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The Ukrainian leader recently threatened to dispatch the military to “speak” with the Hungarian PM over his veto of a loan for Kiev European Council President Antonio Costa has rebuked Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky over a recent threat directed at Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.Zelensky suggested earlier this month that he could dispatch the Ukrainian military to “speak” with a “certain person” in the EU – widely understood to be Orban – over vetoing a controversial €90 billion ($105 billion) emergency loan for Kiev.Hungary reacted with outrage, with Orban calling the remarks “political banditry” and “moral blackmail.”Speaking to the European Newsroom…

On Monday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Morning in America,” Rep. Mark Harris (R-NC) said that he thinks President Donald Trump “is doing everything to avoid putting boots on the ground” in Iran, but Iran’s enriched uranium “needs to be seized or taken out” and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps “is continuing to fight, that is going to have to be dealt with in one way or another.” Harris said, “I think that there have been concern[s] that it could come to a time that we face that. I think the President is doing everything to avoid putting boots on the ground,…

Polling throughout the nearly three-week U.S.-Israeli military operation against Iran has consistently shown near-unanimous backing for President Donald Trump’s decision to launch Operation Epic Fury among the MAGA base and overwhelming support among Republicans, while a new Rasmussen Reports survey released Monday finds that a majority of likely voters overall say the operation has been succeeding. The Rasmussen poll found that 61 percent of likely voters say the military operation against Iran has been successful so far, including 35 percent who describe it as “very successful.” The survey also underscored the level of public engagement with the conflict, with 81…

Argentina and Brazil once pursued ambitious missile programs, but political pressure and nonproliferation reshaped South America’s military technology path In the final decades of the Cold War, South America briefly appeared poised to join the ranks of regions developing indigenous missile technology. Argentina and Brazil pursued ambitious programs that combined domestic research with extensive international cooperation, aiming to establish strategic capabilities that would reduce dependence on foreign suppliers and strengthen national defense industries. Argentina’s Condor program and Brazil’s experimental ballistic missile initiatives attracted the attention of major powers and international nonproliferation institutions, which increasingly viewed these efforts as part of…

Craven political manoeuvring has broken out across France as elected positions for around 35,000 municipalities are up for grabs, with the first round of voting breaking the veneer of the establishment left’s feigned principles, which instantly broke down and and its candidates began partnering with Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s radicals. Following the breakdown of the New Popular Front grand coalition of various left-wing parties formed in 2024, the legacy-leftist Socialist Party openly declared that it would no longer partner on a national level with Mélenchon’s La France Insoumise (France in Rebellion) party, as the LFI increasingly took radical positions on Israel and…

Voters in three states will face upcoming ballot measures regarding protecting girls’ sports from transgender-identifying athletes and preventing minors from receiving sex changes, according to multiple reports. Voters in states such as Colorado, Missouri, and Maine will be able to vote on the upcoming ballot initiatives in the midterm elections. In Colorado, the organization Protect Kids Colorado got enough signatures for three ballot initiatives — Initiative 108, Initiative 109, and Initiative 110 — to qualify for the ballot, according to the Colorado Sun. Under Initiative 108, child sex trafficking would be “punishable by life in prison without the possibility of…

LONDON (AP) — Len Deighton, a prolific writer whose tough, stylish spy thrillers featured on bestseller lists for decades, has died. He was 97. Deighton’s literary agent, Tim Bates, said he died Sunday. No cause of death was given. Deighton’s first novel, “The IPCRESS File,” helped set the tone of cool and gritty 1960s thrillers and was made into a film starring Michael Caine that helped launch both author and actor to long and stellar careers. “Len was a Titan,” Bates said Tuesday. “He was not only one of the greatest spy and thriller writers of the 20th century but also one…

Donald Trump’s attempts to obtain help securing the Strait of Hormuz have been met with strong skepticism, the report claims US efforts to build an international coalition to secure shipping in the Strait of Hormuz have turned into a “mess” because Washington’s partners are reluctant to offer assistance, Axios reported on Monday, citing sources.The US-Israel strikes on Iran and Tehran’s retaliatory attacks have led to oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz being disrupted. The de-facto closure of one of the world’s most important energy chokepoints has sent shockwaves through global oil markets, with Brent crude at times trading above…

There is no way to get around it. We are facing a major global economic disruption, and the longer this war goes on the worse it will get. As I have reminded my readers on numerous occasions, our entire way of life is predicated on cheap energy, and the Middle East is the most important energy producing region in the entire world. Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has been paralyzed, and energy infrastructure has been under attack by both sides. In fact, this morning Tehran was “covered in thick black clouds of smoke” after a refinery and multiple oil depots were destroyed……

English actor John Cleese took to social media on Monday to warn that Britain will no longer exist if its Christian values “are replaced by Islamic ones.” “The UK has always been based at the deepest level on Christian values, regardless of dogma,” Cleese said in a Monday X post. “Despite the many mistakes made by churches, for centuries British people have been influenced by Christ’s teaching.” “If these values are replaced by Islamic ones, this will not be Britain any more,” the Monty Python’s Flying Circus star added. Cleese was replying to an X post from conservative London Assembly member Susan Hall, who…