The color purple has long been a symbol of royalty, creativity, and mystery. But according to science, it’s also something else: a figment of our imaginations. While it looks just as real as red or blue, purple is actually an optical…
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Russia blacklists Yeltsin-era chief diplomat as ‘foreign agent’ — Meduza
On Friday, Russia’s Justice Ministry added former chief diplomat Andrei Kozyrev to the country’s “foreign agent” registry. Kozyrev was the head of Russia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry from 1990 to 1996, serving with President Boris Yeltsin…
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Why hasn’t EU acted against Turkey’s increasing repression? – DW – 04/11/2025
As Istanbul’s jailed opposition mayor appeared in court on Friday in one of multiple cases against him, supporters gathered to protest what they believe is a politically motivated campaign to bar him from running for the presidency.
Ekrem…
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Britain plots state control of a flailing steelmaker. Here’s why.
LONDON — Britain’s government is scrambling to save the country’s last functioning blast furnace steel site — and 3,000 jobs in Labour’s industrial heartlands.
Lawmakers will on Saturday debate emergency legislation that would give…
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Amid talks of peace negotiations, Russia is ramping up military recruitment
Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed he’s ready for peace talks with Ukraine — though not on “the basis of Kyiv’s demands.” But the numbers at home tell a different story. Recruitment efforts in Russian regions are surging, with…
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Moscow bans American NGO
Hope Harbor Society has been accused of collecting funds for Ukraines military and backing Russian opposition
The Office of the Russian Prosecutor General has designated the US non-governmental organization Hope Harbor Society as ‘undesirable’,…
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US tells government employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’
The Trump administration has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying “anti-Christian bias” as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new executive order on supporting employees of Christian…
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Prosecutors seek 16-year sentence in Russia’s first-ever case against soldier for ‘voluntary’ surrender to Ukrainian forces — Meduza
State prosecutors have asked a military court in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk to sentence Russian serviceman Roman Ivanishin to 16 years in prison for voluntarily surrendering to Ukrainian troops. According to the newspaper Kommersant, Roman Ivanishin is…
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How Elon Musk’s dying satellites could hurt the ozone layer
About 13,000 satellites currently orbit Earth, roughly 10,000 of which are operational. But that number is set to skyrocket, with a staggering 50,000 new satellites on track to join them by 2030.
The dramatic increase is due to the rise in…
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EU Countries Go on Tariff Defense
As the fallout from President Trump’s rewiring of global trade sets in across Europe, governments are putting in place billions of euros’ worth of “tariff shields” to protect their economies, companies and workers from uncertainty and the…
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