The brother of deceased financier and sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, Mark, said in an interview with NewsNation that the former “definitely had dirt on Trump,” The Hill reports . Mark Epstein also said the president is "definitely lying" about his ignorance of crimes related to his brother. Jeffrey Epstein owned the private island of Little St. James off the coast of St.

According to the Russian Prosecutor's Office, the GSC Game World company supports the Ukrainian Armed Forces and transferred about $17 million to the Ukrainian army.

Chairman of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina said that Russian banks are overzealous in the fight against fraudsters and often block the accounts of their clients without sufficient grounds, RBC reports from the “Focus on the Client” conference. “When fighting fraud, we went too far, as they say.

President Trump received Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House on November 18, The New York Times reports . The reception was accompanied by a ceremony “in its pomp surpassing the usual diplomatic celebration.” This is the crown prince's first visit to American soil since 2018, when Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul.

The UN Security Council approved a draft resolution submitted by the United States, which provides for the creation of the International Stabilization Force (ISS) in the Gaza Strip. According to the organization’s website, thirteen states voted for it, Russia and China abstained. Palestine welcomed the UN Security Council resolution on Gaza, US President Donald Trump congratulated the world on this decision.

Polish authorities suspect Russia of organizing an incident of railway sabotage that was carried out on Nov. 16. According to a report from Polsat News , Prime Minister Donald Tusk informed the country’s lower house of parliament, the Sejm, that the identities of two suspects in the railway sabotage have been established. Tusk said they are Ukrainian citizens who were acting on orders from Russia, and that they entered Poland from Belarus.

In October, Russian pro-government media outlets started circulating a dramatic story about Dashima Ochirnimaeva, a former lieutenant with the country’s Federal Penitentiary Service who went to Thailand to work as a model but ended up trapped in an illegal call center on the border with Myanmar. There, Chinese mobsters allegedly held her behind barbed wire and threatened to sell her internal organs if she refused to work the phones.

Britain's domestic intelligence agency MI5 has warned lawmakers that Chinese spies are actively trying to contact them through recruitment agencies on the social network LinkedIn, ABC News reports .

The US Treasury said that sanctions against Rosneft and Lukoil, introduced on October 22, have already led to a reduction in revenues from the sale of Russian oil, and in the long term will likely lead to a reduction in sales volumes. This was reported by Reuters with reference to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the Ministry of Finance.

On October 15, a member of the German Bundestag from the far-right Alternative for Germany party, Steffen Kotre, spoke at the BRICS-Europe symposium on the Sirius federal territory near Sochi. Russian media report this.

Russian oil exports to China by sea will decrease by 500 thousand - 800 thousand barrels per day this month, which is up to two-thirds of the usual level of supplies, the analytical firm Rystad Energy AS has calculated, Bloomberg reports . The decline in volumes followed the expansion of US sanctions aimed at Russian oil producers and Chinese ports and refineries. The targeted impact on Chinese importers also led to a reduction in Iranian oil supplies to China.

The U.S. Treasury has stated that sanctions against Russian oil and gas giants Rosneft and Lukoil, imposed on Oct. 22, have already reduced Russia's oil revenue and are likely to lead to lower sales volumes in the long term, Reuters reports, citing the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced at a meeting of the Sejm that the identities of two suspects in sabotage on the railway have been established - these are citizens of Ukraine who acted on instructions from Russia and entered Poland from Belarus. Polsat News reports this. Poland has introduced the second (out of four) level of terrorist threat, and on some railway lines, at the request of the head of the Internal Security Agency and the Minister of Internal Affairs, the third.

The Ostankino District Court of Moscow has registered an administrative case against pro-government political scientist Sergei Markov, Mediazona noted . He is accused of violating the requirements regarding the status of a “foreign agent.” Specific charges are unknown at this time. The protocol was drawn up under Part 1 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code - for the fact that the person carried out the “activities of a foreign agent”, but was not registered with the Ministry of Justice.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced the successful use of ATACMS ballistic missiles to destroy military targets on Russian territory. It is noted that the use of long-range weapons, including ATACMS, “will continue.” This is the first attack by ATACMS during the administration of US President Donald Trump, who took office on January 20, 2025.