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Scandal surrounding political appointment of disgraced Labour Grandee to U.S. ambassador post that threatens to bring down Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer sees more top insiders testify to Parliamentary committee. Censorious anti-Breitbart figure who was until recently the “most powerful man in politics you’ve probably never heard of” at the top of the British government, Morgan McSweeney, has attempted to put clear blue water between himself and the man long said to be his mentor and sponsor in British left-wing politics, Peter Mandelson, in a committee appearance in Parliament on Tuesday. Insisting the widely-held belief that Mandelson is his particular friend…

Republican Mitch McConnell has blasted Donald Trump, claiming he has continued Joe Biden’s strategy of failing to meet Kiev’s needs The US must expand its support for Ukraine if it wants to preserve its status as a global superpower, Republican Senator Mitch McConnell has claimed.The veteran lawmaker and former Senate majority leader criticized military officials in the administration of President Donald Trump for carrying out his policy of shifting the burden of Ukraine assistance onto European NATO allies in an op-ed published by the Washington Post on Tuesday.Americans “can’t learn from a war… if they can’t properly observe it,” McConnell…

President Donald Trump will attempt to “rig” the upcoming midterm elections in the United States, former French ambassador to America Gérard Araud has claimed. Araud, a longtime diplomat who previously served as French ambassador to Israel, the representative of Paris at the United Nations, and, finally, as ambassador to the United States from 2014 to 2019, has long been a critic of President Donald Trump. However, the outspoken 73-year-old former ambassador drew attention for his outlandish predictions about American politics in the coming months. Appearing on the France Inter public broadcaster this week, Araud said that he expects President Trump…

Both the EU and the IMF are reportedly making further funding conditional on specific fiscal reforms by Kiev Ukraine’s two main financial backers, the EU and IMF, are tying further aid to tax hikes and fiscal reforms, according to media reports.Kiev, facing mounting battlefield pressure, is increasingly pushing for faster aid disbursements as it relies heavily on foreign funding to plug a widening budget gap and sustain its war effort against Russia. However, most multi-year support comes with strict conditions. The EU is now considering linking part of its €90 billion ($105 billion) loan package to business tax reforms, Bloomberg…

President Donald Trump hosts a state dinner for the U.K.’s King Charles III at the White House on Tuesday, April 28. King Charles III addressed a joint session of Congress on Tuesday afternoon, stressing the “eternal” bonds between America and the United Kingdom. Earlier in the day, President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump received King Charles III and Queen Consort Camilla at the White House, with Trump similarly heralding the special relationship the two countries have shared. Read the full article here

It has now been a year since Spain and Portugal experienced the worst blackout in recent European history, with both countries and the whole peninsula without any power for a whole day, with no person or institution being held actually accountable for the events despite numerous investigations and reports into the matter. The incident occurred on April 29, 2025, leaving over 50 million people without power across the Iberian Peninsula. At the time, Spain’s national power grid operator Red Eléctrica (RE) initially attributed the malfunction to a “problem” with the nation’s solar power infrastructure — which, at the time, supplied 70…

From Black Cube stings to Pegasus spyware, Israeli intelligence firms have repeatedly targeted European politics Two proven cases of political interference by a Mossad-linked private intelligence firm should have set alarm bells ringing in Brussels. The EU’s silence reveals just how deeply the Israeli spy-tech nexus has penetrated the bloc. The European Commission has claimed that Russia interfered in almost every major European election of the last half decade. Despite being proven wrong in France, Germany, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and counting, the allegations alone have been enough to justify the commission’s activation of its ‘Rapid Response System’, a powerful suite…

While speaking to Congress on Tuesday, King Charles III condemned the recent assassination attempt on President Donald Trump that took place in the vicinity of White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. During his speech, the King of the United Kingdom noted that they were meeting “in times of great uncertainty.” He also spoke about how a shooter had opened fire at the Washington Hilton Hotel on Saturday, while the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner was taking place, pointing out that the shooter “sought to harm the leadership” of the United States. “Ladies and gentlemen, we meet in times of great uncertainty. In…

First Lady Melania Trump rebuked Disney-owned ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel following his Jimmy Kimmel Live! monologue in which he said Mrs. Trump has “a glow like an expectant widow,” calling Kimmel a “coward,” describing his rhetoric as divisive, and pressing ABC to take action. Writing on X from the official First Lady account, Melania Trump said: “Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn’t comedy — his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.” “People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to…

The cartel of oil-producing states has been gradually losing its geopolitical power since the 1970s, the journalist told RT The decision by the United Arab Emirates to leave OPEC will further weaken the cartel of oil producers, whose power has been eroding over the years, Afshin Rattansi, the host of Going Underground, has told RT.The Emirati government announced the departure on Tuesday, citing plans to focus on national interests and the Gulf state’s “long-term strategic and economic vision and evolving energy profile.”The move comes amid uncertainty over the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway crucial to global oil trade, which has…