Kosovo police exchange fire with local Serbs blocking roads
Mitrovica, Kosovo Reuters Kosovo Serbs exchanged fire with the country’s police on Saturday after a flareup of tensions in the volatile northern part of the country. Earlier in the day Serbs from Kosovo’s north blocked main roads in the region to protest against the arrest of a former member of the Kosovo police who quit […]
Russia drones smash power network in Ukraine’s Odesa, could take months to repair
Reuters All non-critical infrastructure in the Ukrainian port of Odesa was without power after Russia used Iranian-made drones to hit two energy facilities, officials said on Saturday, adding it could take months to repair the damage. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said more than 1.5 million people in the southern port city and surrounding region had no […]
“It hurts my soul”: Brazil’s Bolsonaro ends post-election silence
Brasilia, BrazilReuters Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro broke his silence on Friday for the first time since his election defeat on 30th October and spoke to supporters calling for a military coup to stop leftist President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva taking office. Bolsonaro said he had kept silent for almost 40 days, adding, “it hurts […]
Turkey oil tanker logjam snarls Russia oil sanctions
Istanbul, TurkeyReuters Turkey emerged as a critical stumbling block to a complex international plan to deprive Russia of wartime oil revenues as the number of tankers waiting to exit the Black Sea through Turkish straits continued to rise on Friday. Ankara has declined to scrap a new insurance inspection rule it implemented at the beginning […]
Ukrainians brave return to former frontline village after Russian retreat
Posad-Pokrovske, Ukraine Reuters When Russian forces advanced in the middle of last winter, the villagers of Posad-Pokrovske began to flee, joining compatriots from across the southern Ukrainian province of Kherson in a mass westward exodus. Over the past month, since Ukraine’s army recaptured the provincial capital and surrounding territory, they have been slowly returning to […]
Peru’s new President says she is open to early election talks
Lima, PeruReuters Peruvian President Dina Boluarte on Friday said she was willing to discuss early elections with the country’s political and civil organizations, but ruled out kick-starting constitutional changes for the time being. Boluarte, who took office on Wednesday hours after her predecessor Pedro Castillo was ousted, said she was calling for calm as protests […]
“A real head-scratcher”: Missionary pilot Ryan Koher remains in custody in Mozambique, six weeks after arrest
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports on the arrest of pilot Ryan Koher…
Ukraine gets more US aid as Russia-Iran ties worry West
Kyiv, UkraineReuters The United States announced new military aid for Ukraine on Friday and vowed to disrupt Russian ties with Iran, which a British envoy said involved Moscow seeking hundreds of ballistic missiles and offering unprecedented military support in return. Tehran and Moscow have denied Western accusations that Russia is using Iranian drones to attack […]
Essay: US evangelical Christians are crucial voters in Republican primaries. Would they support DeSantis or Trump?
In an article first published on The Conversation, DAVID SMITH, associate professor in American politics and foreign policy at the University of Sydney’s US Studies Centre, looks at the role evangelical voters could play in any Republican primary contest between Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump…
Nearly 10 per cent of marine life threatened with extinction – Red List
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters The effects of human activity from climate change to pollution are “devastating” marine life, with nearly a tenth of underwater plants and animals assessed so far threatened with extinction, the latest Red List of Threatened Species showed on Friday. The report’s release coincides with a UN summit on nature in Montreal where […]