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Armenia's Western Bet Heads to a Vote — and Moscow Is Watching Nervously
On June 7, Armenians vote in an election that doubles as a verdict on their country's break from Russia. The polls say Pashinyan wins big — the question is what Moscow does next.
Five Workers Dead After Explosion Rips Through Hanwha Aerospace Munitions Plant in Daejeon
A blast during explosives-related cleaning work at a classified South Korean defence facility has killed five people and left others critically injured. Hanwha Aerospace has apologized — but the real questions are about what safety protocols failed inside a plant handling live ordnance.
UK Energy Bills Jump 13% — and the Iran War Is Driving the Bill
Ofgem has raised the price cap by 13%, adding £18 a month to the average household's energy costs from July. The conflict in the Middle East is a key driver — and ordinary British families are being handed the tab.
The World Is Winning the War on Workers — And the US Just Made the Watch List
The planet's largest trade union body says 72 percent of countries are now stripping workers of basic rights. The troubling part isn't the usual suspects — it's who joined them.
Colombia's Runoff Is Latin America's Ideological Fault Line in Real Time
A Trump-aligned populist and a Petro-backed leftist are headed to a June runoff — and the result will signal whether the Latin American right's regional surge has finally cracked the continent's most complex democracy. The stakes are not abstract.
Brooklyn Rivera Died in Ortega's Custody — After Two Years of Official Silence
Nicaragua's government held a 73-year-old Miskito leader for nearly three years without public acknowledgment, then announced his death from a COVID-related bacterial infection. The timeline alone should trouble anyone who believes in basic standards of detainee accountability.
PSG Wins Champions League — France Answers With 890 Arrests and a Question Nobody's Asking
The trophy came home. So did the tear gas. French authorities confirmed 890-plus arrests after PSG's title celebrations collapsed into nationwide violence — 45 percent more than the chaos that followed last year's win.
Powell Breaks Silence: Politicize the Fed and You Break It Forever
The man Trump spent two years trying to fire just accepted a JFK award — and used the podium to say out loud what the central bank's defenders have only whispered. This is what a warning shot looks like when it comes wrapped in institutional courtesy.
NATO's 5% GDP Defense Pledge Is the Bill Coming Due for Three Decades of Free-Riding
European allies just agreed to spend 5% of GDP on defense by 2035 — a target that would have been unthinkable five years ago. The question isn't why the bar was raised; it's why it took this long and who paid in the meantime.
Peter Obi Takes NDC Ticket and Dares Nigeria's Power Crisis With a 10,000MW Clock
Accepting the Nigerian Democratic Coalition's presidential flag, Peter Obi put a four-year deadline on fixing the electricity catastrophe that has strangled Nigerian industry and households for decades. The question isn't whether the number is ambitious — it's whether anyone believes the system will let him near the switch.
Gov. Sherrill Calls for Calm at Delaney Hall as Counterprotesters Arrive
The governor said she wanted to avoid escalating federal immigration enforcement operations amid protests at the immigration detention center, Delaney Hall. Gov. Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey on Saturday urged protesters to remain peaceful and to comply with local law enforcement after a confrontation between state police and demonstrators erupted outside an immigration detention center in New Jersey overnight. Addressing reporters at a Saturday afternoon news conference at a New Jersey State Po
Labour Wins Malta's Fourth Straight Term — And Europe Should Be Paying Attention
Robert Abela's Labour Party has just done something no Maltese government has done before: win four consecutive terms. In a European political landscape trending hard right, a small Mediterranean island just broke against the grain.
SoftBank to invest up to €75 bln in French AI data centers By Investing.com
Investing.com-- SoftBank Group (TYO:9984) plans to invest up to 75 billion euros ($87.50 billion) to build and operate 5 gigawatts of artificial intelligence data center capacity in France, marking one of the largest AI infrastructure commitments in Europe. The announcement, made as part of President Emmanuel Macron's Choose France investment initiative, includes an initial investment of 45 billion euros to develop 3.1 GW of AI data center capacity in the Hauts-de-France region by 2031. Get rea
Israel Seizes Medieval Castle, Expands Ground Push as Lebanon PM Calls It 'Scorched Earth'
Israeli forces have captured Beaufort Castle and pushed north of the Litani River, while Lebanon's prime minister says the campaign is collective punishment designed to drive civilians into permanent exile. The ceasefire is holding in name only.
