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By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media MOSCOW, Russia. Russia has announced the successful completion of a flight test for its long‑rumoured nuclear-powered cruise missile, the Burevestnik, a system President Vladimir Putin described this week as "a unique weapons system that no other country possesses."
By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA. On the glossed marble sidelines of the ASEAN summit, flanked by diplomatic aides with curated expressions, senior officials from the United States and China emerged from a closed-door session with the tentative outlines of what they described as a "preliminary trade framework." It wasn't quite a handshake moment; no press cameras were invited, but the language was warm by their standards.
By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media LONDON, ENGLAND -- The Metropolitan Police has announced it will no longer investigate or record so-called "non-crime hate incidents" — a quiet yet symbolic turn in Britain's long quarrel over the limits of speech and policing.
By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media LONDON, ENGLAND: The Metropolitan Police have ended their investigation into writer and television creator Graham Linehan, after prosecutors found insufficient evidence to support any criminal charges over his social media posts.
By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media LIMA, PERU. Peru's interim government will declare a state of emergency in the capital after weeks of youth-led protests over corruption, crime and the police killing of a demonstrator outside Congress. The decision follows a violent night in central Lima that left one dead and more than a hundred injured.
By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media BEIJING, CHINA. A corruption probe into China's military ranks has widened dramatically, with the public naming nine high-ranking officers now under investigation, including Vice Chairman He Weidong, a once central figure in the upper echelons of the People's Liberation Army.
By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media QUITO, ECUADOR. Military personnel have been filmed entering hospitals and dragging away wounded demonstrators, as Ecuador's government faces growing outrage over its response to a wave of national protests. Footage circulating on social media shows armed troops patrolling emergency wards, while witnesses describe scenes of panic among medics ordered not to treat injured protestors, but instead to alert police.
By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media MOSCOW, RUSSIA. Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a new military cooperation agreement with Cuba, formalising defence ties between the two nations whose Cold War-era friendship has found a renewed stage in the modern standoff with the West.
By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR -- What began as a howl over dead taps and blacked-out evenings has widened into a national confrontation, with soldiers on the streets, ministers keeping their heads down, and a presidency suddenly ring-fenced by uniforms and chants.
By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media SCHWEDT, GERMANY -- Germany's PCK refinery at Schwedt will see its supply of Kazakh crude rise by roughly a third under an extended agreement between KazMunayGas and Rosneft Deutschland, a firm still owned by Russia's Rosneft, but managed under German trusteeship since 2022. The contract, confirmed by both sides, now runs to the end of 2026 and increases monthly deliveries to around 130,000 tonnes.
By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media PALM BEACH, U.S.A. — 11 October 2025 — President Donald J. Trump has announced that China has taken what he described as an "extraordinarily aggressive position on Trade," accusing Beijing of sending "an extremely hostile letter to the World" declaring that, effective 1 November, it will impose large-scale export controls on "virtually every product they make, and some not even made by them." Calling the move "unheard of in International Trade" and "a moral disgrace," Trump declared that the United States would retaliate with a 100 % tariff on Chinese imports and a ban on exports of critical software.
By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media WASHINGTON, U.S. A trio of classified documents, reportedly leaked from the U.S. Department of Defence, appears to offer a first close look at the foreign policy architecture taking shape under Donald Trump's second presidency, one shaped less by coalition-building than by calculated withdrawal. Marked TOP SECRET//SCI and dated across two weeks in January, the files outline what some observers have called a "foundational pivot": a recalibration of American power, heavier on force, lighter on fellowship.
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