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Russian spies infiltrate UK on cargo ships to scout military sites, find weaknesses
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Two suspected Russian spies are believed to have secretly entered the UK on cargo ships before traveling to locations close to key military bases and critical government infrastructure, according to reports.
The i Paper claimed the two men arrived in the UK during the spring and summer of 2025, using ports at Torquay, Middlesbrough and Grangemouth, in the north-east.
A UK defense source also suggested the men were linked to President Vladimir Putin’s military and intelligence networks.
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Two suspected Russian spies entered the UK via cargo ships through Torquay, Middlesbrough and Grangemouth ports before visiting areas near military bases. (PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images))
The pair are alleged to have accessed the country covertly by exploiting commercial shipping routes rather than passing through heavily monitored border entry points.
The ships they used were reportedly neither Russian-flagged nor part of the sanctioned shadow fleet associated with the Kremlin, making them far less likely to attract scrutiny.
A senior NATO official responsible for protecting Europe’s maritime waters told the outlet that intelligence agencies had detected Russian operatives traveling on non-suspicious cargo vessels.
The official said those type of ships offer an ideal way of moving personnel discreetly.
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Putin is testing the boundaries of NATO with aircraft incursions, allied states say. (Ramil Sitdikov/Pool/Reuters )
«It would be the most natural place to move people around in that world, and we think it’s going on,» the source said.
«They are not sailing on shadow fleet tankers, they are sailing on all [types of] ships,» the source claimed, adding that Russian agents had monitored and «tested European ports to find weaknesses.»
One of the suspected operatives is reported to have entered the UK through Torquay in the South West after traveling from Finland.
The second, previously seen in Moscow at an intelligence-linked facility, was suspected of traveling from Kaliningrad and entering via Middlesbrough and Grangemouth.
After spending time around the storage facility at Grangemouth, the second operative also traveled to Falkirk, where they visited a retail park.
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Suspected Russian operatives entered the UK through ports near weapon facilities to test security weaknesses. (John Keeble/Getty Images)
Both British docks were recently proposed by the Ministry of Defense (MoD) as potential sites for future UK weapons factories.
They are currently unused brownfield locations, increasing concerns over the security implications of the alleged visits.
Elisabeth Braw of the Intelligence Council and senior fellow at the Atlantic Council told the i Paper that it makes sense for Russian intelligence to exploit these weaknesses.
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«It doesn’t surprise me that Russia wants to bring certain people into the country even though they can reach people who are already there,» she said.
«They need their own operatives to conduct this sort of activity,» Braw added.
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DEI and woke ideology are on life support under Trump’s return to DC, but could come roaring back with rebrand
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President Donald Trump’s early second-term blitz against «woke» ideology, including diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, have rippled far beyond Washington, D.C., as companies roll back such policies.
But the left-wing credos could come roaring back to public view under a rebranding, the president of American Principles Project (APP) told Fox News Digital.
«DEI is still alive. It’s not dead yet. It’s bleeding, right? We’ve got blood here, but we know it’s vulnerable,» Terry Schilling, the president of conservative nonprofit and advocacy group the American Principles Project, told Fox News Digital in a December Zoom interview. «But they’re still in charge of the admissions offices and colleges. They’re still in charge of HR departments, and they’re still largely a part of Silicon Valley.»
American Principles Project has documented the cultural shifts in recent years to embrace DEI initiatives, which conservatives argue replace merit with race and identity preferences that effectively penalize some Americans at work and at school through the expansion of bureaucracy and ideological pressure. Schilling said that while the «woke» push seen under the Biden era is retreating under the Trump administration, it is still alive and could make a return.
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«DEI is retreating,» Schilling said in the interview. «But I think that it’s important that we recognize that DEA is not disbanding, it’s rebranding.»
But the left-wing DEI credos could come roaring back to public view under a rebranding, the president of American Principles Project (APP) told Fox News Digital. (iStock )
Trump swiftly moved to drop the hammer on DEI and woke initiatives upon his return to office in January, including signing an executive order on day one, titled «Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing,» which directed federal agencies to stamp out DEI-style programs across the federal government. The following day, Trump signed a second order aimed at «restoring merit-based opportunity,» including changes for federal contracting and related compliance.
«We’ve ended the tyranny of so-called Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies all across the entire federal government and indeed the private sector and our military. And our country will be woke no longer,» Trump said from the dais in Congress in March, celebrating his administration’s achievement just a few months into the job.
Schilling said Trump turned DEI on its head upon his return to the Oval Office, pointing to his executive orders as death knells heard at the highest echelons of corporate America down to public school classrooms.