A Drone Hit Europe's Largest Nuclear Plant. Both Sides Deny Pulling the Trigger.
Physical damage at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is confirmed. What nobody in the conflict will admit is who sent the drone — and the IAEA is left picking up the pieces with no enforcement power.
Hegseth Lectures Europe on Defense Spending While Courting Asia — Allies Smile and Hold the Line
The Pentagon chief used Singapore's premier security forum to praise Asian partners and publicly shame NATO's European members — again. The Europeans are getting practiced at absorbing the blows without flinching.
Calls for China, US to build stable military ties
China and the United States should work toward a "healthy, stable and sustainable" military-to-military relationship by implementing the important consensus reached by the two countries' leaders, a Chinese military scholar said on Saturday at the high-level security forum Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. Major General Meng Xiangqing, a professor at China's National Defense University, made the remarks at a parallel session of the Shangri-La Dialogue, after US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth refe
Alpine Towns Shut Europe's Busiest Mountain Corridor — and They Mean It
Residents of Austria's Wipp Valley didn't write a letter or file a petition. They walked onto the Brenner motorway and stopped it. The corridor that funnels the continent's freight through a narrow Alpine gorge has a pollution and noise problem that decades of EU promises haven't touched.
After Maduro's Fall, Venezuela's Opposition Demands a Real Election — Not a Rubber Stamp
With Nicolás Maduro in U.S. custody and a power vacuum yawning open in Caracas, Edmundo González Urrutia is calling for fresh presidential elections and throwing his weight behind Nobel laureate María Corina Machado. The question is whether Venezuela's fractured institutions can deliver a vote that actually means something.
Global Finance Chiefs Warn Middle East War Is Squeezing Energy Arteries
The world's four most powerful economic institutions are flashing yellow on oil supply — while carefully not saying what everyone in the room already knows. The Strait of Hormuz is the choke point, and nobody has a plan if it closes.
Russia Drones a Turkish Cargo Ship in the Black Sea. Ankara Is Not Happy.
A Turkish-owned vessel sailing from Odesa was struck by a Russian drone overnight, wounding two Turkish nationals. Ankara is calling it an escalation — and for once, that word is not spin.
Ghana's 'Anti-Gay Bill' Is Not the Bill Ghanaians Were Promised
Parliament passed it. The president's party celebrated it. But the opposition says the legislation that cleared the chamber on May 29 is a gutted rewrite — same name, different law. Someone is lying.
Eleven Children a Day: Israel's Post-Ceasefire Strikes Are Killing Lebanon's Kids
A ceasefire was supposed to stop the dying. Instead, UNICEF is counting eleven children killed or wounded every single day in Lebanon — and Israel has declared new combat zones and is still bombing.
UMG Board Slams the Door on Ackman's $65B Takeover — Bolloré Wins This Round
Bill Ackman came with $65 billion and a vision to reshape the world's largest music company. Universal's board sent him home empty-handed — and the man who actually runs UMG from the shadows barely had to lift a finger.
Iran's Top Negotiator: No Deal Without Proof — Not Promises — Rights Are Secured
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, freshly re-sworn as parliament speaker, has drawn a hard line: Tehran will not move first on any nuclear agreement while tit-for-tat strikes are still live and Washington's credibility is zero. The gap between a deal and a war is now a single, loaded word — trust.
Zelensky Names Military Unit After WWII Group That Massacred Poles — Warsaw Erupts
Ukraine's president officially honored the Ukrainian Insurgent Army by naming a special forces unit after it. Poland's leadership isn't taking it quietly — and the fallout could cost Zelensky one of his most symbolically important wartime trophies.
Russia's Drone War Just Hit NATO Soil — And the Alliance's Response Is a Press Release
A Russian drone struck a residential apartment block in Galați, Romania, injuring two civilians and scorching a roof inside a NATO member state. The alliance condemned it. Then got back to scheduling exercises.
Trump Stalls on Iran Deal While Demanding Terms Tehran Has Not Actually Signed
A two-hour Situation Room session ended without a decision, and the gap between what Washington says Iran agreed to and what Iran has publicly confirmed keeps widening. The architecture of a deal is being announced before the walls are built.
Israel Bombs Lebanon Past the Ceasefire Line While Mocking France at the UN
Six weeks after a ceasefire was announced, Israeli forces are pushing deeper into Lebanese territory and seizing historic sites. Paris called an emergency Security Council session. Israel's response was ridicule.