The US May Have Shot Down a Small Hobby Balloon With a Sidewinder Missile

Former Brazilian Intelligence Chief Detained By ICE In Florida Authored by Charis Summers via The Epoch Times, Alexandre Ramagem, a former chief of the Brazilian intelligence agency and a close ally of former President Jair Bolsonaro, has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Orlando, Florida. Ramagem was chief of the ABIN intelligence agency from 2019 until 2022, when he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, representing Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party. In September 2025, he was sentenced to 16 years in prison for his role in an attempted coup in...

A US-born advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was tasked with “relocating” Palestinians from Gaza after President Trump announced plans last year for a “Gaza Riviera” that would involve the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population, according to a report from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. An Israeli source told the paper that Caroline Glick, […]

European and Gulf Arab countries do not believe the conflict in the Middle East will be resolved in the short term.  Arab and European leaders speaking with Bloomberg estimated it will take at least six months for the US and Iran to agree on a permanent end to the conflict. Last week, Pakistan brokered a […]