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Western European leaders are being cautious as the US president’s days in office are numbered, the agency claims Major NATO allies have expressed reservations following US President Joe Biden’s reported decision to allow Ukraine strike targets deep inside Russia using American-made long-range missiles. The move – first published by the New York Times citing anonymous sources – is being seen as a significant shift in US policy but it has failed to galvanize broader Western support amid concerns over further escalation of the conflict. Germany, France, and the UK, who all possess long-range missiles, have so far declined to repeat Washington’s offer despite Ukrainian leader Vladimir…

The reopening of the Vladivostok-Chennai shipping route will boost economic ties between the two countries The Eastern Maritime Corridor (EMC), which connects major logistics hubs in Russia’s Far East with India’s southeastern coast, has become operational, Indian Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal announced on Monday. The maritime link is expected to serve as a cheaper and faster alternative for shipping vital commodities, including oil and coal. “The Eastern Maritime Corridor between Vladivostok and Chennai is operational now. Container ships carrying crude oil, metal, and textiles have started coming to Indian ports,” Sonowal said, according to PTI news…

Alex Soros, who inherited his father’s empire last year, criticized US President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for health secretary SpaceX and Tesla boss Elon Musk has ridiculed a claim made by Alex Soros, son of billionaire financier George Soros, that Americans would be “screwed” if there was another pandemic. The comment appeared to target President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for the next US health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday, Soros, who inherited control of his father’s business and philanthropic empire last year, suggested that the plans for health agencies announced by RFK Jr. “could weaken…

Hezbollah has confirmed the death of its Media Relations official, Mohammad Afif, in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut. According to a statement by the group, Afif was killed in the strike, which targeted a location in the Ras al-Nabaa neighborhood. Reuters, citing two security sources, also confirmed that Afif died in the attack. A security source reported that the airstrike hit an apartment housing the office of the Baath Party in Beirut. Multiple sources corroborated that the primary target of the Israeli strike was Mohammad Afif. Media outlets noted that the strike on Ras al-Nabaa came without prior warning from…

The Lebanese Army announced on Sunday that two of its soldiers were killed in an Israeli strike. The army accused Israel of directly targeting one of its military sites in southern Lebanon, where clashes between the Israeli army and Hezbollah are ongoing. In a statement, the army reported, “The Israeli enemy directly targeted an army position in the town of Al-Mari – Hasbaya, resulting in the death of one soldier and the injury of three others, one critically.” A subsequent statement confirmed the death of a second soldier who had been critically injured during the same strike on the military…

The Ukrainian leader is joking when he claims that his country is “independent,” the tech tycoon has suggested Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has an “amazing”sense of humor if he thinks that his country cannot be forced to the negotiating table by the US, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, a close confidant of President-elect Donald Trump, has said. Speaking to Ukrainian radio on Saturday, Zelensky was asked whether he has been pressured by Trump to agree to peace talks with Russia. “We are an independent Ukraine,” Zelensky responded, adding that he “personally, in negotiations with the United States, and with Trump, [US President Joe] Biden, and…

The Ukrainian Defense Ministry is a hotbed of graft, according to a US military report Corruption will be the “primary impediment” to Ukraine’s post-conflict recovery, the Pentagon’s inspector general has warned in a new report, which identified the country’s defense ministry as “a key player in many corruption scandals.” In a quarterly report to Congress published this week, Inspector General Robert Storch noted that “corruption continues to complicate Ukraine’s efforts to achieve its EU and NATO aspirations.” “Judges, politicians, and officials have been charged with corruption and the Ministry of Defense has been a key player in many corruption scandals,” the report stated, citing information…

Earlier this week, the New York Times reported that the US-based billionaire had held secret talks with Amir Saeid Iravani The Iranian Foreign Ministry has dismissed media claims that the country’s ambassador to the UN held a secret meeting with US-based billionaire Elon Musk earlier this week. During his first term in office, President-elect Donald Trump pursued a ‘maximum pressure’ policy toward Tehran, taking multiple hostile steps against the Islamic Republic. Musk declared his support for Trump this July and emerged as one of the Republican’s top donors. Since the election on November 5, the tech tycoon has often been…

Most of the president-elect’s cabinet choices are “unqualified” and “dangerous,” Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz has said Tulsi Gabbard, US President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for national intelligence director, is “likely a Russian asset,”according to Democratic Party Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. In an interview with MSNBC on Friday, Schulz accused Trump of making “irresponsible”choices for his new cabinet. Gabbard is a former congresswoman from Hawaii and a lieutenant colonel in the US Army Reserve. An outspoken critic of Washington’s military interventions, she left the Democratic party shortly after the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022. Last month she announced that she had joined…

The knifeman was arrested at the scene and readily confessed to the murders, police have said Eight people have been killed and 17 injured in a mass stabbing at a college campus in the eastern Chinese city of Yixing. The suspect was described by law enforcement as a student who failed his exams and returned to the college to take out his anger. The attack took place on Saturday evening at the Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Technology in the city of Yixing in Jiangsu province. The 21-year-old suspect was arrested at the scene and confessed to the murders “without…