Mon 09 June 2025: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday accused Britain of being 100% involved in Ukraine’s “terrorist attacks” against Russia. Speaking at the Future Forum-2050 in Moscow, Lavrov said Ukraine would be “helpless” in its “terrorist attacks” without Britain’s support. “These threats are serious enough. Clearly, all of this is done by […]
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Mon 09 June 2025: Foreign interference in elections is a real concern but sometimes used as an “alibi” by democracies to divert attention from domestic issues, the head of a democracy think-tank said Monday. According to a new report by Stockholm-based International IDEA, disinformation and manipulation of social media algorithms to influence results are among […]
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Mon 09 June 2025: Ukraine’s “creativity”, including its massive “Spider’s web” drone attack deep inside Russia, holds profound lessons for Western militaries, the top NATO commander overseeing battlefield innovation told AFP. “What the Ukrainians did in Russia was a Trojan horse — and the trojan horse was thousands of years ago,” French Admiral Pierre Vandier, […]
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Mon 09 June 2025: Rwanda announced its withdrawal from the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), accusing the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo of “instrumentalising” the bloc with the support of member states. “Rwanda’s right to the rotating presidency, as stipulated in Article 6 of the treaty [establishing ECCAS], was deliberately ignored” with instructions […]
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Mon 09 June 2025: Iranian intelligence agencies have obtained a large trove of sensitive Israeli documents, some related to the nuclear plans and facilities, Iran’s state media reported on Saturday according to Reuters. There was no immediate official comment from Israel and it was not clear whether the report was linked to a reported hacking of […]
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Mon 09 June 2025: Israeli soldiers kidnapped the activists onboard the Gaza-bound aid ship Madleen late Sunday, said the Freedom Flotilla Coalition. “SOS! the volunteers on ‘Madleen’ have been kidnapped by Israeli forces,” the international NGO, which organized the mission, said on Telegram. UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, who was in phone contact with the […]
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Sun 08 June 2025: US President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops to the city of Los Angeles to break up protests sparked by immigration raids, according to a White House statement late Saturday. “In light of these incidents and credible threats of continued violence, by the authority vested in me […]
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Sun 08 June 2025: US President Donald Trump warned of “very serious consequences” if billionaire Elon Musk finances Democratic candidates against Republicans who support the Republican Party’s broad budget legislation. “He’ll have to pay very serious consequences if he does that,” Trump told NBC News in a phone interview on Saturday, while declining to elaborate […]
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Sun 08 June 2025: Africa’s push for a seat on the UN Security Council continued Wednesday with the 13th Ministerial Meeting of the African Union’s Committee of Ten (C-10) in Zambia. The meeting in the capital Lusaka is focused on the Common African Position (CAP), which aims to secure at least two permanent and five […]
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Sun 08 June 2025: The US Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) can access Americans’ Social Security Administration data. The 6-3 conservative-majority vote overruled a lower court order injunction in the state of Maryland to pause DOGE’s collection of Social Security numbers, medical records, and tax and […]
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