Ukraine launched fresh strikes on Russian energy sites overnight into Sunday, Russian authorities and media reported, while Kyiv denied Russian claims that a Ukrainian drone struck a key Kremlin-occupied nuclear plant.
Ukrainian drone strikes caused fires at more Russian oil facilities overnight into Saturday, local Russian officials said, in what appeared to be the latest attack on Moscow’s vital oil industry.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth took another swipe at Washington’s NATO and European partners on Saturday, saying those that do not hike defence spending sufficiently “will face a clear shift in how we do business”.
At great risk of facing repercussions from the Castro regime, Cubans with internet connectivity wished U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio a happy birthday on social media and thanked him for his efforts against the authoritarian communist regime.
China kept a low profile at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, sending only a group of academics instead of top military officials.
Israeli Ambassador to Australia Hillel Newman said on Wednesday that renewed military action against Iran is possible if Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities are not neutralized by a prospective peace deal with the United States.
Brazilian Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro thanked Donald Trump and Marco Rubio for the terrorist designation of drug gangs Red Command and PCC.
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, lamented in remarks on Thursday that the United Nations, of which the IAEA is part, has been “absent” from the world’s greatest conflicts.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus arrived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Thursday evening, seeking to support the medical response to the fast-growing outbreak of Ebola Bundibugyo.
The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday announced new sanctions on Iranian oil sales in a bid to choke off funding for Iran’s military apparatus.
President Donald Trump is meeting in the Situation Room to make a final determination on Iran amid reports that his sign-off is awaited on a ceasefire extension of 60 days.
Socialist President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced on Wednesday that his government is allocating $75 million for the rehabilitation of BR-319, a highway cutting through a “sensitive” part of the Amazon Rainforest that has not been usable since 1988.
SOUTHCOM revealed that it carried out a “lethal kinetic strike” against a drug boat in the Eastern Pacific, killing two.j
The State Department will announce on Thursday that it is planning to designate Brazil’s two most powerful organized criminal syndicates, the Comando Vermelho (Red Command) and Primeiro Comando da Capital (First Capital Command, or PCC), as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) and Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs).
Ship trackers said on Thursday that two more tankers were able to pass through the Strait of Hormuz with their transponders turned off.
Australian Health Minister Mark Butler said on Thursday that the quarantine period for passengers from the Hondius, the cruise ship that was afflicted by a hantavirus outbreak in April, will be extended from June 5 to June 23.
U.S. and Iranian negotiators have reportedly reached a tentative agreement to extend the fragile ceasefire between the two countries by 60 days and launch negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program, though President Donald Trump has not yet signed off on the deal.
Rep. Troy Nehls is leading House Republicans in pressing FBI Director Kash Patel to maintain aggressive action against ransomware gangs targeting hospitals.
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) accused Iran on Thursday of an “egregious ceasefire violation” for firing a ballistic missile at Kuwait and launching “five one-way attack drones that posed a clear threat in and near the Strait of Hormuz.”
The director-general of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, lamented in remarks on Wednesday that violent attacks on health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have made contact tracing “nearly impossible,” significantly damaging attempts to contain the Ebola outbreak there.
The Justice Department filed lawsuits Wednesday against Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Washington, alleging the states violated the Constitution by refusing to provide confidential license plates to federal law enforcement agencies while continuing to issue them to state and local law enforcement.
The United States on Wednesday announced a $3 million partnership with the government of conservative President José Raúl Mulino to undo the environmental damage caused by the tons of garbage left behind by the hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants that transited through the dangerous Darién Gap jungle trail in recent years.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry demanded on Thursday that the United Nations Security Council act to contain the United States in response to limited action against its attack drones, which Tehran claimed to respond to by bombing a U.S. air base.
Adversaries of the United States are reportedly using location data to target military forces deployed to war zones, the news coming amid the war with Iran’s radical Islamic regime.
The flagship government propaganda outlet in North Korea announced on Wednesday that communist dictator Kim Jong-un had presided over a successful test of a “tactical cruise missile” relying on artificial intelligence (AI).
Syria’s transitional government said on Tuesday it has recovered “remnants” of the secret chemical weapons program created by deposed dictator Bashar Assad, and have arrested 18 suspects who were allegedly involved in the program.
ICE arrested Alina Rosales Aguirreurreta, daughter of General Ulises Rosales del Toro, a longtime key figure of the communist Castro regime.
Canada and the Bahamas on Tuesday announced temporary travel bans on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Uganda, and South Sudan due to the ongoing Ebola outbreak.
Hamas confirmed its new military leader, Mohammed Odeh, was eliminated by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on Tuesday.
The Iranian Tasnim News Agency reported on Wednesday that a senior National Security Council official in the country claimed the first round of peace talks with the United States did not address the country’s enriched uranium stockpile.
Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence is unusual in its intense focus on a single new technology.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth detailed President Donald Trump’s instructions for the Department of War to protect Christians in Nigeria who were being targeted and murdered by ISIS terrorists.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday that “we are intensifying our operations in Lebanon” to create a larger “security buffer zone” between northern Israel and the Iran-backed terrorists of Hezbollah.
Brazilian Senator and presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro met privately with President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday.
Multiple senior Iranian officials issued statements to celebrate the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha on Wednesday in which they encouraged other Muslim countries to embrace “unity” with the repressive terror state, a proposition complicated by months of Iran bombing neighboring Muslim states.
The oldest political party in Turkey, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), is facing catastrophic political turmoil after a court ordered the ouster of its leader, Özgür Özel, last week, prompting a violent standoff between party officials and police in Ankara on Sunday.
Markwayne Mullin’s Department of Homeland Security is threatening to file charges against the many economic migrants — and their lawyers — who submit fake asylum claims.
President Donald Trump wants all nations involved in peace negotiations with Iran to sign the Abraham Accords.
Senior government officials in Helsinki and Warsaw called out the illegal migration problem coming to Europe from the Middle East and Africa, labeling it as an example of Russian “hybrid warfare” meant to destabilize their countries.
Socialist President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva started preemptive radiotherapy sessions this week after being diagnosed with early-stage skin cancer in April.
