British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has backed a potential joint bid from England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland to host the 2030 World Cup
WHO considers it "unrealistic" that the coronavirus can be ended this year
Pentagon issues update: the patrol boats for Ukraine are MkVI's, not MkIV's
7 month agoDetails on the new $125 million US assistance package "to help Ukraine's forces preserve the country's territorial integrity, secure its borders, & improve interoperability with @NATO"
7 month agoMilitary loading into echelon in Budyonovsk on 1st March
[email protected] announces a new $125M package for Ukraine security, including training, equipment and advisory efforts to help Ukraine secure its borders, defend against Russian, and improve interoperability with NATO
Georgian authorities and opposition held talks at the presidential residence. Agreed to continue dialogue
Pashinyan at the rally announced a referendum on a new constitution in October, suggested a return to a semi-presidential republic (in 2018 Sargsyan replaced it with a parliamentary one)
Numerous police troops at Republic Square in #Yerevan (PHOTOS)
7 month agoArmenian Opposition rally in front of the Parliament
Anti-Pashinyan protesters gathered at Baghramyan Avenue at the moment
People for protest in support of Pashinyan are gathering at Republic square in Yerevan
French court finds ex-President Sarkozy guilty of corruption, sentencing him to three years in jail, two of them suspended
7 month agoThe American destroyer Winston Churchill entered Port Sudan, where the Russian frigate Admiral Grigorovich arrived yesterday.
7 month agoUkrainian diplomats detained with smuggled cigarettes and 16 kilograms of gold - Security Service of Ukraine
7 month ago"A village divided in two by barbed wire. This needs to change" - Tweeted President of the EuropeanCouncil @eucopresident
Denmark strips 94 Syrian refugees of their residency permits, deeming Damascus safe for their return
7 month agoPashinyan and Sargsyan met. The main topic of discussion was the issue of dismissal of the head of the General Staff Onik Gasparyan
Finland declares state of emergency due to rising coronavirus cases, further measures expected - Reuters
Spanish Police: Arrests in FC Barcelona after searches
7 month agoThe Mossos arrest the former president of Barça Josep Maria Bartomeu
There's been an arson attack at a block of flats in Ballymena. Just after 11pm last night rags soaked in an accelerant were pushed through the letter boxes of two flats in the Larne Road area. Damage was caused to the exterior doors but no one was injured
German Foreign Ministry: Firing rockets at residential neighborhoods in Riyadh is unacceptable
7 month agoRussian military police conducted a joint patrol with Turkey in the eastern countryside of Syria's Kobani this morning, the 45th of its kind since the patrols began in early November 2019
Armenian Security Council called on President Armen Sarkissian to sign a decree on the dismissal of Chief of General Staff Onik Gasparyan
Anti-Pashinyan protesters in Yerevan stormed into one of the government buildings
EU ambassadors have now given green light to the first ever listings in new EU human rights sanction government. perhaps fittingly its 4 people from Russia responsible for the imprisonment of Navalny. it will be published in the EU official journal tomorrow
Joint Forces Operation: 7 ceasefire violations yesterday. 1 Ukrainian soldier KIA
7 month agoLaRéunion Senator Michel Dennemont suffered several stab wounds in his home. The former mayor of Les Avirons was evacuated to the emergency room. Seriously injured
Pashinyan called a meeting of the Security Council of Armenia. Chief of the General Staff Onik Gasparyan and President Armen Sarkissian do not participate in the meeting
Looks like the FSB is cracking down on the probiv market after @bellingcat and @navalny used it to investigate them. A second cop has been arrested, apparently for leaking data on who flew with Navalny to Tomsk
Relations between China and Russia in the military field support global peace - Ministry of Defense of the People's Republic of China
7 month agoGeorgia: Charles Michel has arrived. The MFA Zalkaliani centers the attention to the pandemic and regional security, but I expect the core of the talks to be the political crisis that hit a new low after Melia's arrest
"We strongly condemn the escalating violence against protests in Myanmar and call on the military to immediately halt the use of force against peaceful protesters," U.N. Human Rights Office Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said
Twitter violates Russian law: since 2017, it has not removed 2862 materials with prohibited information - Roskomnadzor
#Camden Kilburn High Road near to the junction with Brondesbury Villas, NW6, has been closed by police following serious violence — one man has been rushed to hospital after being stabbed. A crime scene is in place
7 month agoAthens: Three police motorcycles parked in front of the Kaisariani police department were attacked with molotovs earlier today, in solidarity with koufodinas_hunger_strike
7 month agoM4.4 earthquake (jarðskjálfti) strikes 21 km E of Reykjavík (Iceland) 7 min ago. Effects reported by eyewitnesses
Three decades after the murder of Russian journalists Viktor Nogin and Gennadiy Kurinnoy at a checkpoint in Croatia, two members of a rebel Serb special police unit were charged with killing them this week.
Family of 4 killed in Kudma village of Nizhniy Novhorod region
1st Russian Warship Enters Sudanese Port
In the occupied Crimea, the water reserves of the Simferopol and Zagorsk are completely depleted - despite the snowfalls, no water was added to them. Also Balanovskoe reservoir almost in the same situation
Members of the nationalist movement "Sasna Tsrer" hold a torchlight procession in the center of Yerevan, demanding the resignation of Pashinyan and the return of Karabakh
Iran has rejected a European Union and US offer to hold direct nuclear talks in coming weeks, according to two senior western diplomats, risking a new hike in tensions with Washington: WSJ
7 month agoZelenodolsk AM Gorky built, Russian Navy Project 21631 Black Sea Fleet 41st Brigade of Missile Boats' Buyan M class corvette Orekhovo-Zuevo 626 transited Bosphorus towards Mediterranean armed with SS-N-30 land attack Kalibr missiles
7 month agoHuge protest in Kutaisi, Georgia's second city. Rare to see any kind of sizable protests outside Tbilisi, let alone this big
A woman, in her 80's who was critically injured following a house fire in Larne has died in hospital. The blaze broke out at the property on the Ballyrickard Road at lunchtime yesterday
7 month agoEuco President: I expressed full support to president @sandumaiamd and her ambitious agenda. EU is Moldova's most reliable partner. Our support goes hand in hand with reforms. Fighting corruption and strengthening rule of law are the only way forward. Vă doresc mult succes
Russian Ministry of Defense says Mi-35 helicopter crash-landed in Syria due to technical malfunction, crew is safe
A Russian helicopter crashed between the villages of Reyhanli and Qasimia, which are located west of Tal Tamr district in Hasakah countryside
7 month agoDanish police arrest eight people in an anti-lockdown demonstration in the capital Copenhagen
A Russian helicopter crashed at the village of Til Temir
7 month agoLiftoff: The Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome with the Arktika-M hydrometeorological satellite
Joint Forces Operation: 9 ceasefire violations yesterday. 1 Ukrainian soldier wounded
7 month agoSoyuz rocket with Arktika-M1 satellite is ready for liftoff in ~40 minutes.
7 month agoA World War II bomb was detonated on Saturday in Exeter, England, following its discovery a day earlier. Around 2,600 properties had to be evacuated for the controlled explosion
15 detained after shooting in Dnipro city, no casualties. Criminal motivation suspected
7 month agoA third person has been arrested in connection with the death of a toddler in Londonderry, who died after eating fentanyl. Dana Dolan, 24, of Tilton was arrested in Lancaster on Saturday
7 month agoThere is a noticeable uptick in strategic transport activity this evening, with numerous C-17/5 airframes en-route to Ramstein->CENTCOM.
