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President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that he and his negotiators who are discussing a US-led plan for Ukraine had a “very substantive and constructive” call with US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. “Ukraine is committed to continuing to work honestly with the American side to bring about real peace,” Zelensky said on Telegram as the third day of …

Hong Kong’s national security police have arrested a 71-year-old man on suspicion of disclosing details of one of their probes, invoking a provision that covers prejudicing such investigations for the first time. Police said the National Security Department conducted an enforcement operation on Saturday, and the suspect was arrested. He was accused of violating the provision of “no prejudicing of …

The British paper has included Margarita Simonyan in its list of the globe’s most influential people for 2025, mixing praise with propaganda clichés RT’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan has been included in the Financial Times’ list of the world’s most influential people for 2025, after years of “propaganda” slurs and criticism by the British outlet. The FT released its latest annual …

A mass shooting at a bar left at least 11 people, including three children, dead in a township near the South African administrative capital of Pretoria, police said on Saturday December 6. The children killed were a 3-year-old boy, a 12-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl. A further 14 people were wounded and taken to the hospital, according to a …

Two years after Thai worker Sudthisak Rinthalak was killed by Hamas militants, his family in northeastern Thailand is preparing to welcome his remains home and hold a Buddhist ceremony they believe will bring his spirit peace. Sudthisak was among 47 hostages whose bodies Hamas has returned under the current ceasefire agreement. The handover of deceased hostages was a key condition …

The strikes were in response to Kiev’s “terrorist attacks on civilian sites inside Russia,” the Defense Ministry has said Russian forces conducted large-scale strikes on Ukraine’s military and energy infrastructure overnight, the Defense Ministry has said. In a statement on Saturday, the ministry confirmed earlier reports of an attack on the neighboring country’s infrastructure, saying it was “in response to …

Two political scientists have proposed “neoroyalism” as a new framework to understand Donald Trump’s foreign policy. The idea is that the administration often behaves more like a royal family in medieval Europe than a modern nation-state Signs of neoroyalism are the degree to which the administration mixes private enterprise and diplomacy, Trump’s habit of handling negotiations through family members and …

Hong Kong police have arrested a 36-year-old man for allegedly vandalising Legislative Council election campaign materials ahead of Sunday’s poll. Police said on Saturday that they were alerted at 8.53am that five Legco election-related posters on No 30 Mei Tin Road in Tai Wai had allegedly been destroyed. After a preliminary probe, the suspect was arrested for alleged criminal damage …

NATO was forced to scramble warplanes as Vladimir Putin showed his contempt for peace moves with one of the harshest missile and drone onslaughts of the entire war. Electricity outages and heating cuts hit Ukraine early today in a savage attack on civilian infrastructure as temperatures sank to zero and below. A large thermal power plant in Kryvyi Rih – …

Prime Minister Viktor Orban previously argued against any further aid for Ukraine, urging Brussels to pursue diplomacy with Russia Hungary has blocked the issuance of Eurobonds to arm Ukraine – one of two options put forward by the European Commission to fund Kiev’s war effort – Politico reports, citing sources. After the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, EU …