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Donald Trump and his defense secretary Pete Hegseth presented the September 2 strike at the time as proof that their administration was acting decisively against violence in the region. One boat, eleven dead, a quick success ...
Venezuela seems in these weeks like a country that has already begun to prepare internally for an emergency. Behind closed doors, far from public press conferences, military officials and government advisers have drawn up two scenarios that are to be activated only in one case: ...
In Hallandale Beach, American and Ukrainian negotiators met at a place that looks more like a golf tournament than world politics. But behind the glass fronts of the club, the talks went far beyond courtesies ...
Again one of those nights in which Ukraine is burning while elsewhere people speculate whether Putin is suddenly ready to negotiate. In Kyiv, Russian drones, missiles and ballistic weapons struck completely ...
A picture is spreading in Germany that has little to do with reality in Washington: Marco Rubio as the man who defused a plan fatal to Ukraine at the last second ...
The Ukrainian delegation has returned from Geneva, and what President Zelensky is now making public shows more clearly than any government spokesperson in Washington how fragile these talks are and how much ...
In Bucha, where mass graves, bullet holes, and the smell of burned wood still remind people of what Russian soldiers left behind in the spring of 2022, residents are grappling with a new burden ...
It feels like a moment in which several political axes are shifting at the same time. While Donald Trump publicly pressures Volodymyr Zelenskyy to sign his peace plan by Thanksgiving, ...
Belém - It happens in seconds, yet it changes the mood of an entire summit. Around midday, a fire broke out in one of the pavilions of COP30 in Belém - right in the Blue Zone, ...
In the Oval Office, two men sit next to each other who know exactly what is at stake that afternoon. On one side Donald Trump, the president who is back at the lever ...
Arauca, Colombia - The USS Gerald R. Ford, the most advanced aircraft carrier of the United States, has arrived in the Caribbean. A ship of enormous presence, accompanied by fighter jets and destroyers ...
They came in boats, buses, trucks, on foot and with the unshakable determination of those who know that time is running out for them. From the Andes of Ecuador, the rainforests of Peru, ...
New York – The statement by New York City’s newly elected mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has drawn international attention. Mamdani declared in several interviews that he would order the arrest of Israeli Prime ...
Miami - It sounds like a satire on the state of the world: FIFA, that billion-dollar syndicate of officials, corporations, and statesmen, has announced the creation of a "Peace Prize" - and intends ...
Trump's administration has erased the boundary between politics and profit. The state has become a service for its donors. By the end of October 2025, the Trump administration had suspended, dropped, or closed a total of 204 investigations ...
In a hall of glass and gold, under chandeliers that seemed more like symbols than sources of light, Donald Trump Jr. stood on the stage of the “Future Investment Initiative” forum in Riyadh ...
You pass through a gate that is little more than a wall, and the world changes. On one side, the city - dusty, loud, marked by trade and daily life; ...
For months, Donald Trump’s relationship with Vladimir Putin had been a performance of bluster and hesitation, of loud announcements and quiet retreats. But on this Wednesday, the posturing ended. The President ...
Japan’s political scene stands at a turning point – and at the same time before a mirror in which familiar contours from Washington, Rome, and Budapest are reflected. A governing party loses its majority, a long-standing coalition ...
Maria worked for 13 dollars an hour. She cleaned schools in Florida, receiving a check every two weeks for 900 dollars - enough to survive with her eleven-year-old son ...
Admiral Alvin Holsey, head of the U.S. Southern Command and top military commander for Central and South America, has resigned - out of conscience. He no longer wanted to be part of a war that is not one ...
It was a sentence that struck like a detonator in the history of American foreign policy - casually spoken, but with tectonic force. "I authorized it," Donald Trump said Wednesday in the Oval Office when a journalist ...
It is a global confrontation without cannons but with similar destructive power. What once served as a technocratic instrument of economic control - tariffs, visas, export restrictions - has long since become a weapon ...
It takes a peculiar mixture of self-confidence in power and intellectual carelessness when an incumbent attorney general announces before rolling cameras that she will “take apart the entire Antifa.” Pam Bondi said it as if she were ...
In the United States, the movement that once brought millions of people into the streets has almost disappeared - not because it failed, but because it was deliberately silenced ...
