US lifts ban on sending weapons to Ukraine’s controversial Azov brigade | Russia-Ukraine war News

US lifts ban on sending weapons to Ukraine’s controversial Azov brigade | Russia-Ukraine war News

Washington says ‘no evidence’ of abuses in unit, which was originally set up as a volunteer force in 2014. The United States has lifted a ban on providing weapons and training to the Azov brigade, a controversial Ukrainian military unit that played a central role in the 2022 defence of…

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 838 | Russia-Ukraine war News

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 838 | Russia-Ukraine war News

As the war enters its 838th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Wednesday, June 12, 2024. Fighting Ihor Terekhov, the mayor of Ukraine’s second-largest city Kharkiv, said the number of Russian attacks on the city had fallen since Ukraine’s army struck missile launch positions in…

S Korea says it fired warning shots after N Korean soldiers crossed border | Military News

S Korea says it fired warning shots after N Korean soldiers crossed border | Military News

Incident took place on Sunday at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between the two countries. South Korea’s military has said it fired warning shots after soldiers from North Korea briefly crossed the border at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separates the countries. The incident took place at about 12.30pm (03:30 GMT)…

Ukraine says it struck Su-57 fighter jet on ground at Russian air base | Russia-Ukraine war News

Ukraine says it struck Su-57 fighter jet on ground at Russian air base | Russia-Ukraine war News

The Ukrainian military agency said the plane was among ‘a countable few’ of its type in Moscow’s arsenal. Ukrainian forces have struck a latest-generation Russian Sukhoi Su-57 fighter jet at an airbase inside Russia, Kyiv’s GUR defence intelligence agency said, sharing satellite pictures which it said confirmed the attack. In…

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 833 | Russia-Ukraine war News

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 833 | Russia-Ukraine war News

As the war enters its 833rd day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Friday, June 7, 2024. Fighting Vadym Filashkin, the governor of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, said one woman was killed and three people injured in Chasiv Yar, which is under assault from Russian forces….

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 831 | Russia-Ukraine war News

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 831 | Russia-Ukraine war News

As the war enters its 831st day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Wednesday, June 5, 2024. Fighting At least eight people were injured, including a one-month-old baby, after a Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s central city of Dnipro. Andriy Yermak, the Ukrainian president’s chief of…

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 829 | Russia-Ukraine war News

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 829 | Russia-Ukraine war News

As the war enters its 829th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Monday, June 3, 2024. Fighting Ukraine imposed emergency power shutdowns in all but three regions of the country a day after Russia unleashed large-scale attacks on energy facilities, which also injured 19 people….

New York museum ‘keeps memories alive’ 35 years after Tiananmen crackdown | History News

New York museum ‘keeps memories alive’ 35 years after Tiananmen crackdown | History News

New York City – When Zhou Fengsuo last saw the mimeograph machine, he was running for his life as the tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square in Beijing in June 1989. For weeks before that night of bloodshed, Zhou had used the machine, a state-of-the-art photocopier at the time, to churn…

Why is Kenya investigating alleged abuse by UK soldiers? | Military News

Why is Kenya investigating alleged abuse by UK soldiers? | Military News

Kenya this week kick-started public hearings into widespread allegations that United Kingdom soldiers stationed in the East African country have committed multiple human rights violations. For over a decade, locals on different occasions accused British soldiers training in towns in central Kenya of misconduct, environmental degradation, murder, and a host…

Separatists kill at least 11 people in southeast Nigeria, army says | Conflict News

Separatists kill at least 11 people in southeast Nigeria, army says | Conflict News

Main separatist group in restive southeast region denies responsibility and blames ‘criminals’ for the deadly attack. The Nigerian military has said that separatists killed at least 11 people in a “surprise” assault on a checkpoint in the country’s southeastern Abia State, the latest in a string of raids in the…