A 41-year-old man from Russia was detained by Polish security officials after illegally crossing from Belarus. The detained man has been described as a “deserter” from the Russian army, according to the Border Guard. The authorities are focused on determining the man’s
Chinese leader Xi Jinping expressed support for Iran during a visit by its president on Tuesday as Tehran tries to expand relations with Beijing and Moscow to offset Western sanctions over its nuclear development. The official Chinese account of Xi’s meeting with
Gunmen stormed a hospital in north Syria where a baby girl is receiving care after being born under the rubble of her family’s earthquake-shattered home, a hospital official said Tuesday, adding that the attackers beat the clinic’s director. The official denied reports
An appeals court on Tuesday prohibited the Netherlands’ military police from using racial profiling as a way of selecting people for identity checks at borders, marking a victory for two citizens and rights groups who sued the government. The Hague Court of
A man in China is being praised for his heroism after video surfaced showing him climbing out of a multi-story building’s window and rescuing a child who was dangling from a glass panel last week. The daring rescue reportedly happened on a
The campaign for this year’s general election in Thailand has not yet officially begun, but aspirants for the prime minister’s job are already angling for auspicious photo ops. If symbolism won elections, one of the main contenders, Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan,
Police in Western Australia are searching for three men they say are linked to a capsized boat and roughly $165 million dollars of cocaine from that boat that washed up on a beach. In a press release, Australian Federal Police say they
You will meet people in Italy who are actually pro-Russia. Or at least ready to lay some blame on the United States and/or NATO for provoking Vladimir Putin to attack Ukraine, as if somehow absolving the Russian president. Largely, however, such positions
A pair of Dutch F-35 fighter jets have intercepted a formation of Russian military planes that were flying near Polish airspace, defense officials have revealed. The incident happened Monday as “The then unknown aircraft approached the Polish NATO area of responsibility from
Ukrainian forces are killing nearly 1,000 Russian troops every day, and they eliminated 5,000 troops in a single battle in late January, according to U.K. officials citing data from Ukraine. Russian troops, including the elite 155th naval infantry, stormed the Ukrainian coal
Amid speculation over alleged Chinese spy balloons, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday it would shoot down any suspected military object coming close to its shores from mainland China. Maj. Gen. Huang Wen-chi, the assistant deputy chief of general staff for intelligence, told