In the 1970s when I served in the congressional staff and in the 1980s when I served in the executive branch, there was still some intelligence in the US government, with the exception of the Federal Reserve, where there has never been any intelligence.

The AfD's parliamentary group wanted to know what the situation was regarding the funding for alleged "non-governmental organisations".

The ancient bazaar in Aleppo, Syria has been restored and is open for business once more.

Climate fever and the associated trade in so-called CO 2 certificates are no longer laws of nature.

The end of privacy online is fast approaching.

From Berlin to Kursk in 35 years

An entire generation has grown up since that day when a few Saudi Arabians armed only with box cutters caused airport safety to fail four times on the same morning.

Incoherent language from the candidates on foreign affairs, but one thing shines through — neither's policy is America First

In recent years, calls for a withdrawal of US troops have become louder. As former enemies Iraq and Iran have grown closer, resentment over the US's foreign policy has grown in Baghdad. Washington currently has around 2 500 soldiers stationed in the country.

In relative terms Swedish backing exceeds American threefold

The European Commission’s competence in choosing suitable experts is being called into question.

The combat against men is over, replaced by a sanctions squeeze against children

The Berlin Fire Department has confirmed a disastrous trend – in the first half of 2024 alone, more stab wounds were registered in the capital than in the whole of 2022. The number of unreported cases is probably much higher.

In the Netherlands, the new government has announced cuts to asylum benefits. Rejected asylum seekers in the EU country will in future be encouraged to leave by no longer receiving benefits in kind such as a place to sleep and the provision of basic necessities. In Dutch it is known as the "bed-bath-bread scheme".

A writer from the left is unimpressed with the new Democrat-Republican merger

It is an unpleasant déjà vu experience with a South Korean company, which sold 340 million PCR tests to over 100 countries during the Corona pandemic, now preparing to introduce a PCR test to allegedly detect the new monkeypox mutation.