(2025-09-18). Trump, Starmer welcome £150b in US tech investment for UK. tribune.com.pk 
US President Donald Trump hailed America's "unbreakable bond" with Britain on Thursday as he and Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed a landmark technology deal, strengthening cooperation in artificial intelligence, quantum computing and nuclear energy. | At the signing ceremony, attended by leading US tech CEOs, Starmer said he and Trump were "leaders who genuinely like each other." The agreement comes alongside £150 billion ($205 billion) of investment pledges from American giants including Microsoft, Google and Blackstone. | Later, Donald Trump warned that Russia President Vladimir Putin had "really let…
(2025-09-18). Warsaw turns to Kyiv after Russian drones enter Polish airspace. scmp.com Poland is drawing on Ukraine's expertise in battle-tested drone warfare, establishing joint military training programmes and manufacturing projects, officials from Warsaw and Kyiv announced on Thursday, just over a week after Russian drones entered Polish airspace and exposed Nato's vulnerability to a new generation of uncrewed systems. | Drones used for defence and attack have taken a central battlefield role in the more than three years since Russia invaded Ukraine, transforming how wars are…
(2025-09-18). Kyiv says Russia returned 1,000 bodies to Ukraine. tribune.com.pk 
Ukraine on Thursday received 1,000 bodies from Russia that Moscow said were of fallen Ukrainian soldiers, a Kyiv government agency announced. | "Repatriation measures took place today. 1,000 bodies, which according to the Russian side belong to Ukrainian servicemen, have been returned to Ukraine," Ukraine's Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War said on Telegram. | Ukraine returned the bodies of 24 Russian soldiers in exchange, said another government body that provides information on Russian prisoners of war and missing Russian soldiers. | The repatriation of soldiers' bodies and the…
(2025-09-18). UK police arrest 3 for spying as Lithuania eyes Russia-linked sabotage network. scmp.com British, Lithuanian and Latvian authorities have detained people on suspicion of carrying out intelligence-related activities on behalf of Russia in the latest of a string of incidents linked to Moscow by Western officials. | The Metropolitan Police said on Thursday they arrested three people just east of London on suspicion of spying for Russia. On Wednesday, Lithuanian prosecutors said they uncovered and detained a Russia-linked network of suspects who are alleged to have planned and organised…
(2025-09-18). Italian professor on the EU: "Economic-financial-industrial giant, a social dwarf, and a poor worm militarily" unitedworldint.com 
First part of the interview focusing on historic roots of anti-Russian sentiment in the continent. We conducted an extensive interview with Prof. Dr. Franco Cardini, one of Italy's foremost living medieval historians, who continues to teach at the University of Florence. Cardini provided our questions with deep and detailed answers, blending current events with historical …
(2025-09-18). Era of Unipolar World Over: Iran's President. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said successful cooperation between independent nations like Iran and Russia signals the end of global unipolarity, asserting that countries can achieve growth without reliance on unilateral powers.
(2025-09-18). Huawei bypasses Nvidia AI chips in touting key breakthrough for China. scmp.com Huawei Technologies on Thursday unveiled hardware that it said could deliver world-class computing power without using Nvidia's advanced chips, in a breakthrough that could potentially break the supply chokehold that constrains China's aspirations in artificial intelligence. | The Shenzhen-based telecommunications equipment giant's high-profile disclosure came just a day before a scheduled phone call between President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump, as Beijing seeks to minimise US…
(2025-09-18). Political Genocide in the USSR (1936-1940): The Moscow Trials and the Dewey Commission. wsws.org This is the first part of the lecture "Political Genocide in the USSR (1936-1940)" delivered by Fred Williams, Katja Rippert, and Alejandro Lopez to the 2025 Summer School of the Socialist Equality Party (US) on the history of the Security and the Fourth International investigation.
(2025-09-18). Why the EU foreign policy chief must go. thealtworld.com Forget vision and commonsense; Kaja Kallas seems to lack even the most basic understanding of modern history | or a reliable metric to assess the progressive decline of the European Union, and particularly its cognitive dissonance with regards to international politics, one should look no further than the recent statements of foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas. | The type of relentless Russophobia that Kallas displays has become, sadly, essential to the resume of any official who aspires to a successful career within the EU's institutions. | Indeed, degrading the relationship between Moscow and Brussels is a top pr…
(2025-09-18). Eric Cantona, former Man Utd and France star, calls on FIFA and UEFA to suspend Israeli clubs. haaretz.com Speaking at the 'Together for Palestine' benefit in London, the retired soccer player pondered why there's a 'double standard,' citing the decision to suspend Russia days after the invasion of Ukraine…