House Democrats have launched a probe into the Trump administration’s alleged attempt to transfer ‘sensitive’ US nuclear technologies to Saudi Arabia. The company implicated has already found a couple of usual suspects to blame. White House staff members are reportedly fast-tracking “the transfer of highly sensitive US nuclear technology” to Saudi Arabia without the necessary congressional... 

Nigel Farage has said that Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán represents “the future of Europe” and predicted the EU will become more focused on nationhood, rejecting the domination of Brussels. “Orbán actually believes in things. He does not sheepishly, slavishly go along with the European project as he firmly believes in the concept of the nation-state.” “He clearly is a strong... 

Hungary’s foreign ministry has summoned the Swedish ambassador over critical remarks by a Swedish minister concerning the Hungarian government’s recent family assistance measures, the foreign minister said. In a tweet, Annika Strandhall, the Swedish minister for social affairs, said that Hungary’s “alarming” policies were “reeking of the 1930’s.” She suggested the Hungarian prime minister,... 

Russia is testing the heavy attack drone Okhotnik (‘Hunter’), which is designed to dismantle an enemy’s defenses. It is scheduled to enter service this year along with some similar models. Can it challenge the West’s UAV reign? The new heavy stealth attack drone Okhotnik will have its first test flight in the “nearest future,” Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov... 

Donald Trump slammed the deep staters who, it appears, plotted to unseat him from the Presidency by abusing the 25th Amendment. Trump took to Twitter and hammered former Acting Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe, accusing him of lying, following a CBS interview Sunday during which he claimed that the Department of Justice sought to force Trump out of office. “Wow, so many lies by now disgraced acting... 

France gathered for the 14th week of Gilets Jaunes protests, with the injury toll of the worst civil unrest in decades now resembling that of a small war. Yet despite pleas from victims, Emmanuel Macron is tightening the screws. “This is not normal. We are in France, one of the oldest and best democracies in the world,” says Fiorina Jacob Lignier, who lost her eye at a demonstration in Paris on... 

Belarus is ready to merge with Russia, Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko said on the third and last day of his bilateral talks with President Vladimir Putin on Friday. Rumors resurfaced this year that Russia could annex Belarus as Putin’s constitutional term limits bar him from running for the presidency in 2024. “The two of us could unite tomorrow, no problem,” Lukashenko said in... 

Grandpa Lampshade, a US podcaster and political dissident who is barely known among white nationalist circles, got doxed only days after being visited by the FBI at work. Grandpa is not a huge podcaster, the dox file makes the claim that he was some huge actor in the “white supremacist movement,” but this is not really accurate. He is basically a random guy. He hosted a small show for a dedicated... 

Yad Vashem is the central Holocaust memorial in Israel. Every foreign dignitary who visits the country has to go there and pay ritual homage. Most people naturally assume that the memorial emerged as part of that culture of post-war commemoration that has put Holocaust museums in almost every major American city and now Europe, too, where even supposedly “far-right” governments such as those of... 

Poland’s Foreign Minister has dismissed the idea of creating an EU army independent of NATO at the Munich Security Conference. Poland, he said, needs “an American presence” to compete with Russia. Combining the military forces of the EU’s 28 member states has long been a dream of some EU leaders. French President Emmanuel Macron talked up the idea of building a “real European army” to... 

Sweden’s minister for social affairs compared Hungary’s new family assistance measures to Nazism. Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto hit back by criticising the Scandinavian country’s migration policy. In a tweet, Annika Strandhall, the Swedish minister for social affairs, said that Hungary’s “alarming” policies were“reeking with the 1930’s”. She suggested the Hungarian prime minister,... 

Conservative firebrand Ann Coulter has put a final nail into the coffin of her long-since-cooled political romance with Donald Trump, calling him an “idiot” and an “emergency” after he said that he “hardly” knows her. Coulter, an early and once-fervent supporter of Donald Trump’s presidency, has ramped up her criticism of the commander-in-chief in the weeks following the shutdown as... 

A gravely worded new Ministry of Defense (MoD) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that American F-35B Lightning II stealth fighter jets with the fixed-wing detachment of Medium Marine Tiltrotor Squadron 262, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) have broken off bombing drills in the Philippine and East China Sea region and are now racing towards the Indian subcontinent in preparation for... 

Italy’s deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini seems set on shaking Europe’s financial establishment to the core. One day after the Italian deputy prime minister and leader of the League party, called for the elimination of Italy’s central bank and the country’s financial regulator, Consob, saying the two institutions should be “reduced to zero, more than changing one or... 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has confirmed the Israeli army hit targets in Syria in an attempt to discourage Iran from gaining a foothold there. Israeli shells have reportedly hit a hospital and an observation post. “We operate every day, including yesterday, against Iran and its attempts to entrench itself in the region,” Netanyahu said as he was about to depart to the Middle...