Russian troops performed military exercises and preparedness checks near the Ukrainian border this Tuesday, heightening US fear of Russia invading Ukraine, and prompting President Biden to put 8,500 troops on alert. The exercises on land were performed as Russia’s Pacific Fleet vessels simultaneously performed drills with Chinese ships in the[Read More…]

Russian authorities have added imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny and some of his top allies to the registry of terrorists and extremists. Almost all of his top allies, including Sobol, have since fled the country. According to Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, which was declared extremist and shut down last year, a[Read More…]

A young Egyptian man was arrested after pretending to take a university exam for professional footballer Mostafa Mohamed, who is currently playing for Egypt in the Africa Cup of Nations, state media said. Mohamed, 24, is in Cameroon with the Egyptian national team which has made it to the last-16[Read More…]

An astrophysicist from the United Kingdom who was visiting his girlfriend in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, died last week when he was shot in the head by a stray bullet from outside the apartment where he was staying. Matthew Willson, 31, died on Thursday after he was transported to[Read More…]

Hundreds of children are being held hostage by ISIS in a Syrian prison after ISIS fighters raided the prison and took it over in an attempt to free imprisoned ISIS fighters. Last Thursday, ISIS fighters stormed the Ghwayran prison in Hasaka and after days of battles, freeing jihadist prisoners –[Read More…]

In its latest acts of perceived aggression, China flew 39 aircraft – mostly war jets, say Taiwanese officials – into Taiwanese airspace on Sunday. China has long threatened to reclaim the island nation as Chinese territory, and in 2021 ramped up its provocations, flying a record 56 warplanes in Taiwanese[Read More…]

A new poll shows many Canadians are in favor of harsh penalties for those who have yet to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. Results showed that 37 percent of respondents said it would be acceptable to deny the unvaccinated publicly-funded health care, and 27 percent noted that it would be[Read More…]

According to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House chief medical adviser and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the current COVID-19 wave that has been caused by the omicron variant seems to be peaking. Fauci, who made the remarks on Sunday, still warned everyone to[Read More…]

NATO is looking to send more ships and fighter jets to eastern Europe as fears have continued growing over an imminent Russian invasion of the neighboring country of Ukraine. The action comes as U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned Russian President Vladimir Putting that any conflict would be “painful, violent,[Read More…]

6 people have been killed in a stampede outside The Olembe Stadium in an African Cup of Nations football game in Cameroon, officials have said. The stampede occurred as spectators struggled to enter the Stadium in the capital, Yaounde, to watch the host nation play Comoros in a last 16[Read More…]