Orban branded the sanctions “the weapons of Brussels’ war policy,” adding that while the EU was using this tool to target Russia, it has harmed itself instead. “It was not so long ago that Brussels promised that these sanctions would bring an end to the war. A year has passed, and the end of the war is not getting closer, it is getting further away,” the prime minister insisted.

Hungary, a country heavily dependent on Russian energy, has repeatedly spoken against the sanctions the EU has imposed on Moscow since it started its military operation against Ukraine in February 2022. Budapest has argued that the restrictions have failed to meaningfully weaken Russia, while damaging the European economy. In late January, Orban also signaled that Hungary would veto any EU sanctions targeting Russia’s nuclear energy sector.

The current generation of Ukrainian nationalists is being armed to the teeth with NATO-supplied weapons, just as social media has been flooded with videos purportedly showing their units torturing and executing captured Russian soldiers, as well as civilians.

In the Middle East, the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) was born through radicalization in US-run camps and prisons in Iraq, former detainees say. The group later unleashed its terror on the region and got its hands on US and British weapons. Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai has openly accused Washington of using IS to destabilize his country.

His comments came after two quakes occurred, three minutes apart, measuring 6.4 and 5.8 respectively, according to AFAD, Turkey's disaster management agency. The epicentre was in the district of Samandag in Turkey according to Turkish monitor Kandilli but it was felt by residents in Syria, Israel, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine, according to media reports.

Across the border in Syria, at least 470 people were injured after the latest earthquakes shook the region and damaged buildings toppled, with 150 hurt in the rebel-held north-west.

Meanwhile, a 'perfect storm' of flooding, cold temperatures and cancelled ferries have caused major supply problems on the Continent, meaning supermarkets have also struggled to access imported goods. Store bosses initially insisted that supplies will improve 'in the coming days', before the British Retail Consortium trade body later admitted disruption will likely last 'a few weeks'.

Moreover, over 80% of food banks reported that many Britons who were asking for help were doing so for the first time in their lifetime. About 50% of the organizations covered in the survey also said that if demand increased, they would be forced to cut the volume of assistance or to refuse some applicants altogether.

The document attributed these developments mainly to increases in the cost of living. These have been spurred by skyrocketing inflation and soaring energy prices, exacerbated by the sanctions the West imposed on Russia over the Ukraine conflict. Other reasons include inadequate wages and the waiting time needed to receive a first social security payment from authorities, as well as benefit deductions.

Union Pacific claimed “no one was injured” in a statement released on Tuesday, revealing that train traffic had already reopened on one of the three mainline tracks less than six hours after the accident. Its cause was still “under investigation.” There were three other Union Pacific derailments in the area last year. Another coal train derailed in May southeast of Gothenburg, followed just a month later by a similar incident near the town. The third hit in November near neighboring Lexington.

Tuesday’s crash comes as the US public is increasingly alarmed about an apparent surge in accidents, following a catastrophic incident in East Palestine, Ohio earlier this month. A Norfolk Southern train carrying 10 cars full of hazardous materials mysteriously derailed on a straight stretch of track on February 3, leaking toxic chemicals including vinyl chloride into the surroundings.

However, experts have warned the wreck and the massive toxic cloud created by the burn could give rise to one of the worst environmental disasters in US history. In a video posted by locals to social media, the Ohio River, which supplies drinking water to a tenth of the US population, appeared to be thoroughly contaminated. The perceived failure of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to act decisively – or at all, until nearly three weeks had elapsed since the crash – to address the situation in East Palestine has triggered calls for his resignation.

Additionally, they have the right to obtain Israeli citizenship, should they request it, though only about five percent have exercised that option since East Jerusalem was annexed by Israel and Jerusalem was “unified” in 1967. Despite these privileges, terrorism emanates from these East Jerusalem neighborhoods, and, frighteningly, many of the terrorists are children.

In last Saturday night’s airing of “Meet the Press” with Amit Segal and Ben Caspit on Israel’s Channel 12, it was suggested that Israel’s options in East Jerusalem might be either learning to live with the occasional terror attack or building a wall. If that is the case, and, sadly, we have seen too many terrorist attacks, let’s build a wall and divide the city once and for all.

Incidentally, the warmest day ever in Springfield, Illinois is 112, which occurred in July of 1954, 69 years ago, during a global cooling period. I was one year old at the time, and we had a box fan. We have very few 100-degree days in Illinois. There is no scientific data that show a direct correlation between temperatures and our consumption of natural resources or with humans breathing out CO2.

While they are spending massive amounts to limit the non-pollutant CO2, they are requiring us to use the expensive, highly flammable pollutant lithium. They clearly don't care about how and where it is produced, and they don't even care if child labor is used. All they care about is controlling our lives.

Is it any wonder that the people have so little trust in big government and in the media establishment that promotes its policies? The climate has always been and will always be cyclical. It is arrogant and dishonest for politicians, bureaucrats, educators, entertainers, and bureaucrats to pretend they can control it if we just give them trillions of our hard earned dollars and destroy our quality of life.

