Author: staff
The Kremlin on Friday denied reports that President Vladimir Putin had asked Russia’s richest men to bankroll the war in Ukraine, pushing back on claims that Moscow is scrambling for cash as military spending surges. “It’s not true that Putin made such a request,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, according to Reuters. Peskov explained that one individual had independently offered to donate a “very large sum” to the state during a recent meeting with business leaders, describing it as a personal initiative. “This was absolutely his initiative, and not President Putin’s. Although, of course, the head of state welcomed such…
Published on 27/03/2026 – 16:02 GMT+1 Nepal’s youngest prime minister took the oath of office Friday after his party won a landslide victory in elections earlier this month and following a youth-led uprising that toppled the previous government in September. Balendra Shah was appointed prime minister by President Ram Chandra Paudel after his Rastriya Swatantra Party won nearly two-thirds of the seats in the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of parliament, in the 5 March polls. Shah, the 35-year-old political outsider widely known as Balen, will lead a government tasked with navigating deep public frustration with Nepal’s established parties,…
1) ‘Very disappointed’ The U.S. president gave off the demeanor of a frustrated parent when he told the Telegraph he was “very disappointed” Britain hadn’t let the U.S. use the joint Diego Garcia airbase to strike Iran. Though Britain later allowed its use for limited purposes, Trump said Starmer took “took far too long” and “that’s probably never happened between our countries before.” Scholars of the Vietnam war may beg to differ. 2) ‘Not like it used to be’ Spoken like a former flame, Trump despaired that the alliance between the two countries was “not like it used to be,” telling…
Several leading Church figures have commented on the euthanasia of Noelia Castillo and have come out against this course of action. In the words of the Bishop of the Canary Islands, José Mazuelos Pérez, “we have all failed as a society”. In a statement, the bishops of the Subcommission for the Family and the Defence of Life expressed their sorrow over the case of the young woman, which they said reflected “an accumulation of personal suffering and institutional shortcomings that calls the whole of society into question”. In Mazuelos’s view, this option represents “another step towards a culture of death,…
There are two films out in cinemas right now which celebrate the Final Girl – the beloved horror trope coined by Carol J. Clover, whose exploration of the now-seminal figure of the sole female survivor has evolved from virginal damsel in distress to badass heroine who challenges conservative societal norms. Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come sees Samara Weaving reprise her role as Grace MacCaullay, who was the last woman / bride standing following the Le Domas family attempt to complete a sacrificial ritual in 2019’s excellent Ready Or Not. Weaving is sensational (as always), and new cast member…
He also claimed the West had “shot itself in the foot” by cutting reliance on Russian energy after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Dmitriev, an increasingly visible Kremlin economic envoy who has negotiated with the U.S. about the war in Ukraine, has ramped up his messaging in recent days, casting Russia as indispensable to global energy markets as supply tightens and arguing Western sanctions have backfired. His bullish remarks come with energy prices skyrocketing as Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz disrupts liquefied natural gas flows and pushes crude oil toward $100 a barrel, stoking fears of…
Published on 27/03/2026 – 12:25 GMT+1 A new era of quantum computing could challenge the foundations of online security sooner than many expect, Google says. Cybersecurity experts have sounded the alarm for years about quantum computers becoming so powerful that they could break the public encryption systems that protect our online conversations, bank accounts, and most vital infrastructure, wreaking havoc on governments and businesses. In a blog post, Google said that “quantum computers will pose a significant threat to current cryptographic standards, and specifically to encryption and digital signatures”. Quantum computing is a technology that uses the principles of quantum…
Published on 27/03/2026 – 12:05 GMT+1 A Russian court has banned the distribution of the award-winning documentary Mr Nobody Against Putin, after authorities claimed the film promoted “negative attitudes” about the government and the war in Ukraine. The ban on the documentary was issued by a Chelyabinsk court on Thursday after prosecutors said the film negatively portrayed Russia and promoted “extremism and terrorism”, according to AFP. Directed by David Borenstein and Pavel Talankin, the film follows Talankin – a school teacher – at a school in Karavash in Chelyabinsk region. His footage, secretly recorded over two years, chronicles how the…
“I would like to note that local air defense specialists are at a fairly high level, by the way, but they mostly work with ballistic threats. As for short-range air defense — how to counter massive “Shahed” [Iranian-made kamikaze drones] attacks — I believe no one has,” Zelenskyy said previously. Earlier, Zelenskyy said he would gladly trade Ukraine’s interceptor drones and expertise for PAC-3 missiles, which Gulf countries possess plenty of. In the first days of the war, they used more than 800 PAC missiles, while Kyiv has only received about 600 since 2022, according to reporting in the New…
By Greta Ruffino & AP Published on 27/03/2026 – 8:22 GMT+1 Pope Leo XIV will travel on Saturday to the Principality of Monaco, becoming the first pontiff in almost five centuries to visit the Mediterranean enclave. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said the visit would offer the American Pope his first real opportunity to address the whole of Europe. “In the Bible, it is the little ones who play a significant role,” Bruni said. Monaco is also one of the few European countries where Catholicism is the state religion. And Prince Albert II of Monaco has recently rejected a proposal to legalise abortion, citing…