Moscow’s Ministry of Defence reports downing more than a dozen Ukrainian drones in latest attacks on Russian territory. A combat drone dropped explosives on an electricity substation in a Russian village near the border with Ukraine, while Russia’s Ministry of Defence reported shooting down more than a dozen Ukrainian drones over the Russian regions of Belgorod,…
Czech PM Petr Fiala says purchase of US-made F-35 fighter jets tells military allies ‘that they can count on us’. The Czech government has approved a plan to buy 24 US-made F-35 advanced fighter jets in a deal valued at approximately $6.5bn, the largest defence contract ever signed by the Czech Republic that will see…
Moscow says US, UK had role in planning and executing of attack by providing spy plane, satellite intelligence to Kyiv. Russia accused Ukraine’s Western allies of helping plan and execute a missile attack on the Russian Black Sea fleet’s headquarters in the annexed Crimean Peninsula last week. Moscow’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday…
‘The West is reliable, Russia is equally reliable,’ the Turkish president said in a recent interview, a comment that reflects his delicate balancing act. Kyiv, Ukraine – In Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s opinion, Russia and the West are “equally” reliable and trustworthy. That is what the Turkish president said on September 18 commenting on the collective West’s…
Fighting Russia released a video reportedly showing Viktor Sokolov, commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Crimea, at a meeting with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and other military top brass a day after Ukrainian special forces claimed he was among dozens of officers killed in an attack on the fleet’s Sevastopol naval base. Ukraine said it…
Appointment of the non-resident Saudi envoy to Palestine hailed as a ‘historic milestone for relations between the two countries’. The first Saudi ambassador to Palestine, Nayef al-Sudairi, is about to present his credentials to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Al-Sudairi and his accompanying delegation arrived in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday through the Karama…
Five U.S. citizens left Iran and landed in Doha on Monday in a prisoner swap for five Iranians held in the United States and the transfer of $6 billion in Iranian funds in a rare moment of cooperation between the long-time antagonists. “Today, five innocent Americans who were imprisoned in Iran are finally coming home,” U.S. President…
Mexico’s government expects the economy to grow by between 2.5% and 3.5% next year, in line with this year’s growth, according to a budget blueprint released on Friday that includes fresh taxpayer assistance for the country’s ailing state oil company. Latin America’s biggest economy after Brazil will likely grow 3% this year. The finance ministry’s…
Israel’s government plans to pass a “reasonability clause” that would remove power of the Supreme Court to overrule government decisions deemed unreasonable. Israel’s hard-right government was planning Monday to push through parliament a key element of its controversial judicial revamp. The “reasonability clause” would remove the power of the Supreme Court to overrule government decisions…
Anjem Choudary: Once Britain’s most high profile Islamist preacher, Anjem Choudary was imprisoned in Britain in 2016. British radical Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary has been charged with three terrorism offences after being arrested in London last week, police said on Monday. Choudary, 56, has been charged with membership of a proscribed organisation, directing a terrorist…
