ussia will enact a “more powerful” response to strikes on its territory, a Russian government official said Friday. In a post on his Telegram channel, Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin wrote in response to Ukraine‘s use of ATACMS missiles provided by the U.S. to attack a Russian munitions depot in Bryansk on Tuesday and Ukraine’s attack in Kursk using Storm…
Greetings from Tyler, We can follow it too closely. We can’t live or die based on the outcome of some pick for high office or other. Here comes the chess game we can’t always understand. But now it begins. The media is hunting down his picks one by one. And there’s scandal to be found,…
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Thousands of workers marched through the Greek capital Athens on Wednesday as part of a 24-hour general strike called by labor unions to protest the rising cost of living and timed to coincide with the government submitting the 2025 budget to Parliament. Public and private sector workers walked off the job…
Ukrainian armed forces fired UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles into Russia for the first time on Wednesday, the second long-range assault after the US approved their usage earlier this week. Officials said the use of the Storm Shadows, Britain’s equivalent of the US Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), was approved in direct response to the presence…
DUBAI, Nov 20 (Reuters) – Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian called on Pope Francis to use his influence with Christian governments to stop war in the Middle East, semi-official Fars news agency reported on Wednesday. “Encourage world leaders, especially Christian governments, to prevent the continuation of aggressions made by the criminal Israeli regime,” Pezeshkian said, in…
Ukraine has fired US-supplied longer-range missiles at Russian territory for the first time, the Russian government said, a day after Washington gave its permission for such attacks. US officials also confirmed use of the Army Tactical Missile System (Atacms) to CBS news, the BBC’s US partner. Ukraine has not commented. Russia’s defence ministry said the…
MADRID, Nov 19 (Reuters) – Spain will legalise about 300,000 undocumented immigrants per year over the next three years as it seeks to expand its labour force in the face of an ageing population, Migration Minister Elma Saiz told reporters on Tuesday. Spain, led by a leftist minority coalition government, has been largely receptive to…
Hong KongCNN — More than 40 of Hong Kong’s best known pro-democracy figures have been sentenced to prison terms of up to 10 years on subversion charges, in the biggest single blow to the city’s already shrinking political freedoms following Beijing’s sweeping crackdown on dissent. Among those handed sentences on Tuesday was Joshua Wong, a former student…
Finland is hosting its first large-scale NATO artillery exercise since the Nordic nation joined the military alliance last year, with live fire drills starting on Sunday. The exercise conducted in the northern Lapland region in November is part of Dynamic Front 25, the largest NATO artillery exercise ever held in Europe, with fire drills in…
MANILA, Nov 18 (Reuters) – The Philippines and the United States signed a military intelligence-sharing deal on Monday, deepening defence ties between the two nations facing common security challenges in the region. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin signed the agreement with his Philippine counterpart, Gilberto Teodoro, at Manila’s military headquarters where they also broke ground…