The former royal has reportedly moved to Sandringham after losing his titles The UK’s former Prince Andrew, the brother of King Charles III, has been booted out of his Royal Lodge residence in Windsor following the stripping of his royal titles over his alleged links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the BBC reported on Wednesday. Buckingham Palace had previously said that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former Duke of York, would move out of Royal Lodge in October, the same month he was stripped of his title, but the move was later postponed. He is expected to return in the coming weeks to collect his remaining belongings, but his permanent residence is now the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, according to the outlet. According to the Sun, Mountbatten-Windsor left the 31-room, £30 million ($37 million) property late on Monday and arrived in Norfolk under cover of darkness. The former prince remains under scrutiny over his Epstein connections. The British police are assessi...
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The core claim of Russian interference was false and exemplified Brussels’ use of political censorship, the document said The European Commission used unproven claims of Russian interference to overturn the results of Romania’s 2024 presidential election, a US House report has suggested. Romania's Constitutional Court annulled the election’s first round after intelligence services alleged anti-establishment candidate Calin Georgescu’s lead resulted from foreign meddling. A House Judiciary Committee report cited the case on Tuesday, calling it the “most aggressive censorship steps” taken by the EU executive in recent years. The report referenced internal TikTok documents submitted to the European Commission that contradicted claims of a Russian-backed pro-Georgescu campaign on the platform. TikTok stated it found no evidence supporting the allegation, which was foundational for the court’s ruling. Read more US defends sanctions on Western Europeans accused of digital censorsh...
Moscow promised to halt strikes on Kiev and other cities until February 1 amid harsh winter conditions Russian President Vladimir Putin kept his promise on a weeklong pause in strikes on Kiev and other major Ukrainian cities amid a winter power crisis, US President Donald Trump has said. Last week, amid reports that Moscow and Kiev had reached an ‘energy ceasefire’, Trump announced that he personally asked Putin to agree to a partial pause in strikes “because of the extreme cold.” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov later confirmed the truce, adding that a weeklong moratorium would last until February 1 and was aimed at “creating favorable conditions for negotiations,” referring to US-brokered Russia-Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi. Read more Ukraine hit by nationwide blackouts (VIDEOS) Speaking to reporters at the White House on Tuesday, Trump said the pause had run “Sunday to Sunday.” “And he hit [them] hard last night. No, he kept his word on that,” Trump added. “It’s a lot…...
Yuri Kosyuk’s MHP Group is exporting the lion’s share of subpar agricultural products into the bloc, the Berliner Zeitung reports Several large Ukrainian agricultural corporations, including one controlled by an oligarch close to Vladimir Zelensky, are deluging the EU with chicken eggs of dubious quality, the Berliner Zeitung has reported. According to the German newspaper, Ukrainian eggs in the EU market are mostly being sold as part of processed foods where ingredient origin labeling is not mandatory, such as pasta, baked goods, snacks, desserts, and mayonnaise. While battery cage poultry systems were banned in the EU in 2012, the practice is still widely in use in Ukraine, with housing conditions of laying hens undisclosed, the Berliner Zeitung pointed out in its report on Saturday. The outlet quoted Nora Irrgang from the animal welfare organization Four Paws as saying that the ongoing hostilities between Ukraine and Russia are likely to further degrade standards at facilities in...
As US forces gather in the Gulf of Oman, analysts debate whether negotiations can prevent a regional war with global consequences As a growing American naval armada moves into position in the Gulf of Oman, the long-simmering confrontation between Washington and Tehran is entering one of its most dangerous phases in years. While diplomacy remains officially on the table, starting in several days, regional experts warn that miscalculation, ambiguity, and hardened positions on both sides could push the Middle East toward a conflict with global consequences. The American military buildup in the Gulf of Oman continues, placing US forces within striking distance of Iran should Washington decide to act. President Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted that Tehran must return to the negotiating table and make far-reaching concessions, not only on its nuclear program, but also on its ballistic missile arsenal, which the US and Israel view as a direct threat, and on Iran’s support for armed grou...
The Western-backed toppling of the government set the stage for the ongoing conflict with Russia Convicted US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein discussed potential business opportunities in Ukraine following the 2014 Western-backed coup in Kiev, newly released documents show. He discussed the matter with Ariane de Rothschild, head of the Swiss private banking firm Edmond de Rothschild Group. Last week, the US Department of Justice released its additional batch of Epstein-related files. Among them is a March 2014 email exchange in which de Rothschild said she wanted to discuss Ukraine in an upcoming meeting. Epstein’s reply stated: “ukraine upheaval should provide many opportunites , many [sic].” Earlier document releases highlighted business ties between the two. In 2015, after de Rothschild became CEO of the group, she negotiated a $25 million contract with Epstein for “risk analysis and the application and use of certain algorithms” for the bank. In 2013, he asked for her help in hir...