The fighting around the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut has been going on so long that even recently delivered Western weapons like the German Pzh2000 howitzer are showing wear and tear.. But fewer than 30 Pzh2000s have been delivered so far, and Ukraine's gunners have kept up a far higher rate of fire than the German engineers had bargained for.
When Germany's ecologist Greens hold a mini-party congress Saturday, members of the junior coalition party are expected to vent their fury over tradeoffs that have sent the party's popularity plunging.. As recently as May 2022, Habeck was one of Germany's most popular politicians.
Crime has taken a sadistic turn in Ecuador, where kidnappers now regularly amputate the fingers of their victims and send images to pressure relatives to pay higher ransoms.. Some kidnappers seek a quick payout, demanding ransoms as low as $5,000.
Canada's Supreme Court on Friday upheld an immigration agreement that allows authorities to bar asylum seekers from entering the country from the United States.. However, the Federal Court should re-examine the policy for women asylum seekers who "fear persecution on the basis of their gender," the Supreme Court said.
Uruguay will melt down a bronze eagle found on a sunken World War II-era German destroyer off its coast 13 years ago, and recast it as a dove of peace, the South American country's president said Friday. . The 350-kilogram (770-pound) "symbol of violence and war" will be turned into a "symbol of peace and union," President Luis Lacalle Pou told journalists in the capital Montevideo.
Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who leaked the "Pentagon Papers" about the Vietnam War -- changing public perceptions of the conflict -- died on Friday, his family announced.. The leak was recounted in the 2017 Hollywood thriller "The Post," which detailed the nail-biting behind-the-scenes story of the papers' publication.
Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who leaked the "Pentagon Papers" about the Vietnam War, died on Friday, his family announced.. Ellsberg was a military analyst when he released thousands of documents to US media in 1971 that revealed successive United States administrations had lied to the public about the Vietnam war.
The blue and gold flag flying above the shattered doorway of the Blagodatne cultural centre is Ukrainian, but the soldiers lying dead inside are Russian.. At least four Russian troops died inside the gutted cultural centre, scarred by months of frontline artillery exchanges even before the latest battle.
President Vladimir Putin on Friday proclaimed the end of "neo-colonialism" in international politics and praised Russia's economic strategy following its ruptured ties with the West.. "The ugly neo-colonial system of international relations has ceased to exist, while the multi-polar global order is strengthening," Putin said.
Mali's foreign minister called Friday for the UN Security Council to withdraw the peacekeeping mission in his country "without delay," denouncing its "failure" to respond to security challenges.. "The government of Mali calls for the withdrawal without delay of Minusma," the name of the United Nations force in Mali, said Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop.
