Mr Zelensky said attacks on Russian territory were an “inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process” of the war between the two countries. Russia’s defence ministry said three Ukrainian drones were downed on Sunday, with two crashing into offices. Vnukovo Airport, southwest of the city centre, was also briefly shut. The drone attack in the early...
India and Brazil are pushing back against a Chinese bid to rapidly expand the BRICS group of emerging markets to grow its political clout and counter the US, officials with knowledge of the matter said. The countries have raised objections in preparatory talks for a summit in Johannesburg next month where Brazil, Russia, India, China...
They said they had dissolved the constitution, suspended all institutions and closed the nation’s borders. Niger President Mohamed Bazoum has been held by troops from the presidential guard since early on Wednesday. He was promised Washington’s “unwavering support” in a call from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. UN Secretary General António Guterres also said...
A British newspaper investigation has uncovered how illegal Indian immigrants in the are being“coached” by numerous rogue lawyers in Britain to pretend they are Khalistani to makefake asylum claims.The Daily Mail visited a string of law firms with an undercover reporter posing as an Indian nationalwho had arrived in the UK illegally on a small...
UFO whistleblower, who claimed that the US government is secretly holding alien spacecraft, gave evidence to the Congress on Wednesday. Former US Air Force intelligence officer Retired Maj. David Grusch said that the US is concealing a longstanding program that retrieves and reverse engineers unidentified flying objects. The Pentagon has denied the allegations. In a...
China removed Foreign Minister Qin Gang from his post on Tuesday after a one-month absence from public duties, replacing him with his predecessor Wang Yi, state media said, after weeks of speculation about what had happened to him. Qin, 57, who only took up the job in December after a brief stint as envoy to the...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday branded as “unacceptable” any move by the European Union to extend curbs on Ukrainian grain to protect local farmers who fear being undercut. “Any extension of restrictions is absolutely unacceptable and frankly anti-European. Europe has the institutional capacity to react more rationally than to close its borders to a...
Some 19,000 people have been evacuated from the Greek island of Rhodes as wildfires continued burning for a sixth day on three fronts, Greek authorities said on Sunday. The Ministry of Climate Change and Civil Protection said it was “the largest evacuation from a wildfire in the country.” Local police said that 16,000 people were...
Moscow would react to any aggression against Belarus “with all means at our disposal”, Putin told a meeting of his Security Council in televised remarks. President Vladimir Putin on Friday accused Poland of having territorial ambitions in the former Soviet Union, and said any aggression against Russia’s neighbour and close ally Belarus would be considered...
Britain’s ruling Conservatives on Friday held the former seat of ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson but saw hefty majorities in two other seats blown away as scandals and high inflation took their toll. Rishi Sunak was expected to become the first prime minister to lose three parliamentary seats on one day, but was spared that humiliation...