On the edge of a dark, suburban park in Brisbane, teams of volunteer toad-catchers gather around Gary King as he shoves another squirming specimen into a cooler box. “Who’s got some more?” asks King, a local leader of this year’s Great Cane Toad Bust, a small and ultimately futile campaign to dent Australia’s massive invasive […]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov believes that it is Western countries that threaten to use nuclear weapons, not Russian President Vladimir Putin. Source: Lavrov at a press conference on 18 January Quote: “All they ever say is that Putin threatens to use a nuclear bomb, although nothing like that has ever been said (by Putin […]
Jan. 16—NELSON COUNTY — A Grafton man was granted a plea agreement for an attack on his parents at their residence outside of McVille, N.D. On July 10, Darin Lynn Harder called 911 to report that his parents suffered blunt force trauma to their heads and needed medical attention, according to a probable cause statement […]
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has declared he will win Iowa. Former President Donald Trump says he’ll capture the state, with his advisers promising a victory by at least 12 points. And Vivek Ramaswamy’s team has said he’ll come in third. Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley hasn’t been as easy to pin down. Just four days […]
Spyder, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems’ surface-to-air missile system, is on display as F-16 fighter jets of the Singapore Air Force aerobatics team Black Knights perform on the fourth day of the Singapore Airshow in Singapore on Feb. 14, 2014.AP Photo/Joseph Nair Israel on Wednesday announced the recent test of a new air-defense configuration. The test […]
A new video shows Ukraine destroying what it claims was a Russian heavy flamethrower system. Drones directed a HIMARS to destroy the weapon, the Special Operations Forces said. The TOS-1A thermobaric multiple-launch rocket system is considered a brutal weapon. A new video shows Ukrainian troops using a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, to destroy […]
After South Korea’s main opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung was stabbed in his neck on January 2, a false claim circulated online that the attacker used a chopstick — not a knife — to injure the former presidential candidate. South Korean police dismissed the claims and said the suspect used a knife to carry […]
Ukrainian Special Operations Forces (SSO) units reported the discovery and destruction of a rare Russian electronic warfare complex (EWC), “Triada-2,” in the Donetsk sector, the SSO announced on Jan. 8 on Facebook. Operators from Ukraine’s 3rd Separate Special Purpose Regiment discovered this Russian EWC while conducting reconnaissance operations in the sector. Upon determining the coordinates […]
A man is facing a murder charge for the shooting death of a man in Atlanta last month. On Dec. 18, Atlanta police responded to a report of a person shot near 199 Peters Street SW at about 5:20 p.m. When officers arrived they found a man suffering a gunshot wound. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The downfall of Harvard’s president has elevated the threat of unearthing plagiarism, a cardinal sin in academia, as a possible new weapon in conservative attacks on higher education. Claudine Gay’s resignation Tuesday followed weeks of mounting accusations that she lifted language from other scholars in her doctoral dissertation and journal articles. The […]
A theology and ethics student has been found guilty of murdering her fiancé by deliberately mowing him down in her car after they rowed when she accused him of flirting with another woman at a party. Alice Wood, 23, used her Ford Fiesta as a weapon when she ploughed into Ryan Watson near the couple’s […]
Andrii Yusov, representative of Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence, has noted that information is also a weapon, commenting on the statement that the Ukrainian army would enter occupied Crimea this year. Source: Yusov in an interview with Suspilne, a Ukrainian public broadcaster Quote: “Information from officials, from the military and political leadership, is also a tool of […]