3 d. ago Putin's week of 'double humiliation' as Trump strikes oil 'ghost fleet'

Donald Trump has overseen a far more aggressive US foreign policy, starting the year with a military strike in Venezuela

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4 d. ago Putin's week of 'humiliation' at the hands of Trump: Experts explain how Russian dictator has been 'put in a corner' by Atlantic ship raid and Maduro capture as US flexes its muscles around the world

Donald Trump has put Vladimir Putin 'in a corner' by taking Venezuela's leader prisoner and storming a Russian oil tanker this week, experts have said. 

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6 d. ago Donald Trump DOES send planes over British Greenland after locals warn President to stay away

The US has sent war planes to John O'Groats airport, just a stone's throw from Greenland in Scotland. Pictures of the aircraft emerged just hours after worried residents warned Trump against invading their village.

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9 d. ago Reason why Keir Starmer did NOT attack Trump decision but may have to soon

Donald Trump has been urged not to destabilise NATO by invading Greenland after saying he is 'very serious' about taking control of the Danish territory, sparking a diplomatic crisis

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2 w. ago Putin vows victory in Ukraine in chilling New Year message days away from tyrant overtaking Stalin in grim war milestone

PUTIN has vowed he will defeat Ukraine in a chilling New Year message. His disturbing speech, in which he congratulated his soldiers on a premature victory, comes as he edges close to beating a grim war milestone. In two weeks' time, Putin's war against Ukraine will have lasted longer than Josef Stalin's crusade against Europe...

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2 w. ago The Guardian view on the new space race: humanity risks exporting its old politics to the moon | Editorial

Over the holiday period, the Guardian leader column is looking ahead at the themes of 2026. Today we look skyward, where a new lunar contest mirrors humanity’s struggle to live within planetary limitsDuring the cold war’s space race, the Apollo moon missions were driven by the need to prove American superiority. Having made that political and technological point with the 1969 moon landing, the contest between Moscow and Washington petered out. A new dash across the skies kicks off in 2026, reigniting geopolitical competition under the guise of “peaceful exploration”. The moon’s south pole is emerging as the most valuable real estate in the solar system, offering “peaks of eternal light” for solar arrays and ice deposits in craters shielded from the sun.The US and a China-led bloc are eyeing the lunar surface and its potential to control a post-terrestrial economy. Space had been humanity’s last commons, supposedly shielded by the 1967 UN outer space treaty that bans state ...

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3 w. ago Russian guards cross into NATO territory sparking Estonian 'response' weeks after Putin's war planes entered Baltic nation's airspace

The officers allegedly crossed the control line between Russian and Estonian territory on a breakwater in the Narva River.

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3 w. ago Nato on alert after Russian border guards ‘illegally cross border into Estonia’ on hovercraft

Russia has been accused of repeated incursions into Nato territory by fighter jets and drones in recent months

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4 w. ago WW3 alarm bells as Russian guards caught entering NATO country

Three Russian border guards crossed into Estonian territory without permission

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4 w. ago Putin claims speculation of war with the West is ‘hysteria’ – two weeks after threatening Europe

Russian president said Moscow is not seeking war with Europe despite escalation of hybrid attacks

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