El Salvador continues to fill up its mega-prison, adding another 2,000 inmates as the government vows they will “never return” to the streets. “They are never going to return to the communities, the neighborhoods, the barrios, the cities of our beloved El Salvador,” Gustavo Villatoro, minister for justice and peace, …
Read More »United States plans to defend Indo-Pacific region against coercion, bullying by authoritarian regimes
United States Indo-Pacific Command chief Adm. John Aquilino said Thursday that Washington does not seek to contain China, nor seek conflicts in the region, but it would take action to support the region against coercion and bullying by authoritarian regimes. Speaking at a lecture in Singapore, Aquilino said the era …
Read More »European farmers fed up with climate policies shock political establishment
A young Dutch political party seeking to push back on the government’s climate agenda achieved a stunning victory Wednesday as it won the most seats for a single party in the Dutch Senate. “This isn’t normal, but actually it is! It’s all normal citizens who voted,” party leader Caroline van …
Read More »Poland plans to send MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine following urgent requests from the war torn country
Poland’s president said Thursday that his country plans to give Ukraine around a dozen MiG-29 fighter jets, which would make it the first NATO member to fulfill the Ukrainian government’s increasingly urgent requests for warplanes. President Andrzej Duda said Poland would hand over four of the Soviet-made warplanes “within the …
Read More »Polish court sentences man who fatally stabbed Gdansk mayor to life in prison
The man who fatally stabbed Gdansk Mayor Paweł Adamowicz in 2019 was sentenced to life in prison by a Polish court on Thursday. Stefan Wilmont stabbed the 53-year-old Adamowicz on stage during a life charity event on Jan. 13, 2019. Adamowicz died from his wounds the next day despite a …
Read More »Russian ships at US drone crash site in Black Sea, US official says: ‘They wasted no time’
Russian vessels have already arrived at the drone crash site in the Black Sea, a U.S. defense official tells Fox News. Almost immediately after the MQ-9 drone was clipped by a Su-27 fighter jet and downed into the water, Russia sent ships to search the debris field. “They wasted no …
Read More »Southern Africa is warned of flooding, landslides following deadly cyclone that killed over 250
After four days of destructive wind and rain, local communities and relief workers are now confronting the aftermath of Cyclone Freddy which has killed more than 250 people and displaced tens of thousands of others across Malawi and Mozambique and may still cause further damage. Cyclone Freddy dissipated over land …
Read More »Uganda president’s controversial son unnerves country with tweets about succeeding his father
On Twitter, the Ugandan president’s son has mused about invading neighboring Kenya, praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and offered cattle for the Italian prime minister’s hand in marriage. While many of his tweets are dismissed as laughable, the ones about succeeding his father in this East African nation are a …
Read More »Brazil reintroduces visa requirements for tourists from US, Australia, Canada, Japan beginning on Oct. 1
Brazil is reintroducing the requirement to obtain tourist visas for citizens of the U.S., Australia, Canada, and Japan starting Oct. 1, the foreign ministry said. Former president Jair Bolsonaro had scrapped the visa requirements in 2019 to bolster the country’s tourism industry, but the four countries continued to demand visas …
Read More »German investigators take down crypto money laundering site
German investigators said they took down a major online money laundering operation on Wednesday, seizing the Germany-based server infrastructure of a platform that dealt in ill-gotten cryptocurrency. Bitcoin currently worth about $47 million and roughly seven terabytes of data were secured as investigators took down the platform known as ChipMixer, …
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