Hamas has already pledged to take revenge after the Palestinian militant group’s political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran.

The assassination of Ismail Haniyeh "clearly had the support and foreknowledge of the United States and the United Kingdom," retired CIA intelligence officer and State Department official Larry Johnson insisted in an interview with Sputnik.

"I say that because we also have news reports now coming in that the US and UK warships are headed into the Mediterranean. On one of the US ships is probably a Marine Expeditionary Unit," Johnson said.

Traces of evil: Europe’s decision to subjugate Africa in 1884 still condemns millions to suffering

How the infamous Berlin Conference drew the continent’s borders, which up till now fuel profits and generate conflicts

By Moussa Ibrahim, executive secretary of the African Legacy Foundation, Johannesburg

From the ongoing ethno-political conflict on the Congolese-Rwandan border to the violent tribal militias wreaking havoc across the Sahel region and the bloody battles over gold, phosphate, and cobalt mines in Central and East Africa, the legacy of the 1884 Berlin Conference continues to inflict pain, war, and underdevelopment on Africa.

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Not by mere coincidence is the country to which taxpayers in the U.S. empire have donated around $400 billion during the past three years Ukraine. Ukraine has the nearest border to Russia’s central command (in Moscow, 317 miles away), just as Cuba in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis had the nearest border to America’s central command (in Washington DC, 1,131 miles away).

BY Eric Zuesse

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Ukraine has lost up to 650 personnel in the area of operations of Russia's Yug (South) group of forces in the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.

"The enemy's losses amounted to up to losses amounted to up to 650 Ukrainian troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, two motor vehicles, three US-made 155-mm M777 howitzers, two US-made 155-mm M198 howitzers, two 152-mm D-20 howitzers, and two US-made 105-mm M119 howitzers," the ministry said in a statement.

Ukraine lost up to 500 soldiers in battles with Russian troops of the Zapad (West) group, the ministry said, adding that Russia’s Tsentr (Central) group repelled six counterattacks, during which Kiev has lost up to 315 servicepeople.

Kamala Harris is a self-confessd super-fan of The Simpsons, writes Michael Idato/SMH.

For the almost 200,000 people who will pass through its gates, the annual San Diego Comic-Con offers the entire alphabet of pop culture, from Captain America to Dragon Ball Z.

But this year the crowd had their eyes on one thing: Deadpool & Wolverine, the Marvel blockbuster which stars Ryan Reynolds and Australian actor Hugh Jackman as the unlikely lads of the superhero world.

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has accused SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk of trying to disrupt peace and stability in the South American country.

The National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela on Sunday declared Maduro the winner of the country’s presidential election, announcing that with 80% of ballots counted, he had secured more than 51% of the vote, compared to 44% for his main rival, Edmundo Gonzales.

Supporters of Western-backed Gonzalez have taken to the streets following the release of the official results, claiming that the vote was rigged.

Musk, who owns social media platform X (formerly Twitter), took to it on Monday to accuse Maduro of “major election fraud.”

The Venezuelan president responded to the claims by challenging the billionaire to a fight, during an address he made on national television.

The secret to the success of BRICS is not what it is, but what it’s not

The group is the antidote to a declining hegemon pursuing its own interests without regard for problems that require system-level solutions

By Henry Johnston, a Moscow-based RT editor who worked in finance for over a decade

BRICS is on the move. It already expanded at the beginning of this year, while no fewer than 40 countries have expressed interest in joining. Russian Federation Council Chairwoman Valentina Matvienko recently claimed that 24 countries are in line to actually become members.

The US has reached “yet another dubious milestone” with its national debt surpassing the mark of $35 trillion, the US House Budget Committee announced on Monday.

The head of the Committee, Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX) branded the development an “alarming milestone,”urging more fiscal and spending responsibility to fix the ballooning national-debt growth.

“Today, we grieve yet another dubious milestone in the fiscal decline of the most powerful and prosperous nation in history,” Arrington said in a statement, expressing hopes the Republican Party will be able to somehow alleviate the situation if Donald Trump wins the November election.

I believe Republican leadership in 2025 is our last best hope to restore fiscal responsibility before it’s too late.

While no US vice president has ever been impeached, at least three presidents have been impeached by the US House including: President Andrew Johnson, President Bill Clinton, and President Donald Trump who was impeached in 2019 and 2021.

Last Tuesday, Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN) filed articles of impeachment against US Vice President Kamala Harris as part of an increase in Republican attacks on the VP as she starts her presidential campaign. In part, the impeachment calls on what Republicans have said was Harris’ failure to secure the border.

Britain's visiting naval chief has declared Australia will eventually operate the world's best anti-submarine warfare (ASW) frigates because a closely linked shipbuilding project in the UK is now "stabilising" after suffering damaging initial setbacks.

The upbeat assessment of Australia's Hunter-class warship program comes as several nations vying to build the navy's next fleet of smaller "general purpose frigates" sharpen their sales pitches here as they try to clinch the lucrative defence contract.

Slovakia’s deputy prime minister, Tomas Taraba, has announced that he will not represent his country at the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics.

Taraba was among the many who slammed Friday’s opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Games as highly disrespectful to Christians. 

“I was supposed to represent Slovakia at the closing ceremony, but for the normal world, this Olympics will forever remain a symbol of degenerate decadence, which abused the beauty of sport and turned it into progressive political theater,” the Slovakian official wrote on his personal Facebook page. “Therefore, I decided not to participate in the closing ceremony.”

Taraba also pointed out that the “disgraceful” opening ceremony is now being removed from the internet by the International Olympic Committee.

BUDAPEST (Sputnik) - Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto responded to criticism from the Polish authorities over Hungary's continued economic ties with Russia, accusing them of hypocrisy, since Poland had also been buying Russian oil.

Earlier, Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Teofil Bartoszewski said that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was on the periphery of international society, both in the European Union and in NATO, and advised him to leave the organizations and create an alliance with Russia.

Israel bombs targets in Lebanon
The airstrikes came after Israel accused Hezbollah of killing 12 civilians in the Golan Heights

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has confirmed that it carried out airstrikes against multiple targets in southern Lebanon. This came after Israeli officials vowed to retaliate after 12 people were killed when a rocket hit a football field in the occupied Golan Heights.

The attacks were reported by multiple news outlets in the early hours of Sunday. According to Al Jazeera, explosions were heard in the coastal city of Tyre and several villages along the Israel-Lebanon border.

A new regional military alliance in the Middle East may be in the offing if Israel's prime minister gets his way. But what other alliances, pacts and blocs are already out there? Sputnik explores.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proposed the creation of a new NATO-style military bloc in the Middle East dubbed the ‘Abraham Alliance’ during his trip to Washington this week, saying the coalition, arrayed explicitly against Iran, would include Israel, the United States, and any Israel-friendly Arab country wishing to join.

Olympic organisers have issued a "deep apology" after South Korea's athletes were mistakenly introduced as North Korea at the opening ceremony in Paris.

As the excited, flag-waving team floated down the River Seine, both French and English announcers introduced them as the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" - the official name of North Korea.

The same name was then used - correctly - when North Korea's delegation sailed past.

The two Koreas have been divided since the end of World War Two, with tensions between the states further escalating recently.