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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 · ©  …

The US president has cited “tremendous interest” in extraterrestrial life, hours after accusing Barack Obama of leaking “classified information” · ©  Getty Images/Ignatiev · [RT] US President Donald Trump has announced he will order the Department of War and other agencies to release government files related to alien life because of “tremendous interest.” · In a Truth Social post on Friday, Trump said the records marked…

Moscow has said it is open to the idea, while Beijing has declined to join, citing commitment to the UN-centered international system · US President Donald Trump at the inaugural meeting of the 'Board of Peace' in Washington, DC, on February 19, 2026. © Getty Images · [RT] US President Donald Trump has said he would “love” to see Russia and China join his ‘Board of Peace’, established to guide the stabilization of Gaza following the…

The approval of “reverse enlargement” to Ukraine and other candidate states would institutionalize a three-tiered Europe between the “E6”, Central Europe, and the new partial members from Eastern Europe and the Balkans for facilitating Germany’s divide-and-rule federalist plans. · Andrew Korybko · Politico reported on the EU’s plan to grant Ukraine partial membership by next year at the earliest as part of a comprehensive solution to that…

by Marcia Merry Baker (EIRNS) — Feb. 19, 2026 · The police arrest Thursday morning of former Prince Andrew, now Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the brother of Britain’s King Charles III, in connection with revelations from the international Jeffrey Epstein file, swings the gates even wider for potential clean up longtime oligarchical filth. The arrest was made on the royal property of Sandringham, Norfolk; then began police searches of…

For some months now, the NZ government has been claiming that an economic recovery is just around the corner. We are still waiting and wondering. A quick look at the state of health of highly vaccinated nations is very revealing: · In the USA, a Wall Street Journal report found that medical care employment has become the so-called engine of the US economy. Virtually all the 130,000 new jobs added in January were related to healthcare. In the…