, according to findings published on Tuesday by Interface, a European think tank that gathered evidence from 11 intelligence watchdogs. The practice, known as advertising-based intelligence, or AdInt, involves using personal data collected by the advertising industry for intelligence and surveillance purposes. The report…