GERMANY - Berlin should repair ties with Moscow and steer clear of the Ukraine conflict, a senior party member has said. Germany’s interests do not match those of its “Ukrainian partners,” and Berlin should pursue a “Germany first” policy, deputy head of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party’s parliamentary group, Markus Frohnmaier, has said. Frohnmaier made the remarks on Wednesday in an interview with Rossiya 24, suggesting that Berlin should admit its economic woes largely stem from breaking ties with Russia and try to fix them. “We are genuinely interested in normalizing relations with Russia,” Frohnmaier stated. “We simply have to acknowledge that energy prices for industry, as well as for private individuals in Germany, are now too high.” “The interests of our Ukrainian partners, for instance, do not match those of Germany. And I call for a final return to a policy that puts Germany’s interests first,” he stressed.

EUROPE - Net zero is crippling the EU. Now Brussels wants to export its madness globally. New regulations could force American companies to adopt climate ‘transition’ plans. It’s a naked attempt to stop the US energy renaissance. As Europe grapples with the fallout of its net zero crusade – crippling energy prices, deindustrialisation, and strategic vulnerability – America is charting a different course. Under Donald Trump, America is entering a golden age of energy dominance. This strategy offers not only economic resilience but also acts as a powerful counterweight to the regulatory overreach emanating from Brussels – and increasingly, Westminster. America’s energy renaissance is not just a domestic triumph – it is a global opportunity and a warning to Europe. The path to prosperity lies not in punitive regulation and supply chain dependence on China, but in strategic independence and abundant energy.

UK - Britain’s decent majority are not racist, they’re just terrified of losing the country they love. From the huge turnout at the Unite the Kingdom march to the defiant flying of our beautiful flags, people are sending a very clear message. A lot of Telegraph readers were at Saturday’s Unite the Kingdom march. Farmers, yoga teachers, plumbers, retired soldiers, shy accountants, firemen, retail workers, trade unionists, gardeners, people in wheelchairs, pensioners with dogs, babies in buggies, mums, dads, entire families having a grand day out. Richard described his fellow demonstrators - “We still love Britain and we are angry about what has been done to her, from the erosion of free speech to the threat posed by Islamist extremism and by men from backward cultures to women and children,” he said.

MIDDLE EAST - Islamic leaders have urged coordinated steps against the Jewish state over its ongoing siege of Gaza and recent strike on Qatar. Arab and Islamic leaders have called for Israel to be suspended from the United Nations over its alleged violations of the organization’s charter. The demand comes amid Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and after last week’s airstrike on Doha which left six people dead, including a Qatari security officer. Israel has defended its operations, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisting the Hamas leadership must be eradicated.

SUDAN - As the world’s eyes are fixed on Gaza, another hunger crisis tightens its grip on Sudan. Perched on dry, dusty ground, groups of malnourished children jostle around a single metal bowl, scooping claggy porridge into their mouths. Soon, the meagre rations have gone. Scenes like this have become the norm at a community kitchen in El Fasher, a besieged Sudanese city where residents are on the brink of starvation. For nearly 18 months, the capital of North Darfur state has been encircled by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a powerful paramilitary group accused of committing genocide in Sudan’s bloody civil war.

USA - Despite being sold as irrefutable fact, ‘evolution’ undergoes yet another re-write. I was recently sent an essay by a science writer, Michael Marshall, who specializes in the origin of life, titled “Life Happened Fast: It’s time to rethink how we study life’s origins. It emerged far earlier, and far quicker, than we once thought possible.” It was a fascinating read — not because I agreed with any of the content, but because it highlighted how nearly everything evolutionists have assumed about early earth and the origin of life has now been shown to be wrong. They’re having to rethink (once again) the beginning of their entire story. Evolutionary belief is so plastic! Considering how complex even the “simplest” life is, this significantly shortened timescale makes the evolutionary origin of life even more impossible than it already was (and it was already utterly impossible — life doesn’t come from nonlife, a fact that’s recognized as the scientific law of biogenesis).

ISRAEL - The prime minister says the defense industry must become self-reliant to withstand potential sanctions. Israel will have to reshape its economy to withstand sweeping sanctions and boycotts, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Sunday. Speaking at the Finance Ministry’s annual accountant general conference in Jerusalem, Netanyahu said mounting international pressure over the Gaza war is pushing the country toward economic self-sufficiency.

America's moral descenthttps://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-867535USA - With last week’s murder of Charlie Kirk at an outdoor gathering in Utah, the US is continuing its descent into a dark period where constructive disagreement is being replaced by violence aimed at those with whom people disagree. Sadly, the statistics bear this out. Through the first half of 2025, the US saw some 150 politically motivated attacks, according to Michael Jensen, a University of Maryland researcher who tracks terrorism incidents. That’s nearly twice as many as the same period last year. While most of these have not been of well-known people, during the past five years, there have been a number of very public figures who are part of this statistic. There have also been a number of mass shootings that have occurred in the United States in 2025. As of August 31, a total of 302 people have been killed and 1,354 people wounded in 309 mass shootings this year. These include 47 school shootings, which themselves resulted in 19 deaths and 77 injuries.

