The suspected Chinese spy balloon spotted over U.S. airspace in recent days was shot down on Saturday by an Air Force fighter aircraft near the Carolina coastline, officials said. President Biden said he ordered the Pentagon to shoot it down Read more…
The Pentagon has spotted what it believes to be a surveillance balloon in the Northern US and is monitoring it closely, though the White House has advised not to take military action to shoot it down. The balloon, which senior Read more…
Ukraine was subjected to a huge wave of Russian airstrikes on Thursday morning, with explosions at energy facilities reported from various parts of the country, including the capital, Kiev. “A blast in Kiev. Stay in shelters,” Mayor Vitaly Klitschko wrote Read more…
The Indian government has ordered YouTube and Twitter to take down videos and tweets about a BBC documentary that is critical of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting issued the directions “for blocking multiple YouTube Read more…
In support of the upcoming 2023 Presidential elections, Google has unveiled a new portal, the Nigeria Elections Trends Hub, that will provide a platform for Nigerians to search and discover trending interests related to the presidential and vice presidential candidates, Read more…
Earlier this year, Russia fired its newest and most dangerous weapon from the belly of a MiG-31 fighter jet. When the hypersonic Kinzhal missile lit its rocket engines and shrieked across the sky at speeds up to Mach 5 toward Read more…
Russia’s former president lashed out at the US on Thursday in a statement calling for the country’s warships, armed with hypersonic missiles, to be stationed close to Washington, DC. Dmitry Medvedev, who serves as the deputy chair of Russia’s security Read more…
The Independent National Electoral Commission has imported additional Bimodal Voters Accreditation System machines that will be deployed nationwide in all the polling units for the 2023 elections. The commission, which took delivery of the last batch of the machines at Read more…
A private company linked to terrorism in Ukraine is providing the British military with illegally-gathered smartphone data to aid the planning of attacks and targeted killings, The Grayzone reported on Tuesday. According to files leaked to the outlet, the military Read more…
Russian forces have destroyed several US-supplied HIMARS rocket launchers and eliminated scores of Ukrainian troops and dozens of foreign fighters in a fresh series of missile strikes, Moscow’s Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. According to the military, two launchers were destroyed at Read more…
The Russian forces most often launch Iranian-made kamikaze drones at night along the Dnipro riverbed, because this way, it is harder to detect the UAVs with radar. Source: Yurii Ihnat, spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force, on the air of Read more…
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu is set to announce the preferred bidder for the proposed construction of the 38-kilometre Fourth Mainland Bridge, scheduled for take off soon. Sanwo-Olu had at different fora assured residents to announce the preferred bidder before Read more…