Author: Press Room

Tokyo and Moscow have never reached a formal settlement at the end of World War II The lack of a peace treaty to this day between Tokyo and Moscow to end World War II is “really vexing and regrettable,” Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has said, reiterating her intent to resolve territorial issues with Russia.Japan and Russia never signed a peace treaty after the war, remaining locked for decades in a territorial dispute over the four southernmost islands of the Kuril archipelago.The islands were incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1945, and Russia regards them as an integral part of…

Violence broke out on Saturday as thousands of leftist protesters took to the streets of Milan to demonstrate on the sidelines of the Winter Olympics. With the eyes of the world’s media descending upon the Italian financial hub as it co-hosts the XXV Winter Olympic Games, various left-wing activist groups organised in Milan to promote their disparate agendas. According to a report from Milan’s leading newspaper, Corriere della Sera, around 5,000 people took to the streets on Saturday, including environmental, trade union, pro-LGBT, and pro-Palestinian groups. The Milanese daily reported that in response to the exclusion of biologically male transgender…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday as U.S.–Iran negotiations advance under mounting tension, with Tehran resisting demands to curb its ballistic missiles, proxy forces, and nuclear program following talks in Oman that Trump said were “very good.” The Prime Minister’s Office announced the meeting Saturday night, saying Netanyahu believes any negotiations with Iran “must include limitations on ballistic missiles and a halting of the support for the Iranian axis.” The visit was moved up at Netanyahu’s request and comes a day after U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump…

Thursday, February 5, 2026. This is the day the Russian-American Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) expired. While this symbolically closes a 50-year chapter of nuclear arms control, in practice the era of meaningful Russian-American negotiations in this sphere ended long ago.The reasons are both objective and political. Global geopolitics has undergone tectonic change. Nuclear multipolarity is now a fact. Advanced conventional weapons can achieve strategic effects once associated only with nuclear arms. New domains of confrontation have opened in cyberspace, outer space, and even biotechnology. Old numerical limits on warheads and delivery systems have become detached from military reality.The decisive…

Cinema United, formerly the National Association of Theater Owners, has warned of a coming collapse if the Netflix-Warner Bros. merger deal finalizes. The organization shared in a statement to the Senate antitrust subcommittee that the deal will lead to the shuttering of movie theaters and further job losses. “If Netflix succeeds in acquiring Warner Bros., the results will be economically and culturally catastrophic: fewer theatres, shorter windows, less revenue, fewer jobs across the national and global entertainment industry, and fewer movies for consumers to see in theatres,” said the six-page statement shared to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition…

Pakistani media reported a suicide bombing attack on a Shiite mosque in Islamabad on Thursday afternoon, with at least 31 fatalities and 169 injuries. The attack occurred at the Tarlai Imambargah mosque in the Shehzad Town district of Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan. According to local media reports, the attacker sought to gain entry to the mosque during worship services, but was stopped at the main gate by guards. The bomber still managed to kill dozens of people by detonating at the gate, but the carnage would have been much worse if the blast had occurred inside the crowded…

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has suspended more than 111,000 California borrowers and will seek to recoup $8.6 billion in suspected fraudulent aid linked to the Covid pandemic. SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler revealed the action Friday following a visit to San Diego, where she detailed suspected fraudulent activity across SBA pandemic-era loan programs, including 118,489 Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) loans. “Once again, the Trump SBA is taking decisive action to deliver accountability in a state whose unaccountable welfare policies have created a culture of fraud and abuse at the expense of law-abiding taxpayers and…

A man was arrested Wednesday in Trumbull County, Ohio, for allegedly posting online threats against President Donald Trump and other officials. The suspect Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents took into custody was identified as 47-year-old Charles Bronson Ingram, WFMJ reported Thursday. The man is accused of posting the threats on YouTube along with a profile picture of Trump being shot in the head. Ingram, who does not have a criminal record, reportedly admitted to officers he posted the messages online. He is also accused of threatening to kill U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. Those officials have faced…

Peter Mandelson is suspected of misconduct in office for allegedly leaking confidential information to the late pedophile British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has scrambled to distance himself from former Labour Party senior minister Peter Mandelson after newly released documents revealed his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Starmer claimed he fell victim to “deceit” by a man he had himself appointed as ambassador to the US in 2024.Mandelson resigned from the Labour Party and quit his position in the House of Lords earlier this week after documents released by the US Department of Justice suggested he had received $75,000 from the…

Apple is reducing its plans for a virtual health coach service as the company reassesses its approach to the wellness services market. Bloomberg reports that Apple is scaling back plans for a virtual health coach service as part of an effort to rethink how the company approaches the huge market for wellness services. The initiative, code-named Mulberry, was wound down in recent weeks, according to people with knowledge of the matter who asked not to be identified because the move was not made public. The company now plans to take some of the features it had planned for the AI-powered offering…