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Protests have erupted in several cities across the United States after Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care medical assistant, was fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent during a federal immigration operation in Minneapolis. Demonstrations have taken place in Minneapolis, New York, Washington, and Los Angeles. In Minnesota, hundreds of people took to the streets despite sub-zero temperatures, confronting federal agents in a city already marked by another deadly incident, which occurred earlier in the month and involved an ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) officer. The death of Alex Pretti has intensified the national debate on immigration law enforcement and…

In Bulgaria, the eighth round of elections in the last four years is about to take place, after the parliamentary parties failed to form a new executive. Moreover, the Bulgarian president has announced his resignation, to be replaced by Vice President Iliana Iotova. In this context, a scenario with an “unprecedented variant” is expected to unfold in the neighboring state. “It’s a mark of instability and fragility”, believes foreign policy analyst Iulian Chifu, regarding the series of early elections in recent years in the neighboring state, emphasizing that “we clearly see a fragmentation of political life in Bulgaria”. “An unprecedented…

An illegal network for exporting goods to Russia, which are banned by sanctions, has been discovered in Germany. According to the publication Bild, “hundreds of tons” of embargoed goods are regularly shipped through a system created by former employees of the company RusPost GmbH, the German subsidiary of the Russian Post, coordinated by the former director Dmitri V. In order to mask the operation, a logistics company was registered in his name in December 2022, operating solely on the basis of a PO Box in Cologne. The parcels are brought to a warehouse near Berlin-Brandenburg airport. From there, 40-ton trucks…

The Kremlin’s spokesperson, Dmitri Peskov, mocked the conversation with Emmanuel Macron revealed by Donald Trump in the context of the Davos Forum, stating that the current European politicians will not be able to oppose the American president, according to EFE, quoted by Agerpres. “They are incapable of resisting Trump’s pressures,” Peskov asserted on Russian television. He emphasized that the “dramatic changes” taking place recently are a consequence of the “double standards” and “hypocrisy” that “have prevailed in Europe for many decades”. “Unfortunately, these are the product of the weak generation of politicians currently in power in Europe,” he noted. To…

“Grinch”, a tanker suspected of belonging to the Russian “ghost fleet”, which was confiscated on Thursday, is anchored in the Fos Bay, near the oil terminal of the Marseille-Fos port, under the guard of the French Navy and at the disposal of the judiciary, according to Le Monde. The ship was escorted to Marseille to be “held at the disposal of the Marseille prosecutor, as part of the preliminary investigation into the accusation of not displaying the flag”, the Mediterranean Maritime Prefecture announced on Saturday. The Marseille prosecutor’s office, together with the maritime gendarmerie investigators, is to carry out a…

While the front in Ukraine continues to consume lives and resources, a portion of the Russian elite was caught partying in some of the most exclusive resorts in Western Europe. Recently surfaced images on social networks show influencers and celebrities close to Moscow’s power circles skiing, parading on the red carpet, and consuming luxury champagne in Courchevel, the famous resort in the French Alps. Among the participants was also Ksenia Sobchak, a TV presenter and media owner, known as Vladimir Putin’s goddaughter. Her father, Anatoli Sobchak, former mayor of Saint Petersburg, played an essential role in the political rise of…

The American document regarding security guarantees for Ukraine is fully finalized, and Kiev is waiting for a time and place for it to be signed, stated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday, during a visit to Vilnius, reports Agerpres. “For us, security guarantees are primarily security guarantees from the US. The document is 100% ready and we are waiting for our partners to confirm the date and place when we will sign it,” Zelensky declared during a press conference in the Lithuanian capital. “The document will be sent for ratification to the US Congress and the Ukrainian parliament,” he said.…

Russia and Ukraine have made significant strides in recent days towards arranging a direct discussion between the Kremlin leader, Vladimir Putin, and the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, for negotiations aimed at concluding a peace agreement in Ukraine, American officials told Axios, reports The Moscow Times. The announcement was made following the meeting held recently in Abu Dhabi, mediated by the Americans, between representatives from Moscow and Kiev. “We are very close to a meeting between Putin and Zelensky,” an anonymous member of the American delegation involved in the negotiations told Axios. Thus, neither the Russian delegation nor the Ukrainian one…

A Russian soldier was allegedly fatally shot by one of his comrades, following a conflict that erupted over attempts to sell a thermal vision device captured from the front, according to information provided by the partisan movement Ateș. In a statement published on Saturday, Ateș claims that the incident involved three soldiers from the 33rd Motorized Infantry Regiment of the Russian Federation and would have taken place in the Kirovski district of the Donetsk region, under Russian occupation. The exact date of the event is not specified, writes kyivpost.com. According to the report, the three soldiers were in a local…

China’s highest-ranking general is accused of leaking information about the country’s nuclear weapons program to the US and accepting bribes for official acts, including promoting an officer to the position of defense minister, according to individuals familiar with a high-level briefing on the allegations, according to WSJ. The briefing – attended by some of the highest-ranking military officers on Saturday morning – took place just before China’s National Defense Ministry made the bombshell announcement about an investigation into General Zhang Youxia, once considered the most trusted military ally of Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The statement provided few details beyond an…