Russia has carried out a wave of missile attacks across Ukrainian cities, killing at least five people and causing new disruptions in power supplies, particularly in Kyiv and Kharkiv regions, officials said. “Unfortunately, there were hits on energy infrastructure,” Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in […]
Whatever the truth, fighting has been intense around what is Europe’s largest salt mine in eastern Ukraine’s Soledar. Nearly all 11,000 inhabitants of the small town have left and almost everything above ground is destroyed. So why has the fighting been so fierce, and does […]
Thousands of Israelis have gathered in Tel Aviv to protest plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government to overhaul the legal system and weaken the Supreme Court. The protest on Saturday presents an early challenge to Netanyahu and his ultranationalist national security minister, Itamar […]
A new Omicron variant XBB.1.5 is causing concerns among scientists as it is spreading like a wildfire across dozens of countries, with the UN health agency calling it the “most transmissible subvariant detected yet”. In the United States, XBB.1.5 now accounts for more than 40 […]
US President Joe Biden’s special counsel has said that five additional pages with classified markings were discovered at the president’s Delaware home on Thursday, and they were immediately handed over to Department of Justice officials. Richard Sauber said on Saturday that during his visit to […]
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has accused Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of shameful subservience to the United States and suggested he should ritually disembowel himself. It was the latest in a long line of shocking and provocative statements from Medvedev, who was once seen […]
Turkish presidential spokesman says that Ankara is running out of time to ratify NATO membership bids by Sweden and Finland before the general elections expected in May. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman, Ibrahim Kalin, said on Saturday that Turkish ratification of the countries’ bids depended […]
The United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is pledging to provide tanks and artillery systems to Ukraine amid renewed missile attacks by Russia on Ukrainian cities. Sunak offered to send Challenger 2 tanks and other artillery systems in a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy […]
The battle for control of eastern Ukraine rages on with Russian forces focusing on Bakhmut – a strategic city they have failed for months to conquer. Speaking to Al Jazeera in Bakhmut, a soldier who identified himself as Sergey from Ukraine’s special forces said Russia […]
Brazil’s former Minister of Justice and Public Security Anderson Torres, who was in charge of security in Brasilia during the invasion of government buildings last week, has been arrested on suspicion of “omission” and “connivance”. Torres, who was former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro’s justice minister, […]
