For the first time, Russia has deployed the Bastion missile system on the island of Matua in the Pacific Ocean, the country’s Armed Forces revealed on Thursday. Bastion is a mobile defense system that can attack surface ships. Matua is Read more…
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Successful vaccine rollouts have failed to stop Covid transmission, with new data showing the prevalence of the virus increasing in fully jabbed individuals, according to a medical study in The Lancet. Examining new infections in Germany, researchers found that the rate of Read more…
US special operators have several ways to get to work. Green Beret teams can do free-fall jumps with oxygen from 25,000 feet, and Navy SEAL squads can spend up to eight hours in mini-submarines on combat dives. One of the least known Read more…
Alarming quantities of weapons are being shuttled by NATO towards the border with Russia, Moscow’s top diplomat has warned, adding that Western states are engaging in provocations that could lead to an actual armed conflict. Speaking at a press conference Read more…
It’s been a busy two months for the American, British, and Japanese navies — especially their carriers. In early October, they were part of a massive exercise that saw the US Navy’s USS Ronald Reagan and USS Carl Vinson, the UK’s HMS Read more…
At least 15 cases of the new Omicron Covid-19 variant have been confirmed in two EU nations, their health authorities said on Sunday. All cases were discovered in airline passengers. All the cases have been found in passengers that came Read more…
A controversial Ukrainian journalist has released a video purporting to show him firing banned large-caliber artillery at “Russian occupiers.” The stunt, which he claims commemorated the 1930s Soviet famine, immediately backfired. Yuriy Butusov, editor-in-chief of Kiev’s Censor.net, posted the images on Saturday Read more…
China’s strict COVID-19 quarantines are making it difficult for ships to change crews, contributing to lags in the shipping process that could worsen the supply chain crisis. The country has a zero-Covid policy and is imposing ever more stringent containment measures as it Read more…
The costs of a possible war between Russia and Ukraine far outweigh the benefits. The war is fraught with significant risks to the economy, political stability and Russian foreign policy. It fails to solve key security problems, while it creates many new ones, writes Valdai Club Programme Read more…
Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to properly demarcate their border, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, following Sochi talks with the leaders of each nation, aimed at bringing the decades-long conflict to an end. Armenia’s PM Nikol Pashinyan and Read more…
Five U.S. lawmakers arrived in Taiwan on Thursday to meet with government officials, defying an admonition from Beijing to stay away from the hotly contested democratic island. “When news of our trip broke yesterday, my office received a blunt message from the Chinese Read more…
Libya’s top electoral body on Wednesday disqualified the son and onetime heir apparent of the late dictator Moammar Gadhafi from running for president in elections to be held next month, citing his previous convictions. The name of Seif al-Islam Gadhafi Read more…