State Duma Speaker Vychislav Volodin said today that Ukraine is doing “everything” to ensure that Moscow’s troops do not stop the “special military operation” on the border of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics in eastern Ukraine, the Ria Novosti agency. Moscow on Sunday announced it had “liberated” the entire Luhansk People’s Republic on […]
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Moscow: ‘Weapons sent by the West to Ukraine end up on the black market’
Moscow claimed today that military equipment delivered by Western countries to Ukraine ends up on the arms black market, including in the Middle East. Some of the weapons delivered to Kyiv “went to the Middle East and also end up on the black market,” Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said in a televised speech. However, […]
Le Figaro: ‘Turkey is becoming Türkiye and this is a political issue’
In an article under the headline “Turkey no longer wants to be called a turkey”, the French newspaper Le Figaro refers to the change of Turkey’s official international name from “Turkey” (turkey in English) to “Türkiye”, approved by the UN on June 2. “The issue is not linguistic, but political,” Bayram Balci, director of the […]
Ukraine: Massive Russian bombings in Sloviansk
The city of Sloviansk, the next target of Russian forces in eastern Ukraine, is under “massive” shelling, the city’s mayor said today, urging residents to seek shelter. “Slovyansk! Massive shelling of the city. The center, the north. Protect yourself,” Vadim Liach, the pre-war mayor of this city of about 100,000, said on Facebook. Russian forces […]
WHO: Over 5,000 confirmed cases of monkeypox
The World Health Organization (WHO) has now recorded 5,322 confirmed cases of monkeypox, up more than 50% since the previous tally on June 22, and a single death from the disease, an agency spokesman said today. “The WHO continues to ask countries to pay special attention to monkeypox outbreaks in an effort to reduce infections,” […]
Yemen: At least 5 dead from an explosion in a weapons warehouse
At least 5 people were killed and around 30 wounded today in an explosion at a weapons depot in Laudar, one of the main cities of Abyan province in southern Yemen, a security source said. The explosion, which was caused by an unknown cause, occurred in a warehouse located in the basement of a residential […]
Two more arrests of suspects in the murder of the Dutch journalist De Vries
Police in Spain and the Caribbean island of Curacao have arrested two more suspects in the murder of well-known Dutch journalist Peter de Vries, the prosecutor’s office announced today. A 27-year-old Dutch national who was arrested in Curaçao will soon be transferred to the Netherlands, prosecutors said in a statement. The other suspect, a 26-year-old […]
Russian-appointed authorities of Zaporizhia province reach deal to sell grain to Middle East
Authorities imposed by Russia on the Zaporizhia province in southeastern Ukraine, which is partly under Russian control, announced today that they have reached an agreement to sell grain abroad, mainly to the Middle East, Russia’s TASS news agency reported. The countries with which an agreement was reached are Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, the agency […]
Turkey: Young people who will vote for the first time weigh something unknown to them, the country without Erdogan
Six million citizens, who will be voting for the first time, are estimated to essentially decide whether President Erdogan’s stay in power will be extended for a third decade or if something they have never known will happen–Turkey will find itself under a different leader. . With less than 12 months to go until perhaps […]
Ethiopia: Villagers were killed in a ‘massacre’ in the western part of the country
An unknown number of villagers have been killed in an ethnically motivated massacre in western Ethiopia, the country’s human rights commission said, as federal forces scramble to stabilize the area after a mid-June attack by gunmen who they killed hundreds of people. Oromiya region, where the Amhara are a minority ethnic group, has been experiencing […]
