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In the aftermath of the Wagner fighters mutiny in Russia the European Union foreign ministers calling for more aid, especially military, for Ukraine... Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking tonight saying decisions were made to avoid bloodshed with Wagner military contractors... In Toronto the Special Election for Mayor. Among many candidates the winner Olivia Chow... Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visiting China next month... The aftermath of Pakistan's January 6th on May 9th. The powerful Pakistani military prosecuting 102 people and even disciplining some in its own ranks including 10 generals... The US Supreme Court ordering an end to a lawsuit...

For seventy-five years of mutual deterrence, nuclear weapons have saved the world, and people just got used to it. Now we see with our own eyes that nuclear weapons no longer stop, because the unthinkable is happening: the West has unleashed a big war in the underbelly of a great nucler power... At some point, we also calmed down, went in line with Western theories and recklessly raised the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons, which the West is now using for a reason. There all the time, semi-officials emphasize: no, the Russians will never use nuclear weapons. They...

Sergey Karaganov breaks into a broad smile when asked why his two-decades-old ideas about Moscow “protecting” Russian speakers abroad are suddenly the centre of his country’s foreign policy. “Because almost everything I have said, happened,” Mr. Karaganov said in an interview in his high-ceilinged office in the historic Kitai-Gorod district of Moscow, a short walk from Red Square. It’s Vladimir Putin who has made defending the rights of Russian-speakers wherever they live into a foreign-policy principle for the Kremlin. But in setting this interventionist new course, the Russian President borrowed heavily from the ideas of Mr. Karaganov, whom Mr. Putin...