10+ min ago (490+ words) When Ukraine set its sights on NATO and later the European Union, many expected Europe to respond with conviction and purpose. Instead, what emerged was a patchwork of shortterm fixes, hesitant commitments, and political squabbles'a portrait of a continent reacting to history rather than shaping it. Europe entered the conflict improvising, not strategizing. What was framed as solidarity has too often become a cascade of costly, shortsighted decisions that drain wealth, fracture unity, and expose the EU's lack of direction. Today, the European Union wrestles with economic fatigue and political discord. Member states remain divided over how long support for... When Ukraine set its sights on NATO and later the European Union, many expected Europe to respond with conviction and purpose. Instead, what emerged was a patchwork of shortterm fixes, hesitant commitments, and political squabbles'a portrait of a continent reacting…...

12+ min ago (136+ words) Iranian authorities have executed over 1,000 people between January and September 2025, the highest number of yearly death penalties conducted in Iran that'Amnesty International'has recorded in at least 15 years. As Statista's Tristan Gaudiat shows in the chart below, within less than nine months, the number of people executed by the regime has already surpassed last year's grim total of 972 executions. These figures are likely low estimates due to the Iranian authorities not publishing such data publicly. According to Amnesty, the Iranian regime has increased its use of the death penalty since the 2022 "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement uprising, as a tool of state repression and to crush dissent. In 2025, the authorities have further intensified executions in the aftermath of the escalating hostilities between Israel and'Iran, under the guise of national security....

17+ min ago (605+ words) Eighty-four years ago, in the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces surprised and killed 2,403 Americans and wounded more than 1,100. In a speech to the U.S. Congress the next day, President'Franklin Roosevelt'referred to December 7, 1941, as "a date which will live in infamy." That prediction remains true on this observance of Pearl Harbor Day, 2025. In December 1941, the people of Alabama, and indeed of most of the then-48 states, did not know where Pearl Harbor was. They learned very quickly and have never forgotten. The 1941 Congress quickly passed a formal Declaration of War, and America entered World War II. The attack on Pearl Harbor swept away the feeling of security of many Americans that we were safe from attack due to our separation from the old world by the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Suddenly, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, did not seem so distant from Alabama....

51+ min ago (585+ words) Guy Faulconbridge Sunday, 07 December 2025 06:56 AM EST President Donald Trump's outgoing Ukraine envoy said a deal to end the Ukraine war was "really close" and depended on resolving just two major issues but the Kremlin said there had to be radical changes to some of the U.S. proposals. Trump, who says he wants to be remembered as a "peacemaker" president, says that ending Europe's deadliest conflict since World War Two has so far been the most elusive foreign policy aim of his presidency. Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 after eight years of fighting between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian troops in the Donbas, which is made up of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. U.S. Special Envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg, who is due to step down in January, told the Reagan National Defense Forum that efforts to resolve the conflict were in "the last…...

53+ min ago (299+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 793 Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, What Matters Now, Friday Focus and The Reel Schmooze podcasts, and heads up The Times of Israel's features. Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief US bureau chief Jacob Magid joins'host Amanda Borschel-Dan'for today's episode. Magid joins us from the Doha Forum, an annual gathering bringing together government officials, policymakers, civil society representatives and business leaders from around the world to discuss major global challenges. Also yesterday at the Doha Forum, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa accused Israel of "exporting crises" to other countries around the region to distract from its "horrifying massacres" in Gaza. We learn how those at the forum consider the Syrian president, once denounced as a terrorist, to be a legitimate actor in the region, whereas…...

57+ min ago (45+ words) A personal and unflinching conversation with Gaza-born analyst Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib on war, governance, disarmament, and whether a real path to peace still exists. The post Is War Returning to Gaza? appeared first on The Times of Israel. [Is War Returning to Gaza?]...

1+ hour, 12+ min ago (55+ words) Today on December 7, 1941 Pear Harbor was attacked. Please pray for everyone who lost their lives. Today on December 7, 1941 Pear Harbor was attacked. Please pray for everyone who lost their lives. Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794 Thank you very much and God bless you....

1+ hour, 25+ min ago (56+ words) In two days in 1929, 67 Jews were murdered because of a lie about Jewish plans to take over Al-Aqsa. Understanding this story is essential to understanding the region itself. The post The Hebron Massacre, Part 2 " with Yardena Schwartz appeared first on The Times of Israel. [The Hebron Massacre, Part 2 " with Yardena Schwartz]...

1+ hour, 46+ min ago (942+ words) File footage from Feb. 15, 2020 shows troops, civilian militias training to defend the capital. (Reuters.) As tensions rise between Washington and the Maduro regime, experts told Fox News Digital that Venezuela's military may look formidable on paper but is hollowed out by years of corruption, decay and political control. While they say Venezuela cannot stop a determined U.S. strike, any broader operation would be far more complicated than the White House suggests. Isaias Medina, an international lawyer and former Venezuelan diplomat who denounced his own government at the International Criminal Court, described Venezuela as a criminalized state dominated by narcotrafficking networks. "Venezuela today resembles a fortress built on sand wrapped around a criminal regime," he said, adding that any hypothetical U.S. action would be "evicting a terrorist cartel that settled next door and not invading a country." Medina warned that Venezuela's dense civilian…...

1+ hour, 47+ min ago (326+ words) In the absence of an effective judicial system and civilian law enforcement, citizens may instead resort to vigilantism or even vendettas in an attempt to maintain order and respond to insults. In some countries, such as Egypt, blood feuds are common and involve multiple generations. When citizens lose faith in government institutions to uphold public safety, such tactics often emerge as a desperate response. We're now seeing this phenomenon arising in Western nations as they grapple with unrestricted immigration, where crimes by migrants against native-born populations go unaddressed, police fail to protect communities, and governments penalize dissenters. From Democrat-run U.S.... Across the Atlantic, similar tensions boil over. In Ireland, unrestricted immigration has sparked fears of civil war. A 26-year-old African asylum seeker, with a deportation order, allegedly raped a 10-year-old girl in Dublin on October 20, 2025, after she went missing from care....