UK - A man from Afghanistan who fled to the UK after a court convicted him of raping a 14-year-old girl has opposed extradition to France on the grounds that his prison cell might be too small. After a warrant was issued by France “for the rape of a minor”, Abdul Ahmadzai, 36, was arrested under the Extradition Act 2003. He was convicted in his absence of the rape of a 14-year-old girl and sentenced to five years in prison. At the Westminster Magistrates’ Court extradition hearing, Stefan Hyman, representing Ahmadzai, spoke about the perceived risk that Ahmadzai could be detained in a space that would be smaller than three square metres if he is extradited across the Channel.

USA - Grocery bills are climbing, and it's not just your imagination. A new report reveals a surge in food prices, leaving many Americans feeling the pinch. According to a new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, grocery prices have jumped to the highest in three years. The cost of foods such as fresh produce, coffee, and meat has sent overall prices sky high, causing many Americans to struggle to make ends meet. Among the steepest price increases, instant coffee has risen by 4.9%, tomatoes 4.5%, beef roasts 4%, apples 3.5% and lettuce by 3.5%. According to The Guardian, the average cost of a dozen large eggs hit $6.23 in March, more than double the price just 12 months earlier.

USA - A slew of religious smartphone apps are allowing untold millions of users to confess to AI chatbots, some of which claim to be channeling God himself. As the New York Times reports, Apple's App Store is teeming with Christian chatbot apps. One "prayer app," called Bible Chat, claims to be the number one faith app in the world, boasting over 25 million users. "Our AI was trained exclusively on Scripture and developed with guidance from Christian pastors and theologians," the company's website boasts.

UK - Speaking at a press conference last week in which he announced sanctions against Israel, Pedro Sánchez, the Spanish prime minister, bemoaned not having any nuclear weapons – because it meant he couldn’t use them to threaten Israel. It’s certainly true that neither Sir Keir Starmer nor any member of the British Government has yet threatened the Israelis with nuclear apocalypse. But every week brings another example of how, under Labour, Israel is now being treated as an enemy state. Today we learn that the Royal College of Defence Studies will no longer accept students from Israel, the first time it has barred Israelis since that nation’s creation in 1948. As Amir Baram, the director general of Israel’s defence ministry (who studied at the college) put it in a letter to the Ministry of Defence, the ban on Israelis is “a profoundly dishonourable act of disloyalty to an ally at war” and a “disgraceful break with Britain’s proud tradition of tolerance – and plain decency”.

UK - Internet chatrooms in Nepal played a key role in selecting a prime minister, but the same technology has been used to spread vile abuse after Charlie Kirk’s death. Many of the comments were vile. They began on social media almost as soon as Charlie Kirk had been assassinated. He was reviled as a bigot, a racist and a fascist who fully deserved to be shot. The celebrations on Bluesky were especially ­repulsive. Others, including his supporters, posted appalling images: videos of the blood gushing from his neck as he fell backwards. Some may have thought this would expose the enormity of the crimes they insist are perpetrated by the left; others simply recognised the awful attraction of violence on screen, the same gleeful fascination that in the past prompted Islamist terrorists to post videos of a western journalist having his throat cut in Pakistan or a Jordanian pilot being burnt alive. Little wonder that more and more people see the internet as a sewer which they want drained and regulated.

POLAND - When 19 alleged Russian drones violated Polish airspace this week, NATO scrambled its most advanced — and most expensive — weapons to stop them. Dutch F-35 fighter jets, Italian surveillance planes, and German Patriot missile systems were deployed in a high-stakes interception effort. The result? Only seven drones were shot down, despite each missile costing nearly 40 times more than the $11,000 wooden-and-foam UAVs they targeted. The embarrassing failure has exposed a gaping hole in NATO’s air defenses, leaving Eastern Europe vulnerable to waves of low-cost, high-impact attacks that modern militaries simply aren’t equipped to handle. The incident was a huge wake-up call. According to internal NATO calculations cited by the Financial Times in May, the alliance has only 5% of the air defenses needed to protect Eastern Europe, the Baltics, and Scandinavia. That means if Russia or any other adversary decided to flood the skies with cheap, disposable drones, NATO’s billion-dollar war machines would be outmatched, outnumbered, and financially drained before the first real battle even begins.

ISRAEL - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended his country’s recent airstrike on Hamas terrorists in Qatar, saying Monday that the Gulf state was in violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1373. That resolution, passed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, bars countries from harboring terrorists, and implies that other states have a right to self-defense against terrorists that are being sheltered by other nations. Standing alongside US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a press conference in Jerusalem, Netanyahu fielded a question about the airstrike, after Rubio was asked how the US could assuage its Gulf allies.