Ukraine’s F-16s now look set to arrive when they can be particularly impactful. That’s because they’ll arrive when Ukraine has permission to use other weapons on targets in Russia. This means that Russian air defenses that could target them can be taken out, experts told BI. New rules from Ukraine’s allies about how it can […]
Specially trained dogs are arriving in Tenerife as the search for missing British teenager Jay Slater enters its ninth day. Police confirmed to the BBC that new resources had been brought in to help find the 19-year-old from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire. The Guardia Civil, whose ground searches had concentrated on the area where his last mobile […]
The first UN-backed contingent of foreign police has arrived in Haiti, nearly two years after the troubled Caribbean country urgently requested help to quell a surge in gang violence. Around 200 police officers from Kenya landed in the capital of Port-au-Prince, whose main international airport reopened in late May after gang violence forced it to […]
Thanks to the usual round of leaks and rumors, we already have a pretty good idea of what to expect from the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6 — even to the point where we’re pretty sure what the new foldable phones will look like. And yet, with just a few weeks […]
LONDON (AP) — Emperor Naruhito of Japan and his wife Empress Masako arrived in the U.K. on Saturday ahead of a long-awaited official state visit originally scheduled for 2020 before the coronavirus pandemic delayed those plans. The smiling couple, who landed late afternoon at Stansted Airport north of London, will spend seven days in the […]
History was just made beside a railroad track in Lathrop, where the Altamont Corridor Express is expanding southward. The first construction is taking place after seven years of planning on the complex project. The initial task does not involve laying track, but rather building a concrete culvert for a canal that ACE will cross. A […]
Two beluga whales have been rescued from the besieged city of Kharkiv in Ukraine and taken to an aquarium in Valencia, Spain, in a complex operation. A multinational team involving marine mammal care experts from Oceanogrà fic de Valencia, the largest oceanarium in Europe; Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta; and SeaWorld were involved in the high-risk journey. […]
A US Navy submarine has arrived in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in a show of force as a fleet of Russian warships gather for planned military exercises in the Caribbean. US Southern Command said the USS Helena, a nuclear-powered fast attack submarine, pulled into the waters near the US base in Cuba on Thursday, just a […]
Muslim pilgrims have been streaming into Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Mecca ahead of the start of the Hajj later this week, as the annual pilgrimage returns to its monumental scale. Saudi officials say more than 1.5 million foreign pilgrims had arrived in the country by Tuesday, the vast majority by air, from across the […]
MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Muslim pilgrims have been streaming into Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Mecca ahead of the start of the Hajj later this week, as the annual pilgrimage returns to its monumental scale. Saudi officials say more than 1.5 million foreign pilgrims have arrived in the country by Tuesday, the vast majority […]
Gareth Southgate’s England squad have arrived at their remote base in Germany to ramp up their European Championship preparations. The Euro 2020 runners-up are considered among the favourites to go one better and lift the trophy in Berlin on July 14th. England begin their quest to become kings of the continent in Sunday’s Group C […]
By Daphne Psaledakis CAIRO (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to arrive in Cairo on Monday at a critical time as Washington seeks to increase pressure on Hamas and Israel to reach a ceasefire in Gaza and ensure the war does not expand onto Lebanon. In his eighth visit to the […]