2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (248+ words) Via The Last Refuge, Germany has a severe electricity shortage and cost problem, and it's getting worse. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz'recently made the admission'that shutting down the German nuclear power reactors was a "severe strategic mistake." "To have acceptable market…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (394+ words) Germany's Economy Minister Katherina Reiche has openly called for a fundamental reassessment of the country's long-standing rejection of nuclear power, warning that heavy dependence on gas has left Europe's largest economy dangerously exposed to repeated energy shocks. European gas prices…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (455+ words) The number of rape suspects in Austria has more than doubled since 2015, with foreign nationals " and Syrians in particular " driving a disproportionate share of the increase. In addition, foreigners nare now responsible for nearly half of all rapes, a major…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (1755+ words) By'Craig S. Smith of'Eye on AI,' I was in Ukraine in February and wrote this piece before the start of the war with Iran, but its implications are even more relevant today. My interest in lethal autonomous weapons dates back to…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (381+ words) The Russian Embassy in Tehran has issued an angry denunciation of Wednesday US-Israeli airstrikes which damaged a Russian'Orthodox Church and an adjacent nursing home.' Not only the main church complex, but an "almshouse" also suffered damage, according to the official…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (189+ words) A video circulating on X appears to show a close-quarters battle exercise, possibly involving the Chinese military, in which a heavily armed quadruped robot is used for clearing of rooms and hallways. The big takeaway is that militaries from Ukraine…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (375+ words) The latest data released by the National Court of Asylum reveals a historic statistical milestone: asylum grants in France have reached an unprecedented peak. In 2025, a record 78,782 individuals were granted asylum, marking a 12 percent increase over the previous year. The…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (298+ words) Russia has suffered one of its worst aerial disasters of the Ukraine war, as'an An-26 Military Transport aircraft went down in Crimea with no survivors reported. The aerial disaster happened Tuesday, with state media reporting that the aircraft slammed into…...

3+ day, 3+ min ago  (391+ words) LVMH, the owner of Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, Fendi, Bvlgari, Mo't & Chandon, and dozens of other luxury brands, just posted its worst quarter since the dot-com bust era, making it the worst-performing European luxury stock this year as demand for…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (395+ words) Poland has rejected an "unofficial" US request to deploy one of its Patriot air defense systems to West Asia, Polish Defense Minister W'adys'aw Kosiniak-Kamysz announced on Tuesday, following reports by Polish daily Rzeczpospolita'that Washington had informally approached Warsaw amid rising…...