News The Insider 19 January 2026 Partially blurred footage of the submarine shared by Zvezda following the drone attack in Novorossiysk. Screenshot: Zvezda (@zvezdanews / Telegram) A Russian submarine that was attacked by Ukrainian Sub Sea Baby underwater drones in the port of Novorossiysk on Dec. 15 has not moved since, according to a report by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty , which compared satellite images from Dec. 24 and Jan. 19. The Jan.

Available in English The idea that post-apartheid South Africa is facing “white genocide” has not been abandoned by US President Donald Trump since his first term. Back in 2018, he wrote that he had instructed then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to “take a close look at the land expropriation and massacres of farmers in South Africa.” Many on the American right agree with Trump.

French Culture Minister Rachida Dati, who is running for mayor of Paris, has said she will leave the government ahead of the municipal elections. Dati made the announcement in an interview with public radio station France Inter but did not specify the date of her resignation. “Until recently, it was not incompatible for a minister to campaign in the context of elections. Today, I respect all the ethical rules…but of course I will leave the government,” Dati said.

NASA has delivered a rocket to the launch pad for the first human flight to the Moon in half a century, the BBC reports . The 98-meter Space Launch System traveled for almost 12 hours from the assembly shop to pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The huge rocket was carried by a special transporter platform at a speed of just over a kilometer per hour. In the coming days, NASA specialists will conduct final checks and a fueling rehearsal.

Partially blurred footage of the submarine shared by Zvezda following the drone attack in Novorossiysk. Screenshot: Zvezda (@zvezdanews / Telegram) A Russian submarine that was attacked by Ukrainian Sub Sea Baby underwater drones in the port of Novorossiysk on Dec. 15 has not moved since, according to a report by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty , which compared satellite images from Dec. 24 and Jan. 19. Telegram https://t.me/theinsru/3286 The Jan.

In the first weeks of 2026, Russian banks blocked about 2-3 million cards and accounts as part of the fight against fraud, the Kommersant newspaper writes . As the publication notes, last year, on average, about 10 times fewer transfers were blocked per month than now. The sharp increase in the number of blockings is associated with the expansion by the Central Bank of the criteria for suspicious transactions.

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has recognized the activities of the French law firm Vigo Law Firm as “undesirable.” This was reported by the press service of the supervisory agency. The Prosecutor General's Office stated that Vigo Law Firm worked in the interests of the French non-governmental organization Pour l'Ukraine, pour leur liberté et la nôtre! (“For Ukraine, for their and for our freedom”), which was previously also included in the list of “undesirables” in Russia.

News The Insider January 19, 2026 On January 17, new figures emerged on the death toll from Iran's protests, and 26-year-old Iranian Erfan Soltani, the first protester sentenced to death, was allowed to see his family. After the execution date was postponed, and a number of media reported that Erfan was killed in prison, his relatives were not sure that he was alive. Meanwhile, the Iranians are looking for the dead - in morgues, hospitals, among photographs of unidentified bodies.

Antifake Fake by Dmitry Kiselev: Europe is beginning to understand that Putin is right The Insider 19 January 2026 One of Dmitry Kselev’s monologues in Vesti Nedeli is entitled “Europe has begun to realize that Putin is right.” The Kremlin chief propagandist says : “But what makes the news less often are phenomena. It seems like there is no incident, nothing special happened, but suddenly the realization comes that something is different. It accumulated little by little, and then - bam.

China's population is declining for the fourth year in a row, The Wall Street Journal reports . According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the country's total population by the end of 2025 was 1.405 billion people, compared to 1.408 billion a year earlier. The number of newborns fell to 7.92 million from 9.54 million in 2024. The birth rate fell to 5.63 per thousand people from 6.77 the previous year. These are the minimum figures since the founding of the PRC in 1949.

News The Insider January 19, 2026 Photo: Protests in Copenhagenhagen on Saturday / Jacob Crawfurd Denmark canceled its participation in the Davos Economic Forum at the last minute, and even leading international relations experts in Copenhagen were unable to explain the decision to The Insider. Four leading political analysts immediately admitted to The Insider's correspondent in Copenhagen, Morgan Fair Mahlke, that they did not understand the reasons for this decision.

News The Insider January 19, 2026 The neo-Nazi group NS/WP claimed responsibility for the destruction of the memorial plaque of Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya in Moscow. This was reported by Novaya Gazeta Europe and Important Stories with reference to publications in closed and public neo-Nazi Telegram channels. In a statement, NS/WP, which uses the name Four Letters Crew (FLC) after a number of convictions, said the attack was a “tribute to the memory” of the BORN group.

In southern Spain, a collision between two passenger trains killed at least 24 people, and another 75 were injured and are in hospital, El Día de Córdoba reports . The incident occurred on Sunday evening near the city of Adamus in the province of Cordoba - about 360 km south of the country's capital. Updated: According to the latest data, the death toll has risen to 39 people, and more than 150 injured.

In a couple of days, the Syrian military ousted Kurdish forces from vast territories in the north of the country, which the latter had held for about 10 years. After this, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa announced the signing of a ceasefire agreement with the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The country's army, with the support of local militias, captured large parts of the provinces of Aleppo, Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor.

The procedure for transferring singer Larisa Dolina’s apartment to buyer Polina Lurie has been completed, Lurie’s representative Svetlana Sviridenko told RAPSI. The lawyer clarified that she had received the keys to the property and would give them to her trustee. According to her, the artist took out personal belongings, leaving only the furniture that was indicated as part of the purchase and sale transaction. Enforcement proceedings are also closed. Now the singer is vacationing in the UAE.