April 20 (UPI) — The United States will withdraw more than 1,000 troops from Niger as the African nation deepens ties with Russia. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell met with Niger’s Prime Minister Ali Lamine Zeine on Friday to formalize the end of the United State’s military presence in the country. The announcement…
BERLIN, April 22 (Reuters) – Germany’s domestic spy agency urged Berlin on Monday to give it more powers to monitor financial flows amid growing concerns over potential Russian financing of regional far-right parties ahead of European parliamentary elections. While Germany’s interior ministry said in February it was working on adapting existing legislation to this effect,…
April 11 (Reuters) – Russia and Germany on Thursday urged countries in the Middle East to show restraint and Israel said it was preparing to “meet all its security needs” in a region on edge over an Iranian threat to strike Israel. The German airline Lufthansa, one of only two Western carriers flying to Tehran,…
Watchdog condemns ‘reckless’ attack after inspectors find damage at Russian-controlled power station Russia and Ukraine have each accused the other of launching kamikaze drones at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in an incident condemned by the International Atomic Energy Agency for recklessly endangering safety. The nuclear watchdog said onsite inspectors had seen the damage caused…
Greetings from Tyler, Where are the Clinton’s when Haiti needs them? If you read all the woke nonsense they wrote about all they were doing for Haiti, maybe you’d realize what good work they did. It was a “partnership to catalyze long-term development.” A lot of good that did. The president has resigned from a…
KYIV, April 3 (Reuters) – Finland’s president on Wednesday signed a 10-year security deal with Ukraine in Kyiv where President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he believed Russia planned to mobilise 300,000 new troops for its war by June. But Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, quoted by Russian news agencies, said the Ukrainian president’s assertion about a new…
Putin aide says Moscow is engaging Taliban in conversation as they are Afghanistan’s ‘de factor authority Russia is considering removing the Taliban from its list of designated terrorist organisations, officials in Moscow said on Tuesday as Vladimir Putin eyes support from the hardline Islamist group in central Asia. The Russian president’s close aide and Kremlin…
United Nations CNN — Russia on Thursday vetoed a United Nations resolution that would renew an independent panel of experts investigating North Korea’s violations of Security Council sanctions, at a time when Pyongyang has become a key supplier of munitions for Moscow’s war against Ukraine. In recent years, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has overseen a massive buildup in Pyongyang’s…
Nicaragua’s communist regime authorized the establishment of a Russian-made “Instruction Center” for the “reengineering” of the Nicaraguan police, authorities confirmed last week. Local media and experts have denounced the center as a possible “cover-up” for a prospective Russian spy agency in the Central American nation. The Nicaraguan National Assembly approved the construction of the training…
Four suspects from Tajikistan appear in court as IS releases new footage corroborating its claim to be behind atrocity The Kremlin has declined to comment on growing evidence that the Afghan branch of Islamic State (IS), known as Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), masterminded the terrorist attack on the Crocus City concert hall in Moscow…