It was to be expected - and yet again a spectacle for the history books. While in Oslo the cameras were focused on a 58-year-old Venezuelan woman receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her unwavering ...
Four men dead, a burning boat off the coast of Venezuela - and a U.S. government that spins a war narrative out of it. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared on Friday that the strike ...
A not publicly released, unclassified communication to Congress, 17 dead at sea, a new narrative: Donald Trump has it recorded that the United States is in an "armed conflict" with drug cartels ...
It was meant to be a symbolic moment: Kash Patel, newly appointed FBI Director of the Trump administration, traveled to Wellington at the end of July to inaugurate the FBI’s first standalone office in New Zealand ...
It was not simply a speech - it was an alliance of propaganda. On the stage of the United Nations, Sergei Lavrov declared in a cool voice: NATO had in fact declared war on Russia ...
On September 23, 2025, Donald Trump turned the General Debate of the United Nations in New York into a spectacle between provocation and appeasement. His appearance was more than a speech, ...
It does not begin with a decision, but with a sound: the cry “Shame, shame, shame - Trump is to blame,” that drifts across the Rue Zinner this Thursday, over...
The men on the boat first saw it as a small dot on the horizon. An American drone, coming closer. They understood immediately. Panicked, they swung the engine around, the boat ...
China and Russia are moving in a dangerous lockstep that goes far beyond the mere exchange of goods. Documents that have come to light from Russian authorities and through hacker leaks paint a picture of close military cooperation that at its core aims to equip Beijing ...
The morning sun of September 9, 2025, rose over Kathmandu, but instead of the usual golden light that makes the snow-covered peaks of the Himalayas glow, a biting smoke hung over the ...
The drone footage looks like something out of a dystopian war movie: A small boat, visibly overloaded, speeds through the dark Caribbean Sea. Seconds later, the strike, then silence. Eleven people dead ...
Sometimes it is the operations that no one is allowed to see that reveal the most about a presidency. In the spring of 2019, Donald Trump sent the legendary SEAL Team 6 on a mission so sensitive ...
Beijing, September 3, 2025. The sun rose over Tiananmen Square and illuminated a scene of surreal symbolism: three men whose regimes are responsible for the systematic oppression of millions shook hands ...
For the first time in history they will stand together on one stage: Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. The North Korean ruler arrived in Beijing on Tuesday ...
There are images that could hardly be more symbolic. Donald Trump sits at the desk of the Oval Office, eyes closed, head bowed. Around him stand his loyalists, laying ...
The USS Gravely, the USS Jason Dunham and the USS Sampson - three Aegis destroyers of the US Navy - plow through the Caribbean, accompanied by submarines and fighter jets. In Caracas, meanwhile, ...
The silence is deceptive. Anyone walking today through the streets of Portland, Berkeley, or Charlottesville no longer encounters the heated demonstrations that just a few years ago shaped the image of American cities ...
A high-ranking Israeli cybersecurity official is arrested in Nevada, the charge is attempted sexual exploitation of a child. Court documents confirm the arrest, police records document the 10,000 dollar bail, his name appears on the ...
A new international survey paints a merciless picture of Donald Trump’s global reputation. In most countries surveyed, distrust clearly prevails - and yet there are regions ...
There are moments in history that burn themselves into the collective memory because they show how thin the veneer of civilization really is. August 11, 2025, was such a moment ...
Our work is not only an analysis of American domestic policy, but also an early warning system for democracy on this side of the Atlantic. When we document how in the United States academic freedom is being shut down ...
With a single post on his platform Truth Social on August 6, 2025, President Donald Trump made it clear that he is ready to intervene in the self-governance of the capital ...
It is a document that chillingly shows how normalized and at the same time grotesque life around Jeffrey Epstein was. A letter from director Woody Allen from 2016, ...
Donald Trump has once again shaken the foundations of world trade. Starting August 7, punitive tariffs will come into effect in the United States that are unprecedented in their ...
Russlands digitale Verwundbarkeit hat am Montag ein neues, dramatisches Ausmaß erreicht. Die staatliche Fluggesellschaft Aeroflot musste über hundert Flüge streichen, nachdem ein massiver Hackerangriff ihre IT-Systeme lahmgelegt hatte. Mehr als…
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