Hungary’s foreign minister has offered the Ukrainian government advice on joining NATO, saying that it needs to better respect the rights of minority populations if it wants to eventually be let into the military bloc. In an interview published by TASS on Thursday, Peter Szijjarto said that Kiev still has …
Read More »NATO member says American troops won’t be sent to Russian border
“It’s very important for Norway to have a military presence in nearby regions,” Anniken Huitfeldt, Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, told local outlet VG on Friday. “But in our opinion, directly next to the Russian border it’s better for us to handle it ourselves – with the help of Norwegian …
Read More »EU should be sealed with fences, bloc member minister claims
Speaking at the ‘Sarajevo Migration Dialogue’ on Thursday, Interior Minister Ales Hojs said EU countries were preoccupied recently with the coronavirus pandemic, the fall of the government in Afghanistan, and now a migrant crisis on the Poland-Belarus border, which he said was a hybrid war waged by Minsk against the …
Read More »‘Disgruntled’ crew member deliberately planted live round in ‘Rust’ gun to ‘sabotage’ Alec Baldwin film – lawyer
“We know there was a live round in a box of dummy rounds that shouldn’t have been there, at least one live round,” Gutierrez-Reed’s attorney Jason Bowles suggested on Wednesday on ‘The Today Show’. “We’re assuming somebody put the live round in that box – which, if you think about …
Read More »1 killed on set of Alec Baldwin’s movie after prop gun MISFIRES, another crew member injured – reports
The incident took place around 1:50pm local time on Thursday, and saw a 42-year-old female crewmember and a male crewmember being rushed to the hospital from the set on the Bonanza Creek Ranch, a film location in northern New Mexico.The woman has since succumbed to her wounds, while the man, …
Read More »US military says it carried out drone strike targeting ISIS-K member in eastern Afghanistan
The retaliatory strike was carried out early Saturday morning, and was reported a success, resulting in no civilian casualties. “Initial indications are that we killed the target. We know of no civilian casualties,” US Central Command said in a statement. The target was described as “an ISIS-K planner” by US …
Read More »Afghan security forces member killed in gunfight with ‘unknown assailants,’ as US & German troops join battle at Kabul airport
One Afghan security forces member was killed and three others were wounded, the Bundeswehr said in a tweet on Monday. No German soldiers were harmed in the skirmish, according to the Bundeswehr. Chaos and disorder have mired evacuation efforts at the capital’s airport since the Taliban seized Kabul on August …
Read More »Oklahoma school board member says maskless children will COMMIT MURDER in push for school mask mandate
The same day a new school year kicked off in Oklahoma, Norman Public School Board member Linda Sexton went on a fiery tirade against a law prohibiting school districts from imposing mask mandates unless a state of emergency is declared. Speaking at the board meeting on Monday, Sexton said that …
Read More »‘Black people still aren’t free’: Congressional ‘Squad’ member Cori Bush says July 4 is about freedom ‘for white people’
“When they say that the 4th of July is about American freedom, remember this: The freedom they’re referring to is for white people,” Bush said Sunday on Twitter. “This land is stolen land, and black people still aren’t free.” Bush didn’t specify who “they” are, and as some Twitter users …
Read More »As chemical weapons watchdog’s credibility crumbles, OPCW member states strip Syria’s voting rights
The vote to penalize Syria took place on Wednesday at the conference of the states that are parties to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague. Syria was punished for allegedly violating the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), of which the OCPW is the guardian, based on …
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