During congressional testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, both Gen. Frank McKenzie, head of US Central Command, and Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, confirmed that they had recommended 2,500 troops remain in Afghanistan past the pullout date to prevent the destabilization of …
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The 10 Albanians were detained on Monday in the city of Mitrovica in northern Kosovo, after they attacked a group of Serbs visiting a government building on official business, the police reported. The city itself is predominantly Serb, but the incident happened in the southern part, which is overwhelmingly populated …
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The vote expanded the number of seats in the Bundestag from 709 to 735, making it the largest and most likely the costliest parliament in postwar Germany. In fact, it is now the largest house of parliament in the Western world. For its sheer size, the legislature was dubbed the …
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Putin was accompanied by Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and Gennady Kiselev, the director of the supervision team at the Sayano-Shushenski Nature Reserve they visited. The 964,620 acre facility is relatively close to Russia’s border with Mongolia. Russian President Vladimir Putin spends a short vacation in Siberia, Russia. © Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin via …
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Stop Antisemitism, which was launched in 2018, has listed many Americans as its “Antisemite of the week,” including pop star Dua Lipa, Daily Show host Trevor Noah, MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan, and even Human Rights Watch executive director Ken Roth – a Jewish American whose father was a refugee from Nazi …
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“The board of directors and party leaders of the CDU and CDU must draw the conclusions from the election debacle in the federal elections on September 26, 2021 and resign immediately,” the party’s informal conservative wing, the Values Union, said in a statement. The group argued that Armin Laschet, the …
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Commentators online have been up in arms over the recent edition of The New Yorker’s podcast discussing whether the climate movement should “embrace sabotage” that saw one of the featured guests, ecology professor at Lund University in Sweden, Andreas Malm, arguing that one can attack energy pipelines for the sake …
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Salt Lake Police announced on Sunday that highly-rated defensive player Lowe was one of two people shot at around midnight local time while he was celebrating his team’s 24-13 against the Cougars on Saturday. Lowe was pronounced dead soon afterwards while the other victim, an adult female, is understood to be …
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Northern Ireland-born James Brown glued his hand to an Amsterdam-bound British Airways aircraft in October 2019 as part of the group’s takeover of London City Airport, explaining at the time that he felt “compelled” to bring about “radical change”. The champion for Britain in the B3 800 metres and 1500m at …
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“I don’t think Trump is listening… He might be,” Graham told a crowd of conservatives attending the second day of the Michigan Republican Party’s leadership conference in Mackinac Island, Michigan. “I hope President Trump runs again.” Graham’s seeming endorsement surprised many, as it came only days after the former president …
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