A Ukrainian officer who at one point commanded the notorious neo-Nazi Azov regiment has gloated on social media over graphic photos of dead members of an opposition party. The activists “disappeared” from the Ukrainian-held city of Severodonetsk in early March and appear to have been extrajudicially executed, with Maksim Zhorin …
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Pyongyang has claimed a successful test of a “new-type guided weapon,” allegedly designed to increase the efficiency of its “tactical nukes.” North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was present to observe the launch, conducted at an undisclosed time and location. Several undated images published by KCNA state news agency on Sunday show …
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US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has claimed that Washington is racing to fulfill Ukraine’s weapons wish list, ensuring that Kiev has all that it needs to repel Russia and support the US goal of weakening and isolating Moscow. “We are doing everything we can as the United States, working around …
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A Canadian self-proclaimed ‘cyberterrorist’ boasted in a video this week about hacking fundraising platform GiveSendGo and releasing the details of those who donated to the protesting truckers in Ottawa. In a live TikTok meltdown, Aubrey ‘Kirtaner’ Cottle bragged about being behind the GiveSendGo hack and other hacks too, including those …
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In a statement issued on Tuesday, Russia’s Foreign Ministry condemned the remark made by Brussels’ high representative, Josep Borrell. Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote: “How deplorable then are the affairs of European diplomacy. My condolences.” At a press conference, the former Spanish Foreign Minister praised the EU for its “major success” in stopping …
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In a virtual address to the UN General Assembly on Friday, Morrison talked up Australia’s belief in “a world order that favours freedom,” in “respecting the rights and freedoms of the individual” and “in the inherent dignity of all people…no matter the circumstances.” Morrison had barely spoken before Australian libertarian …
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When Germany’s celebrated Hindenburg lit up over the sky of New Jersey on May 6, 1937, leaving 36 of the 97 passengers aboard dead it might have signalled the end of transatlantic travel by Zeppelin but it also highlighted the potential of hydrogen not as an explosive gas, but as …
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On Friday, state archive National Records of Scotland published its latest figures on Scotland’s drug epidemic. The data showed that, in 2020, 1,339 lost their lives in Scotland to drug-related deaths, that’s 75 more than in 2019 and the highest number since records began in 1996. The national rate of …
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Iran’s Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zanganeh did not publicly release detailed figures but said crude oil exports have risen “significantly,” even though the US ramped up sanctions on the Middle Eastern country under the Trump administration. Speaking to the SHANA, the Iranian oil ministry’s news agency, Zanganeh declared that “We …
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“Friends, there’s an Armenian mug there,” the man says, pointing to a white car bearing Armenian license plates. “I killed him.” As the camera pans to show a corpse in the front seat, he adds, “we are cutting off their hands, so they don’t raise weapons. Let that be a …
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