President Donald Trump said he never raised with Russian leader Vladimir Putin media reports that Moscow paid the Taliban to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan. “I have never discussed it with him,” Trump said in an interview with the news website Axios published on July 28. Trump has repeatedly said he was not briefed on […]
Over a dozen Afghan security personnel have been killed in suspected Taliban attacks. The Defense Ministry said a suicide truck bomber struck an army convoy in the central province of Maidan Wardak on July 20, killing at least eight Afghan soldiers. The ministry said another nine soldiers were wounded in the attack in Sayed Abad […]
Democratic and Republican lawmakers are demanding a full congressional briefing from top intelligence officials on reports that Russia offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan. President Donald Trump has denied ever being briefed on the intelligence because he said intelligence officials did not find the bounty claims credible. The New York […]
By Michael Marshall Protesters at a demonstration against racismPaco Freire/SOPA Images/Sipa USA In some parts of the US, police kill black people at a rate six times higher than they kill white people. The differences are most stark in the northern Midwest, especially Chicago, and in north-eastern states like New York. Protest movements like Black […]
The Moscow-backed leader of Russia’s North Caucasus region of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has denied accusations that he was behind an alleged plot to kill a Georgian journalist. “Believe me, if someone is acting on my orders, he will carry them out, and if a mission is to be accomplished quietly, nobody…would learn about it,” Kadyrov […]
TBILISI — Georgia’s Service for State Security (SUS) says a Russian citizen who was arrested in Tbilisi last week allegedly planned to kill a Georgian journalist who used vulgar words to criticize Russian President Vladimir Putin in a broadcast last year. Nika Gvamaria, director of the television station Mtavari Arkhi, said on June 15 that […]
Issued on: 09/06/2020 – 10:40Modified: 09/06/2020 – 10:40 An Iranian national convicted of spying for the US and Israel by helping target top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani will be executed, Iran’s judiciary said on Tuesday. Advertising Read more Mahmoud Mousavi Majd was convicted of spying on Iran‘s armed forces, which led to the killing of Soleimani, the […]
Issued on: 05/06/2020 – 22:42Modified: 05/06/2020 – 22:44 French forces have killed al Qaeda’s North Africa chief Abdelmalek Droukdel in northern Mali, Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly said on Friday. Advertising Read more “On June 3, French army forces with the support of their local partners, killed al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb’s emir, Abdelmalek Droukdel, and several of […]
Around 19% of EU households get uncomfortably warm during the summer and in some countries, the figure is close to 50%. It isn’t simply a matter of comfort, though – overheating in homes can be fatal. In the UK, there were 892 excess deaths resulting from summer heatwaves in 2019, with many occurring in houses […]
KEMEROVO, Russia — Heavy storms and rains in Russia’s Siberian region of Kemerovo have left two people dead and damaged dozens of houses and social infrastructure. The Kemerovo regional administration said on May 27 that the storms swept across the area late in the evening on May 26, toppling a grain depot that was under […]