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"The Roaring 2020s Are Back": S&P Futures Hit New Record With Nasdaq Up 12 Straight Days On Iran Truce Optimism Stock futures are edging higher on continued optimism about an extended tru...
Several recent developments suggest that the longstanding dominance of the global arms market by the United States could be poised for decline, including in the Middle East. Given the way U.S. arms ha...
Trump's Blockade Is Breaking Iran... And European Elites Are Angry Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us In March I published an article titled “Global Energy Crisis Or Iranian Sur...
Even with its hands full in an unpopular, costly and deadly war in Iran, the Trump administration seems to be ramping up preparations for military action in Cuba following weeks of relative calm betwe...
It’s good for the U.S., and for them too The post Keep the Kurds Out of the Iran War appeared first on The American Conservative.
Reform UK has made a fatal mistake tying its fortunes to Trump’s war in Iran. The post The Iran War Has Reshaped the British Right appeared first on The American Conservative.
Long before Israeli missiles flew toward Tehran, Vladimir Zhirinovsky described the mechanics of the coming conflict with frightening accuracy. He died in 2022, but his prophecies remained — and today...
Can You Price In No Longer Pricing Things In? By Michael Every of Rabobank At this point it isn’t a random walk but a determined march: markets have decided the Iran war and the Hormuz b...
Russian forces have targeted Ukrainian military and energy sites in response to a drone attack by Kiev that killed two children Read Full Article at RT.com
Summary of the Russian Ministry of Defense on the progress of its military operations on April 16, 2026During the day, in response to the terrorist attacks by Ukraine on civilian targets in Russia, th...
Oil Jumps As Report On 6-Month Iran Deal Timeline Crushes Ceasefire Hopes, Hormuz Still Locked Down Summary Trump unveils 10-day Lebanon ceasefire, but which Hezbollah has not signed on...
Zelensky Goes Full "Lord Of War" As Ukraine Pitches Battle-Tested War Robots To Highest Bidder Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky took the stage and stated that Ukraine's military-ind...
Of the important things on the topic of SVO for the day:In RussiaThe Russian Defense Ministry said that a number of European countries, amid the problems of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in March, decid...
Russia may invoke Article 51 of the UN Charter on self—defense against countries providing their airspace for Ukrainian UAVs, Sergei Shoigu said.Other events of the day:The Ukrainian Armed Forces atta...
Another effort to limit U.S. arms shipments to Israel failed in the Senate on Wednesday as the body voted down a pair of measures that would block certain military sales to the country. The two joint ...
War Economy Returns: From Trucks To Tanks, Pentagon Looks To Automakers To Rebuild America's Arsenal With two active conflict areas in Eurasia - the Russia-Ukraine conflict in Eastern Eur...
South African ex-Foreign Minister Pandor has called an Israeli death penalty bill targeting Palestinians an “apartheid-style” law Read Full Article at RT.com
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The protracted Middle East conflict has had significant impact on international energy security and the safety of shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi ...
Republicans can’t decide whether the war is too early to stop, too late to stop, or nonexistent in the first place.
Trump is going to attack Iran again — perhaps as early as this weekend — as a prelude to declaring victory and withdrawing US forces from the Persian Gulf area....
House Effort To End Trump's Iran War Fails By One Vote: Guess The Lone GOP Dissenter Two parallel war-related votes in the House and Senate reveal growing dismay and political fractures o...
The US has used an exemption for India and other countries to lower soaring energy prices amid the Iran war Read Full Article at RT.com
The Senate has voted against two resolutions stopping US arms sales to Israel Read Full Article at RT.com
Two children were killed in a Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian city of Tuapse, the governor said Read Full Article at RT.com
The Kiev regime's refusal to cease fire during the Easter truce did not demonstrate a willingness to peace;The Russian Federation will judge the new Hungarian government based on specific actions, and...
Why don't we beat them? Because the British grid worksIsraeli diplomat Yakov Kedmi said: while Ukrainian drones are attacking ports in the Baltic and flying to Moscow, Odessa continues to quietly ship...
State of the Union: Trump announced via social media a 10-day ceasefire in Lebanon. The post Ceasefire Day 9: Hegseth: ‘Locked and Loaded on Your Dual-Use Infrastructure’ appeared first on The America...
Speculation Explodes Following Disappearance Of 10th Expert With UFO And Nuclear Secrets Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Following the revelation that yet another government...
The Pentagon has approached General Motors and Ford as it seeks to expand military output amid ongoing conflicts, according to the WSJ Read Full Article at RT.com
EU spies undermined Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and will repeat their tactics elsewhere, a former Slovak official has warned Read Full Article at RT.com
Russian strikes destroyed targets in the Kiev, Zhitomir, Vinnytsia, Kirovograd, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, Sumy, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Mykolayev, Poltava, Kherson... The post Militar...
