Authorities in the Canadian province of Alberta have dispatched heavily armed police units to disperse the blockade of a border crossing with the US state of Montana by truckers disgruntled with Covid-19 vaccine mandates. Scores of Canadian truckers blocked the border crossing between Coutts, Alberta and Sweet Grass, Montana over …
Read More »Trump says Biden sending troops to wrong border
Speaking at a “Save America Rally” in Conroe, Texas, on Saturday, former US President Donald Trump blasted the Joe Biden administration for “obsessing over how to protect Ukraine’s border,” while accusing it of turning a blind eye on the crisis at the US own border with Mexico. “Everyone in Washington …
Read More »Border patrol chief admits ‘moral at all time low’ (VIDEO)
In a video taken during a visit by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in Laredo, Texas – and reported by several US media on Saturday – US Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz attempts to empathize with the frustrations of the job, but his comments lead to a heated …
Read More »Russia moves blood supplies near Ukrainian border – Reuters
Citing “three US officials,” Reuters reported that Russia was allegedly moving blood supplies and other medical materials near Ukraine. The officials cited by the agency in its “exclusive” argued that this was one of “concrete indicators” showing whether Moscow was poised to launch an invasion or not. “The disclosure of the …
Read More »Former Soviet Republics exchange fire on the border
Violence broke out at the Tajik-Kyrgyz border late on Thursday, with the clashes occurred at a poorly-demarcated part of the frontier, where the territories of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan meet, at a point where each country has multiple enclaves in the territory of its neighboring states. The trouble reportedly began when a Tajik vehicle …
Read More »Estonia could host thousands of NATO troops near Russian border
Estonia is ready and able to host a contingent of up to 5,000 troops from NATO’s rapid response force if the order to deploy them is given, Tallinn has said, despite Russian concerns over the US-led bloc’s forces near its border. Speaking on Monday to state-broadcaster ERR, the Estonian Ministry …
Read More »Texas border crackdown ruled unconstitutional
Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s effort to secure his state’s border with Mexico amid record migrant flows has been thrown open to legal challenges after a judge found the Operation Lone Star program to be unconstitutional. The potentially pivotal ruling came on Thursday, when Travis County District Court Judge Jan Soifer …
Read More »Assange offered asylum just across US border
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he sought a pardon for Julian Assange under the Donald Trump administration but was ignored, while reiterating an asylum proposal he first floated last year. President Obrador described efforts he made to secure the anti-secrecy activist’s freedom and repeated an offer for political …
Read More »Manhunt launched after border guard kills 3 fellow servicemen
The Azerbaijani Armed Forces have launched a manhunt for a border guard sergeant who killed three military staff members at a border outpost before fleeing the military base on Sunday. The reasons for the incident remain unclear since the suspect is still on the run, the military said in a …
Read More »Russia withdraws 10,000 troops from Ukrainian border regions
It was announced by the Southern Military District Command, on Saturday, with Interfax reporting that forces have finished their “operational coordination” exercise. It added that more than 10,000 servicemen would now “march to their home bases from the territory of joint training ranges.” The command confirmed that the drills, which …
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