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High demand on some routes is the main driver, Deputy PM Aleksandr Novak has said Russia has been trading oil without a discount and even at a premium on some routes, Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Novak said on Thursday, as cited by Vedomosti.Global energy markets are under strain due to the fallout from the US-Israeli campaign against Iran, which has disrupted transit through the Strait of Hormuz and caused a sharp rise in oil prices, while boosting Russia’s pricing power. The country’s supply has not been affected.Western sanctions had previously forced Russia to sell crude at a discount to global…

President Trump announced on Thursday that he will sign an executive order to pay Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers during the partial shutdown affecting the functionality of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The president issued his announcement via Truth Social, accusing Democrats of siding with “criminal illegal aliens” over the American people by not enforcing immigration law. “They almost destroyed our Country, allowing 25 Million People to enter from Prisons, Mental Institutions, and Insane Asylums, those that are Drug Dealers, and thousands of Murderers, many of whom killed more than one person,” the president alleged. “I am going to sign an…

News outlets in Mexico are claiming that a group of soldiers from the U.S. Army crossed into Mexico while they were reinforcing the border fence. The issue sparked some tensions when Mexican military forces asked them to leave, but the troops stayed in their spot until they finished their task. The confrontation reportedly took place on Wednesday afternoon in the Mexican border city of Nogales, Sonora, where a group of U.S. soldiers was reinforcing parts of the border fence. Nogales is immediately south of the border of Nogales, Arizona. As Breitbart Texas reported, that region was known for having areas…

Ordinary citizens want peace, but bureaucrats are driven by military lobbies, Rudi Kennes has told RT The EU is divided over the US war against Iran, with public opinion strongly opposing it, while unelected officials in Brussels back Washington, Belgian MEP Rudi Kennes has told RT’s Rick Sanchez.European countries have failed to present a unified front on the war, with Spain and Italy voicing criticism, while others, including France, are avoiding outright condemnation and have increased their military footprint in the Middle East. Bureaucrats in Brussels, meanwhile, have focused largely on the lack of prior US consultation, while failing to…

Spanish prosecutors on Wednesday ratified their request of a 22-year prison sentence for Jon Perurena, a high school teacher on trial for allegedly offering money to three minor students in exchange for sexual favors. The Spanish news agency EuropaPress reports that Perurena works as a teacher at a school in Irun, a town in the Bidasoaldea region in the province of Gipuzkoa of the Basque Autonomous Community. He stands accused in an ongoing trial of offering money to three students in exchange for sexual favors between 2023 and 2024. The outlet Crónica Vasca detailed that Perurena faces two counts of sexual solicitation via internet, one count…

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said on Thursday during a Breitbart News policy event that China got wealthy off of cheating American workers; however, he said that President Donald Trump is fighting back. Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle asked Cotton what he expects to happen between the upcoming meeting between Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. “Well, another one of the things you ‘can’t say about China’ is that China has been waging economic warfare against the United States. China didn’t become wealthy and powerful just on its own accord. It did so by cheating and harming American workers…

Breitbart News hosted a policy discussion on Thursday focused on threats posed by China and the Chinese Communist Party, where Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said China and Iran have been allies and share a goal of opposing the United States as the dominant global power. The event, titled China: The Threats You Know About and the Ones You Don’t, included Washington Bureau Chief Matt Boyle asking Cotton to explain how China is connected to the conflict with Iran, including its role related to the Strait of Hormuz and how it factors into broader U.S. actions. Cotton described a long-standing relationship…

The scheme was to be disguised as a USAID project, a news outlet claimed, citing a recently declassified intelligence report US President Donald Trump has posted a link to a news story claiming that the Ukrainian government was involved in a plot aimed at financing Joe Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign.The scheme would have relied on diverting US taxpayer money allocated for a USAID project in Ukraine, the media outlet Just the News reported on Thursday, citing a recently declassified intelligence report it obtained.The plot dating back to late 2022 could have involved “hundreds of millions of dollars,” according to the…

Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) warned during a Breitbart News policy event Thursday that the United States must prevail in the race to develop artificial intelligence or risk China gaining a dominant global position. At Breitbart News’s policy event, titled China: The Threats You Know About and the Ones You Don’t, Washington Bureau Chief Matt Boyle asked Jim Banks what more the United States should do to turn the tide against China and start beating them here as well, beyond its geopolitical efforts. Banks responded, “We have to win the AI race, and we can’t let the Chinese win it, because…

Noelia Castillo Ramos, a Spanish 25-year-old gang rape victim from Barcelona, is slated to receive euthanasia Thursday following a lengthy legal battle by her father who sought to stop the procedure. The young woman, largely identified by Spanish outlets by her first name, Noelia, was left paraplegic after she tried to commit suicide by leaping from a fifth-floor window in October 2022 after she was gang raped, which left her suffering from a horrific trauma. The incident reportedly left her with a severe and irreversible complete spinal cord injury, a “paraplegia that prevents her from moving from the waist down…