At least 37 people are dead and dozens more are injured after a fire broke out at a migration center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, mere feet from the U.S. border, local media reported early Tuesday morning. The fire erupted Monday night at the National Institute of Migration in the border city, according to KVIA journalist […]
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Russia will station tactical nukes in Belarus
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced plans on Saturday to station tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus, a warning to the West as it steps up military support for Ukraine. Putin said the move was triggered by Britain’s decision this past week to provide Ukraine with armor-piercing rounds containing depleted uranium. Tactical nuclear weapons are intended […]
U.S. bombs Syria after drone kills worker
The US has carried out air strikes against Iran-linked groups in eastern Syria after a drone attack killed a US contractor, the US defence chief said. Eight pro-Iran fighters were killed, according to a monitoring group. Defence officials said the air strikes happened on Thursday night, hours after the drone attack which US intelligence said […]
Xi arrives in Moscow as Putin rips West
Russian President Vladimir Putin is accusing the West of trying to hold back Moscow and Beijing’s “development” as Chinese leader Xi Jinping landed Monday for a three-day visit to the Kremlin. Putin, in an article published late Sunday night in the China Communist Party’s People’s Daily newspaper, alleged the Western world is conspiring to stifle […]
Putin visits occupied city of Mariupol
Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited the occupied port city of Mariupol, his first trip to the Ukrainian territory that Moscow illegally annexed in September. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Putin arrived in Mariupol late Saturday after visiting Crimea, a short distance southwest of Mariupol, to mark the ninth anniversary of the Black Sea […]
ICC issues Putin arrest warrant for war crimes
US President Joe Biden has welcomed the International Criminal Court’s issuing of an arrest warrant against his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. The ICC accused President Putin of committing war crimes in Ukraine – something President Biden said the Russian leader had “clearly” done. The claims focus on the unlawful deportation of children from Ukraine to […]
4 MiG-29 Fighter Jets sent to Ukraine by Poland
Polish President Andrzej Duda has announced that Warsaw will send Ukraine four Soviet-made MiG-29 fighter jets over the coming days. “Firstly, literally within the next few days, we will hand over, as far as I remember, four aircraft to Ukraine in full working order,” Duda said at a news conference in Warsaw on Thursday. “The […]
China’s Xi & Russia’s Putin set for Moscow meet
Chinese President Xi Jinping will head to Moscow for a three-day state visit with Russian President Vladimir Putin next week in which talks are expected to focus heavily on the war in Ukraine. The announcement of the state visit — long anticipated in press reports — was made simultaneously in Moscow and Beijing on Friday. […]
Tensions rise after Russian jet downs U.S. drone
A Russian fighter jet struck the propeller of a U.S. surveillance drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday in a “brazen violation of international law,” causing American forces to bring down the unmanned aerial vehicle, the U.S. said. Moscow said the U.S. drone maneuvered sharply and crashed into water following an encounter with Russian fighter […]
Russian hypersonic missiles a game changer in Ukraine war
Until now, Ukraine’s air defenses say they have largely succeeded in destroying a substantial number of the Russian rockets being fired into the country’s civilian centers. On Thursday, the Kremlin threw in a new wrinkle. In an early morning attack on targets across the country, Russian forces apparently added several hypersonic missiles, known as Kinzhals […]
Aggressive hypersonic missile strike hits Ukraine
At least six people have died after a barrage of Russian missiles hit targets across Ukraine early Thursday, also knocking out power at Europe’s largest atomic power station. Most of the dead were in the western region which includes the city of Lviv, where a Russian missile hit a neighborhood. “It’s been a difficult night,” […]
N Korea threatens US with “quick, overwhelming action”
The influential sister of North Korea’s leader warned Tuesday that her country is ready to take “quick, overwhelming action” against the United States and South Korea, a day after the U.S. flew a nuclear-capable B-52 bomber in a demonstration of strength against the North. The U.S.-South Korean training on Monday involving the B-52 bomber over […]