Source link American and Chinese defense officials met in Hawaii this week to discuss how both nations’ fleets can operate safely in the Pacific region. The meetings were the first of their kind since Beijing severed military relations with Washington two years ago. The Military Maritime Consultative Agreement (MMCA) working group talks were held in […]
Source link The Investigative Committee in Orenburg Region has attributed the disaster that has claimed at least two lives to negligence The Investigative Committee in Orenburg Region, Central Russia, has launched a criminal probe after a levee broke, causing flooding in the city of Orsk on Friday. Officials believe the disaster, which has left at […]
Source link Troop movements in the area were just a usual “rotation,” the Defense Ministry in Yerevan has said Armenia and Azerbaijan have traded accusations over several recent instances of skirmishes in border regions, with Yerevan slamming Baku over what it said was an attempt to lure it into a disproportionate military response. In a […]
Source link The substance, known as ‘kush’, has reportedly caused hundreds of deaths in Sierra Leone Sierra Leone has declared a “national emergency on drug abuse” amid calls from health services and local communities to stop the spread of a synthetic drug that reportedly contains human bones and has led to hundreds of deaths. The […]
Source link The spacecraft carried Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara and Belarusian cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya A Russian Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft has successfully landed in the vicinity of Zhezqazghan, Kazakhstan carrying two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut from the International Space Station (ISS). Belarusian crew member Marina Vasilevskaya made history by becoming the […]
Source link New Delhi has rejected claims it perpetrated extrajudicial killings, calling them propaganda The Indian Foreign Ministry has denied a report by The Guardian claiming it carried out dozens of extrajudicial killings in Pakistan, labeling the allegations “false and malicious propaganda.” The report quoted intelligence operatives in India and Pakistan as saying that beginning […]
Source link The technology should be utilized to benefit the world, not wage wars, Antonio Guterres has said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed concern on Friday over reports that the Israeli military is using artificial intelligence in airstrikes on Gaza. According to a report published by the Israeli-Palestinian +972 Magazine earlier this week, and citing […]
Source link The regional head has hailed the addition as a boost to Russia’s defense capabilities The Akhmat special forces unit from the Chechen Republic will absorb 3,000 ex-Wagner PMC fighters, the regional head, Ramzan Kadyrov, has announced. A renowned Wagner commander with the call sign Ratibor will also join the elite Chechen unit. After […]
Source link The attack damaged a radar station in Moldova’s breakaway region, but caused no casualties, security officials say An unidentified drone has attacked a military base in the unrecognized republic of Transnistria, the local authorities have said, adding that the incident took place not far from the Ukrainian border. Transnistria broke away from Moldova […]
Source link Over 4,000 people in Orenburg Region have been evacuated as of Saturday morning due to flooding Over 2,500 houses have been flooded in Russia’s Orenburg Region, which borders Kazakhstan, after an embankment burst in the mountain city of Orsk, the press service of the regional government has reported. Over 4,000 people have been evacuated […]
Source link Ecuadorian police forcefully entered Mexico’s embassy in Quito and arrested former Vice President Jorge Glas Mexico has suspended diplomatic relations with Ecuador after the South American country’s police stormed its embassy in Quito to arrest Ecuador’s former vice president, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has said. 🔴 #NOW | On the night […]
Source link A controversy around singer TM Krishna, who challenged the ancient caste system and advocated for democratization of classical music, has revealed the essence of a political divide It’s a story at the intersection of Indian classical music, its age-old caste system of rigid hereditary social classes, and the national elections currently underway. It […]
Source link The 1990 conventional arms reduction pact became meaningless after Russia’s exit, Ankara said Ankara has suspended its participation in the key European arms control pact that was meant to forestall new conflicts from emerging on the continent after the end of the Cold War. According to the decree signed by President Recep Tayyip […]
Source link Washington reportedly believes Tehran could launch drones and missiles in the coming days The US is expecting that Iran will attack American or Israeli personnel in the Middle East in retaliation to an Israeli airstrike in Syria, several news organizations reported on Friday and Saturday, citing US officials. Tehran has previously vowed to […]
Source link A heavy armored fighting vehicle that was supposed to be a revolutionary innovation of the Ukrainian military has been found by Russian troops broken down and buried, according to a video made public on Friday. Engineers sympathetic to the neo-Nazi ‘Azov’ regiment created the ‘Azovets’ (Azovite) in 2015, by converting a Soviet-era T-64 […]