Russia has deployed a chemical choking agent in Ukraine as a “method of warfare,” US officials claimed this week. State department officials said Moscow used the choking agent chloropicrin to win “battlefield gains” in their war on Ukraine – which the US
Egypt sent a high-level delegation to Israel for talks Friday seeking to push through a cease-fire agreement with Hamas and avert an Israeli offensive on Gaza’s town of Rafah — on the border with Egypt — which it warned could ruin regional
Russia’s central bank delivered a significant blow to Vladimir Putin’s administration, announcing that interest rates would remain high for an extended period. The decision comes as Putin’s war effort threatens to exacerbate inflationary pressures in the country. Despite calls for a rate
More than 100 long-finned pilot whales were rescued after becoming stranded on the western Australian coast. Hundreds of volunteers participated in the rescue efforts to assist the stranded whales near Dunsborough. Previous mass strandings in the area, such as the 2023 event
Vietnam, a major rice exporter, is aiming to transform its farming techniques by reducing its emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas. Rice paddies generate methane due to flooded conditions inhibiting soil oxygen, making up 8 percent of human-made methane emissions globally. The
The U.S. is attempting a new military agreement with Niger, shortly after the country’s junta deemed American presence no longer justified. Niger is a key U.S. military outpost in the Sahel, home to a key airbase and rising threats of violence by
A United Nations-backed gathering raised pledges of almost $630 million for Ethiopia’s humanitarian crisis on Tuesday but fell short of the $1 billion sought to help feed and support millions of people facing conflict and climate change in Africa’s second most populous
WASHINGTON (AP) — China has surged sales to Russia of machine tools, microelectronics and other technology that Moscow in turn is using to produce missiles, tanks, aircraft and other weaponry for use in its war against Ukraine, according to a U.S. assessment.
A Glasgow student is driving an ambulance 3,000 miles to Gaza to assist humanitarian relief efforts. After buying a second-hand ambulance in January, Umran Ali Javaid, a master’s student at Glasgow’s Caledonian University, set off on March 21 from the Scottish city
Recent estimates suggest that Russia’s total equipment losses in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine have soared to a staggering £43 billion. With no apparent end in sight to the protracted war and ominous signs of a potential summer offensive looming on the