Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during their meeting at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Amur region on Sept. 13, 2023. Vladimir Smirnov | Afp | Getty Images Russia’s move to effectively disband the panel of experts monitoring longstanding United Nations sanctions against North Korea points to a “grim future” … Read more
President Joe Biden will host Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for a White House summit next month amid growing concerns about North Korea’s nuclear program, provocative Chinese action in the South China Sea and differences over a Japanese company’s plan to buy an iconic American steel company. Eugene Hoshiko … Read more
Iran presents its first hypersonic ballistic missile ‘Fattah’ (Conqueror) in an event attended by President Ebrahim Raisi and other government officials in Tehran, Iran on June 06, 2023. Sepah News | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Iran has sent hundreds of its powerful ballistic missiles to the government of President Vladimir Putin in Russia, furthering … Read more
Yulia Navalnaya called on EU ministers to not recognize upcoming Russian presidential election Yulia Navalnaya asked European Union foreign ministers not to recognize the results of the upcoming Russian Presidential election in a speech on Monday, according to a transcript. “These elections are fake, but Putin still needs them â for propaganda. He wants the … Read more
North Korean soldiers attending a mass rally to celebrate achievement of full nuclear statehood on December 1, 2017. Kim Won-Jin | AFP | Getty Images North Korea has conducted a test of its underwater nuclear weapons system in a protest against this week’s joint military drills by South Korea, the United States and Japan, state media KCNA said … Read more
U.S. military assistance to Ukraine has “ground to a halt,” with Congress yet to authorize the emergency spending requested by President Joe Biden’s administration in late October. In a White House press briefing on Thursday, National Security Council Spokesperson John Kirby said Washington had “issued the last drawdown package that we had funding to support.” … Read more
Finland border with Russia to remain closed for another four weeks Finnish border guard officers walk in the snow at the Raja-Jooseppi border crossing station to Russia in Inari, northern Finland, on November 25, 2023. Raja-Jooseppi in the far north of Finnish Lapland is the only crossing point open on the country’s eastern border. Finland … Read more
Ukraine says it downed 21 Russian drones in overnight attack Ukraine’s air force said Friday that it downed 21 of 29 Shahed drones launched by Russia in an overnight attack. The majority of the drones were shot down by mobile anti-drone squads across the Mykolaiv, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad and Khmelnytskyi regions, the air force … Read more
