The US military chief will visit Kyiv to discuss ways to continue offering more weapons and other support to Ukraine’s military, as other NATO countries’ support continues. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will visit Kyiv on …
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Israel said readying for possible Flare-up with Gaza Strip
Israeli military forces are preparing for the possibility of a flare-up with fighters from Palestinian resistance groups based in the Gaza Strip following repeated incursions by the regime troops and Israeli settlers into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds. Channel 12 News reported on Saturday …
Read More »Polls open in French presidential election
Incumbent Emmanuel Macron faces off with longtime rival Marine Le Pen The second round of France’s presidential election kicked off Sunday. Just like five years ago, voters are choosing between current President Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, the former longtime leader of the right-wing National Rally party, in a …
Read More »US military convoy targeted in Iraq’s Anbar
Iraqi news sources on early Sunday reported that a US military logistics convoy was targeted in the Iraqi province of Anbar. The convoy was attacked by roadside bombs, according to local sources. Details of possible damages or casualties of the attack have not yet been released. Another US military convoy …
Read More »Boat carrying 60 migrants capsizes off Lebanese coast, 1 died
The boat capsized shortly after leaving the northern coastal town of Qalamoun near Tripoli, Lebanon’s second-largest city. The Lebanese Red Cross said on social media that a boat with about 60 people on board sank near the port of Tripoli on Saturday. Several ambulances were sent to the port. “The …
Read More »Iraqi forces launch the second stage of the “Solid Will” operation
The Joint Operations Command launched on Saturday, the second stage of Operation “Solid Will” against ISIS in western Iraq. The Security Media Cell said, “Under the supervision of the Joint Operations Command, the Solid Will Operation was launched this morning, with the participation of the commands of the Al-Anbar, Al-Jazeera, …
Read More »Explosion targets a convoy of the US-led Coalition in southern Iraq
A blast from a roadside bomb reportedly hit a convoy of the US-led Global coalition in southern Iraq, earlier today, Sunday. A source told Alghadeer News that the explosion targeted a supply convoy of the Coalition on the international road inside the territory of al-Muthanna. The attack resulted in no …
Read More »Blast in northeastern Nigeria injures 11 people, say police
A blast in the capital of Nigeria’s northeastern Taraba state on Friday evening injured 11 people including children, police said, days after an explosion claimed by Islamic State killed 3 people at a marketplace in a rural town in Taraba. The blasts in Taraba mark the spread of Islamist insurgencies …
Read More »Twitter bans climate change ads that contradict scientific consensus
Such advertisements will be categorised as inappropriate content. Microblogging platform Twitter on Friday announced that it will ban advertisements that “contradict the scientific consensus” on climate change. “We believe that climate denialism shouldn’t be monetized on Twitter, and that misrepresentative ads shouldn’t detract from important conversations about the climate crisis,” …
Read More »UN chief Guterres to meet Russia’s Putin, Ukraine’s Zelensky in peace effort
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will first travel to Moscow next week to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin and then to Kyiv to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a bid to halt the two-month-long war in Ukraine and establish a ceasefire. At a press conference in New York on …
Read More »Three Soldiers Killed As Terrorists In Afghanistan Strike Pakistan Army Post
Pakistan’s army says terrorists in Afghanistan have fired heavy weapons across the border into a military outpost overnight, killing three personnel Terrorists in Afghanistan fired heavy weapons across the border into a Pakistani military outpost overnight, killing three personnel, the army said Saturday, in the latest violence to rattle the …
Read More »Beijing on alert after COVID-19 cases discovered in school
Beijing is on alert after 10 middle school students tested positive for COVID-19, in what city officials said was an initial round of testing. City officials suspended classes in the school for a week following the positive test results on Friday. The Chinese capital also reported four other confirmed cases …
Read More »‘US planning provocations to accuse Russia of using WMD in Ukraine’
Russia says the United States is planning provocations to accuse Russian forces of using weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Ukraine in an attempt to discredit Moscow’s military operation in the former Soviet state. Igor Kirillov, the chief of the Russian Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Protection Force, made the remarks …
Read More »Japan’s foreign minister promises a stronger military in visit to US carrier
Japan’s foreign minister promised his country would bolster its military to help the United States maintain regional security during a visit on Saturday to a U.S. aircraft carrier patrolling Asian waters. “Today I was able to experience firsthand the frontline of national security,” Yoshimasa Hayashi told reporters on the hangar …
Read More »Russia renews assault on Mariupol, intensifies Luhansk bombardment, Ukraine says
Russia resumed its assault on the last Ukrainian defenders holed up in a giant steelworks in Mariupol, a Ukrainian official said on Saturday, days after Moscow declared victory in the southern port city and said its forces did not need to take the factory. Russian forces were hitting the Azovstal …
Read More »New Ebola case confirmed in northwestern Congo, lab report says
A new case of Ebola has been confirmed in the northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo, the National Institute of Biomedical Research said on Saturday, four months after the end of the country’s last outbreak. The case was detected in the city of Mbandaka, capital of Congo’s Equateur province, said the …
Read More »French election: Macron in pole position, Le Pen racing hard
President Emmanuel Macron is in the pole position to win reelection Sunday in France’s presidential runoff, yet his lead over far-right rival Marine Le Pen depends on one major uncertainty: voters who decide to stay home. A victory in Sunday’s runoff vote would make Macron the first French president in …
Read More »EU law targets Big Tech over hate speech, disinformation
Big tech companies like Google and Facebook parent Meta will have to police their platforms more strictly to better protect European users from hate speech, disinformation and other harmful online content under landmark EU legislation approved early Saturday. European Union officials clinched the agreement in principle on the Digital Services …
Read More »Russia to deploy Sarmat missiles by autumn in ‘historic’ nuclear upgrade
Russia said on Saturday it plans to deploy its newly tested Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles, capable of mounting nuclear strikes against the United States, by autumn. The target stated by Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Roscosmos space agency, is an ambitious one as Russia reported its first test launch only …
Read More »One killed, several injured as earthquake rocks southern Bosnia
The tremor hit 42km (26 miles) southeast of Mostar and was felt across the Balkans, according to media reports. A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has rocked southern Bosnia with media reports saying at least one person has been killed and several injured. The earthquake struck late on Friday hitting 42km (26 …
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