Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin has arrived in the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi for the first leg of a three-nation visit to the Black Sea region. “The United States is committed to helping Georgia build its defense capacity and advance its Euro-Atlantic integration, and I’m looking forward to my meetings …
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Thousands in El Salvador protest against Bukele government
Thousands of people in El Salvador have taken to the streets in protest against the recent controversial decisions made by President Nayib Bukele’s government. According to the local media, an estimated number of 4000 people marched through the capital San Salvador on Sunday, decrying the ouster of Supreme Court judges, …
Read More »German Greens vote to enter government coalition talks
Germany’s Green Party on Sunday followed its prospective partner, the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), in clearing the way for official three-way negotiations with the business-friendly Free Democrats (FDP) to form the next government. According to Press TV, delegates at a Green Party conference in Berlin voted in favor of starting …
Read More »Floods, landslides in southern India leave at least 21 dead
Floods and landslides due to incessant rain in India’s Kerala State has left 21 dead, according to media reports on Sunday. Rescue operations were underway by the Indian Army and Navy in the Kottayam and Idukki districts. According to Press TV, Kerala State was also a victim to the worst …
Read More »US progressives, supposedly pro Palestine, vote to fund Israel
For the second time this year the United States Congress voted to send Israel billions of dollars in military funding. Of course there’s nothing unusual about that specifically, but what is interesting is how progressives in Congress chose to coordinate their votes. On both occasions, members of the so called …
Read More »US, Canadian warships sail through Taiwan Strait ‘to provoke’ China
The US military has announced that two American and Canadian warships sailed through the Taiwan Strait last week in what China called an attempt “to provoke and stir up trouble” in the strait. The US military dispatched Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey through the waterway that separates China from …
Read More »France confirms its ambassador to Belarus left the country on Oct 17
France confirmed its ambassador to Belarus left the country on Oct 17, adding that the official in question – Nicolas de Lacoste – would now assume the role of special envoy in Belarus as of this Monday onwards. “France will keep on standing by the Belarus people and will look …
Read More »Russia-led bloc holds large-scale drills near Tajik-Afghan border
A Russia-led post-Soviet security bloc started its largest military drills near the Tajik-Afghan border in years on Monday amid cross-border tensions ahead of talks between Afghanistan’s new Taliban leaders and major regional powers. Unlike Afghanistan’s other northern neighbors who have de facto acknowledged the Taliban leadership and started building working …
Read More »Italian police use water cannon to break up health pass protest at port
Italian police used water cannon and tear gas on Monday to clear a sit-in at the port of Trieste, where opponents of the government’s mandatory COVID-19 health pass have tried to block access. The northeastern port has been the focal point of protest in Italy over the introduction of new …
Read More »Gunmen kill at least 30 in northern Nigeria – state governor
Gunmen killed at least 30 people in an attack in northern Nigeria’s Sokoto state, the governor’s office said on Monday. The assault began at a weekly market in Goronyo on Sunday and continued into Monday morning, Sokoto Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal said in a statement. Iliyasu Abba, a local resident, …
Read More »Protest disrupts Beijing Games torch-lighting ceremony
Human rights activists unfurled a banner reading “No Genocide Games”, waved a Tibetan flag and called for a boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics during the torch-lighting ceremony on Monday. Two women and a man sneaked past a tight police cordon and entered the archaeological site of the ancient …
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