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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…

The Israeli army says it will target Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s successors amid the ongoing war in the Middle East · FILE PHOTO. ©  Global Look Press / David Silverman · [RT] The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has threatened to assassinate anyone who replaces the slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as Iran’s supreme leader. · Khamenei and several other senior Iranian officials were killed in the first wave of US‑Israeli airstrikes…

The Commission chief has used the Middle East escalation to question the global order and push for a more militarized security doctrine · European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. © Getty Images / Thierry Monasse · [RT] European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has failed to condemn the US-Israeli war on Iran, saying “there should be no tears shed for” Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who…

Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, · Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has condemned remarks by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Budapest says amounted to a threat against Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. · Responding to comments made during a press briefing in Kyiv on Thursday, Szijjártó said the statement was “beyond every limit” and reflected what he described as “the kind of ‘culture’ coming from Kyiv.” · “This is the…

The Russian president’s comment comes as Kiev has halted oil supplies via the Druzhba pipeline, jeopardizing energy security in the bloc · ©  Sputnik/Kristina Solovyova · Russian President Vladimir Putin has likened the relationship between Ukraine and the European Union to “the tail wagging the dog,” saying that despite the aggressive behavior of the government in Kiev, Brussels keeps supporting it. · The Ukrainian…

He will succeed his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in US-Israeli strikes · Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been named as his successor as Iran’s supreme leader. · [RT] Ali Khamenei led Iran from 1989 until his death during the opening wave of US-Israeli strikes on Tehran on February 28. · Iran’s Assembly of Experts, tasked with vetting and selecting the supreme leader, announced…

Doing so is a “legitimate tool” to make Kiev resume oil supplies through the Druzhba pipeline, the Slovak prime minister has said · FILE PHOTO: Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico. ©  Global Look Press / IMAGO · [RT] Bratislava is ready to block a planned EU loan for Ukraine if Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is voted out of office in the upcoming election, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has said. It would be a…