China’s President Xi Jinping told a grinning Vladimir Putin ‘change is coming’ in an ominous parting message as he departed Moscow on Tuesday evening following talks with his Russian counterpart. ‘Change is coming that hasn’t happened in 100 years. And we are driving this change together,’ Xi told Putin via his interpreter – words sure to set alarm bells ringing... 

Russia has warned there are ‘fewer and fewer steps’ to a potential ‘nuclear collision’ and warned Britain it will ‘respond’ to its ammunition supplies to Ukraine. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday that there were fewer and fewer steps left before a potential ‘nuclear collision’ between Russia and the West, Interfax news agency reported. Shoigu was responding... 

Furious Vladimir Putin has condemned the International Criminal Court’s ‘outrageous’ decision to issue an arrest warrant for him over war crimes in Ukraine, that one expert said could hasten his removal as Russia’s leader. The ICC on Friday called for Putin’s arrest and accused the despot of committing war crimes by abducting Ukrainian children from their homes and deporting... 

The Chinese embassy in Washington DC denies involvement in the Ukraine crisis and asserts it has not supplied weapons to either side. However, data from ImportGenius reveals that Chinese companies, including one linked to the Beijing government, shipped equipment, including 1,000 assault rifles, to Russian entities. The shipments took a convoluted route via NATO member Turkey and the UAE between June... 

Russia’s former President Dmitry Medvedev offered a $15 million bounty to kill Italy’s defence minister Guido Crosetto, a newspaper is claiming. Italian Il Foglio newspaper said the country’s intelligence service intercepted an order from Medvedev – a former Kremlin president – to private military company Wagner. Medvedev – deputy head of Russia’s powerful... 

Kremlin forces are reported to have found the downed US MQ-9 Reaper drone at a depth of up to 2,953ft in the Black Sea off the major naval port of Sevastopol, according to Russian media. A source close to the Russian defence ministry reportedly told ForPost, a publication in annexed Crimea: ‘An underwater robot has descended to the seabed and detected the MQ-9 Reaper at a depth of about 850-900... 

Communist China is now actively challenging the international world order, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said. The growing influence of China now represents a “challenge” to the world order, Rishi Sunak has admitted, with the UK leader now calling for Western nations to stand up to the increasingly powerful Eastern nation. Sunak’s statement comes amid a newly agreed deal between the UK,... 

The $32 million MQ-9 Reaper drone downed in the Black Sea after a run-in with Russian fighter jets on Tuesday is the same type of aircraft used by the CIA to kill Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul in July, 2022. Equipped for long-range surveillance missions, the unmanned spy aircraft is controlled by two pilots on the ground – sometimes as much as 5,000 miles away -can fly for 20 hours,... 

The Welsh government says that statues of “old white men” such as Admiral Nelson should be removed or even destroyed because they may be “offensive” to Britain’s increasingly multicultural population, with de facto shrines to diversity set to replace them. The guidance, which is set to be finalized by the end of the month, argues that the memorials fuel the “perception that the achievements... 

The UK is set to test a frightening ‘Armageddon alarm’ within weeks which will see thousands of people’s phones flash and set off alarms. Millions will hear an alarm sound from their phone and will receive warning text messages as part of the government’s new emergency alert system trial. The system is designed to warn people if there is a ‘danger to life’ nearby,... 

Horrifying footage shows the moment flesh-melting ‘thermite rain’ bombs descend on a town in eastern Ukraine, as Vladimir Putin’s forces continue to employ brutal tactics to cling on to meagre gains. It comes as Russian troops continue to suffer heavy losses in the bitter fight for Bakhmut, with yesterday reportedly the deadliest day for Putin’s army so far. The Ukrainian army... 

There is a possibility that extraterrestrial motherships and smaller probes may be visiting planets in our solar system, the head of the Pentagon’s unidentified aerial phenomena research office noted in a report draft shared Tuesday. “[A]n artificial interstellar object could potentially be a parent craft that releases many small probes during its close passage to Earth, an operational construct... 

Amid escalating tensions between Iran and Western powers, concerns have surged regarding Tehran’s alignment with Russia and its potential ambitions to challenge the established global order. President Ebrahim Raisi’s administration has drawn closer to Moscow, notably by providing substantial military support to aid Vladimir Putin’s campaign in Ukraine. Observers suggest that Raisi’s... 

Violent protests in Nigeria reveal that getting average people to embrace central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) might be more difficult than government officials would like. Nigerians recently took to the streets to protest a cash shortage caused by government policies adopted in order to push the country into the adoption of its central bank digital currency (CBDC). Protesters attacked bank ATMs... 

On Twitter, a video that appears to show a sizable amount of American military hardware in the Polish port city of Gdynia has been circulated. A number of American tanks, APCs, and military trucks can be seen at the port in the video, which was also released by a Latvian Twitter news outfit. According to the source, on February 22, 2023, “the equipment belonging to the US Army’s 3rd Armored...