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The funds reportedly play a key role in President Donald Trump’s Ukraine peace plan The EU’s insistence on seizing Russian central bank assets stands in the way of US President Donald Trump’s attempts to resolve the Ukraine conflict, Politico and The Times have reported, citing officials in Washington.EU leaders are meeting in Brussels on Thursday to debate using an estimated €210 billion ($246 billion) in Russian assets to back a so-called “reparations loan” for Kiev – a move Moscow has condemned as “theft.” Belgium, where most of the assets are held, has demanded that the legal risks be shared among…

One year of spousal chain migration is projected to cost the British taxpayer £5.6 billion during their lifetimes, a government watchdog has admitted. A report from the independent Migration Advisory Committee this week has revealed that the 51,000 foreigners who were brought to the UK between 2022-23 as a spouse of either a British citizen or permanent resident will come with a “net fiscal cost” of £109,000 by the end of their lives. This means that partner chain migration for that year alone will cumulatively cost the taxpayer £5,559,000 by the end of their lives. In contrast, UK residents of…

Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Deputy Director Dan Bongino confirmed that he would be leaving the agency in January, as reports swirled of his upcoming departure. In a post on X, Bongino thanked President Donald Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and FBI Director Kash Patel for giving him “the opportunity to serve with purpose.” “I will be leaving my position with the FBI in January,” Bongino wrote in his post. “I want to thank President Trump, AG Bondi, and Director Patel for the opportunity to serve with purpose.” “Most importantly, I want to thank you, my fellow Americans, for the…

The Hungarian prime minister has criticized the bloc’s decision to provide Ukraine with a €90 billion interest-free loan Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has criticized the EU’s decision to provide Ukraine with a €90 billion interest-free loan, warning that the move brings the bloc “closer to war.” He argued, however, that an alternative plan to seize Russian frozen assets would have been even worse.Speaking early Friday after EU leaders agreed on the joint borrowing scheme, Orban described it as a fundamentally flawed decision that will burden European taxpayers without delivering realistic returns.“It is a bad decision, which brings Europe closer…

A Colombian mercenary recruitment network for the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) insurgent militia is using U.K. registered firms, an investigation conducted by the Guardian revealed on Friday. RSF is a paramilitary group responsible for a litany of heinous actions and war crimes in the ongoing Sudanese civil war. Earlier this month, the U.S. imposed sanctions on a transnational network that recruited, trained, and deployed hundreds Colombians to fight for RSF. The sanctions targeted two Colombian individuals as the leaders of the network: Alvaro Quijano and his wife Claudia Oliveros. The Guardian reported that both are described by the U.K.’s…

President Donald Trump participated on Wednesday in the dignified transfer of the three Americans, including two soldiers and an interpreter, killed in Syria on Saturday. Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth saluted side by side as the remains of the three Americans, Iowa National Guardsmen Sgt. Edgar Torres-Tovar and Sgt. William Howard and civilian interpreter Ayad Mansoor Sakat were transferred from a C-17 at Dover Air Force Base. “That was a beautiful event for three great people, and they’re now looking down and their parents and wives and all of the people that were there were, I mean, devastated,…

The US umbrella may no longer be a dependable pillar of national security, the official has reportedly told the media Japan needs to consider developing its own nuclear weapons, a senior adviser to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has reportedly told journalists.The unnamed official, who advises the prime minister on national security, argued that Japan’s long-standing reliance on the US nuclear deterrent may no longer be fully reliable, according to media reports. Under these conditions, a departure from the country’s postwar non-nuclear policy could become necessary, the adviser said, as cited by NHK.Speaking with reporters on Thursday, the official acknowledged that…

Weak. Indecisive. A failure to the Jewish community. These are just some of the character appraisals made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against left-wing Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for ignoring his warnings about rising antisemitism ahead of the Bondi Beach massacre. Netanyahu lashed out during an extraordinary television interview Friday with leading Australian network SKY News. He maintained the terrorist attack was preventable and accused Canberra of detached inaction despite explicit warnings months earlier. Israel’s leader said lives would have been saved if Jewish community events had been sufficiently protected, describing current restrictions as reckless and outdated. Asked whether…

Avatar director James Cameron is furious that President Donald Trump refuses to accept the doomsaying of global warming alarmists, and is calling Trump a “narcissistic asshole” for not relenting to the climate change mob. The famed director disgorged his vitriol in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter where he claimed that Trump’s moves to thwart global warming extremism is sending humanity “backwards.” “I’m frustrated because the human race seems to be delusional about what they think is going to happen next. We are going backwards,” Cameron exclaimed. The Terminator creator ripped Trump as the “most narcissistic asshole in history since fucking…

After appearing in a closed-door deposition with the House Judiciary Committee earlier this week, Jack Smith, the former special counsel who led the criminal cases against President Donald Trump, still wants the chance to defend his work in a public hearing – and defend himself against continued Republican attacks. Attorneys for Smith are pressing for their client to be allowed to testify in an open forum in a new letter to House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, obtained first by POLITICO. “[We] reiterate our request for an open and public hearing,” Smith’s lawyers, Lanny Breuer and Peter Koski, wrote to Jordan.…