«Trump winning the election had a lot to do with this,» Schilling said. «You’re seeing all these CEOs of major tech companies and companies abroad coming to the White House, kissing the ring. They know who’s in power and they’re willing to make deals to get their projects over the finish line. And that’s all great. We should use that. We should us that momentum to further cement opposition to DEI.»
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Silicon Valley has long been viewed and criticized as a powerful weapon used to silence conservatives — such as when social media platforms suppressed news reports on former first son Hunter Biden’s laptop ahead of the 2020 election — with top tech CEOs signaling a Trump-era pivot this year as they work to ink deals to expand their businesses amid the artificial intelligence boom.
President Donald Trump swiftly moved to drop the hammer on DEI and woke initiatives upon his return to office in January. (Alex Brandon/The Associated Press )
«President Trump’s executive orders did so much to cut back against DEI, banning DEI throughout the entire federal workforce, banning schools from using and tying federal funds to whether or not schools are implementing racist policies like DEI has done a lot to curb it,» Schilling said.
«However, these guys are lying in wait,» he added.
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Massive American staple company Target announced the conclusion of DEI goals after a three-year initiative, while Disney also made changes such as removing DEI-related terms from its annual business reports. Cracker Barrel, after a bruising backlash to its branding overhaul earlier in 2025, scrapped remodel plans and reverted to its old logo, with Fox Digital previously reporting the chain eliminated DEI programs as part of its latest changes.
«DEI is an employment issue,» Schilling said. «It’s keeping a large amount of Americans who deserve to have good lives and good incomes out of the workforce simply because they have the wrong color of skin.»
Democrats generally support DEI policies as they see them as a way to expand opportunity and reduce discrimination in hiring, promotion and education, especially for groups they argue have faced historic barriers. Left-wing lawmakers stretching from members of the Congressional Black Caucus to Democrat 2025 political candidates, such as New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, have slammed or campaigned against Trump’s roll-back of DEI policies.
Diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives have been the subject of heated opinions of praise and rebuke. (Adobe Stock)
Schilling warned that upcoming elections could undo the progress Trump has made in eliminating DEI policies at the federal level, pointing to the 2028 presidential election.
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«They are lying in wait for the next Democrat president like Gavin Newsom, like JB Pritzker. There’s really no doubt that if another Democrat gets into office, they’re not just going to undo everything President Trump did to curb all the racism through DEI programs. They going to ramp it up. They gonna do it even more so than Barack Obama did and Joe Biden did. So we’ve got to continue to fight this,» Schilling said.
The American Principles Project president continued that ending DEI and woke ideology for good requires conservative Republicans winning elections and conservative voters to talk with their feet with boycotts if a corporation leans into promoting left-wing policies, underscoring DEI is an economic issue, in addition to a cultural one.
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«If we really want to save the future, DEI must be killed, because it’s not just about the culture, it’s just not about racism,» he said. «It’s so much more. It’s the economy, it’s the future of America, it’s our families, it is our children, and so we really need to remain eternally vigilant until it’s obvious that DEI is never coming back.»
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Si la desinformación parece un desafío propio del siglo XXI, la historia demuestra lo contrario. Mucho antes de la proliferación de redes sociales y algoritmos, los científicos griegos y romanos ya debatían cómo distinguir los hechos de la ficción. Entre pergaminos y observaciones a simple vista, afrontaban relatos dudosos, rumores sin fundamento y el peso de creencias populares.
Su legado intelectual, transmitido a lo largo de los siglos, ofrece herramientas clave para quienes buscan orientarse entre un exceso de información y datos falsos. A pesar de la distancia temporal, sus ideas sobre la búsqueda del conocimiento, la duda razonada y el valor del debate siguen siendo referencias para la ciencia actual. Así lo sostiene Jemima McPhee, investigadora de la Australian National University, en un análisis publicado en The Conversation.
Hace más de dos mil años, la observación sistemática se consolidó como el primer paso del conocimiento confiable. El astrónomo Marcus Manilius, en el siglo I d.C., relató cómo sus colegas examinaban el cielo noche tras noche, atentos al movimiento de las estrellas y anotando sus posiciones para confirmar patrones y descartar ilusiones.
Este método, lejos de limitarse a la astronomía, se extendía a todas las disciplinas: primero observar, luego registrar y recién después interpretar. Según el análisis de McPhee, Manilio afirmó: “Observaban la apariencia de todo el cielo durante la noche y veían regresar cada estrella a su lugar original. Repitiendo ese proceso, acumularon su conocimiento”. El mensaje era claro: toda afirmación sin respaldo empírico debía ser cuestionada. En una época donde la palabra tenía tanto peso como la evidencia, este celo por los hechos marcó una diferencia decisiva frente a la especulación o el mito.
