Source link Finland has decided to keep land crossings closed indefinitely and to ban boats from entering several ports The Finnish government has indefinitely extended a shutdown of its land border with Russia and banned maritime boundary crossings by leisure boats near its Baltic Sea ports. Finland’s Interior Ministry announced the decision on Thursday, saying […]
Source link Denmark has suspended navigation in the Great Belt over a technical problem with a warship A malfunctioning missile launcher on board a Royal Danish Navy frigate caused a six-hour closure of the Great Belt strait on Thursday. HDMS Niels Juel, named after a 17th-century Danish admiral, was moored at the Korsoer naval base […]
Source link A new survey has revealed that many US voters believe they won’t be able to get their country back on track peacefully Many Americans believe that voting won’t be sufficient to turn their country in the right direction. In fact, a new poll has revealed that heading into this year’s US presidential election, […]
Source link The Israeli military canceled all leave and began to spoof satellite signals on Thursday, in what has been widely interpreted as preparation for a possible Iranian reprisal for the killing of Iranian officers in Syria. Two generals of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, Mohammad Reza Zahedi and Mohammad Hadi Haji […]
Source link Murmansk Region head Andrey Chibis was attacked on Thursday evening after a town hall with the residents of the town of Apatity, local authorities have announced. Chibis was transported to a local hospital with a stab wound and sent into surgery. The incident happened at the entrance to the cultural center in the […]
Source link Beijing’s “non-market” policies should be rebuffed through appropriate “countermeasures,” Katherine Tai has said Market-based US and European economies are struggling to survive against China’s “very effective” alternative economic model, a top US trade representative has warned, according to Euractiv. Katherine Tai told a briefing in Brussels on Thursday that Beijing’s “non-market” policies will […]
Source link The Ukrainian president no longer listens to his old friends, Boris Shefir told US state media The co-founder of Vladimir Zelensky’s former comedy troupe has condemned the Ukrainian president’s crackdown on the Russian language and culture, telling US state media that he “can’t watch Pushkin’s monuments being destroyed” in his country. Boris Shefir […]
Source link Secretary of State Antony Blinken has insisted that Kiev will be allowed to join the Western military bloc US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has capped a meeting of NATO diplomats by doubling down on an issue that helped trigger the Russia-Ukraine conflict: allowing Kiev to join the Western military alliance. “Ukraine will […]
Source link Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged the Republican majority in the US House of Representatives to reject Palestinian statehood and give West Jerusalem more weapons for a quick victory in Gaza. Netanyahu met with a 15-member congressional delegation on Thursday evening, shortly after a 45-minute phone call with US President Joe Biden. […]
Source link Germany needs to reintroduce conscription, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius announced on Thursday as he unveiled an ambitious military reform plan aimed at making the nation’s armed forces fit for a potential conflict. Berlin abolished its military draft in 2011 and its army has since suffered from an acute personnel shortage. “We have considered […]
Source link The hardline Israeli government is pushing for the annexation of occupied land as the world’s attention is focused elsewhere As the bulk of the media’s attention is directed at the horrifying war in Gaza, Israel has deployed more troops to the West Bank, while constructing more sections of a separation wall and setting […]
Source link Any decisions on the funds should be backed with “sufficient legal support” to avert future risks, according to a spokesperson Any steps towards seizing Russia’s frozen reserves should be backed by “sufficient legal support,” IMF spokesperson Julie Kozack said at a regular briefing on Thursday. The EU and other G7 nations have blocked […]
Source link The US government has reportedly authorized sending thousands of additional munitions to West Jerusalem amid the war in Gaza The administration of US President Joe Biden has reportedly agreed to provide thousands of additional bombs to Israel, helping to replenish stockpiles that have been depleted by West Jerusalem’s six-month bombardment of Gaza. The […]
Source link Somalia is facing a grain shortage, according to an official from the Food and Agriculture Organization Russian wheat deliveries to Somalia accounted for 23% of the country’s yearly consumption over the past year, the head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Russian branch, Oleg Kobyakov, told Sputnik in an interview published […]
Source link Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has vowed to punish Israel following an air raid on Damascus, Syria that killed seven officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force. Two IRGC generals, Mohammad Reza Zahedi and Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, were among the casualties in Monday’s attack on the Iranian consulate […]