A Chinese national who United States authorities accuse of trafficking large quantities of cocaine and fentanyl into the US before being arrested and then escaping custody in Mexico was recaptured in Cuba, Mexican authorities said Wednesday. Zhi Dong Zhang, alias “Brother Wang”, was indicted in federal court in Atlanta in 2022 on drug trafficking and money laundering charges. Mexican authorities …
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Ukrainian drones have sown chaos and panic across Russia after a series of lethal strikes caused massive damage to energy infrastructure and military-industrial sites. The devastating attacks occurred in the early hours of Wednesday morning in Dagestan and Mordovia. Ukraine has stepped up its aerial bombardments of Russia in an attempt to disrupt supplies of fuel and ammunition to Putin’s …
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Donald Trump furiously denied lifting major restrictions on Ukraine’s use of Western long-range missiles, but left a cryptic message in doing so. The US president took to his Truth Social in response to a bombshell report by The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday night. Trump has effectively washed his hands of responsibility over Zelensky’s use of long-range missiles, which is …
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Donald Trump could “topple” a weakened Russia and Vladimir Putin but has “chosen not to” for a disturbing reason, a former staffer has sensationally claimed. Anthony Scaramucci raised millions of dollars for the US president’s first election campaign in 2016 before becoming his White House director of communications. He was fired after just 11 days when he slammed colleagues in …
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British Storm Shadow cruise missiles were used by Ukraine to penetrate Russian air defences and attack one of the invading country’s facilities, it has been revealed. According to the Ukrainian military, the long-range air-to-air missiles were launched to strike a chemical plant in the Bryansk region that is believed to be making items vital to Russia‘s war effort. The operation, …
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پولینڈ کی جانب سے روس کو خبردار کیا گیا ہے کہ اگر روسی صدر نے ہنگری سمٹ میں شرکت کے لیے ان کی فضائی حدود استعمال کی تو اس صورت میں بین الاقوامی عدالت کے جاری کردہ وارنٹ پر عمل درآمد کرتے ہوئے انہیں گرفتار کیا جاسکتا ہے۔ عالمی خبر رساں ایجنسی رائٹرز کے مطابق پولش وزیرِ خارجہ رادوسواف سکورسکی …
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Vladimir Putin has been warned that his jet could be forced down and he be handed over to The Hague on his way to a summit with Donald Trump. The Russian president is expected to travel to Hungary in the next few weeks to meet his US counterpart to discuss a potential peace deal to bring the war with Ukraine …
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North Korean soldiers reportedly shot at Russian military vehicles in the Kursk region close to the Ukrainian border, in another friendly fire fiasco. Pyongyang is believed to have sent around 15,000 troops to help bolster Putin’s army in the western region. This followed a pact signed last June between Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un, whereby the two …
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Russia’s top diplomat Sergey Lavrov and US counterpart Marco Rubio discussed preparations for a coming summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in a call on Monday, both sides said. Rubio “emphasised the importance of upcoming engagements as an opportunity for Moscow and Washington to collaborate on advancing a durable resolution of the Russia-Ukraine war”, Tommy Pigott, principal deputy spokesman …
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As Moscow faces growing economic challenges to fund its war against Ukraine, Russia is expected to be in a nearly £75 billion deficit by next year. President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the news on Sunday, speaking at a briefing attended by the Ukrainian news outlet Kyiv Independent. “We already believe that next year Russia will have a significant deficit – almost …
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