Greetings from Tyler, Finding out anything about the news is, well, disgusting. The Church of England is trying to figure out how to handle so-called gay marriage. All kinds of contortions are necessary to accommodate weird holy men, some of whom are miffed, since the sacrilege is the law of the land in England. The…
WASHINGTON, July 7 (Reuters) – The United States announced on Friday that it will send Ukraine widely-banned cluster munitions as part of a security assistance package, a move Ukraine said would have an “extraordinary psycho-emotional impact” on occupying Russian forces. Jake Sullivan, President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, laid out the case on Friday for…
Greetings from Tyler, Nobody knows quite what to make of the situation in Russia. You know the stories, but it appears that Putin has had to negotiate with Prigozhin through Lukashenko of Belarus to get the column to turn aroun , and the backstory may be more complicated than we’ll ever know. The Wagner Group…
Greetings from Tyler, We’ve been all torn up about the missing submersible all week. Then comes word that the U. S. Navy picked up the sound of an implosion while the little craft was diving. They’ve known for days, but absent confirmation, still had hope. Now the debris has been found. Apparently the company selling…
The European Union has blocked grain imports to Poland and four other countries following concerns low-cost products will damage farmers’ businesses The European Union has again extended a ban on Ukrainian grain imports to five countries, including Poland. The move follows anger and protests from Polish farmers who were left with unsold grain or forced…
Seismic stations in Ukraine and Romania detected what appears to be an explosion at the Kakhovka Dam on the morning that it failed, Norwegian seismologists tell NPR. The analysis was done by NORSAR, a Norwegian group that monitors seismic networks throughout Europe. According to their data, the explosion took place on June 6 at 2:54 AM…
UNITED NATIONS, May 17 (Reuters) – The Ukraine Black Sea grain deal has been extended for two more months, in what U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres hailed as “good news for the world,” a day before Russia could have quit the pact over obstacles to its grain and fertiliser exports. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan announced the…
The leader of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group says he will withdraw his troops from the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut on 10 May because of ammunition shortages. Yevgeny Prigozhin’s statement came after he posted a video of him walking among his dead fighters’ bodies, blaming top Russian defence officials. “Tens of thousands” had been killed and…
Fragments of two Ukrainian drones fell into the Kremlin, causing a fireball near the roof of one building early Wednesday, the Russian government said in a statement. Kyiv denied any involvement. The statement said no one was injured in what it described as a “terrorist act,” and it threatened retaliation for what was characterized as…
This was the first time the two leaders have spoken since the start of the Russian invasion on 24 February 2022. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has had his first phone call since the start of the war with Xi Jinping, where the Chinese leader assured his Ukrainian counterpart that “China has always been on the…