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Ukraine’s High Anti-Corruption Court has ordered Vladimir Zelensky’s former chief of staff, Andrey Yermak, into pre-trial custody, setting bail at approximately $3.2 million over allegations linked to a $10 million money laundering scheme. The ruling was delivered Thursday following three days of hearings in Kiev. Yermak told the court he could not afford the amount and plans to appeal the decision. Prosecutors argued that electronic monitoring…

Russia's Ministry of Defense carries out large-scale retaliation strikes on Ukrainian military and energy infrastructure in response to Kiev's attacks on civilians. · The former head of Vladimir Zelensky's office who was his right hand man in Ukraine is arrested over a large-scale corruption scheme. · A court orders he be held behind bars for 60 days. The US and China talk diplomacy in Beijing but major sticking points remain including the…

Barbara Boyd rebuts Slotkin's claim that Trump needs China's help over Iran, exposes the Toronto huddle of Carney, Obama, and Alex Soros, tours the booming American economy under Hegseth and Greer, and frames Trump's China trip as the prelude to a US-China-Russia renaissance. By Barbara Boyd · Barbara Boyd rebuts Senator Elissa Slotkin's claim that Trump must beg China to resolve Iran, noting China's dependence on Iranian oil and America's…

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon delivered one of the most significant speeches of his political career this week. For the first time in plain language, a sitting New Zealand Prime Minister openly acknowledged what many ordinary Kiwis have already sensed for years: · the global rules-based order is fracturing geopolitical instability is accelerating energy security matters supply chains are vulnerable debt is dangerous and social cohesion…

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has used a major pre-Budget address to the New Zealand Business Association to outline what he described as a new era of “national resilience,” warning that the global rules-based order is weakening and New Zealand must urgently adapt to a more volatile world. In a wide-ranging speech titled “Securing New Zealand’s Future,” Luxon argued the world is shifting from one governed by international rules to one…

US President Donald Trump’s counterterrorism director has suggested that two of the president’s loudest critics – Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes – are considered potential left-wing threats by the White House. The White House released its National Strategy for Counterterrorism last week, which labels “Narcoterrorists and Transnational Gangs, Legacy Islamist Terrorists, [and] Violent Left-Wing Extremists, including Anarchists and Anti-Fascists”…

US President Donald Trump’s arrival in China this week is being treated as far more than another diplomatic photo opportunity. · Relations between Washington and Beijing remain tense, competition between the two powers stretches across almost every domain, and yet both sides appear increasingly aware that uncontrolled confrontation would carry enormous costs. Against that backdrop, the prospect of a broader geopolitical bargain is once again…

Shots ring out in the Senate of the Philippines. It's all reportedly linked to an attempt to arrest Senator Bato dela Rosa, who's been hiding for months from an International Criminal court arrest warrant. · Donald Trump touches down in China. All eyes on Beijing as the East-West trade rivalry is in high gear, the Taiwan issue, the war on Iran and AI are all set to dominate the agenda. Romania’s president gives a hard NO to holding snap…

New Zealanders like to think of themselves as an uncomplicated lot. So straightforward, in fact, that successful completion of a short test can determine one’s fitness to become a Kiwi. · At least, that’s the plan from Minister of Internal Affairs Brooke Van Velden, who has announced that from late 2027 part of the process of becoming a New Zealand citizen will entail scoring at least 75% in a 20-question multiple-choice test. By Richard Shaw,…

The indictment of Vladimir Zelensky’s closest political and personal associate, Andrey Yermak, for alleged money laundering involving a luxury housing complex is broadly viewed as a final warning from the West before potential charges against the Ukrainian leader himself. Monday’s bombshell announcement by the Western-backed Ukrainian National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) is part of the agency’s ongoing investigation into businessman Timur…