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The British Ministry of Defense said that secret documents leaked from the Pentagon, which mention, inter alia, about the presence of British special forces in Ukraine contain "serious levels of inaccuracy". However, it did not completely deny these reports.more

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the Russian authorities' detention of journalist Evan Gershkovich and denial of consular access to the reporter of "The Wall Street Journal" is a signal that people around the world should "beware of even setting foot" in Russia.more

US President Joe Biden flew to Northern Ireland yesterday evening, where he will take part in the celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, which is the basis of the peace process in this British province. A few hours earlier, the services reported the discovery of four homemade explosives in a cemetery in Derry/Londonderry.more

Using several states as examples, U.S. experts showed that in those regions where a smaller percentage of the adult population was vaccinated, there were more hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19.more

Republican politicians have sharply criticized French President Emmanuel Macron's statements on European policy toward China. Mike Gallagher, chairman of the House of Representatives committee on the Chinese Communist Party, called them "embarrassing, disgraceful and geopolitically naïve" in an interview with Fox TV yesterday.more

U.S. President Joe Biden said yesterday that he plans to run in the 2024 presidential election, although he is not yet ready to officially announce his candidacy.more

The U.S. Department of Justice is launching an investigation into the leak of top-secret documents from various U.S. agencies and social media sites. Earlier, the Pentagon launched its own investigation, French daily Le Figaro reported.more

The war in Ukraine has led to geopolitical shifts in Europe, shifting NATO's center of gravity eastward, Washington Post columnist Ishan Tharoor writes on Friday in an analysis following Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky's visit to Poland.more

Finland's accession to NATO is Putin's nightmare, showing what a terrible strategist he is, said Adm. James Stavridis, former Supreme Commander of NATO forces in Europe. Finland brings serious assets to the Alliance in every domain, he added.more

Donald Trump yesterday became the first-ever former US president to be formally detained and hear criminal charges. Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 charges against him related to the case of paying actress Stormy Daniels for her silence.more

The U.S. space agency NASA on Monday announced the lineup for the Artemis II mission, the first manned mission to the vicinity of the moon in 50 years. The flight around the silver globe will include the first woman, the first African-American and the first Canadian in the history of lunar missions.more

A Chinese spy balloon shot down in February was able to gather intelligence from several US military bases despite efforts by the US administration to prevent it, NBC reported, citing unnamed sources.more

Samantha Markle has accused her half-sister of libel against the Duchess of Sussex in the famous interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021. However, the trial will not take place, because the famous American 1st Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting e.g. restricting freedom of speech.more

Former US President Donald Trump faces more than 30 counts of business fraud in an indictment filed by a Manhattan grand jury investigating silent payments to a porn star, CNN reported yesterday, citing sources and giving no further details.more

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has revealed that Donald Trump's first wife was the subject of a counterintelligence investigation into her ties to communist Czechoslovakia, where she was born. A small portion of the hitherto secret files on Ivana Trump have been released. The rest will see the light of day in April.more

Hundreds of businessmen, investors and artificial intelligence experts, including Elon Musk among others, have called in a joint letter for at least a six-month pause in the development of AI systems more capable than the GPT-4 published in March. The signatories warn of the unpredictable consequences of the race to create ever more powerful models.more

Police in Nashville reported that yesterday's attack by an armed woman on a Presbyterian school killed three 9-year-old students and three adults aged about 60. One of them was the school principal. The police shot the killer.more

Twenty-six people were killed in the US states of Mississippi and Alabama as a result of a powerful storm that triggered a devastating tornado on Friday evening. Hundreds of homes were razed to the ground, and the swath of destruction is 274 kilometers long.more

The results of the so-called The number of intelligence tests among Americans has been steadily increasing since 1932, but in the years 2006-2018 this trend was reversed in almost all cognitive categories.more

Information about the problems of banks in the United States made customers lose confidence in the Swiss Credit Suisse. However, the risk of a crisis of the banking system in Europe is unlikely, according to the analysts of the Polish Economic Institute.more

The coming weeks will be critical for the course of the war; we expect President Putin to try to launch another offensive, perhaps on multiple fronts simultaneously, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby announced in an interview with CNN.more

US President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill that requires declassification of information related to the origin of the coronavirus, Reuters reported. The White House said it will continue to review all classified information regarding the origin of the disease, with potential ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology listed.more

Prezydent USA Joe Biden i premier Irlandii Leo Varadkar rozmawiali w Białym Domu m.in. o pomoc Ukrainy oraz porozumieniu między UE i Wielką Brytanią w sprawie pomocy północnej Północnej po Brexicie - przekazanie Białego Domu. Varadkar, w ten sposób, charakterystyczny dla irlandzkich szefów rządów w dzień św. Patryka.more

Donald Trump asserted today on his Truth Social network that he will be "arrested" on Tuesday and called for demonstrations ahead of a possible indictment of him for paying a porn star to keep quiet about their sexual liaisons.more

President Joe Biden will host Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at the White House Friday, resuming a longstanding St. Patrick’s Day tradition.more