Monday, 22 July, 2024

Category: World


Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky would likely need to hold a nationwide referendum to “legitimize” any potential peace agreement with Russia, the Mayor of Kiev Vitaly Klitschko has said. Effectively, any move Zelensky could make risks his “political suicide,” Klitschko believes. Speaking with Italian daily Corriere Read more…


In the moments after President Biden announced Sunday that he had decided it was “in the best interest” of his party and country to exit the 2024 campaign, Democratic support quickly coalesced behind Vice President Kamala Harris, a move that could potentially spare Read more…


As the nation waits for a new National Minimum Wage, the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has threatened to shut down the country for a month over plans by the National Assembly to deregulate the Minimum Wage. Ajaero warned that organised Read more…


The Russian military has introduced training for English speakers who want to fight for Moscow in Ukraine, according to a Manchester man serving in the Kremlin’s army. Ben Stimson, 48, who has fought for pro-Russian forces in Ukraine since 2015, Read more…


Russia has been carrying out hybrid attacks, aggression in the blurry grey area between war and peace, against NATO, unnerving the military alliance and raising concerns that what has long been a low-intensity campaign could escalate into something much bigger. Read more…


NATO’s declaration that Ukraine’s eventual membership of the US-led military bloc is “irreversible” means that either the nation or the alliance – and preferably both – should disappear, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has said. A joint statement adopted by the leaders Read more…


NATO countries have promised to provide Ukraine with five additional strategic air defense systems, in response to Kiev’s pleas to help fend off Russian airstrikes. US President Joe Biden announced the “historic donation” during a summit in Washington, where NATO leaders gathered Read more…


Members of the so-called Chosen Company, an international mercenary group fighting on behalf of Ukraine, consistently engage in apparent war crimes by killing wounded or surrendering Russian soldiers, the New York Times reported on Saturday, citing a German battlefield doctor. Read more…


The Lebanese Hezbollah group said it launched over 200 rockets on Thursday at several military bases in Israel in retaliation for a strike that killed one of its senior commanders. The attack by the Iran-backed militant group was one of Read more…


British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has apologized to his Conservative colleagues who lost their seats, taking full responsibility for the crushing defeat his party had suffered in a snap election on Thursday. “The Labour Party has won this general election… Read more…


The right-wing National Rally (RN) party is set to win the first round of the French snap parliamentary elections held on Sunday, exit polls show. The result is a stunning defeat for President Emmanuel Macron and his centrist Together (Ensemble) Read more…


The Justice Department has reached an agreement with Julian Assange to plead guilty to a single felony count of conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate classified information, in a deal that is expected to resolve the WikiLeaks founder’s charges in the U.S. Read more…