The US-led West continues to push NATO's eastward expansion and build NATO-like military alliances in the Asia-Pacific region such as AUKUS, the much-touted Australia-United Kingdom-United States strategic alliance ... Yet that has never been true ... total destruction ... Now, the next step on this march of folly to an extended war has also been taken ... .
CANAZEI, Italy — An avalanche set off by the collapse of the largest glacier in the Italian Alps killed at least six people and injured eight others Sunday, an emergency services spokeswoman said. This photograph taken on July 3, 2022 from Canazei, shows the ice serac that collapsed on the Marmolada, near Punta Rocca, killing six people ... .
photo: AP / Russian Defense Ministry Press Service
The last major city held by Ukraine in the heavily contested eastern province of Luhansk has fallen, military officials on both sides said Sunday, giving Moscow a milestone victory in its campaign to capture the Donbas, the mineral-rich region bordering Russia that has long been in PresidentVladimir Putin’s sights ... (BEGIN OPTIONAL TRIM.).
Police in Denmark say three people were killed and three are in a critical condition following the Copenhagen shopping centre shooting. Copenhagen police inspector Sren Thomassen said the three victims were a man in his 40s and “two young people” ... “We do not have information that others are involved. This is what we know now.” ... Enter email address ... / ... /.
Australia’s emergency services have issued new evacuation orders for tens of thousands of people in the country’s largest city, Sydney... “We currently, across New South Wales, have 64 evacuation warnings in place and 71 evacuation orders,” Dominic Perrottet, the NSW premier, said at a news conference ... No deaths have been reported so far ... .
A leaked document exposed Uganda’s attempt to destabilize Ethiopia by training the armed group TigrayPeoplesLiberationFront (TPLF). Indicating that it has got credible leaked document, Scoop, an independent news website, on Friday reveals how the Government of Uganda ahs been engaged in training thousands of TPLF insurgents ...2.1 ... 2.2 ... 2.3 ... Egypt ... ....
Most summits bill themselves as “historic” and those who attend invariably talk about “forging a new consensus” ... The determination of all of the alliance’s 30 member states to increase defence spending is unprecedented ... Still, as Nato leaders know all too well, the alliance’s challenges remain significant ... ... For now, this debate seems abstract ... .
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer will vow not to take the UK back into the single market or restore freedom of movement as he sets out his plan to “make Brexit work”. He will use a speech on Monday to say a government under his leadership would not join a customs union with the EU, in maintaining the hard Brexit deal brokered by Boris Johnson... .
Russia, facing sanctions from the West for its invasion of Ukraine, will now export grains to other nations only in exchange for rubles ... 31, 2023 ... ....
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The British army is "investigating an apparent hack," reports Engadget, after its official Twitter and YouTube accounts were compromised Sunday..News of the breach was first reported by Web3 is Going Great...It's unclear who is behind the attacks ... .
WASHINGTON. The congressional panel investigating last year’s attack on the US Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters could make multiple referrals to the Justice Department seeking criminal charges against the former president, its vice chair Liz Cheney said ... “The JusticeDepartment doesn’t have to wait for the committee to make a criminal referral ... .
HONG KONG (AP) — A fourth crew member has been rescued Monday after a typhoon sunk an engineering vessel earlier this week, according to a Chinese state broadcaster ... Zen Soo, The Associated Press. .
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Uzbekistan's PresidentShavkat Mirziyoyev said today there were casualties among civilians and law enforcement officers after rare protests in the Central Asian country, and an exiled opposition politician said at least five people had been killed ... "Unfortunately there are victims among civilians and law enforcement officers," he said ... .
Some families in Kenya are eating just once a day, or not at all, because of rising food prices, writes the BBC's Catherine Byaruhanga in Nairobi. Early in the morning, I find Florence Kambua hunched over, digging through the dump site outside her front door to collect plastic, glass, clothes - anything she can sell in Kenya's capital ... .