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Speaking to the crowd Saturday morning, Putin invoked the sacrifices of the Second World War to rally support for his soldiers fighting in Ukraine. “The great feat of the generation of victors inspires the warriors carrying out the tasks of the special military operation today,” the Russian leader said, using the Kremlin’s euphemism for his invasion of Ukraine. “They stand against an aggressive force armed and supported by the entire NATO bloc,” Putin said. “And despite this, our heroes move forward. Victory has always been and will always be ours,” he said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy quickly signaled his support for…
Recent days have seen the U.S. and Iran exchange fire, despite a monthlong ceasefire which U.S. President Donald Trump maintains is “still in effect.” U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said the U.S. was expecting a response from Iran on a peace proposal, with media reports quoting him on Friday as saying: “We’re expecting a response from them today at some point … I hope it’s a serious offer, I really do. … The hope is it’s something that can put us into a serious process of negotiation.” Trump has warned the U.S. would “knock [Iran] out a lot…
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday oversaw a military parade commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. Security was tight in Moscow as Putin was set to speak at the parade in the Red Square, even as a US-brokered three-day ceasefire eased concerns about possible Ukrainian attempts to disrupt the festivities. Russia’s Defence Minister Andrei Belousov was seen congratulating soldiers, including some from the North Korean army, according to AFP. This year, for the first time in nearly two decades, the parade takes place without tanks, missiles and other heavy weapons, aside from a traditional flyover of…
The king of Denmark late Friday charged Deputy Prime Minister Troels Lund Poulsen, leader of the center-right Venstre party, with trying to form the next government after Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen failed to build a new coalition. After a near deadlock in Denmark’s March 24 election, Frederiksen has been leading coalition negotiations in a bid to secure what would be her third term in office. Frederiksen’s Social Democrats secured the most votes in the parliamentary election, but the party fell far short of a majority in the Folketing, the Danish parliament. Denmark’s royal household issued a statement Friday night announcing that King…
Updated: 09/05/2026 – 10:55 GMT+2 Newly released Pentagon footage shows unidentified aerial phenomena captured in different locations over several years, as the US government publishes declassified UFO-related files under a transparency initiative. … More
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“They don’t need to use drones to confuse air defense radars and overwhelm systems in quite the same way,” she said. “So there would be no real husbanding of assets, at least in the early phases of potential war with the U.S.” Beijing has its own struggles. China has not fought a war since invading Vietnam in 1979 and is in the middle of an extensive military purge that led to two former defense ministers, Li Shangfu and Wei Fengh, sentenced to death this week. The crackdown has resulted in the dismissal of more than 100 senior military officers since…
Fewer than a hundred Jewish people are estimated to remain in Syria, scattered across a country where their community once numbered in the tens of thousands. In the narrow stone alleys of Damascus’s ancient Jewish Quarter, the question of how to maintain religious tradition with almost no one left to sustain it has become urgent — and nowhere is that more visible than in the search for kosher food. Bakhor Shamntoub, head of Syria’s Mussawi or Jewish community, sat down with Euronews to explain how a tradition that once sustained an entire community now depends on individual effort, occasional imports…
Once seen as stuffy, boys-only spaces shrouded in cigar smoke, private members’ clubs have undergone a chic transformation in recent decades. Post-COVID, creatives and entrepreneurs have turned these third spaces into their offices, with an after-dark programme of events and discussions meant to bring these like-minded souls together. With more than 40 clubs in cities around the globe, Soho House has long dominated the conversation, but that hasn’t stopped a new challenger entering the mix: Luxury hotels. Already home to many of the amenities you’d expect, like a gym and a pool, it’s seemingly an easy side step into the…
The Venice Biennale is one of the world’s most prominent art happenings, a dynamic, global event coloured by and, in turn, commenting on the socio-political order of the day. For the 61st edition, however, late curator Koyo Kouoh’s vision was to reorient the show away from the “anxious cacophony of the present chaos raging through the world” to focus on softer tones of emotion, connectivity and grounding, encapsulated in the theme ‘In Minor Keys’. After Kouoh’s passing in May 2025, the Cameroonian-Swiss curator’s concept for the Biennale is now being realised by her team. It provides a framework for the…