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Ringleaders of the terrorist Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) are reportedly making arrangements for the relocation of members from their camp in Albania to an undisclosed location in Canada. An informed security source told Tasnim news agency on Saturday that MKO leaders have come up with the relocation plan after Albanian police …

Russia’s Defense Ministry has reported that the country’s air defenses shot down 20 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over Crimea. Air defense forces intercepted an attempted “terrorist attack” by Ukraine in the early hours of Saturday over Crimea, the Defense Ministry wrote on Telegram. The ministry said 14 UAVs were …

Russia has repelled Ukraine’s drones in its latest attack, targeting Moscow and other cities. Russia’s air defense system shot down two combat drones heading for the capital, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said Tuesday. In a statement on his Telegram channel, Sobyanin said that one of the drones was destroyed in …

At least 41 migrants have died in a shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa, after a small boat which had set off from Sfax in Tunisia capsized and sank in the Strait of Sicily. Four people who survived the shipwreck told rescuers that they were on a boat that …

An additional 2,000 troops will be sent to the Poland-Belarus border amid a recent influx of illegal immigrants, Polish Deputy Interior Minister Maciej Wasik said. The Polish border guard requested 1,000 troops earlier this week as reinforcements to the 2,000 soldiers already deployed at the border. Wasik told the Polish …

Eleven people were missing after a fire broke out in a holiday cottage in eastern France, the local authorities said on Wednesday. The incident occurred in the town of Wintzenheim. France’s Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said there were likely several casualties after the fire ravaged 300 sq m of the …

Russia says without Moscow’s participation, a two-day meeting hosted by Saudi Arabia to find a peaceful settlement of the war in Ukraine had no “slightest added value.” Senior officials from over 40 countries gathered in Jeddah on Sunday to agree on key principles as to how to end the war. Unlike …

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has made an urgent call on the United States to provide his country with long-range missiles to be used in the war with Russia. The Ukrainian foreign minister made the request in a phone conversation with his American counterpart, Antony Blinken, during which he demanded ATACMS …

The Russian ambassador to Qatar says the two countries are seeking to use national currencies in their bilateral trade amid an accelerating wave of de-dollarization across the world. In an interview with Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency on Monday, Dmitry Dogadkin said that works are underway to diversify away from the …

Russia has strongly criticized the efforts made by the West to mobilize the international community behind a peace plan proposed by Ukraine, saying such efforts are doomed to failure. According to Press TV, the remark was made by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov on Sunday in reference to a recent meeting …

France has reportedly made good its vow of supplying long-range missiles to Ukraine that can hit targets deep into Russia, with Kiev publishing footage of an undated video showing the Ukrainian president putting his signature on one of the missiles mounted on a bomber. The SCALP-EG, which is the French …

Major European financial firms have suffered at least 100 billion euros in direct losses from Russian markets since the outset of the Ukraine conflict back in February 2022, a new report unveils citing a survey study of their annual financial statements. “A survey of 600 European groups’ annual reports and …

NATO member states in northeastern Europe have bolstered their military forces on their mutual borders with neighboring Belarus. Poland, Lithuania and Latvia — which had already been on alert due to the escalation of tensions amid the war in Ukraine and the deployment of Russian Wagner paramilitary troops to Belarus– …

Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call with his Turkish counterpart has emphasized that Moscow was ready to return to the Black Sea grain deal as soon as the West met its obligations with regard to Russia’s own grain exports. In a statement on Putin’s call with President Tayyip …

Italy’s foreign minister has warned against any military intervention by the West in Niger against the newly-formed junta in the African country, saying this would be seen as “new colonization.” “I think we must put pressure on democracy to be restored, but any Western military initiative should be excluded because …

Russian Drone Attacks Target Kyiv and Odesa, Escalating Tensions Amidst Regional Conflict In a concerning escalation, Russian forces executed drone attacks on Wednesday, aiming at the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and the strategic city of Odesa. The aftermath witnessed substantial material losses within Odesa’s port and critical infrastructure, intensifying fears about …

More acts of sacrilege against the Holy Qur’an have taken place in Sweden and Denmark even as the two Nordic countries have said they are exploring ways to legally limit such actions to de-escalate growing tensions with Muslim countries. Several incidents have occurred in recent weeks that featured the desecration of the Holy …

Russia declares its air defenses have again thwarted a Ukrainian “terrorist attack” against its capital Moscow using drones, reporting no casualties or significant damages in the aftermath. The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement that three Ukrainian drones were involved in the attack that took place in the early …

Pope Francis has denounced as “barbaric” the recent Qur’an burning in Sweden and Denmark, saying such blasphemous moves prevent dialog among nations. The pontiff made the remarks in a letter on Tuesday, in response to Argentinian Shia Muslim scholar Abdul Karim Paz, representative of Argentina’s Islamic foundation. Last week, Abdul …

Iran, Russia, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan have reached an agreement to facilitate the transit of goods and fuel and improve maritime cooperation. The agreement was reached during a meeting in St. Petersburg on Thursday between Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mehrdad Bazrpash and Yevgeny Moskvichev, the head of Russia’s …