Satellite images captured by a Colorado-based company show China has built mock-ups of a pair of U.S. Navy ships for possible target practice for a future naval clash as tensions have risen between the two countries, the Associated Press reported. The images were captured by satellite imagery company Maxar Technologies on Sunday and show the outlines of a […]
The U.S. expressed alarm on Monday over an apparent military coup in Sudan, shortly after the Biden administration’s special envoy for the Horn of Africa was in the country encouraging cooperation between civilian and military leaders of Khartoum’s transitional government. Thousands of protesters took to the streets after reports emerged that the country’s Prime Minister […]
The Israeli Air Force has reportedly been ordered to resume training for a possible strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities. The Times of Israel, citing a report from Channel 12 news in Israel, said money has already been set aside for the training. Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi is said to have told […]
In mid-September, Marcel Schliebs, a disinformation researcher at the University of Oxford who had been tracking messaging that Chinese diplomats and state media spread on Twitter for 18 months, spotted the emergence of a surprising coronavirus origin theory. Zha Liyou, the Chinese consul general in Kolkata, India, tweeted an unfounded claim that Covid-19 could have […]
RIO DE JANEIRO — Police in Rio de Janeiro said Wednesday they had found a haul of Nazi memorabilia and weapons worth an estimated $3.5 million at the home of a Brazilian man suspected of raping a minor. Rio’s civil police said they found more than 1,000 items at the home of the 58-year-old unnamed […]
PARIS — One of France’s biggest unsolved criminal cases appears to have been cracked and the decades-long hunt for a suspect in at least six rapes and four killings during the 1980s and 1990s led to a former police officer. Prosecutors announced late Thursday that DNA from a 59-year-old retired officer corresponded to genetic traces […]
Israeli agents killed Iran’s top nuclear scientist late last year using a remote-controlled machine gun and artificial intelligence, according to a report from The New York Times. Iranian intelligence knew an attack was likely against Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, but major breaches of security protocols enabled the assassination, sourced told the Times. On the day of the […]
Dolphin hunting is a centuries-old practice in the Faeroe Islands. But the tradition is facing fresh scrutiny after more than 1,400 of the aquatic mammals were killed Sunday in a record-breaking slaughter that has sparked outcry among local residents and global environmental groups. The hunt in the North Atlantic islands is not done for commercial […]
Australian emergency services rescued a three-year old boy on Monday three days after he went missing from his family’s property. Video footage released by New South Wales police showed the boy, Anthony ‘AJ’ Elfalak, desperately scooping water into his mouth in a creek in Putty, around 150 km (93 miles) northwest of Sydney, just before […]
When the last American aircraft left Afghanistan on Monday, the hopes of thousands of Afghans who believed that the United States would save them from the Taliban disappeared with it into the clouds above Kabul. Afghan allies said their emotions vacillated from fear and anger to sadness and outright panic that the government they had […]
The Pentagon appeared to backtrack on President Biden’s implication that al Qaeda was “gone” from Afghanistan and admitted the terror group still has a “presence” in the region. “Let’s put this into perspective here,” Biden said during a press conference Friday defending the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan. “What interest do we have in Afghanistan […]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban swept into Afghanistan’s capital Sunday after the government collapsed and the embattled president joined an exodus of his fellow citizens and foreigners, signaling the end of a costly two-decade U.S. campaign to remake the country. Heavily armed Taliban fighters fanned out across the capital, and several entered Kabul’s abandoned […]
