The hostage crisis at a TV station in Ecuador’s largest city, Guayaquil, has ended with all assailants detained and captives rescued, national police chief Cesar Augusto Zapata Correa announced on Tuesday evening. Masked gunmen invaded the headquarters of TC Television earlier that day, interrupting a live broadcast and taking journalists …
Read More »From ‘Genghis Khan with rockets’ to a ‘gas station with nukes’: What is the root of the EU top diplomat’s Russophobia?
An insult defining the USSR as “Upper Volta with missiles” has been widely used since the 1980s. It has now morphed into the idea that Moscow runs a “gas station with nuclear weapons,” which appears to have its origins in comments from the late US Senator John McCain, who rarely, …
Read More »Ukrainian drone hits civilians at Russian railway station – governor
An unmanned aircraft has hit the roof of the central railway station in the city of Kursk, shattering several windows and causing a small fire, the governor of the border Kursk Region, Roman Starovoyt, said on Sunday morning. “Ukrainian drone attack in Kursk. According to preliminary information, it crashed into …
Read More »Several injured in knife attack at Paris train station
Several people were injured in a stabbing attack at the Gare du Nord train station in central Paris on Wednesday morning, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has said. The suspect was “quickly neutralized” by police, Darmanin wrote on Twitter, praising the officers for their “effective and courageous response.” Six people …
Read More »Russia to quit International Space Station after 2024
Russia is going to withdraw from the International Space Station (ISS) project with the West after 2024, the new head of the country’s space agency Roscosmos, Yury Borisov, said on Tuesday. Moscow is going to fulfill all its obligations to foreign partners as part of the ISS project, but “the …
Read More »Russia has set space station exit timetable
Russia has decided when it will pull out of the International Space Station (ISS), and will give a year’s notice to its partners, Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin said on Saturday. In an interview with the Rossiya-24 TV channel, the head of the space agency said that although a timeframe has …
Read More »Kramatorsk train station attack: The key to finding the perpetrator lies in this overlooked detail
In a conflict where accusations of wrongdoing fly back and forth between Russia and Ukraine on a daily basis, when it comes to the missile attack on the Kramatorsk train station that occurred at 10:30am on April 8, 2022, both sides are in rare agreement – the missile used was …
Read More »US should station troops in Taiwan – John Bolton
Taiwan should ramp up its military cooperation with the US and start hosting American troops on its soil as it did before the 1979 switch of diplomatic recognition to Beijing, former US National Security Advisor John Bolton proposed at a policy event on Saturday. Both the Washington and Taipei should boost …
Read More »Chinese astronauts return from space station
Three Chinese astronauts have returned home following a months-long stay on the Tiangong space station, where the crew carried out a number of experiments and construction projects on orbital modules during their mission. The astronauts landed in China’s Inner Mongolia region on Saturday morning after a nine-hour journey, during which …
Read More »NATO to station permanent force in east – Stoltenberg
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said that the bloc will deploy a permanent full-scale military force on the eastern flank to deter Russia. The move comes in response to Moscow’s military campaign against Ukraine. In an interview published by The Telegraph on Saturday, Stoltenberg explained that the US-led military …
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