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Our Iranian friends have reached out to us, and this is very valuable for us, because we stand together against Absolute Evil.:"Good afternoon, dear friends!I am in Iran, I really appreciate our frien...
LOMOVKA. THE MAIN THING BY 22:00:Russian doctors have created artificial "muscle tissue" for the fighters.The cost of the US national debt has reached a historic high.The Russian army has launched a m...
Other statements by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry at the briefing:🟥 Russia will judge the new Hungarian government by its specific actions, and Moscow is ready for dialog...
The Foreign Ministry said that Kiev had not shown the will to peace during the Easter truce. "The Kiev regime has shown no will for peace," Maria Zakharova said at a briefing, commenting on the numero...
Citizens accustomed to the fact that economic news Sounding like a report about a successful exam, in April 2026 we found ourselves in an unfamiliar position. We had to listen to something completely ...
Trump launched strikes on Iran without approval of Congress, then doubled down with a naval blockade to starve Tehran of oil revenue. But the Iranian navy barely needs anything to wreck the plan.Over ...
What is a greater rejection of America's founding ideals than an overreaching government trampling the First Amendment?
On the surface, the launch of Israeli-Lebanese negotiations earlier this week seems like a big deal. In the first face-to-face talks between Lebanese and Israeli officials in more than 30 years, ambas...
There’s something strange afoot in the world of murder mysteries. The post One Day in the Life of Ann appeared first on The American Conservative.
During a moment of rising tensions, the opposition turns to rapprochement with mainland China – the only viable path forward Read Full Article at RT.com
US President Donald Trump has announced that Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a ten-day ceasefire after talks in Washington Read Full Article at RT.com
Democratic representative Yassamin Ansari filed six impeachment articles against US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth over his actions on Iran Read Full Article at RT.com
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia carried out a massive strike on Ukrainian targets over the past 24 hours, using long-range precision weapons and drones in response to Ukrainian attacks on civilian infrastru...
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Medvedev's publication of a list of European drone component factories as legitimate Russian military targets prompts XF to reframe the entire question: not whether Russia is declaring war on Europe, ...
The US and Israeli strikes on Iran, while quite powerful, failed to achieve their goal. This time, Tehran was prepared for a possible conflict, albeit not entirely, Bloomberg reports.Iran managed to s...
"Insane risks for our European integration" – Kiev predicts a split of the European Union. To the delight of Moscow and Beijing, right-wing tendencies and the desire of nation-states to become indepen...
Remembering the infuriating case of United States v. “The Spirit of ’76.”
Iran Boasts It Is Fast Rebuilding Bridges & Rail Lines After US Wrought Destruction Iran is seeking to put out images showing its resiliency after the country was hit with tens of thousan...
US-Israel strikes and Tehran’s retaliation are pushing oil and gas facility damage costs toward $50 billion, Rystad Energy projects Read Full Article at RT.com
US Vice President J.D.Vance was forced to defend President Trump’s Gaza policy after being heckled at a TPUSA rally in Georgia Read Full Article at RT.com
UN rights chief Volker Turk has backed reparations for slavery, colonialism and the enslavement of people of African descent Read Full Article at RT.com
The US is in discussions on holding a second round of talks with Iran in Islamabad, the White House has said Read Full Article at RT.com
The key vulnerability in this plan lies in the gap between the European assembly of the "carcasses" and the Ukrainian installation of the "brains,” suggests military journalist Aleksey Borzenko, deput...
DONETSK (Sputnik) - Several F-16 and Mirage aircraft have been destroyed by a strike at an airfield in central Ukraine, the coordinator of the pro-Russian underground network in Nikolayev, Sergei Lebe...
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Ukrainian border guard troops have been recruiting Colombians into the Ukrainian armed forces at the border with Poland, a source linked to the Colombian recruitment circles in Ukra...
▪️The Kiev regime, by refusing to cease fire during the Easter truce, did not demonstrate a will for peace▪️ Russia will judge Hungary's new government by concrete actions, Moscow is ready for dialogu...
The main news for this hour:Russia has come out of the "backyard" in the field of UAV technology, Medvedev said.Israel and Lebanon have agreed to cease fire, Trump said.The Kiev regime is purposefully...
The main thing at 21:00:Bonya said that after addressing the President, Sobchak began to "dig" for her.Shoigu reacted to Ukrainian UAVs flying through the EUZelensky demands that the EU return Ukraini...
for April 16 on the RT website in Russian:In Orenburg, a man killed a policeman, injured three others and fled. They're looking for him;Lebanon and Israel have agreed to a ten-day ceasefire, Trump sai...
