42 h. ago CIA files detail Cold War UFO encounter where 'aliens turned Soviet troops to stone'

The KGB report claims Soviet soldiers fired and shot down a flying saucer, but were then killed when the aliens onboard fired upon them with a weapon that turned them to stone

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59 h. ago Soviet soldiers ‘turned to stone’ by aliens in bonkers Cold War UFO clash, CIA documents reveal

Newly declassified intelligence files explain a Cold War incident involving unexplained phenoma, with humaoids and UFOs, that allegedly turned cold war soldiers to stone

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2 d. ago The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s Congo deal: mineral riches for protection | Editorial

Faced with regional chaos and shrinking options, Kinshasa seeks terms of trade that echo the old extractive order in modern disguise“The vilest scramble for loot that has ever disfigured the history of human conscience” is how Joseph Conrad described colonial-era concessions granted to private companies for Congo’s natural resources in Heart of Darkness. Under Donald Trump, that scramble may be back. If news reports are right, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is offering the US a blunt deal: minerals for military help – a slice of sovereignty traded for a shot at stability.The concern is this isn’t a return, it’s a sequel. For three decades, Washington supported Joseph-Désiré Mobutu, a cold war ally and brutal dictator who looted the Congo until his 1997 fall. That history of power politics still casts a long shadow. The Trump administration openly favours muscle over diplomacy. Fadhel Kaboub, an associate professor of economics at Denison University, notes that Biden-era ...

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3 d. ago Cold war! Ice cream van owner banned from park he has sold at for 15 years after cafe installs its own machine

Frank Cannata, who runs Frank's Ices, was banned from Wisbech Park, Cambridgeshire, after new tenants took over the café - and installed an ice cream machine.

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3 d. ago Ice cream man launches cold war against rival business in row over van pitch

Frank Cannata, 67, was booted out of his spot of 15 years in a park after a café owned by the local council installed its own ice cream machine - he is now giving away ice creams every weekend

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4 d. ago The Determined Spy: Frank Wisner, the CIA and a covert career cut short

New biography tells story of operative who directed coups in Iran and Guatemala and grappled with mental illnessFrank Wisner was a leading light of the early CIA, a director of clandestine operations who came of age in the second world war then fought the cold war by fair means or foul, from funding American cultural outreach to orchestrating coups in Iran and Guatemala.Before becoming a biographer, Douglas Waller reported for Newsweek and Time. His new book, The Determined Spy, is about Wisner, a man who lived an extraordinary life but came to be buried at Arlington national cemetery, under a simple headstone, identified merely as a commander in the US naval reserve. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago The last grand strategists: what Brzezinski and Kissinger could teach Trump

Living parallel lives, they counselled presidents and changed the course of the cold war. How would they steer America today?

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7 d. ago Donald Trump has transformed the American story | Osita Nwanevu

A decade ago, it was easy to believe US identity was a settled question. Now, as our institutions acquiesce to barbarism, the US’s promise has been traded for chaosMaking America great again was never a promise Donald Trump could deliver on, nor one that he intended to. That said, he has undoubtedly thrust the US back into history – and not just through his assault, in recent days, on the global economic order.About 50 years ago, the tumults of the late 1960s and early 1970s began giving way to a quietude that would carry us through the end of the cold war. Tested as we may have been by conflict, scandals and crises economic and not, we entered this new century – and met the uncertainties of a new world we’d forced into being – surer of ourselves than ever before. The towers fell, yes, but the US’s sense of purpose was as much of a settled fact in the world as American power. The American people were divided, true, but for all but an impertinent and implacable few, the major questio...

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1 week ago Top secret Nuked Blood documents to be opened after campaigners demand access

Nearly one million pages of evidence about Britain's Cold War radiation experiments involving its own troops will finally be made public as a minister has ordered their release

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1 week ago Lammy to urge allies to boost defence spending to make Nato ‘more lethal’

It comes after the UK announced the largest sustained increase to defence spending since the Cold War.

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2 w. ago The US men’s national team aren’t just underachievers; they’re unlikeable | Beau Dure

As the 2026 World Cup approaches, the USMNT lack the charisma, underdog charm and striking victories of their predecessorsImagine the 1980 Miracle on Ice, but with the USA on the other side.In this scenario, the US men’s hockey team aren’t a scrappy band of outmatched amateurs playing for the country perceived as the good guys in the cold war. The opponents aren’t an aloof, brutally effective Soviet Union team expected to steamroll their way to a gold medal just as their military were attempting to steamroll their way through Afghanistan. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Massive JFK files dump set to release everything CIA knows about Lee Harvey Oswald

Congress is set to host a hearing Tuesday to further examine how former President John F. Kennedy was killed half a century ago.

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2 w. ago CIA found the Ark of the Covenant by using psychics, declassified files claim

‘Remote viewer #32’ allegedly uncovered the gold-plated chest believed to house the Ten Commandments

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3 w. ago EU steps up crisis planning and advises people to stockpile 72 hours of supplies – Europe live

The EU has announced its Preparedness Union Strategy, outlining plans to prevent and respond to new crises and threatsMeanwhile, Swedish prime minister Ulf Kristersson has confirmed the country plans to increase the country’s defence spending to a provisional target of 3.5% of GDP by 2030 in the largest push since the end of cold war.Sweden was expected to spend 2.14% in 2024, with projections reaching 2.4% this year, and 2.6% in 2028.Let’s not forget that Russia is and remains the most significant and dark threat to our alliance. Let’s not forget that Russia is moving into a wartime economy. And that will have a huge impact on their capacity and capability to build their armed forces.When it comes to the defence of Poland and the general defence of Nato territory, if anyone were to miscalculate and think they can get away with an attack on Poland or on any other ally, they will be met with the full force of this fierce alliance. Our reaction will be devastating.This has to be very ...

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3 w. ago The Cold War 'peace offering' that did nothing to stop world being left on brink of nuclear Armageddon

The ornate double barrel weapon was one of two handed over by the Russian dictator during his unprecedented state visit to America in September 1959

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3 w. ago Cold war chronicler: Thomas Billhardt’s East Germany – in pictures

The photojournalist, who died in January, captured daily life in East Germany as well as Castro and Gorbachev’s visits, the fall of the Berlin Wall and life in Vietnam during the war Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Inside eerie British 'town' abandoned for years after 12,000 inhabitants left

The town was built by the British government at the height of the Cold War and housed thousands of servicemen and women – but now it stands completely deserted

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3 w. ago In defiance of Donald Trump, is a European ‘security council’ emerging? | Paul Taylor

With the US threatening unilateral withdrawal, even from the top Nato military post, five European nations must fill the vacuumIn the face of Vladimir Putin’s aggression against Ukraine and Donald Trump’s destabilisation of the Atlantic alliance, an embryonic European security council is taking shape on the hoof. Whether it will prove strong enough to protect Europe’s liberal democracies and deter Russia without US military support may be tested all too soon.Nato was created under US leadership to keep the Soviet Union at bay while suppressing centuries-old rivalries among European powers. The alliance stayed united through the cold war and attracted new central European members after communist rule collapsed. But the spectre of US disengagement now threatens to leave Europe without its nuclear-armed protector.Paul Taylor is a senior visiting fellow at the European Policy Centre Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Michael Sheen claims he saw UFO in his Welsh hometown after 'phalanx of lights'

Hollywood actor Michael Sheen believes he once had an encounter with a UFO after becoming 'transfixed' with lights in his hometown of Port Tablet when he was just a kid

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3 w. ago Oleg Gordievsky, Britain's most valuable Cold War spy inside the KGB, dies at 86

Former KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky has died aged 86 in England

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