A senior US soldier has been arrested by British counter-terror police for allegedly spying for Russia.
The 41-year-old was detained on suspicion of terror offences under the National Security Act near Gloucester on Tuesday, according to Scotland Yard.
The country to which the allegations related was Russia, the force added.
A Russian spymaster claimed he had helped to bring down an Austrian chancellor, according to documents obtained by The Telegraph.
Jan Marsalek, the fugitive former Wirecard executive, said he had been involved in an operation that had “successfully toppled” Sebastian Kurz, who stepped down amid allegations of corruption in 2021.
The messages, detailed in secret investigation files seen by The Telegraph, were sent to Orlin Roussev, his spy ringleader, who has since been jailed in Britain for espionage.
A South Korean container ship completed a voyage to Western Europe through the Arctic Ocean off the northern coast of Russia in October, fueling Seoul’s hopes of exploiting the route as a shortcut for trade.
The ship made the round trip from Busan to Rotterdam in just 50 days, saving at least 10 days compared to the fastest travel times along the more commonly used Suez Canal route. The Northern Sea Route (NSR) is not only around 7,000 kilometers (4,350 miles) shorter, it also avoids the geopolitical flashpoint of the Middle East.
But the faster delivery times might not exactly trigger celebrations across western European capitals.
(AFP) — Russian police have arrested a minor in connection with an alleged plot to attack Moscow, Russian news agencies reported Sunday, after Russia received a tip-off from the United States.
The US embassy in Moscow published a statement on Saturday saying it was “aware of a credible threat of a mass casualty event… at the Tsaritsyno Museum Reserve in Moscow”.
(AFP) — Russia’s FSB security service said on Saturday it was carrying out “appropriate” measures after the US embassy in Moscow warned of a planned “terrorist” attack in the capital.
The US embassy said earlier it was “aware of a credible threat of a mass casualty event TODAY October 31, at the Tsaritsyno Museum Reserve in Moscow”.
In the six weeks between Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trip to the European Parliament and top EU officials arriving for a joint summit in Montreal, the United States has moved considerably closer to Russia.
Just days after Carney returned to Canada, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio invited Russia’s Vladimir Putin to December’s G20 summit in Miami. Then on Oct. 9, the U.S. lifted sanctions on Russian oil and announced a deal to buy diesel directly from Russia.
Some analysts say Trump’s rapprochement with Russia poses a clear danger to Canadians — one not easily solved by closer partnerships with allies an ocean away.
Russia is allied with Canada since Carney became Xi’s Butt Boy.
Is Carney ginning up the fear due to the collapse of his EU scam?
Until recently, the Finnish-Russian border was teeming with life. The high-speed Allegro train, a joint project of Finland’s national VR Group and Russia’s state-owned Russian Railways, took passengers from Saint Petersburg to Helsinki in less than four hours. Further north, the Finnish city of Imatra in South Karelia was a major draw for Russian tourists, who traveled there to shop, enjoy spa weekends, and see the Imatra Rapids, which Catherine the Great made fashionable after visiting in the 18th century.
MI5 is devoting more resource to countering state threats than during the Cold War, the head of the intelligence service has said, as he labelled Russia “aggressor number one”.
Sir Ken McCallum warned MI5 was now facing a situation in which “our terrorism and state threats operational missions are pretty much of equal scale” as threats from foreign adversaries have quadrupled over the last decade.
He used an annual speech at the domestic intelligence service’s headquarters in London to also warn of rising threats from Iran and “extreme right-wing terrorism”.
NATO’s top military commander sought to steady an anxious Europe on Monday, outlining the alliance’s new military plan to thwart a potential Russian assault along its eastern flank with a mix of firepower, autonomous systems and sensors that borrows from the lessons of Ukraine.
The speech by Gen. Alexus Grynkewich on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s “theory of victory” outlined a series of steps to block an initial attack and, if aggression continues, break the adversary’s ability to control and support its forces.
The goal would be to stop the invasion in its tracks while minimizing the risk of conventional or nuclear escalation by stopping short of the complete destruction of the enemy.
President Donald Trump has announced a deal to import Russian diesel into the US, as he faces mounting pressure to bring down fuel prices.
Trump said Putin had agreed to release 300,000 tonnes of diesel immediately “to the American and global marketplace” followed by 500,000 tonnes in November and another million after that.
The move on Friday sparked anger from Ukraine’s President Volodymr Zelensky, who called it a gift to Putin that amounts to “an investment in a war that must be ended, not prolonged”.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have purchased software from a digital forensics software company that U.S. authorities claim is secretly headquartered in Russia.
Oxygen Forensics presented itself as an American firm to land contracts with the U.S. government, when it was in fact controlled by Russian nationals via a Cypriot shell company, according to a criminal complaint filed by the U.S. Justice Department in late September.
An alleged Russian plot to infiltrate the US Secret Service has been uncovered.
Lee Reiber, the chief executive of Oxygen Forensics, is accused of concealing his company’s Russian links before it was taken on by the US Secret Service.
He allegedly told the US government that Russia had no role in the company. However, five Russian nationals secretly owned and controlled it, prosecutors said, while its software was developed and managed in Russia, according to the US department of justice (DoJ).
European intelligence officials have raised the possibility of an imminent Russian test of Nato, with one saying a potential attack could come in a matter of “months, not years”.
The warnings come after Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, told parliament that intelligence assessments suggested Russia might launch an attack with drones or missiles on Nato territory in the coming months, as part of efforts to prove that “article 5 is more theoretical than practical”.
Russia’s Northern Sea Route (NSR) is about to become a game-changer for Eurasian energy trade, and Europe’s January 2027 ban on Russian LNG is pushing Moscow to bring it to life sooner than planned. LNG will remain its foundation, while crude traffic and Rosneft’s vast Vostok Oil project could provide far greater scale. For Russia, the prize is a shorter route to Asian customers that avoids foreign-controlled chokepoints and increases Moscow’s command over export infrastructure. However, the route’s seasonal availability and persistent fleet shortages remain major constraints on its reliability and expansion.
In the past few weeks, Germany has seen a drone attack on Leipzig Airport and an arson attack near defense contractors in Bavaria, while explosive devices and pyrotechnics were found at two substations in Brandenburg and North Rhine-Westphalia.
As the country enters a September featuring three vital state elections, attacks on critical infrastructure appear to be on the rise, and defense contractors are apparently in the crosshairs.
After some initial hesitation, the German government has now publicly blamed Russia for the Leipzig attack, but could the Kremlin also be behind the other attacks?
Hey ChatGPT! Do German citizens view the US as a threat?
Threat to Global Peace: A survey by the Allensbach Institute shows that 65% of Germans name the United States as one of the greatest dangers to world peace. This figure increased from 24% in 2024 and 46% in 2025. The U.S. now ranks second only to Russia in German threat perceptions.
