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 Image by Knelstrom Media By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media BELGIUM, Brussels -- European Union governments have begun moving the legal handling of immobilised Russian central bank reserves away from the recurring sanctions renewal cycle and into the EU treaties' emergency economic framework, in an effort to make the restrictions harder to unwind and easier to use as financial backing for Ukraine.
 Image by Knelstrom Media By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media BENIN, Cotonou -- The rapid collapse of Benin's 7 December coup attempt drew a rare and forceful regional response, placing the small coastal state in the centre of West Africa's widening coup belt while highlighting two distinctive departures from recent regional patterns. The operation, led by Lt. Col. Pascal Tigri and a small faction of soldiers, faltered within hours as loyalist forces—backed by Nigerian air and ground units under an ECOWAS mandate—retook state media, secured the capital, and reasserted control over the security chain of command.
 Image by Knelstrom Media By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media UNITED KINGDOM, London -- The government's 2025 Budget outlines a period of steady fiscal tightening delivered in the language of cost-of-living relief, combining short-term consumer support with a long, restrained shift of the tax base toward wealth, property and higher-income households. The measures move public finances toward a primary surplus by the end of the decade while protecting investment and the NHS, even as reduced productivity expectations darken the long-term outlook.
 Image by Knelstrom Media By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media RUSSIA, Novorossiysk -- A naval drone strike on the Caspian Pipeline Consortium's terminal on Russia's Black Sea coast has triggered a round of diplomatic unease across several capitals, after damage was confirmed at one of the facility's offshore loading units used for crude exports.
 Image by Knelstrom Media By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media UKRAINE, Kyiv -- The search of Andriy Yermak's home and offices by Ukraine's anti-corruption investigators has unsettled the political order built around President Volodymyr Zelensky, touching the presidency at its most fortified point and prompting measured unease across government corridors already stretched by war.
 Image by Knelstrom Media By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media GUINEA-BISSAU, Bissau -- The soldiers entered the capital as if stepping into a script already underway. On 26 November, with the electoral commission hours from announcing a presidential result that appeared poised to unseat the incumbent, the military intervened with the calm decisiveness of a caretaker changing locks on a property in dispute.
 By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media KINSHASA, DRC. As world leaders swapped suits for linen and climate targets in Brazil, President Félix Tshisekedi stood beside a ficus plant and accused unnamed foreign interests of fuelling a war that has displaced millions in his country’s east. “We are not naïve,” he said. “This war was created because of our wealth.”
 By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES. The US House Oversight Committee has issued a formal request for a transcribed interview with Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, citing his long-standing relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and new allegations contained in public records and testimonies. The letter, dated 6 November 2025, states that Mr Windsor "may possess knowledge of [Epstein’s] activities relevant to our investigation" and asks for cooperation in the Committee's renewed probe into Epstein's network of alleged co-conspirators.
 By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA. The results are officially in. After several days of tense anticipation, Tanzania's National Electoral Commission has declared President Samia Suluhu Hassan the winner of this week's presidential election. This vote has left the country both subdued and shaken.
 Image by Martin Foskett 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 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 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 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.
 Image by Martin Foskett / Knelstrom Media By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media The headlines screamed it before the ink was even dry: "Moldova votes for Europe!" Trumpets blaring, bureaucrats beaming, the whole spectacle sold as a historic embrace of democracy. But scratch the gloss, peer at the numbers, and you find something far stranger, a country of 3.6 million people, half of whom didn't even turn up, choosing its destiny with a shrug.
 Image by Martin Foskett / Knelstrom Media By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM. A sharp figure, 28.7 million, ricocheted through headlines this week as if it were a census. It isn't. It is the State Migration Service's count of people who, as of 1 September 2025, have formally declared or registered a place of residence inside Ukraine, an administrative ledger that excludes large numbers living abroad or between addresses.
 Image by Martin Foskett / Knelstrom Media By Martin Foskett / Newswire / Knelstrom Media Angela Rayner's resignation wasn't just another ministerial scalp tossed onto the Westminster bonfire. It was an earthquake dressed as a clerical error, a demolition job disguised as paperwork. A slip over stamp duty, they said, but the tremors still shake the Cabinet Office and rattle Starmer's teacups. And in her absence, two ghosts rush into the gap: Jeremy Corbyn, rattling his chains with a new party stitched from old banners, and Nigel Farage, circling with a pint in hand, ready to gut Labour's northern heartlands.
 Image by Martin Foskett / Knelstrom Media By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media LONDON, United Kingdom. 5 September 2025 Angela Rayner has resigned as Deputy Prime Minister, Housing Secretary, and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party following an ethics investigation into underpaid stamp duty, ending her tenure in government less than 15 months after Labour's landslide return to power.
Yemen’s UN Offices in Sana’a Overrun in Wake of Israeli Strike That Decapitated Houthi Leadership31/8/2025
 Image by Martin Foskett / Knelstrom Media By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media SANA'A, YEMEN — 31 August 2025 Aid agency offices of the United Nations in Yemen's capital were overtaken today in a quiet yet seismic escalation, following swiftly on the heels of an Israeli airstrike that eliminated several figures at the apex of the Houthi-led government.
 Image by Martin Foskett / Knelstrom Media By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO — 29 August 2025. Burkina Faso has taken a decisive step in its campaign to assert state control over its mineral wealth, formally seeking a 35 per cent stake in the Kiaka gold mine, one of the country's most significant new mining projects. The move has sent signals well beyond Ouagadougou, triggering a trading halt for its Australian operator and unsettling an industry that has long been accustomed to distant oversight and offshore profits.
 Image by Martin Foskett / Knelstrom Media By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media WASHINGTON, D.C. — 31 August 2025. The White House is pushing ahead with efforts to rename the U.S. Department of Defence as the Department of War, a move President Trump claims better reflects America's strength and intent. The proposal, which was floated publicly in recent weeks and is now reportedly under formal review within the Pentagon, has rekindled debate over the role and image of U.S. military power.
 Image by Martin Foskett / Knelstrom Media By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media TIANJIN, CHINA — AUGUST 31, 2025 Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping met on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Tianjin on Sunday, emerging with an agreement heavy on reassurance and light on friction.
By Martin Foskett / Newswire / Knelstrom  Image by Martin Foskett / Knelstrom Media Like watching a woman in quicksand clutching at tea leaves, the July transcripts are not a confession, not even a revelation; they are an exercise in memory management, lawyered pauses, and perfectly engineered silences. What Maxwell is recorded as saying is less important than what she doesn't, and the Department of Justice plays along like a ringmaster carefully choreographing a circus no one dares to call theatre.
 Image by Martin Foskett / Knelstrom Media By Martin Foskett / Newswire / Knelstrom Media The White House tomorrow will play host to the most absurd diplomatic jamboree since the Yalta Conference, only this time it's not cigars, cognac and Roosevelt's grim smile, it's a gang of over-dressed European leaders in dark suits, marching into Trump's lair like second-hand furniture salesmen, dragging poor Zelensky behind them as a mascot of endless war. Sir Keir Starmer, freshly polished and painfully earnest, is among them, desperate to prove Britain is still relevant and avoid another Oval Office debacle like Zelensky's humiliating trip in February.
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