Ukraine continues to find itself embroiled in “high-intensity assault operations” while President Volodymyr Zelensky remains quiet on the firing of army chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi. Oleksandr Syrskyi, a potential candidate to replace the current army chief, visited troops near Kupiansk in the Kharkiv
Support for Kremlin critic Boris Nadezhdin has surged in the weeks leading up to the March Russian presidential election, posing an unforeseen challenge to President Vladimir Putin’s anticipated extension of his rule. Long queues have been spotted outside Nadezhdin’s impromptu campaign offices,
Russia has suffered a staggering loss of over 300,000 troops since the outset of its invasion of Ukraine in February last year. The General Staff of Ukraine’s armed forces disclosed the figure on Tuesday, underlining the substantial toll exacted on the Russian
Department of Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says there is an “acute and immediate need” to waive dozens of federal laws in order to build a border barrier in south Texas. It is a sharp contrast from the early days of the
After initial estimates put it at 0.1percent, Gross Domestic Product for the first three months of this year actually rose by 0.3 percent. The UK economy is now thought to have grown by 1.8 percent between the final quarter before the pandemic
Dengue is spreading rapidly through densely populated Bangladesh this rainy season, raising fears that the mosquito-borne disease could result in a record number of deaths and infections for the second consecutive year. At least 201 people, more than half of them in
The mayor of an Ecuadorian seaside town has been assassinated as crime in the South American country continues to spiral out of control. Agustin Intriago, the 38-year-old mayor of the Pacific coast town of Manta, Ecuador, was inspecting public works in the
A popular Croatian city plans to introduce new rules that will ban tourists from dragging suitcases in the Old Town as residents complain about the racket it causes during peak tourism season. “They will leave their bags at the designated point, and
Ron DeSantis has been blasted by both Joe Biden and Donald Trump as he surges in the polls. The Florida Governor leads the former President by 13 points in a head-to-head poll and has been widely tipped to win the Republican nomination
Egypt’s annual inflation surged to a new high in January as the country continues to battle ongoing price hikes and a depreciating currency, the Egyptian statistics bureau said on Thursday. The state-run Central Agency for Mobilization and Statistics published figures showing that