Giorno: 27 Luglio 2022

Ukraine takes out key bridge ‘destroying’ Russian plans for south ‘advancement’

Ukrainian forces took out a key bridge in Kherson, defense officials said Wednesday, “destroying” Russia’s plans as it looks to advance its troops in the south. Head of the joint coordination press center for the Ukrainian Defense Forces, Natalia Humeniuk, said that high precision strikes had hit the Antonovsky Bridge in an attempt to control […]

Inside the Chechen plot to circumvent Putin’s war and seek independence

EXCLUSIVE: The ghosts of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal past have emerged amid his deadly war in Ukraine as a group of Chechen fighters now looks to establish their own stake in the fight. “This is a repetition of the tragedy in Chechnya,” Islam Belokiev, spokesman for the Sheikh Mansur Battalion, told Fox News Digital […]

China warns of ‘firm’ and ‘absolute’ response if Speaker Pelosi visits Taiwan

A top Chinese official is warning of “serious consequences” if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visits the island nation of Taiwan which China has long insisted is not an independent state but rather part of China. “The US will be responsible for all of the serious consequences,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said about the […]

Ukrainians sign petition to give citizenship, PM role to UK’s Johnson

A tongue-in-cheek petition to give outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Ukrainian citizenship and make him the country’s prime minister has garnered over 2,500 signatures hours after being put up on Ukraine’s official petitions site on Tuesday. Despite losing domestic popularity and eventually having been forced to announce his resignation after dozens of ministerial departures […]

One China Policy Has ‘Outlived Its Usefulness’: Former Defense Secretary

Read More The United States’s so-called “One China Policy” is no longer realistic or tenable, according to former U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. “It may have been the case in 1972 that the people of Taiwan saw themselves as Chinese, but they don’t today,” Esper said during a July 26 talk at the Atlantic […]

Claws out over project sending Southern African cheetahs to India

Read More It’s being touted as the first intercontinental species “reintroduction” of its kind — sending Southern African cheetahs to India 70 years after its Asiastic cheetah was declared extinct. Last week, India and Namibia signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that will see eight of its cheetahs sent to Kuno next month, marking India’s […]

James Lovelock, creator of Gaia hypothesis, dies on 103rd birthday

Read More James Lovelock, the creator of the Gaia hypothesis, has died on his 103rd birthday. The climate scientist died at home on Tuesday surrounded by loved ones, his family said. Lovelock, who was one of the UK’s most respected independent scientists, had been in good health until six months ago, when he had a […]

Senior Tory urges Liz Truss to explain deletion of abortion rights from statement

Read More A senior Conservative MP has asked the foreign secretary, Liz Truss, to explain why the UK government appeared to perform a “sudden backtracking on women’s rights” after commitments to abortion and sexual health rights were removed from an official multi-nation statement on gender equality. Caroline Nokes, who chairs the women and equalities select […]