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The EU might be on the verge of a new migrant crisis, with more than half a million people waiting in Libya alone to cross into Europe, Greek Migration Minister Thanos Plevris has said. The bloc was first inundated by asylum seekers from the Middle East and Northern Africa during the 2015 refugee crisis, when a million migrants entered Europe, straining welfare systems and prompting tens of millions of European voters to turn to far-right…

Donald Trump is set to touch down in Beijing, China, on Wednesday for a two-day state visit – the first by a US president in eight years – as relations between the world’s two largest economies teeter at a crossroads defined by the Iran war, trade friction, and technological rivalry. The visit is expected to feature a bilateral meeting with President Xi Jinping on Thursday morning, to be followed by a visit to the Temple of Heaven and a state…

Public broadcasters in Spain, Ireland and Slovenia have said they would not air the 70th anniversary Eurovision Song Contest, which begins on Tuesday in Austria and will culminate in Saturday’s grand finale, citing opposition to Israel’s participation. The three countries, along with the Netherlands and Iceland, withdrew on Monday from this year’s event in Vienna, leaving the contest facing the biggest boycott in its 70-year history. · Vienna…

Russia’s Defence Ministry accuses Kiev of violating the Victory Day ceasefire thousands of times since it took effect on Friday. · Moscow says its army is observing the ceasefire, and is only responding-in-kind to the assaults. Donald Trump rejects Iran’s response to his peace deal proposal - calling it ‘totally unacceptable’ - coming after he threatened lethal action against anyone getting between the US and the Islamic Republic’s enriched…

Radio New Zealand recently published a piece expressing concern over coalition politicians increasingly criticising mainstream media institutions. The framing was predictable. · Politicians attacking the media, readers were told, risk undermining “independent journalism” and democratic accountability. · But buried inside that argument lies the contradiction now driving one of the biggest collapses in public trust across the Western world: ·…

A growing group of engineers, physicists, and energy specialists are warning that New Zealand’s Net Zero 2050 agenda may not only be economically damaging, but technically impossible to achieve. Report By elocal · In a newly published paper titled “Why New Zealand Must Drop Net Zero 2050,” Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering John Raine, Cambridge technology professor Michael Kelly, and power systems engineer Bryan Leyland argue that…

New Zealand’s business sector is showing increasingly visible signs of strain, with new data revealing a sharp rise in company liquidations across multiple industries, led overwhelmingly by the construction sector. By elocal Report · According to new commentary from Kiwibank economist Alexandra Turcu, annual company liquidations across New Zealand are now running 15% higher year-on-year, with construction firms accounting for by far the…

A newly unsealed FBI document is fueling fresh questions about what the federal government may have known for decades regarding UFO encounters, extraterrestrial contact, and the mysterious deaths allegedly surrounding witnesses who spoke publicly about such incidents. By Frank Bergman · The 1967 memo, released Friday as part of President Donald Trump’s UFO transparency initiative, details claims from a young female informant who allegedly told…

US President Donald Trump has called Iran’s response to Washington’s latest proposal for ending the war “totally unacceptable,” after Tehran insisted it would not surrender the strategic leverage it has gained around the Strait of Hormuz. The contents of Iran’s response have not been made public, but according to US media reports, Tehran’s counterproposal focused on ending the war and securing guarantees that hostilities would not resume, while…

Long before the D-Day landings came to symbolize the decisive turning point of the Second World War in many Western narratives, the Soviet Union had already spent years bearing the brunt of the war against Nazi Germany, suffering massive losses while repeatedly urging Britain and the US to open a second front. By June 1944, when Allied troops landed in Normandy, the Soviet Union had already spent almost three years bearing the brunt of the war,…