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Kenya’s Supreme Court on Monday upheld William Ruto’s victory in the August 9 presidential election, ending weeks of political uncertainty and delivering a blow to challenger Raila Odinga who had alleged fraud in the poll. Kenyan Supreme court “This is a unanimous decision. The petitions are hereby dismissed, as a consequence we declare the first […]

Canadian police are searching for two suspects in a series of stabbings that killed 10 people and injured at least 15 others, mostly in a sparsely populated Indigenous community and at another town nearby in Saskatchewan early Sunday. A police forensics team investigates a crime scene after multiple people were killed and injured in a […]

Fierce battles continue as Ukrainian Armed Forces push Russians out of three villages in the east and south. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian forces liberated two villages in Kherson Oblast, and one village in Donetsk Oblast. Ukrainian forces have also advanced, gaining new heights. A photo of a multiple rocket launcher firing a rocket in […]

An exclusive interview with Mykel Hawke, U. S. Army Special Forces Officer, Captain (retired 2011), combat veteran, for the Interfax-Ukraine News Agency and reprinted below. Mykel Hawke – Mr. Hawke, as a military officer, how do you assess the course of the Russian-Ukrainian war? Why was a country 27 times larger in area unable to […]

ODESA – Odesa has always been Ukraine’s prime summer destination. Packed streets, buskers on promenades, and a relentless mass of busy restaurants and bars filled with tourists ready to party until dawn were the regular scenery in the city from early May to late September. Odesa’s Katerynynska Street, usually packed with tourists and locals in summer, […]

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered on Saturday to mediate in the standoff over a Russian-occupied nuclear power station in Ukraine stoking fears of an atomic disaster. Photo taken on Aug. 22, 2022 shows the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. (Photo by Victor/Xinhua) The offer came hours before the global atomic energy watchdog said that Ukraine’s […]

The United States announced a new $1.1 billion weapons package to Taiwan on Friday, in a new bid to boost the island’s defenses as tensions run high with Beijing. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a press conference at the State Department in Washington D.C., U.S., July 27, 2022. (AFP File Photo) The […]

Despite obstruction from Moscow, the UN-led International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) mission finally reached the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant on Sept. 1. As the IAEA team of 14 experts headed through the battlefield to Europe’s largest nuclear plant, Russian forces began shelling the occupied city of Enerhodar and the pre-agreed route of the mission […]

A video ridiculing Russian soldiers fleeing Russian-held Kherson that was shared on the Defense of Ukraine Twitter handle, has gone viral on social media. More than 900,000 people have so-far watched the 40-second video since it was posted on Wednesday, August 31. In the brief clip, Russian soldiers are offered the choice to leave Kherson […]

U.S. President Joe Biden charged Republican allies of Donald Trump with undermining the country’s democracy and urged voters on Thursday to reject extremism ahead of November’s midterm elections U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks in front of Independence Hall at Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia,U.S., September 1, 2022. © Jonathan Ernst, Reuters U.S. President Joe Biden charged Republican allies of […]