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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday that his government will seek to further expand restrictions on so-called “hate speech” in the wake of the Islamist terror attack against Jewish people on Bondi Beach in Sydney. Speaking from the capital of Canberra on Monday, Prime Minister Albanese said his cabinet will seek to reach “as broad an agreement as possible” to implement stricter speech restrictions. The planned legislation will seek to counteract the “unprecedented radicalisation” of young people in Australia, he said, according to state broadcaster ABC. His announcement came in the wake of an apparently ISIS-inspired terrorist shooting at…

(AP) — Two NATO-nation intelligence services suspect Russia is developing a new anti-satellite weapon to target Elon Musk’s Starlink constellation with destructive orbiting clouds of shrapnel, with the aim of reining in Western space superiority that has helped Ukraine on the battlefield. Intelligence findings seen by The Associated Press say the so-called “zone-effect” weapon would seek to flood Starlink orbits with hundreds of thousands of high-density pellets, potentially disabling multiple satellites at once but also risking catastrophic collateral damage to other orbiting systems. Analysts who haven’t seen the findings say they doubt such a weapon could work without causing uncontrollable…

Financial experts argue that gold and silver are once again obtaining their “monetary value” due to the outsized fiscal deficits around the world. Gold and silver prices set new highs on Monday, eclipsing $4,445 per ounce, with prices up nearly 70 percent since the start of the year. Gold has long been viewed as a hedge and a safe haven in times of economic and political turmoil. Silver prices have risen 128 percent since the start of 2025. Many have sought to balance their portfolios with gold and silver as a hedge for future turbulence. Matthew McLennan, head of the…

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” radio host Charlamagne tha God said President Donald Trump was doing all the things his critics warned he would do.KARL:  Has this year been better or worse than what you anticipated? CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD:  Man, that’s a great question. After the election, I said to myself, all he has to do is not do everything that all his critics say he’s going to do. KARL:  Right. CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD:  Literally. Like, literally like, don’t do the Project 2025, don’t have authoritarian strategy, don’t go after your political opponents, don’t make this new presidency about revenge.…

Soaring energy prices and diminishing competitiveness are the “cost of bad decisions” by the bloc’s leadership, the Hungarian PM has said The EU’s sanctions on Russia have ended up “crushing” the bloc itself, diminishing its economic competitiveness, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said.Budapest has consistently opposed Brussels’ policies on Ukraine since the escalation of the conflict with Russia in February 2022, including the sanctions.In a post on X on Sunday, Orban wrote: “Brussels promised sanctions would crush Russia. Instead, they crushed Europe.”🔻 Brussels promised sanctions would crush Russia. Instead, they crushed Europe. Energy prices exploded, competitiveness collapsed, and Europe…

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, were each sentenced to 17 years in prison for corruption on Saturday. Khan’s party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), denounced the ruling as a “black chapter in history” and declared there is “no rule of law in Pakistan.” “A closed-door jail trial is neither free nor fair. It is, in fact, a military trial,” PTI declared on its X social media account. Khan and his party generally dismiss the hundreds of charges filed against him after he was ousted as prime minister by a no-confidence vote in April 2022 as political…

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said all material featuring President Donald Trump in files linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will be released. Blanche said, “We are not redacting information around President Trump.” Host Kristen Welker said, “The White House has said that President Trump is included in the files. Can you guarantee that every mention and every photo of President Trump in the Epstein files will be released?” Blanche said, “Yes, yes, I’ve said it three, four times now, we’ve said it before, and President Trump has said it repeatedly since before…

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer plans to force a vote on a measure that could allow lawmakers to jump-start litigation against the Trump administration for failing to comply with the new law requiring the full release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. “The law Congress passed is crystal clear: release the Epstein files in full so Americans can see the truth,” the New York Democrat said in a statement Monday. “Instead, the Trump Department of Justice dumped redactions and withheld the evidence — that breaks the law. Today, I am introducing a resolution to force the Senate to take legal action…

The US vice president says changing demographics could alter the nature of Britain and France within 15 years Nuclear-armed Western Europe could become a major security risk for the US if the national identity of its countries continues to change due to mass immigration, US Vice President J.D. Vance has warned.Vance told UnHerd last week that Britain and France, along with other US allies, currently lack a sense of national identity and are losing cultural links to America due to their immigration policies, according to an interview transcript published Monday.“If they allow themselves to be overwhelmed with very destructive moral…

PARIS (AP) – A suspected cyberattack knocked France´s national postal service and its banking arm offline Monday, blocking and delaying package deliveries and online payments at the height of the busy Christmas season. The postal service, called La Poste, said in a statement that a distributed denial of service incident, or DDoS, “rendered its online services inaccessible.” It said the incident had no impact on customer data, but disrupted package and mail delivery. At a Paris post office decked out in holiday garlands and usually bustling this time of year, employees turned away frustrated customers lining up to send or…