The Russian military said Wednesday it shot down 12 Ukrainian missiles over Russia’s southern Belgorod region bordering Ukraine, as Kyiv’s forces seek to embarrass Russian President Vladimir Putin and puncture his argument that life in Russia is going on as normal despite the 22-month war. Belgorod Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov said the situation in the regional […]
Ukraine must receive weapons to defend the country against new Russian attacks, ensuring an end to Russia’s aggression as quickly as possible, said Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová in a post on X (Twitter). Read also: Trojan Horse of Russian influence wins Slovak elections “Another New Year, another atrocity,” the President wrote. “Russia has fired a […]
Rescue workers and dog units were urgently sifting through rubble on Wednesday ahead of predicted freezing cold and heavy rain in what the prime minister called a race against time after powerful earthquakes killed 62 people in western Japan. Dozens are believed to be trapped under collapsed buildings. Ishikawa prefecture and nearby areas were rattled […]
Transport officials and police began separate investigations at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Wednesday, a day after a large passenger plane and a Japanese coast guard aircraft collided on the runway and burst into flames, killing five people. The accident happened on Tuesday evening when Japan Airlines flight JAL-516 landed on one of Haneda’s four runways […]
TOKYO (AP) — Transport officials and police began separate investigations at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Wednesday, a day after a large passenger plane and a Japanese coast guard aircraft collided on the runway and burst into flames, killing five people. The accident occurred Tuesday evening when the Japan Airlines flight JAL-516 plane landed on one […]
The US is “confident” that Palestinian militant groups used Gaza’s largest hospital to hold “at least a few” hostages seized during their bloody October 7 attack and to house command infrastructure, according to an American intelligence assessment declassified on Tuesday and shared by a US official. The assessment offers the firmest US support for Israeli […]
Bujar Osmani, Chairperson-in-Office of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Ian Borg, Malta’s Minister for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade, and Helga Maria Schmid, Secretary General of the OSCE, have condemned Russia’s large-scale air attacks on Ukraine. Source: joint statement by the OSCE heads Quote: “The new year has depressingly begun […]
Ukraine’s National Resistance Center has stated that the Russians are planning to create and finance shell companies in Uzbekistan to purchase electronics for UAVs in order to circumvent sanctions. Source: Ukraine’s National Resistance Center Details: Ukraine’s National Resistance Center pointed out that on 26 December 2023, during a meeting of CIS leaders, Russian President Vladimir […]
Estonians were far less generous toward Ukraine by the end of 2023 as charitable donations dropped five times compared to the beginning of the year, reported Estonian public broadcaster ERR. Private individuals, companies, and organizations in Estonia collectively contributed over 3 million euros ($3.29 million USD) to Ukrainian charitable organizations in 2023. Read also: Estonia […]
An administrative district court in Latvia ordered to grant asylum to a Russian citizen who fought for Ukraine in 2014, the Delfi news outlet reported on Jan. 2. A number of Russian citizens have sought asylum in the Baltic country on the grounds that they oppose Moscow’s war against Ukraine. The man applied for refugee […]
South Korean police have raided the home and office of a man who stabbed the country’s opposition leader, Lee Jae-myung, in the neck in an attack that left him in intensive care, officials said. The attack happened as Mr Lee was passing through a throng of journalists after visiting the proposed site of a new […]
A family is warning travellers to check their insurance after an error filling in a form left them with an invalid policy and a £100,000 medical bill when their daughter became ill on holiday. Katya Katalinic, 18, from Midhurst, West Sussex, had a brain haemorrhage in South Africa in February. She had stayed on in […]