La confianza ciega en lo que se escucha o se lee nunca fue una virtud para los antiguos. Un texto anónimo conocido como “Aetna”, dedicado a explicar el funcionamiento de los volcanes, advertía sobre los riesgos de aceptar relatos ajenos sin verificación rigurosa.
El autor señalaba que las fuentes, incluso las más respetadas, podían equivocarse o distorsionar la verdad, ya fuera por error o interés propio. De acuerdo con la Australian National University, el autor de “Aetna” instaba a someter toda información al análisis crítico, evaluando si estaba sustentada por pruebas y razonamiento propio. Esta actitud era una protección esencial ante errores y engaños.
La desconfianza razonada no era un obstáculo, sino una salvaguarda indispensable. La advertencia sigue vigente: la autoridad de una fuente nunca debe reemplazar al juicio informado.
La humildad intelectual formaba parte de la ética científica en Grecia y Roma. El poeta y filósofo Lucrecio, en su obra “Sobre la naturaleza de las cosas”, propuso diversas explicaciones para los eclipses solares, pero admitió abiertamente no tener pruebas suficientes para elegir una.
Para Lucrecio, rechazar hipótesis solo para aparentar certeza era contrario al espíritu científico. Según argumenta Jemima McPhee, esta honestidad, lejos de debilitar el discurso, inspiraba mayor confianza en el público y entre colegas.
Reconocer limitaciones y dudas era señal de fiabilidad, no de debilidad. En una época en la que la ciencia se enfrenta al dogmatismo y la polarización, la lección resulta especialmente actual: solo quien admite lo que ignora puede aspirar a descubrir algo nuevo.
El conocimiento nunca estuvo aislado del entorno social ni de las creencias colectivas. Los tratados médicos atribuidos a la escuela hipocrática dan cuenta de debates intensos entre explicaciones materiales y sobrenaturales, especialmente en cuestiones como la epilepsia.
“Sobre la enfermedad sagrada” es un ejemplo: mientras algunos médicos defendían causas físicas, otros preferían explicaciones espirituales, y ambos ofrecían diagnósticos y tratamientos distintos según sus valores y formación. Según el estudio de la Australian National University, los antiguos comprendían que los hechos científicos están condicionados por la cultura y el entorno de quienes los transmiten.
Este reconocimiento permitía situar cada afirmación en su contexto, entendiendo que la ciencia no progresa en aislamiento, sino en diálogo con la sociedad. Así, advertían sobre la influencia de intereses, creencias y motivaciones en la construcción de la verdad.
A diferencia de la visión contemporánea que asocia el conocimiento exclusivo a los expertos, los antiguos reivindicaban la apertura y el aprendizaje constante. El propio Manilio sostenía que lo más importante para estudiar ciencia era una “mente dispuesta”, sin importar el origen o el rango social.
El autor de “Aetna” afirmaba que “la ciencia no es terreno para el genio”, sino para quienes mantienen la curiosidad y la capacidad de dudar. En palabras de McPhee, los científicos antiguos insistían en que cualquier persona podía alcanzar el saber auténtico si mantenía el análisis crítico y el deseo de aprender. La verificación y la transparencia reforzaban el carácter público y perfectible de la ciencia.
Las enseñanzas surgidas del escepticismo y la experiencia de estos pioneros consolidaron las bases del conocimiento científico. En tiempos donde distinguir lo real de lo falso es un reto, las lecciones de la Antigüedad mantienen su vigencia para quienes buscan claridad, concluye el análisis de Jemima McPhee.
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An explosive fire at a bar in the Swiss Alps killed multiple people and injured others during New Year’s celebrations, police said.
The blaze happened in the Alpine ski resort municipality of Crans-Montana, Switzerland, police said.
«The fire started around 1:30 a.m. this morning in a bar called ‘Le Constellation,’» police spokesperson Gaëtan Lathion said. «More than a hundred people were in the building, and we are seeing many injured and many dead.»
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Rescuers and fire-fighters work at the site of an explosion that ripped through a bar in Crans-Montana on January 1, 2026. (MAXIME SCHMID / AFP via Getty Images)
Investigators were working to determine the cause of the fire, police said.
«We’re just at the beginning of our investigation, but this is an internationally renown ski resort with lots of tourists,» Lathion said.
A police officer walks near ambulances at the site of an explosion that ripped through a bar in Crans-Montana on January 1, 2026. (MAXIME SCHMID / AFP via Getty Images)
A reception center and helpline have been established for impacted families, Lathion said.
Rescuers are seen at the site of an explosion that ripped through a bar in Crans-Montana on January 1, 2026. (MAXIME SCHMID / AFP via Getty Images)
A news conference was scheduled by police for 10 a.m. The community is in the heart of the Swiss Alps, about 25 miles north of the Matterhorn.
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The Associated Press contributed to this report.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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