Source link Lawmakers have been eager to allow inmates to serve on the frontline of Kiev’s armed conflict with Russia The Ukrainian parliament on Wednesday advanced the proposal to enable the mobilization of certain categories of convicted criminals. Those who join up may see their sentences reduced or commuted. With no votes against and 281 […]
Source link Congress is fast-tracking a proposal targeting the Chinese-owned social media platform The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill that would force TikTok’s Chinese owner to sell the platform or face a nationwide ban. Critics have objected that such a move would open the door to unconstitutional censorship. The final vote […]
Source link The US-made air defense systems will be deployed to Lithuania in 2024, its defense chief said The NATO alliance will station US-made Patriot anti-air missile systems in Lithuania, the Baltic country’s defense minister, Arvydas Anusauskas, announced. Lithuania shares a border with Russia’s exclave region of Kaliningrad, as well as with Russia’s ally Belarus. […]
Source link Aleksey Zhuravlev has suggested that Moscow should deploy missiles in “friendly” countries such as Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua Russia should place its nuclear weapons in “friendly countries” near the US in response to Washington’s alleged plans to move its own tactical arms to Europe, lawmaker Aleksey Zhuravlev has suggested. His comments came after […]
Source link Finnish Defense Minister Antti Hakkanen has formed a working group tasked with preparing the legislation Finland is preparing to completely prohibit Russian citizens from purchasing real estate in the country, Defense Minister Antti Hakkanen said in a statement published on Finland’s official government website on Friday. The country amended its legislation on property […]
Source link The American Embassy in Manila has confirmed a shipment from a naval base in Hawaii to a commercial site in the Philippines The US has confirmed that it has transferred large amounts of fuel from a military base in Hawaii to storage facilities across Southeast Asia. The announcement came after a Philippines senator […]
Source link The Turkish parliament’s foreign affairs commission has consented to Sweden’s bid to join NATO The foreign affairs commission of Türkiye’s unicameral Grand National Assembly, the nation’s parliament, approved Sweden’s NATO membership bid on Tuesday, following weeks of delays which put the expansion of the Western bloc on hold. The country’s accession will now […]
Source link Vyacheslav Volodin has claimed in a meeting with Xi Jinping that Moscow-Beijing relations are at the strongest point in history Russian State Duma chairman Vyacheslav Volodin has led a parliamentary delegation to Beijing, vowing in a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping to strengthen cooperation between legislatures of the two nations as they […]