The result for Ukraine? “A murderous assault evoking images of the death and destruction Europe suffered in World War II,” Biden described, conveniently ignoring the fact that this time around, it was Washington’s NATO allies that trained the Nazis. “Canada’s Joint Task Force Ukraine even produced a briefing on the Azov Battalion, acknowledging its links to Nazi ideology,” according to the Ottawa Citizen.

When Russia finally drew the line and the conflict went red hot, Biden was quick to hightail it over to Brussels to take that dirty authoritarian Russian gas off Europe’s hands and replace it with molecules of freedom. Captain America was going to save the day, and European bureaucrats ignored the fact that US-branded freedom has a price tag. For starters, it has ended up costing Europe an amount several times the typical domestic market price paid for US liquified natural gas. American gas exports to Europe have spiked 148% year on year.

Biden also pushed Europe to go green as yet another reason not to ever again turn back to Russian gas. “Today we’ve agreed on a joint game plan toward that goal while accelerating our progress toward a secure clean energy future. However, now the US President has changed his tune. “We’re still going to need oil and gas for a while,” Biden declared, going off script to say the quiet part aloud in his State of the Union address. “We’re going to need oil for another decade. And beyond that.”

In that case, maybe Europe should be turning the Nord Stream pipeline of cheap Russian gas back on so that European governments can stop shoveling cash out the door in an attempt to keep their industry and economy – not to mention consumers – from being crushed by exorbitant energy costs.

Those comments didn’t go unnoticed in New Delhi, with Jaishankar firing back on Saturday at the 92-year-old billionaire and neo-liberal political activist. The foreign minister described Soros as "old, rich, opinionated and dangerous" because he’s willing to invest his money in "shaping narratives."

"People like him think an election is good if the person they want to see wins and, if the election throws up a different outcome, then they will say it is a flawed democracy," he added.

Japan's coast guard also issued warnings over possible ballistic missile launches by North Korea. It comes as tensions escalate following a US flyover of the totalitarian state on Sunday, with Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, calling the US 'the worst maniacs'.

“As we approach the anniversary of Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, I'm in Kyiv today to meet with President Zelenskyy and reaffirm our unwavering commitment to Ukraine’s democracy, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.”

When Putin launched his invasion nearly one year ago, he thought Ukraine was weak and the West was divided. He thought he could outlast us. But he was dead wrong. Over the last year, the United States has built a coalition of nations from the Atlantic to the Pacific to help defend Ukraine with unprecedented military, economic, and humanitarian support – and that support will endure.

It’s like opening up a restaurant called “The Chicken Place,” but when you go in they say they don’t actually serve chicken. They serve “flightless fowl” because they don’t actually believe that chickens exist but since chickens represent scrumptious protein, they named their restaurant after the fictional birds.

But they’re not just trying to normalize The Satanic Temple. More importantly, they’re trying to normalize the “After School Satan Clubs” administered by the Temple. And while they claim this is not a religious organization, they are doing this in response to OTHER religious organizations. The organization says After School Satan Clubs “provide a safe and inclusive alternative” to Christian-based groups that may seek to “convert school children to their belief system.”

But a class-action lawsuit filed in Ohio federal court claims the contamination affected even more fish and wildlife within 20 miles of the derailment — more than the 3,500 fish that officials have said turned up dead in seven and a half miles of streams.

'Although mandatory evacuation orders have been lifted and residents have been told that it is safe to return to their homes, plaintiffs and members of the class believe, with good reason, that the prospective dangers from the hazardous exposure are being grossly downplayed and that their health has been and is subjected to injurious toxins.' Officials have not confirmed any nonaquatic wildlife deaths following the train derailment and subsequent 'controlled burn' of toxic chemicals.

Meanwhile, residents in and around East Palestine are complaining of rashes, persistent coughs, headaches and nausea in the aftermath of the train derailment. Among the chemicals that were being transported on the train were vinyl chloride, a highly-volatile colorless gas produced for commercial uses; ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, ethylhexyl acrylate and isobutylene.

The agency also noted that after Norfolk Southern crews conducted a 'controlled explosion' of five train cars carrying vinyl chloride to prevent a fatal explosion, crews checked the air for chemicals and reported that the levels were normal.

In a fully rational world, it should be obvious to any observer who honestly seeks moral clarity, that at a religious site sacred to multiple religions, the side that seeks to visit and pray in peace and also allows full religious freedom to the other is in the right — and the side that reacts with violence and seeks to bar the other from prayer is in the wrong. But in the real world’s cacophony of noise and ethical confusion, it is clear that Israel needs to forcefully, clearly, and, most importantly, publicly articulate its position to the world.

The failure to do so allows bigots and those seeking to harness bigotry to demonize Israel, arouse violence, inflame antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment, and work to derail Israel’s budding diplomacy with its Arab neighbors. To prevail, Israel’s message must be clear: The Jewish people’s ties to the Temple Mount are an undeniable historical fact. Israel wants peace, tolerance, and religious freedom, while those who stash rocks, pipes, bottles, and weapons and engage in violent rioting are the ones who are truly desecrating the site.