Category: News Desk

Wed 08 October 2025: Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russian forces have seized approximately 5,000 square kilometers (1,930 square miles) of Ukrainian territory in 2025, as the ongoing conflict, now in its fourth year, continues to escalate. “This year, we liberated nearly 5,000 square kilometers, 4,900 to be specific, and 212 population centers. Our […]

Wed 08 October 2025: The World Trade Organization (WTO) raised its 2025 global trade growth forecast to 2.4%, up from 0.9% in August, but warned of a slowing growth for 2026, according to the Global Trade Outlook and Statistics report Tuesday. “Global merchandise trade outpaced expectations in the first half of 2025, driven by increased […]

Tue 07 October 2025: On Monday, Dmitry Medvedev, the former Russian President, commented that the source of recent drone disruptions across Europe is still unknown, yet he suggested that these events act as a stark warning to Europeans about the perils of conflict. Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, played down the theory […]

Tue 07 October 2025:  President Nicolas Maduro announced on Monday that Venezuelan security forces thwarted a “false flag operation” aimed at planting explosives at the US Embassy in Caracas. In a televised interview, Maduro alleged the plot was orchestrated by “extremist sectors of the local Venezuelan right” to escalate tensions with Washington, coinciding with a […]

Mon 06 October 2025: The price of gold increased by over 1.1% on Monday, hitting a historic high of $3,945.12 as of 0500GMT, as the federal government shutdown in the US adds to uncertainty while investors bet on more rate cuts in the Fed’s next meeting. After hitting the new record high, the gold price […]

Mon 06 October 2025: The 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell from the US, and Shimon Sakaguchi from Japan for their discoveries in the field of peripheral immune tolerance, which hold promise for more effective treatments of autoimmune diseases and cancer, on Monday. The announcement was made at […]

Mon 06 October 2025: Russia and Ukraine traded claims on Monday over large-scale overnight air attacks, with Moscow saying its air defenses destroyed more than 250 Ukrainian drones and Kyiv reporting hundreds of Russian strikes on several regions. The Russian Defense Ministry said air defense units intercepted and destroyed 251 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles overnight, […]