Four border crossings between Canada and western New York state have been closed after a vehicle exploded at a tollbooth crossing into the US via Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls in what sources told Fox News was an attempted terrorist attack on Wednesday. While the outlet initially reported that explosives were …
Read More »China warns against crossing ‘red lines’ in Taiwan
China’s Taiwan Affairs Office has warned the self-governed island against pushing for independence, promising not to hold back if separatist forces cross “red lines” in an attempt to block reunification. Ma Xiaoguang, a spokesperson for the agency, which is responsible for implementing Beijing’s policies related to the island, said on …
Read More »NATO risks crossing Russian ‘red lines’ – influential German diplomat
Speaking as part of an interview with German daily Handelsblatt on Saturday, Wolfgang Ischinger claimed Russian President Vladimir Putin “has long been haunted by the fear” that America still wanted to make Ukraine and Georgia members of the organization. The chair of the overwhelmingly pro-NATO event acknowledged this was a …
Read More »Taliban claim key Afghan border crossing with Pakistan as insurgent group nets new territories
Taliban forces captured Wesh, a town in the southern Afghan province, on Wednesday, according to a spokesperson for the militant group, Zabihullah Mujahid. He also said that an important road linking to the Wesh-Chaman border crossing with Pakistan was also under their control. Afghan troops reportedly surrendered the key trade …
Read More »Taliban declare ‘full control’ of Afghan’s key border crossing with Iran
“Islam Qala is now under our full control and we will try to put it back in operation today,” Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the militant movement, told AFP. On Thursday, an anonymous Afghan official told AP that the Taliban took over customs at the crossing point. Videos purportedly shot …
Read More »In Transcarpathia traffic jam at border crossing points
The Ukrainians returned to work after the holidays. At border checkpoint “Uzhgorod”, “Tisa” and “Maly Berezny” in the Transcarpathian region formed a queue of several hundred cars on the exit from Ukraine. The guards increased the number of outfits and equipped with additional jobs. “Before the checkpoints of the chop …
Read More »In the center of Kiev taxi driver knocked down the girl on a pedestrian crossing
The victim a concussion and injured limbs. March 18 in the center of Kiev on Bogdana Khmelnitskogo street the accident occurred. The taxi driver on the Hyundai hit a girl when she crossed the road at the pedestrian crossing. In the incident, the victim was hospitalized with injuries of different …
Read More »Militants crossing the Ukrainian prisoners in Russia – SBU
Many of the “missing persons” can be held in the Russian Federation. Ukrainian prisoners illegally held on the territory ORDO that are shipped to Russia. This was stated by the head of the SBU Basil Gritsak. He noted that many of those considered missing could be in Russia. It is …
Read More »Pechersk district of Kiev: man knocked down on pedestrian crossing
The man received a head injury. The accident occurred in the morning of 26 December on the Boulevard of Lesya Ukrainka. The driver of a Volkswagen hit a man who crossed the road at a pedestrian crossing. The victim received a head injury. Work at the site of the patrol …
Read More »In the Poltava region of VAZ knocked down a pedestrian crossing the road
A pedestrian suddenly ran onto the roadway and fell under the wheels of the car. A fatal accident happened yesterday, on December 10, in the Semenov district on the highway Kremenchuk-Khorol. About it reported in Management of civil protection of the Poltava regional state administration. 48-year-old driver, a resident of …
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