3 h. ago Putin ‘may target’ another European nation as NATO unity is tested

An expert has warned the Russian despot Vladimir Putin is not done with his war

Politics

3 h. ago Former Archbishop of Canterbury: Putin is a heretic – he has no holy mission in Ukraine

For years, the Russian Orthodox Church has given its blessing to Moscow’s brutal invasion and attempted to frame it in religious terms. The former archbishop tells Maira Butt that Vladimir Putin’s violence directly contradicts the message preached by Christ

Politics

7 h. ago The tiny town that Vladimir Putin could use as an excuse to invade Nato

Tim Wilsey, a former diplomat, has warned that the brutal Russian leader's 'project' is not yet finished as he anticipates Putin will 'have a good year in 2026'.

Politics

23 h. ago Shocking moment North Korean soldier fighting for Putin in Ukraine is blown up by a landmine while sledging on the snow

THIS is the shocking moment a North Korean soldier triggered a landmine, blowing himself up. The man - sent to Russia to fight for Vladimir Putin - was blown backwards by the violent blast. In terrifying video footage, the soldier, deployed to the war zone by Kim Jong-un, can be seen sledging through the countryside...

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30 h. ago Russia taunts Britain claiming UK ‘sent 007 and his Bond girls’ to save Greenland

A close Vladimir Putin ally and war fanatic Dmitry Rogozin has mocked Britain over sending one member of a defence force to Greenland by asking if it was James Bond

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63 h. ago Has a Nazi theorist’s vision of a world divided into 'great spaces' found a new advocate in Trump? | Brendan Simms

Carl Schmitt wanted empires that dominated the small countries in their orbits. But the US president’s chaotic actions are not that strategicIt is axiomatic to many of his critics that the US president, Donald Trump, is a fascist. Indeed, some have seen echoes of the work of the Nazis’ “crown jurist” and political theorist, Carl Schmitt, in the Trump administration’s domestic policies, particularly his doctrine of “the exception”, which can be used to suspend certain constitutional rights. After a tumultuous few weeks in geopolitics, his work is being discussed for its contemporary relevance again.In the wake of the release of the new US National Security Strategy in 2025, its raid on Venezuela, the president’s rhetoric on Greenland, Panama, Colombia, Mexico and Cuba, and his apparent indulgence towards Vladimir Putin’s Russia, the question now being asked is whether Trump is also an advocate of aspects of Schmitt’s concept of “great space”.Brendan Simms is director of the Centre fo...

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3 d. ago Russia sends WW3 nuclear weapons threat to UK and mainland Europe

Sergey Karaganov, head of Russia’s Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, said that if Russia is defeated in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin "would use nuclear weapons".

Events

3 d. ago Whether or not Trump invades Greenland, this much is clear: the western order we once knew is history | Timothy Garton Ash

The EU must be more robust in order to stem the tide of international disorder, or it risks falling to authoritarian imperialismDonald Trump is threatening to take over Greenland, the territory of a Nato ally, possibly by military force, as Vladimir Putin is trying to take over Ukraine. Even if he doesn’t actually do it, this is a new era: a post-western world of illiberal international disorder.The task now for liberal democracies in general, and Europe in particular, is twofold: to see this world as it is and to work out what the hell we’re going to do about it.Timothy Garton Ash is a historian, political writer and Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Vladimir Putin boots British diplomat out of Russia – 'He is a SPY'

Russia has booted out a British diplomat after alleging he was acting as a spy, the country’s foreign ministry has said

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3 d. ago Ukraine war today: Trump claims Zelensky hampering peace deal

Donald Trump has blamed his inability to end the war in Ukraine on its president Volodymyr Zelensky, saying that Russian leader Vladimir Putin “is ready to make a deal” while “Ukraine is less ready”.

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4 d. ago French bulldog from Manchester found 200 miles from home 5 months after alleged theft

The tiny dog was found thanks to a drone search of a town on Scotland's coast

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4 d. ago £10 for graffiti & £7,000 for MURDER: Putin’s payments to Russian sabotage agents wreaking havoc in UK & Europe revealed

A TENNER for graffiti, £445 for reconnaissance and £7,000 for murder – these are the going rates for Europeans willing to betray their country for Vladimir Putin. A bombshell report released today reveals how devastating "hybrid warfare" operations attributed to Russian military intelligence have tripled across NATO allies since Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Russia is...

Economics

5 d. ago Russian diplomat hanged in Cyprus ‘GRU military spy about to defect’

Russia government authorities have been suspected of being behind the deaths of influential figures in the country who have run foul of Vladimir Putin's dictatorial regime

Events

5 d. ago Putin's notorious Doomsday Radio bursts into life issuing secret war codes

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned of fears that Vladimir Putin is about to launch a renewed bombing campaign as temperatures plummet below -10C over the next week

Politics

5 d. ago Brit soldier who went AWOL to fight Russia in Ukraine promoted since returning to UK

A COLDSTREAM Guard who fled his barracks to fight Russia in Ukraine has been promoted since he returned to Britain.  The soldier was 19 when he booked a one-way ticket to fight dictator Vladimir Putin’s troops.  He was the first member of the Armed Forces to go AWOL to head to Ukraine.  But he has...

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6 d. ago Donald Trump’s threats to seize Greenland by force make him no better than Vladimir Putin

Record View looks at the situation in Greenland as Donald Trump wants to take the island.

Politics

6 d. ago Trump's free speech tsar compares UK to Putin's Russia over threats to ban X 'to protect Brits from AI bikini pictures'

Sarah Rogers, President Donald Trump's free speech tsar, has compared the United Kingdom's threat to block X to Vladimir Putin's Russia.

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7 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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7 d. ago Scotland on 'front line' of increasing tensions between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin over Greenland

Russian aircraft and naval vessels have repeatedly strayed into Scottish airspace and maritime zones in recent years.

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8 d. ago Why Russia’s economy is unlikely to collapse even if oil prices fall

Hopes that tougher sanctions and lower oil prices could derail Putin’s war effort underestimate how far the Kremlin has rewired its economyPacing inside the Kremlin last weekend, as news feeds churned out minute-by-minute reports of Donald’s Trump’s Venezuelan coup, Vladimir Putin may have been wondering what it would mean for the price of oil.Crude oil has lubricated the Russian economy for decades – far more than gas exports to Europe – and so the threat of falling oil prices, prompted by US plans for control of Venezuela’s rigs, will have been a source of concern. Continue reading...

Economics