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An Explosive-Laden Drone Flew Into NATO and Blew Up Next to a Gas Pipeline: Nobody Saw It, They Only Heard It

It came down in a sunflower field a kilometre from a compressor station. If it was not deliberate, that is...

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Turkey Signed a Second Defence Pact While Still in NATO: An Attack on One Is an Attack on All Three

A Mecca agreement with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, modelled on Article 5. It is not aimed at Iran, they say...

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Iran Has Set Six Conditions for Hormuz: That Is Not a List for Opening a Sea Route, It Is an Entire Unsettled Account

Sanctions, frozen assets, compensation, troop withdrawal. Tehran is in no hurry - time works for whoever holds the tap, not...

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Seven Chinese Ships Set Out Through the Arctic: Moscow and Beijing Are Building the Route That Bypasses Suez

Russia issued permits for seven Chinese ships on the Northern Sea Route, and China is announcing its first scheduled line...

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The Wedding Lasted Ten Days, Stripping the Title Took One Sentence: Brunei's Sultan Took Everything From His Daughter-in-Law

No explanation, no evidence, effective immediately. Eleven years after a wedding that ranked among the world's most expensive, the rank...

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The Race for the Moon's South Pole: China Is Building a Plan to 2040, and the Rules Get Written by Whoever Arrives First

Nobody is racing for a flag, they are racing for ice - water, fuel and air. The 1967 treaty bans...

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Italy and Spain Are Suspending Schengen on Each Other: Are the Rules a Foundation or a Tool?

Two EU founding members are checking each other's passports at an internal border. The Balkans have spent decades being told...

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The EU Shut the Door on Russian Fertiliser, and Moscow's Revenue Rose to 18 Billion

Deliveries to Europe fell by over ninety percent, and the earnings went up. Serbia tripled its imports, and Brussels' loudest...

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Finland Is Defending Itself With Swamps: the Cheapest Defence Measure Is Not Manufactured in a Factory

A report by two ministries says 180,000 hectares of mud are worth something on the Russian border. The Balkans have...

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The Sultan of Brunei Stripped His Daughter-in-Law of Every Title: Announced on Television, With No Explanation at All

Eleven years after a ten-day wedding in the largest palace on earth, the same man who brought her into the...

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Artificial intelligence created 16 functional viruses: the first time an algorithm wrote a complete genome

Out of 302 designs, only 16 worked. The question is no longer whether an algorithm can write a virus, but...

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Hamas Accepted the Plan, Netanyahu Rejected It: The Dispute Is Not What, but in What Order

The American plan calls for disarmament and withdrawal. Both sides agree on the steps - and disagree entirely on who...

06 August 2026 Read more →