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An elite Hong Kong government school has warned that some books donated by alumni may contain material potentially breaching national security legislation, pledging to adopt a new policy rejecting publications with political propaganda or illegal content. King’s College, in Mid-Levels, revealed the decision in its latest annual report on safeguarding national security and promoting national security education. In its report, …

Keith Kellogg’s forthcoming departure will be “unwelcome news” for Kiev given his sympathetic stance, the report says US President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, is planning to step down in January, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing sources. The article comes amid reports that the US presented a peace plan to Kiev requiring that it relinquish territory to Russia. …

A US judge on Wednesday repeatedly questioned the validity of the grand jury indictment of former FBI director James Comey secured by a prosecutor closely aligned with US President Donald Trump in the latest signal that the charges may be dismissed before trial. After repeated questioning by US District Judge Michael Nachmanoff, prosecutors acknowledged that the final version of the …

The most shocking thing about President Donald Trump’s Oval Office meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman on Tuesday was that anyone was shocked by it. The main headline coming out of the two leaders’ combative session with reporters was Trump’s blasé dismissal of a question about the 2018 murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, which was arguably …

The Kremlin said on Wednesday evening a call between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump could be arranged “immediately”, if needed. Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters while answering a question on the current status of high-level Russian-US contacts: “It’s possible, if necessary, to immediately arrange a telephone conversation between the two leaders.” However, Mr Peskov suggested, a summit …

OPINION — Not long ago, I was talking to an old friend and China analyst about the need for Intelligence Community (IC) analysts to spend significantly more time looking at themselves and their own agencies, processes, procedures, habits, biases, etc.—in other words, to be more introspective. I thought this an uncontroversial assertion as it has been well established in management …

The Russian Embassy in the UK has accused Britain of being “Russophobic” and mocked the Government as it said its claims over a spy ship “only raise a smile”. Earlier today, Defence Secretary John Healey said a Russian spy ship, the Yantar, is on the edge of UK waters. He added that it was pointing lasers at RAF pilots. In …

Harvard University has reopened an investigation into connections between former President Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein, a university spokesman said on Wednesday, and Summers’ office said he would resign from the board of OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. The university did not mention Summers by name, but the decision to restart the probe follows the release of emails showing that …

The Russian Federation has hired over 18,000 foreigners across the world to help wage its war against Ukraine, it has emerged. Ukraine‘s Secretary of the Coordination Headquarters, Brig Gen Dmitry Usov, said these foreign nationals have been brought in from 128 countries and unrecognised territories, and 3,388 of them have been killed. Speaking at the international Crimea Global conference in …

Kiev’s establishment is burning to the ground in the Energoatom Mafia scandal, while the media and think tanks keep insisting this is fine In Ukraine, the front lines are crumbling and so is the Zelensky regime. While Kupyansk and Pokrovsk are falling, the shockwaves of the Energoatom Mafia scandal keep reverberating, internationally and at home in Kiev. At this point, …