Norwegian scientists say global warming will lead to more wildfires in the forests surrounding the site of the 1986 nuclear accident, leaving Europeans exposed to radioactive elements still present in the exclusion zone around the plant. “A large amount of Caesium-137 still remains in the Chernobyl forests, which could be remobilized along with a large number of other dangerous, long-lived, refractory... 

Ukrainian army troops on the outskirts of the city of Izium. Britain has joined the United States in saying it reserves the right to supply the Kiev government with lethal aid amid a new round of peace talks over the crisis in eastern Ukraine. Britain will not allow the Ukrainian army to collapse in its fight against pro-Russians in eastern Ukraine, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond stated during... 

The leader of the French National Front, Marine Le Pen, believes that resolving the Ukrainian crisis is possible only by giving a neutral status to the country. “The settlement of the Ukrainian crisis is a very complicated question. But I think that it was possible to solve it by giving a neutral status to the country,” Le Pen said, TASS reports. Le Pen stressed out that “Ukraine’s... 

A new Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) report prepared for the planned ‘Normandy Four’ meeting that may be held in the Belarus capital of Minsk as early as Wednesday, with President Putin, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande, warns that should this effort fail, “total war” remains the Federations only option... 

Anti-Western sentiments in Russia have reached their highest levels in 25 years with an overwhelming majority of people harboring a negative attitude toward the United States and the European Union, a poll shows. Relations between Russia and the US appear to have come undone after the beginning of the Ukrainian standoff more than one year ago, independent pollster the Levada Center said on Monday. According... 

German Industrial machinery maker Siemens has said it will slash 7,800 jobs worldwide as part of a restructuring plan aimed at saving almost one billion euros (USD 1.14 billion). “In a drive to streamline administrative and overhead functions, about 7,800 jobs are to be cut worldwide, including some 3,300 in Germany,” the company said in a statement released on Friday. Joe Kaeser, the... 

U.S. General Philip Breedlove, NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe. NATO’s commander in chief says the West should not rule out arming Ukraine. General Philip Breedlove said no troops would be sent to the region, but providing Kiev with weapons and equipment was on the cards. Speaking to reporters at a security conference in Munich on Saturday, Breedlove said: “I don’t think we should preclude... 

A tent camp of the supporters of Ukraine’s integration with the EU on Maidan Square in Kiev where clashes between protesters and police began. Top EU officials, rather than Russia, threatened Ukraine with a coup d’état if Kiev refused to sign an association agreement in 2013, Nikolay Azarov, Ukraine’s former prime minister, said. “I’ve never heard neither Putin nor Medvedev saying... 

Russian President Vladimir Putin as he speaks during a press conference in Moscow on December 18, 2014. Russian president says his country will never accept a world order which is headed by one single government. Vladimir Putin on Saturday said Moscow will oppose a unipolar world order where an undisputed leader imposes his own will on the world. “There’s an attempt to disguise the current... 

Russia’s Ambassador to NATO, Aleksandr Grushko. NATO weapons deliveries to Ukraine are unacceptable and could lead to dangerous and unpredictable consequences, says Moscow’s NATO envoy. He also urges the OSCE to look into the use and origin of Western arms already supplied to the country. Moscow is warning Washington against sending arms to war-torn Ukraine, including military hardware being... 

It is generally believed that mankind of the XXI century is much more progressive than our predecessors, who lived hundreds and thousands of years ago. However, in ancient times, there were technologies that could come in handy in our days. Unfortunately, though, the secrets of those technologies have been irretrievably lost. Mysteries of History: Greek fire Let’s take the period of antiquity.... 

Muslim rape scandal destroys ‘white privilege” myth. Pakistani rape gangs targeted white children, authorities covered up scandal over ‘racism’ fears. The girls were specifically selected by the Muslim rape gangs because they were white. They were seen as “easy meat”. Their so-called “white privilege” didn’t help them at all, in fact it was an integral reason why they were... 

President Petro Poroshenko, who the US, along with the Europeans and NATO, helped place in power after last year’s coup, has declared that he has “no doubt” America’s taxpayers will provide the lethal weapons he desires to fight the separatists in eastern Ukraine. I never had any doubt, either. Of course it’s all to stop “Russian aggression.” NATO’s expansionism is never considered... 

Winter deaths are soaring across the UK . Official figures reveal that the death rate related to cold snaps in England and Wales is over 30% higher than normal for this time of year. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) some 28,800 people died in the fortnight ending January 23. ONS said the flu virus and the cold snap are the main reasons behind the recent spike in winter deaths. Elderly... 

Ukraine’s pro-Russian rebel chief on Monday branded the country’s leaders “miserable” Jews in an apparent anti-Semitic jibe. Alexander Zakharchenko, leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, claimed that Kiev’s pro-Western leaders were “miserable representatives of the great Jewish people”. “I can’t remember a time when Cossacks...