After jihadi fighters led by Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the notorious “One-Eyed”, entered the ancient library city of Timbuktu more than a decade ago, they banned dancing and singing, and imposed sharia law.
Their takeover of much of northern Mali…
Category: 4. World
-
German companies pay Russia €1.72 billion in taxes, raising concerns of funding its war in Ukraine
German companies have paid nearly $2 billion (€1.72bn) in taxes to Russia since the Ukraine invasion, funding the war effort. Critics urge immediate withdrawal.
Continue Reading
-
Ukraine war briefing: Russian attacks on substations are ‘nuclear terrorism’, says Ukraine | Ukraine
Ukraine’s foreign ministry has denounced what it described as Russian attacks on substations critical to supplying external power for Ukraine’s nuclear power stations. Russia has carried out “targeted strikes on such substations”, a…
Continue Reading
-
US allies want answers before committing to Trump’s Gaza peace force
More than a month after US President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire in Gaza, a key component of his plan has yet to materialize. The 20-point plan calls for a multinational force to stabilize the battered…
Continue Reading
-
Partial remains handed over by Hamas are not of hostages, Israeli authorities assess
The partial remains of three bodies that Hamas handed over to Israel on Friday night via the Red Cross were assessed by Israeli authorities as not belonging to any hostages, The Times of Israel has learned.
The assessment on Saturday was…
Continue Reading
-
‘Strengthen Posture, Not Scale Back’ – Veterans Oppose Pentagon Plan to Cut Troops From Russia Border
WASHINGTON DC – The Trump administration’s decision to withdraw a rotational US Army brigade from Romania and other NATO allies on Russia’s doorstep has drawn fierce criticism from veterans who see the move as a strategic blunder that…
Continue Reading
-
What does it mean to be plain old Andrew Mountbatten Windsor? | Andrew Mountbatten Windsor
In The Queen and I, the novelist Sue Townsend imagined the monarchy being abolished and the royal family banished to a council estate, on a street known locally as Hell Close.
That was wild, hilarious fiction.
Today it is a stone-cold fact that…
Continue Reading