After mounting pressure, Russian authorities handed over the body of Alexey Navalny, the Kremlin critic who died in prison last week, to his mother, the late political activist’s spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said Saturday.
Embattled Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hosted several Western leaders in Kyiv on Saturday to mark the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion amid concerns that Ukrainian forces run low on ammunition and weaponry to withstand Russia’s army. The leaders pledged their unwavering support to war-torn Ukraine despite questions over how and when the bloodshed will end.
Spain plunged into three days of mourning after authorities in the Spanish city of Valencia said up to ten people were killed and 14 injured as fire engulfed a high-rise apartment complex.
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson was on his way for talks in Budapest on Friday amid mounting pressure on Hungary to vote for Sweden’s membership of the NATO military alliance.
Hungary blocked European Union member states from signing a declaration on the 2nd anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, just hours after the Hungarian prime minister okayed the entry of Sweden into the NATO military alliance.
Firefighters struggled to contain a massive blaze that engulfed a high-rise residential block in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia on Thursday, killing at least four people and injuring more than a dozen, officials said.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Thursday said they had launched attacks on both Israel and a ship traveling through the Gulf of Aden, setting the vessel ablaze.
Russia claims jailed opposition leader and anti-corruption crusader Aleksei Navalny died of “natural causes” but refuses to release his body until his mother agrees to a “secret funeral,” Navalny’s mother and his spokeswoman said Thursday.
Iran is reportedly providing Russia with a massive number of highly accurate ballistic missiles, deepening the military cooperation between the two U.S.-sanctioned countries and raising concerns in wartorn Ukraine and Israel.
U.S. officials have reportedly warned allies that Moscow will launch an anti-satellite nuclear weapon into orbit this year, a potentially devastating move threatening the West’s military and communications capabilities.
U.S. President Joe Biden’s White House is reportedly planning to send long-range tactical missiles to Ukraine as it is suffering setbacks in its battle against Russia’s invading military.
A British cargo ship was sinking in the Gulf of Aden after Houthi rebels attacked it and two other U.S. vessels in the region, Israeli and British sources said Tuesday.
Chinese hackers are intensifying their attempts to infiltrate critical U.S. infrastructure networks to position themselves for future sabotage according to FBI Director Christopher Wray.
Security has been stepped up in The Hague after the Dutch city turned into a war zone with two rival groups of Eritreans fighting each other over the weekend, injuring at least six police officers, officials said.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Saturday he regretted that the nation’s most powerful women resigned over a presidential pardon in a child sexual abuse case, but added: “It was the right decision.”
The widow of opposition leader, Kremlin critic, and anti-corruption crusader Alexei Navalny has vowed to continue his work and blamed Russia’s president for her husband’s death in an Arctic Circle prison on Friday.
The U.S. was preparing over the weekend to build five military bases for Somalia’s National Army after signing a security pact with the African nation’s government.
The United States military said Sunday they carried out five “self-defense strikes” in areas of Yemen controlled by the Iranian-backed Houthi militia.
Tens of thousands of Hungarians expressed outrage on Friday over a presidential pardon for an official sentenced in a pedophilia case that has left longtime Prime Minister Viktor Orbán fighting for his political life.
At least hundreds of people have been detained across Russia as the young and old took to the streets to protest the death of prominent Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who died in prison on Friday, several sources said Saturday.