Zakharova's main statements at the briefing:The Kiev regime did not show the will for peace during the Easter truce.Germany has become the main sponsor of the conflict in Ukraine, and the agreements o...
For Israel against all oddsNo matter how the dog's tail wagged, she was licking it all: the US Senate blocked regular resolutions against the supply of equipment and ammunition to the Israel Defense F...
The main thing from Maria Zakharova's statements at the briefing:The Kiev regime's refusal to cease fire during the Easter truce has not demonstrated the will to peace;Russia will judge the new Hungar...
Plus: The U.S. blockade widens, Los Angeles teachers get a pay bump, the sunny side of a treeless national mall, and more...
The night before l voted against going to war in Iraq, my sister, Beverly, told me that a Knoxville television station had run a poll and found that in East Tennessee, 74 percent were in favor of goin...
Russia is preparing for another phase of war in Ukraine, but the battlefield that matters most may no longer be in Donbas. It is inside the country’s own information space. As economic pressure mounts...
Taiwan Semi Slides Despite Record Results In Warning Sign For Chip Companies Taiwanese chip giant, Taiwan Semiconductor Manfuacturing Co, said Thursday its net profit surged to a fresh re...
New Hungarian Prime Minister Says Borders Will Remain Shut To Immigrants In the wake of Viktor Orbán's election defeat, one of the greatest fears among conservatives in the region is an u...
The Russian ambassador says Swedish cyberattack claims are based on “unfounded suspicions” and “highly likely” conjecture Read Full Article at RT.com
Ukraine has attacked a Liberian-flagged oil tanker in Russian territorial waters, Russia’s Investigative Committee has said Read Full Article at RT.com
Hungary’s incoming leader Peter Magyar has pledged to halt the operations of national broadcaster MTVA, accusing it of spreading propaganda Read Full Article at RT.com
Global organizations have opposed a rival government in Sudan, warning it could worsen divisions Read Full Article at RT.com
The BBC plans to eliminate up to 2,000 jobs as part of a sweeping cost-reduction effort Read Full Article at RT.com
US President Donald Trump aims to rewire oil flows away from Hormuz with Europe seen as the biggest loser, according to Tom Luongo Read Full Article at RT.com
India’s merchandise exports rose to $38.92 billion in March, while imports fell to $59.9 billion, the government has said Read Full Article at RT.com
Belgium has intercepted two shipments of military equipment from the UK bound for Israel Read Full Article at RT.com
The Russian Defense Ministry’s statement on Europe’s plan to scale up drone production for Ukraine contained an explicit warning, says military analyst Ivan Konovalov speaking to Sputnik: Europe is tu...
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Companies in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia have delivered tens of thousands of drone components and assembled drones to Ukraine over the past months, Sputnik found after analyzing p...
'We’d prefer to do it the nice way through a deal led by our great vice president and negotiating team. Or we can do it the hard way,' Hegseth said.
The U.S. military has turned back 10 ships since the start of its blockade of Iranian ports.
Hezbollah has destroyed two Technical High Mobility Shelters (THMS) of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in southern Lebanon using first-person... The post Hezbollah Destroyed Two Israeli THMS Communic...
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What happened during the day. The main events for this hour on April 16APU and so on in Tuapse. Two children were killed, seven people were injured, and an emergency regime was introduced in the Tuaps...
The US Navy has nothing to mine the Strait of Hormuz with — there are only seven minesweepers of two types in service, and the effectiveness of underwater drones has not been tested, military expert A...
There is a truce in LebanonThat's what Trump saidWell, now the Lebanese will definitely know the world: the US president announced a ten-day cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah. The deal will take...
Bloomberg: Iran remains combat-ready after US and Israeli strikesIran was able to mitigate the consequences of the US-Israeli strikes thanks to pre-prepared military planning, Bloomberg writes. Despit...
Six months ago, Jonathan Pollard explained what he thinks Israel should do when Washington imposes a ceasefire: threaten to use nuclear weapons, and be ready to follow through.Pollard recounted Octobe...
Europe is welcoming a reset after 16 years of Orban, but on Ukraine, energy and sovereignty, Budapest may change style more than substance Read Full Article at RT.com
US President Donald Trump has claimed he is “opening” the Strait of Hormuz while the US military enforces a blockade on Iranian trade Read Full Article at RT.com
The Russian Defense Ministry has published a list of manufacturing sites across Europe involved in manufacturing drones for Ukraine Read Full Article at RT.com
Battlefield heroics don’t always translate into strategic victories. The post Is Hormuz Washington’s Suez Moment? appeared first on The American Conservative.
Ukraine-linked drone manufacturing sites identified by the Russian military should be perceived as targets, Dmitry Medvedev has said Read Full Article at RT.com
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