Brasília’s sky was bright and beautiful on the day Thiago Bernardes de Souza took this shot. Exploring Brazil’s capital city on his motorbike is a pleasure when the weather is like this, he says, and his canine cavalcade had effectively invited themselves along for the ride. ‘When I saw what I…

But analysts noted this morning that the court is due to issue rulings on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. The expectation on Wall Street is that the court will rule that the president does not have the power under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose tariffs on…

Ukraine will receive new energy and humanitarian assistance from several partner countries in the coming days, Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said, as the government works to stabilize the power system after repeated Russian attacks. Ukraine is in the midst of a severe winter energy crisis.…

Ukrainian forces have successfully targeted Russian air defense infrastructure in temporarily occupied Crimea and a drone storage facility near the city of Donetsk, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on January 17. In Crimea, Ukrainian forces hit two critical components of…

European Union flags and a Ukrainian flag flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, February 24, 2025.(Yves Herman/Reuters) Audio By Carbonatix The Financial Times reports on consternation in continental chancelleries over the prospect of “enlarging” the European Union by…

Russia’s oil-and-gas budget suffered a painful blow in 2025. Revenues from the sector fell 24% to 8.48 trillion roubles, the weakest showing since 2020. That matters because oil and gas still bankroll roughly a quarter of the federal budget, and that budget is being chewed up by defense and security…

Polish donors have raised more than one million zlotys (about $275,000 USD) in three days to buy power generators for Kyiv, as the Ukrainian capital faces prolonged power outages after Russian attacks on energy infrastructure, organizers said, as reported by OKO.press. Kyiv has been among the…

Information agency «Ukrainian National News» Subject in the field of online media; media identifier - R40-05926 This resource is intended for persons who have reached the age of 21. All rights reserved. © 2007 — 2025 Kyiv • UNN January 14 2026, 07:37 AM • 144 views In Mariupol, a shootout occurred…

Two SIGINT ships side by side. Credit: Saab AB. Poland has launched its second signals intelligence (SIGINT) vessel, ORP Henryk Zygalski, at a ceremony in the city of Gdańsk. ORP Henryk Zygalski is the final ship in the DELFIN programme, following the launch of the first vessel, ORP Jerzy Różycki,…

Last year, disruptions to the Global Positioning System (GPS) in Latvian airspace were recorded 1,276 times, representing an increase of 55.6% compared with 2024, according to the state-owned company Latvijas gaisa satiksme (LGS). In December alone, 48 GPS interference incidents were recorded, which…

A 17th century bookwheel standing in the center of the library’s reading hall appears to be ready to serve the readers. Picture courtesy of Peter Roudik. A Tour of the National Library of Naples – Picture of the Week January 20, 2026 Posted by: Taylor Gulatsi Share this post: Today’s blog post is a…

News Defense Copenhagen’s top Arctic commander frames allied exercises as precautionary, pushing back on claims that Greenland faces an immediate external threat. Copy Link Copied Share via email Share on X Share on WhatsApp Share on LinkedIn Free article usually reserved for subscribers Søren…

Information agency «Ukrainian National News» Subject in the field of online media; media identifier - R40-05926 This resource is intended for persons who have reached the age of 21. All rights reserved. © 2007 — 2025 "Russian Railways" cargo transportation fell to a minimum amid sanctions and…

Czechia is preparing to transfer a number of combat aircraft to Ukraine specifically for countering Russian drones, according to President Petr Pavel. The announcement was made during a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on January 16. President Pavel stated…

Polish Lawmakers Request Military to Establish Suborbital Spaceport #Europe #Neighbors #Poland #Space #World Perun rocket launch from the Ustka test site. Photo: SpaceForest Members of Poland’s Sejm have submitted an interpellation to the Ministry of National Defence proposing the creation of a…

Rules for children leaving Russia New border-crossing rules for Russian minors came into force on 20 January. From now on, children under the age of 14 need an international passport to leave the country. The changes apply in particular to travel to Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Abkhazia and…

Asia Society Philippines, in partnership with the Embassy of Ukraine in the Philippines and Manila House, presented Melodies of a Heroic Nation: A Concert of Ukrainian Music on November 23, 2025, at Manila House, Bonifacio Global City. The program featured a piano concert and lecture by…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow is "very much concerned" by what it believes is the ongoing presence of the U.S. Typhon missile system in Japan, in light of deepening military and strategic cooperation between Washington and Tokyo. Lavrov, speaking to journalists in Moscow, said…

A young adult-focused imprint of Russia’s largest book publisher, Eksmo, has shut down after being targeted by the Russian government for allegedly violating LGBTQ+ “propaganda” and “extremism” laws. Popcorn Books launched in Moscow in 2018. Its website states that it is for 18+ readers and…

Italian financial authorities have detained a cargo ship in the port of Brindisi on suspicion of violating European Union sanctions targeting Russia, according to ANSA on January 17. The vessel, flying the flag of a small Pacific island nation—reportedly Tuvalu—was carrying more than 33,000 metric…

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As the ongoing war in Ukraine has placed new sanctions on Russia and its energy resources, a new pipeline for Russian crude is being jointly developed by Hungary and Serbia, two of the central European nations that still do business with Moscow. The situation has been exacerbated by recent drone…

USNavy itamilradarJanuary 19, 20262 Mins read182 Share Share In recent hours, a US Navy P-8A Poseidon conducted an extended surveillance mission over the Black Sea, standing out for how far east the aircraft operated, reaching waters roughly off the Georgian coast. While P-8A patrols in the basin…

The Crimean Human Rights Group presents the results of a study of mentions of Ukraine and Crimea in the media of Latin American countries, conducted in collaboration with LOOQME. For the purpose of the study, among all the news mentioning the surveyed objects in the LOOQME media data base foreign…

In March 2026, troops from 14 allied countries will train under harsh, Arctic conditions in Norway's largest military exercise in 2026. Updated: 16. Jan 2026 15:11 Read this page in Norwegian The current security policy environment is characterised by increased tension and unpredictability. As a…

World News Why Russia Is Cheering—and Fearing—Trump’s Greenland Gambit The Kremlin will use the Greenland crisis as a case study in Western hypocrisy in its global propaganda, arguing that the U.S. is the true imperialist power. Rameen Siddiqui January 19, 2026 Facebook WhatsApp ReddIt Telegram A…

An autonomous territory of Denmark thousands of kilometers from the US is currently center stage in a geopolitical tussle. US President Donald Trump says it's "unacceptable" that Greenland should not come under US control and has threatened tariffs on any countries who don't fall in line with his…

Since their expulsion from their naval base in Tartus, with the probably unforeseen longevity of the closure of the Bosporus to naval traffic, the Russian naval presence in the Mediterranean has been small and fleeting at best, and sometimes entirely absent, for the first time since 1945. On January…

Watch: Fishing on a frozen river for respite from the war in Ukraine Kyiv is many miles from the front line, but Ukraine's war with Russia is never far away – with Moscow's missile and drone attacks directed at the city almost every day. On the frozen surface of the mighty River Dnipro, the BBC…

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During the Future Fleet Panel at SNA 2026, Chris Miller, the Executive Director at Naval Sea Systems Command, and Rear Admiral Derek Trinque, the U.S Navy Director of Surface Warfare (N96), Rear Admiral Brian Metcalf, and Rear Admiral Peter Small went in depth regarding the newly unveiled BBG(X)…

The shipping industry has always been good at navigating uncertainty; however, the rapid expansion of the shadow fleet represents a different kind of risk. It’s not just regulatory or geopolitical; it’s informational. A parallel system moving out of sight Concern over the shadow fleet’s growth is…