On May 14, in the Kremlin’s latest crackdown on the publishing industry, Russian security forces questioned staff of Eksmo, the country’s largest publishing house, and arrested about 10 employees. State media reported that the case is part of a criminal investigation tied to content in books labeled…

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Europe Ukraine May 9, 2025, 9:15 AM KYIV, Ukraine—On April 26, Ukrainian partisans operating in the Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine knocked out a railway transformer near Stanytsia Luhanska, a Russian-captured town in easternmost Ukraine that intersects a critical Russian supply line. On…

Major container shipping companies are suspending at least six scheduled weekly routes between China and the United States as President Donald Trump's punishing tariffs on the world's top exporting country collapse trade, maritime consultants said. The ships on those routes have the combined…

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has told the story of nurse Svitlana, who killed a group of Russian soldiers with a grenade launcher and thus saved her unit from encirclement. Source: General Staff on Facebook Details: Svitlana was at a company stronghold located among the ruins of…

Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) has revealed technical details of the new Russian S8000 Banderol cruise missile on the War&Sanctions portal, an OSINT platform tracking people, entities and assets linked to Moscow's war against Ukraine and related sanctions. Source: Mezha Media, a technology…

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News FeedMonday, May 12 12:05 pm Poland closing Russian consulate in Krakow after blaming Moscow for Warsaw mall arson. Previously, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk accused the Russian intelligence services of orchestrating a May 2024 arson attack on the Marywilska shopping centre in Warsaw. 11:25…

An informative video published by 3D Living Studio takes a look into how container ships are designed, loaded, and unloaded. As explained in the video, a container ship is a specific type of cargo ship designed for the efficient transportation of standardized cargo containers. Cargo containers are…

US Discusses Near Total Reduction of Presence in Africa #Africa #USA #World U.S. National Guard soldiers in Somalia, December 3, 2019. Photo: Nick Kibby/BBC The Trump administration is proposing the elimination of almost all operations in Africa, as well as the closure of embassies and consulates…

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Since the downscaling of its Mediterranean footprint at Tartus in Syria from a fully-fledged naval base, complete with refueling, logistics and munitions warehouses, Russia’s Mediterranean Squadron has been without an alternative facility. This might not be a serious operational impediment had…

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AboutМедуза по-русски News FeedRU Support Meduza Russian police chief with gold-plated toilet sentenced to 20 years for trucker extortion 10:58 pm, May 12, 2025 Source: Meduza In the city of Cherkessk, in Russia’s North Caucasus, near the border with Georgia, a court has sentenced Alexey Safonov,…

Second U.S. fighter jet falls off USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier by Ian Stark Washington DC (UPI) May 7, 2025 A jet fell off the USS Harry S. Truman for the second time in roughly a week, officials said. The F/A-18 Super Hornet fell off the deck of the ship and was lost in the Red Sea, CBS…

Ukraine in maps: Tracking the war with Russia 6 hours ago the Visual Journalism teamBBC News BBC Fighting has raged in Ukraine since Russia launched a full-scale invasion more than three years ago. Russian forces have slowly expanded the amount of territory they control over the past year, mostly in…

by Ship & Bunker News Team Tuesday May 13, 2025 The Suez Canal Authority has announced a 15% rebate on transit dues for container ships of 130,000 tonnes or more. Image Credit: SCA The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has announced a 15% rebate on transit dues for container ships. This move aims to…

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Against the backdrop of the ongoing Defence Review and naval air power deployed in the Red Sea, the debate about the viability of aircraft carriers continues. In this guest article, Tim Griffiths considers the remarkable ability of these ships to withstand enemy action and serious accidents. A very…

For the first time, Ukraine’s military intelligence has released exclusive footage of the modernized S-200 missile systems in action. According to analysts from Defense Express, these systems were used to strike the Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bomber on 19 April 2024, at an unprecedented range of 308…

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Among other things, the ongoing negotiations to end hostilities in the Russia-Ukraine War include a maritime ceasefire agreement for halting hostilities in the Black Sea. At this stage, no publicly available details exist concerning practice and implementation. Meanwhile, European States are…

Military British Navy unveils secret ‘dolphin tech’ to illuminate deep and hunt Russian subs The gliders operate passively, listening for faint acoustic cues that indicate submarine activity. Updated: May 13, 2025 10:58 AM EST Kapil Kajal 20 hours ago Stock image of a submarine. razihusin/iStock The…

Greece and Egypt have reaffirmed their commitment to a proposed undersea electricity connection designed to transport renewable energy from North Africa to Europe. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi renewed the pledge during talks in Athens,…

Mitigating geopolitical risk across global operations requires focus, collaboration, and leadership. Subsea cables, where physical and digital networks converge – as the global digital footprint expands, it may present the single largest risk of the modern world. The explosive growth of digital…

NOAA Announces its Billion-Dollar Disasters Database 'Retired' The database that recorded natural disasters of significant financial impact will no longer be updated NOAA Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters Map for weather-related disasters impacting the United States in 2024, exceeding $1…

QUICK FACTS Where is it? La Palma, Canary Islands [28.62120467, -17.89960469] What's in the photo? A highly destructive lava flow winding into the sea Which satellite took the photo? European Space Agency's Sentinel-2 mission When was it taken? Oct. 1, 2021 This striking satellite photo shows…

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said he plans to visit Russia to personally urge President Vladimir Putin to attend peace negotiations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Istanbul, Brazilian media reported Wednesday. The Kremlin has yet to confirm whether Putin will…

Ustenko noted that if Senator Lindsey Graham’s sanctions bill proposing a 500% tariff on countries that purchase Russian oil is passed, Russia could lose around $150 billion — nearly 40% of its military budget. The former presidential advisor believes that China, Türkiye, and India would stop buying…

According to intelligence, the Russian economy has faced a new blow due to the drop in global oil prices, Western sanctions, and Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil refineries. It is noted that the Kremlin is urgently convening a meeting because of the alarming decline in the volume of transportation…

European Union countries have agreed to impose a new raft of sanctions against Russia, including those targeting nearly 200 ships in the so-called shadow fleet used to circumvent restrictions on oil and gas exports. The new round of sanctions, set to be adopted next week, comes as Moscow and Kyiv…

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The Defense Intelligence's special operations units have once again demonstrated their precision and effectiveness during a weeklong campaign targeting russian occupiers and their materiel along the front. Ukrainian reconnaissance-strike teams responded decisively to enemy assaults, inflicting 128…

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that he was open to discussing the potential deployment of his country's nuclear weapons elsewhere in Europe. The comments came in an interview with French broadcaster TF1 on Tuesday evening. Macron noted that the United States already stations…

Marion Schmidt had actually traveled to one of the most important gatherings of researchers to present recent developments at her university. The annual event held by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is one of the most prestigious scientific conferences in the world,…

The Earth has a new threat: massive computer data centers. A recent study predicted that these data centers — which already consume about 1.5% of global electricity — will double their energy usage in the next five years, to about 945 terawatt hours a year. To put that in perspective, a single…