Zelenskyy on surprise Baltics tour to rally support against Russia

Zelenskyy on surprise Baltics tour to rally support against Russia

Ukraine president’s first stop is Lithuania. He will also visit ‘reliable friends’ Latvia and Estonia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has arrived in Lithuania as he starts a previously unannounced tour of three Baltic states to discuss his country’s war against Russia and Kyiv’s plans to join NATO and the European Union. Announcing his arrival on […]

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Houthi militias launch biggest attack to date on merchant vessels in Red Sea

Houthi militias launch biggest attack to date on merchant vessels in Red Sea

A cargo ship boat model is seen in front of “Red Sea” and “Houthi attacks” words in this illustration taken January 9, 2024.  Dado Ruvic | Reuters U.S. and coalition forces under Operation Prosperity Guardian responded Tuesday in the Red Sea to what American officials said was the largest attack to date on merchant vessels

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Lloyd Austin hospitalised for infection after prostate cancer surgery

Lloyd Austin hospitalised for infection after prostate cancer surgery

Disclosure comes as Pentagon faces public backlash over its secrecy about US defense secretary’s hospitalisation. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been hospitalised since January 1 with a urinary tract infection after a December surgical procedure to treat prostate cancer, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center says. The disclosure on Tuesday came after nearly a

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Why has Pakistan scrapped a lifetime ban on convicts holding office? | Elections

Why has Pakistan scrapped a lifetime ban on convicts holding office? | Elections

In advance of elections, Pakistan’s Supreme Court lifts a ban on people with convictions holding political office. Pakistan’s Supreme Court has scrapped a lifetime ban on politicians with convictions holding office. This is welcome news for former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who can now run again, but not for jailed former leader Imran Khan. So

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Chinese satellite launch triggers alarm in Taiwan

Chinese satellite launch triggers alarm in Taiwan

The alert warns of a ‘missile flyover Taiwan’; however, Taiwan’s foreign minister assures people it was a satellite. Taiwanese authorities have sent out an emergency message following the launch of a Chinese satellite over the island’s airspace. The mobile phone alert was sent on Tuesday as Chinese state media confirmed the launch of a science

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India Travel Boycott of Maldives Grows Amid Modi ‘Clown’ Row

India Travel Boycott of Maldives Grows Amid Modi ‘Clown’ Row

One of India’s biggest online travel platforms halted bookings to the Maldives, amid an increasingly fraught diplomatic spat that began when officials in the tourism-dependent island nation derided Indian leader Narendra Modi on social media. “Our company is entirely homegrown and made in India,” Prashant Pitti, co-founder of EaseMyTrip, wrote on X, the platform formerly

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Countries file UN complaint over Boeing 737-800 shot down by Iran in 2020

Countries file UN complaint over Boeing 737-800 shot down by Iran in 2020

The Ukraine International Airlines plane was hit by two missiles Iran says were fired in error shortly after takeoff, killing 176 people. Canada, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Ukraine have filed a complaint with the United Nations civil aviation agency against Iran for shooting down a passenger plane in 2020, killing 176 people. The four

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Israeli forces say they locate large underground weapons factory in Gaza

Israeli forces say they locate large underground weapons factory in Gaza

By Ronen Zvulun AL BUREIJ, Gaza (Reuters) – Israeli forces located what they said was the largest weapons production site so far found in Gaza, with underground workshops they said were used to produce long-range missiles capable of hitting targets in northern Israel. The military said that in addition to missiles, the workshops produced copies

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What international solidarity exists with journalists under Israeli attack? | Israel War on Gaza News

What international solidarity exists with journalists under Israeli attack? | Israel War on Gaza News

More journalists killed in three months of Gaza war than in all of World War II or Vietnam War. Al Jazeera journalist Hamza Dahdouh and fellow journalist Mustafa Thuraya were killed in an Israeli air strike on Dahdouh’s car on Sunday. The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate has documented the killing of 102 journalists and the injury

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Israeli airstrike in Beirut kills senior Hezbollah commander

Israeli airstrike in Beirut kills senior Hezbollah commander

BEIRUT, Jan 8 – An Israeli strike on south Lebanon on Monday killed a senior commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force, three security sources told Reuters. The security sources identified him as Wissam al-Tawil, the deputy head of a unit within the Radwan force. They said he and another Hezbollah terrorist were killed when their

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