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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is set to travel to Russia next week and meet President Vladimir Putin, which could mean progress in bringing Russia back to the critical Black Sea grain deal, Türkiye’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) spokesperson Ömer Çelik confirmed Monday. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir […]

 Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar made the announcement on Monday morning, adding that troops were advancing on toward Novoprokopivka and Ocheretuvate.  The strategically important village of Robotyne in southern Ukraine has been officially liberated, Kyiv has announced. “Robotyne has been liberated and our troops are moving southeast,” Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said on Monday morning. She added that […]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A masked white man fatally shot three Black people inside a Jacksonville, Florida, Dollar General store in a predominately African-American neighborhood on Saturday, in an attack where he used a gun painted with a swastika, officials said. The shooter, who had also posted racist writings, then killed himself. Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. […]

Elections commission says Mnangagwa won 52.6 percent of the vote compared with 44 percent for challenger Nelson Chamisa. President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa at a press conference at State House in Harare on August 27, 2023. [Jekesai Njikizana/AFP] Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has won a second and final term in office in an outcome rejected […]

57 people were injured and 10 are in critical condition. Authorities say eight residential properties were destroyed in the blasts and another 11 suffered damages. Romanian authorities announced that two explosions at a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) station 30 kilometres from Bucharest, Romania, Saturday night killed at least two people and injured dozens more. Thirty-nine […]

Russia downed a barrage of 42 Ukrainian drones near Crimea, the Russian Defense Ministry said Friday, in the largest recent air attack on the peninsula and a day after Kyiv claimed its special forces carried out a raid on the annexed territory. Ukrainian soldiers with a drone.U.S. Army National Guard Nine drones were “destroyed… over […]

A Kremlin spokesperson said the situation must be approached with “facts”. Moscow has hit back against claims it ordered the assassination of Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is believed to have died in a plane crash on Wednesday.   “It’s an absolute lie,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday, denying allegations from Western officials that […]

Ukrainian special operators riding in small boats probably knocked out two Russian air force early warning radars in Crimea. It wasn’t a one-off attack, more strikes are coming, experts say. In a daring dawn raid with small boats, Ukrainian commandos damaged a critical Russian air force radar base operating on the Crimea coast, as Kyiv widened a campaign of […]

Officials say the charred bodies were found in the Dadia forest in Evros, north-eastern Greece. A hospital in the port of Alexandroupolis was also evacuated on Monday night while firefighters continued to battle the flames on the island of Evia The remains of eighteen people believed to be migrants, were found in a forested area […]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday arrived in South Africa, where he will head Russia’s delegation at the annual BRICS summit this week. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (С).Jacoline Schoonees / DIRCO / 15th BRICS Summit / flickr Lavrov was greeted by a group of dancers and musicians upon disembarking his plane in Johannesburg on […]