French energy giant Total on Monday announced that it was suspending work on what would have been a massive USD 20 billion project for a liquefied natural gas plant the Cabo Delgado province in Northern Mozambique – described as the…
No Merger of Russia, Belarus, Just ‘Living Integration’, Kremlin Says after Putin-Lukashenko Meeting
No actual “merger” of Russia and Belarus, its closest ally, is on the way, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated on Friday, in the wake of yesterday’s meeting of the presidents of the two countries, Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko in…
More than 100 people, including dozens of police officers, have been injured in the worst clashes in East Jerusalem in the days since the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, as rallies of Palestinian protesters and far-right Jewish…
The recently escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine and Russia and the West over the lingering war in the Donbass region in Eastern Ukraine have subsided, and so has the threat of big interstate war as both Moscow and Kyiv…
In his call with US President Joe Biden on Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin has “outlined approaches to a political settlement” of the ongoing Donbass War in Eastern Ukraine, the Kremlin press serviced announced in a release.
US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation on Tuesday, seemingly focused on the escalation in the ongoing war in Ukraine, with the American leader proposing a bilateral summit meeting “in a third country,” the…
The United States is going to abstain from actively participating in the War in Eastern Ukraine, also known as the Donbass War, in which the Ukrainian military has been fighting pro-Russian forces since 2014, even if the conflict becomes “hotter”,…
After the EU slapped sanctions on key Iranian officials for the first time since 2013, Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Monday announced it was suspending cooperation with the European Union in a wide range of areas such as human rights, “terrorism,…
A record number of fighter jets from the air force of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) flew into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) on Monday, the Taiwanese Defense Ministry announced in the latest episode of growing China –…
After chilling trans-Atlantic jabs between the long-time allies during the four years of the Trump Administration, the United States and Germany now seem set for a revival of their close security cooperation under President Joe Biden, with high hopes for…
Russian must preserve and develop further its status as a nuclear and space power, President Vladimir Putin declared on Monday, April 12, 2021, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary since the first manned flight in space – that of…
The European Union has imposed sanctions on new Iranian officials for the first time since 2013 by adding key figures from the Tehran regime, including the leader of the powerful Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Hossein Salami, to its list of…
Some of the biggest security threats over the next 20 years, until 2040, could originate with “non-human” factors, i.e. not deliberately caused by human perpetrators, such as “climate change, disease, financial crises, and technology disruptions”, according to a wide-ranging report…
The Defense Department of the Philippines declared on Thursday it was keeping “all our options open” in a seeming warning to China as part of a growing diplomatic row with Beijing over hundreds of Chinese vessels in the contested South…
Former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has lambasted America’s Vice President Kamala Harris on her actions, or, rather, inaction with respect to the migrant crisis unfolding at the US-Mexican border.
A left-wing environmentalist opposition party has won Tuesday’s parliamentary election in Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, thus essentially dooming a mining project for rare earth minerals, which would have been developed by an Australian company majority-owned…
The last 61 ships out of a total of 422 vessels, which had been stranded after the massive Ever Given container vessel got stuck in the Suez Canal between March 23 and March 29, 2021, are expected to pass on…
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has lashed out against what he appears to see as anti-white racism in the United States, or in his own words, “the aggression displayed against white people” which he says has been brought about “political…
A young child briefly “hijacked” the Twitter account of the US Strategic Command, the US government agency in charge of safeguarding America’s nuclear weapons.
Portugal is going to dispatch soldiers from its special forces to its former colony Mozambique to provide training to local troops in the wake of the recent attack by Islamist insurgents on the northern Mozambican town of Palma.
Three of the world’s top five weapon exporters – the United States, France, and Germany – saw their arms exports grow in the past 5 years, while the other two of the top five, Russia and China, sold fewer weapons…
Only six months before Germany’s 2021 general election, the ruling conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of Chancellor Angela Merkel suffered on Sunday state election defeats in two crucial states, Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate.
Responding to American criticism of planned election law changes in Hong Kong as anti-democratic, a senior Chinese official lambasted the United States on Friday as having no “moral capital” to criticize after the January 6 storming of the US Capitol.
The new US administration of President Joe Biden reiterated on Thursday that it had no intention of making unilateral “gestures or incentives” in order to attract Iran to negotiations on rebooting the 2015 Iranian nuclear program deal.
Colombia’s military has killed 10 FARC guerrillas and wounded 3 others in a strike against a base belonging to a group of dissident insurgents defying the 2016 peace agreement between the government and the long-standing rebel movement.
Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar decalred on Tuesday that Turkey was going to start negotiations with NATO in order to be able to use the S-400 missile systems, which it purchased from Russia in a highly problematic deal that strained…
The assassination of Iran’s top nuclear program scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh has been a “terrorist attack”, the Iranian Ministry of Defense has stated, confirming the breaking news story on Friday afternoon.
The leading scientist for Iran’s controversial nuclear program, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, has been assassinated in an assault outside of the Iranian capital Tehran.

