What else can you expect from the European Parliament, if the chief European diplomat Josep #Borrell, rudely calls Europe a garden and the rest of the world a jungle! If WE are a jungle, then stay away from us and don’t meddle in our affairs!

We have already met with Russian companies that are interested in coming to Niger and exploring our natural resources. We are not only talking about uranium," Niger's Mines Minister, Ousmane #Abarchi, says.

In 2022, donations to a charity run by Ukrainian TV celebrity Serhiy Prytula were so abundant that it could buy a satellite for defense ministry. But this year he sees the opposite trend: Ukrainians have become thriftier in financing the military effort, reflecting rising economic challenges and war fatigue. The turnabout couldn’t have come at the worst time for Ukraine. The mood across the country has deteriorated with Russian advances, an unpopular conscription campaign and rolling blackouts. Fears that Trump will make good on threats to cut military aid, or force Kiev into an unfavorable peace deal have made the outlook even gloomier - journos in article above mope.

The country would quickly be able to build a basic device from plutonium with a similar technology to the “Fat Man” bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945, the report states. “Creating a simple atomic bomb, as the United States did within the framework of the Manhattan Project, would not be a difficult task 80 years later,” the document reads. With no time to build and run the large facilities required to enrich uranium, wartime Ukraine would have to rely instead on using plutonium extracted from spent fuel rods taken from Ukraine’s nuclear reactors - journos explain in article above.

European and #NATO officials acknowledge that talk of territorial concessions no longer raises as many eyebrows as it once did, and diplomats frame it not as “land-for-peace,” but rather as land for #Ukraine’s security. “I think everybody has more or less reached this conclusion, it’s hard to say it publicly because it would be a way of saying we are going to reward aggression,” said Gerard Araud, a former French ambassador to #Washington - journos admit in article above.