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MOSCOW, July 26. /TASS/. Russia will leave the International Space Station (ISS) project after 2024 when it will focus on creating a national orbital station, Roscosmos Chief Yury Borisov said at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday. TASS gathered main points of what is known about Moscow’s decision to withdraw from the […]

.1 Russian missile strikes hit civilian targets, port infrastructure in Odesa and Mykolaiv Russia targeted Ukraine’s Black Sea regions of Odesa and Mykolaiv with airstrikes on Tuesday, hitting private property and port infrastructure along the country’s southern coast, the Ukrainian military said. Ukrainian serviceman “Piter” rests on his bed near mortar shells at the frontline […]

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have been the stars of Ukrainian battlefields since the beginning of the war, detecting and destroying Russian forces. If the Ukrainian armed forces have their way, this is only the beginning. The goal now is to have drones and skilled operators in “every platoon, every battalion, every brigade,” a Ukrainian Armed Forces […]

Egypt and Somalia have rejected unilateral actions by Ethiopia involving international river projects and are instead promoting co-ordination and consultation, a statement from the Egyptian presidency has said. A member of the Republican March Band poses for photo before at the ceremony for the inaugural production of energy at the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. AFP The […]

“Any Frenchman is a soldier and owes himself to the defence of the nation,” declared the Jourdan Act of 1798, pioneering the concept of universal military service. Almost two centuries later, French President Jacques Chirac finally did away with the levée en masse, replacing it with “Defence and Citizenship Day”, an away day for youths […]

On Thursday morning, the White House Press Office announced that U.S. President Joe Biden tested positivefor COVID-19. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images President Joe Biden and his doctor both delivered upbeat health updates on Monday, four days after Biden tested positive for Covid. “I’m feeling great. You know, I’ve had two full nights of sleep — […]

KRYVYI RIH, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast – The country’s industrial heavyweight, Kryvyi Rih is known globally for its metallurgy and iron exports. But it’s not only the metal industry that keeps the city of 600,000 people running. Machine-building, construction, chemical, woodworking, and textile industries provide thousands of jobs for locals. A worker of ArcelorMittal, Ukraine’s largest steel company, […]

The UK on Monday said it was “prioritising essential overseas aid funding” such as help for Ukraine, after a report that it had halted “non-essential” relief abroad following Russia’s invasion.  This handout picture taken and released by Ukrainian Presidential Press-Service on June 17, 2022, shows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) welcoming Britain’s Prime Minister Boris […]

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi received his Somali counterpart, Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud, in Cairo on Monday. During their meeting, both leaders affirmed their mutual interest in advancing bilateral cooperation and working together to consolidate security and stability in the Horn of Africa. Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi received his Somali counterpart, Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud, in […]

Thousands of Indigenous persons are expected to converge on Monday on the small Alberta prairie community of Maskwacis to hear a long-awaited apology from Pope Francis for generations of abuse and cultural suppression at Catholic residential schools across Canada. Pope Francis kisses the hand of residential school survivor Elder Alma Desjarlais of the Frog Lake […]