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Russian Ship’s Secretive South Africa Stop Prompts U.S. Questions

Tuesday 10-01-2023 06:58 PM

A Russian merchant ship whose owner has allegedly carried weapons for the Kremlin turned off its transponder last month before surreptitiously docking at South Africa’s largest naval base, where ...

Pakistan receives over $9bn in aid after devastating floods

Tuesday 10-01-2023 06:28 PM

Flood-hit Pakistan has received more than $9bn (£7.39bn) in aid from international donors, including the US and France, after pleas from the country’s prime minister and the United Nations chief ...

UK ready to send Challenger 2 tanks for next Ukrainian offensive

Tuesday 10-01-2023 05:18 PM

Britain is considering sending tanks to help Ukraine stage a major counteroffensive in the spring. The UK could supply about a dozen Challenger 2s and become the first country in western ...

Finns pay €200 to write anti-Russian messages on Ukrainian shells

Tuesday 10-01-2023 05:02 PM

Moscow’s last attempt to invade Finland may have ended in an embarrassing bloodbath more than 80 years ago, but memories seem to live long in the Nordic state. A former colonel in Finnish ...

British aid volunteers missing in Ukraine war zone

Tuesday 10-01-2023 04:29 PM

Two British aid volunteers have been reported missing in eastern Ukraine, raising fears for their safety. Andrew Bagshaw, 48, and Christopher Parry, 28, were working to evacuate civilians ...

What Does It Mean to Provide ‘Security Guarantees’ to Ukraine?

Tuesday 10-01-2023 04:17 PM

One day the war in Ukraine will be over. How and when remain the field of prophecy. But one of the most important questions will be how to ensure the future security of Ukraine — and by whom. ...

Taiwan invasion by China would fail, but at huge US cost, analysts’ war game finds

Tuesday 10-01-2023 03:44 PM

A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would probably fail if the United States helped defend the island – but would come at a debilitating cost to the American military itself, according to a US thinktank. ...

Protesters gather at Iranian prison in attempt to stop ‘imminent executions’

Tuesday 10-01-2023 03:31 PM

Protesters have gathered outside a prison near the Iranian capital in an attempt to prevent the rumoured imminent execution of two young detainees found guilty of running over a police officer in ...

UN extends critical aid from Turkey to Syria’s rebel north

Tuesday 10-01-2023 02:25 PM

The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Monday to keep a key border crossing from Turkey to Syria’s rebel-held northwest open for critical aid deliveries for another six months. Syria’s ally ...

Russia can fight from salt mines in Bakhmut, says Wagner boss

Monday 09-01-2023 08:25 PM

The head of the Wagner Group of pro-Kremlin mercenaries has said that Russia’s frenzied efforts to seize the town of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine are aimed at taking control of “underground cities” ...

Iran hangs two convicted of murder of Revolutionary Guard

Monday 09-01-2023 08:03 PM

Iran has hanged two men on the same day who had been accused of taking part in the protests that have swept the country. Mohammad Mahdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini were accused of ...

Bakhmut is holding on, says Zelensky as Russian missiles rain

Monday 09-01-2023 06:40 PM

Ukrainian forces have been repelling constant Russian attacks on Bakhmut and other towns in the eastern Donbas region, officials in Kyiv said today after denying Kremlin claims that 600 soldiers ...

UN gathering seeks aid for Pakistan after devastating floods

Monday 09-01-2023 06:30 PM

A United Nations conference on Monday drummed up funds and other support to help Pakistan cope with the fallout of last summer’s devastating flooding, which the U.N. chief called a “climate ...

Alabama woman who joined IS hopes to return from Syria camp

Monday 09-01-2023 04:59 PM

A woman who ran away from home in Alabama at the age of 20, joined the Islamic State group and had a child with one of its fighters says she still hopes to return to the United States, serve ...

Amid unrest, Iran’s hardliners turn their anger to France

Monday 09-01-2023 03:50 PM

Iranian hardliners on Sunday burned French flags outside the French embassy in Tehran, protesting cartoons published by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that lampoon Iran’s ruling ...