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Another sudden death of a top official in Russia’s military supply chain has been reported following a series unexplained deaths in the past week.  Alexei Fedorovich Maslov, former commander in chief of Russia’s ground forces turned special representative for the military corporation Uralvagonzavod — which specializes in battle tanks — was …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is warning the U.S. against carrying out a “decapitation blow” targeting President Vladimir Putin, calling it a “threat to physically eliminate the head of the Russian state.”  Lavrov made the comments Tuesday in an interview with Russian state news agency TASS, reportedly in reference to …

Taiwan is increasing its minimum military service requirements for all capable male citizens amid rising tensions with the People’s Republic of China. Taiwanese men of military age qualified for service will now be required to serve at least one year in the nation’s military. This is a three-fold increase from …

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave matching rings to the heads of various republics formerly a part of the Soviet Union. Putin made the symbolic gift to the heads of the Commonwealth of Independent States at a summit in St. Petersburg. Leaders at the summit received gold rings engraved with a …

A Scottish woman is celebrating a Christmas miracle after learning her son, whom she believed was dead for over a decade, is still alive and may soon return home.  “I can’t believe it,” Joyce Curtis, who lives in Glasgow, told The Herald newspaper. “I thought with COVID and everything that has …

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un set new goals for the country’s military at the Sixth Enlarged Plenary Meeting of the party’s 8th Central Committee as tensions continue to escalate on the Korean Peninsula. Kim told party leaders that North Korea faces a “newly created challenging situation” on the Korean …

A massive pile-up involving more than 200 vehicles was captured on video in China.  The huge wreck unfolded Wednesday on the Zhengxin Huanghe Bridge in Zhengzhou as a heavy fog set in over the area, according to Reuters.  The footage begins with a box truck slamming into the back of …

The FBI has reportedly captured one of its most-wanted fugitives in Mexico after discovering he had been working as a yoga instructor for 12 years under a number of false identities. Students of yoga instructor Leon Ferrara in Guadalajara reported him missing the week before Christmas when he disappeared while …

Serbia placed combat-ready troops along its border with Kosovo as tensions soar and long-simmering ethnic divisions resurface. Serbia’s Interior Minister Bratislav Gasic said Monday he “ordered the full combat readiness” of the troops on the border after he was instructed to do so by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic. The order was …

A Ukrainian drone attack on a military air base in southern Russia killed three Russian service members over the holiday weekend. “If Russians thought that war won’t touch them in their deep rear, they were deeply wrong,” Ukrainian air defense spokesman Yuriy Ihnat said of the attack, according to a Bloomberg report. …