President Vladimir Putin on Thursday visited a training centre for mobilised Russians for the first time since announcing a partial military call-up on September 21. . Shoigu, by Putin's side during the visit, gave him an update on the training of those called up in the draft, news agencies said.
The son of Iran's late shah on Thursday voiced solidarity with Ukrainians who have suffered from Russian-fired drones allegedly sold by Tehran and urged new, tough action against the clerical regime.. Russia and Iran at a Security Council session called by Western nations Wednesday both denied that the drones came from Tehran.
Waging brutal repression at home and allegedly helping Russia in its war against Ukraine, Iran is becoming an unsolvable challenge for Western powers eager to avoid a new nuclear power in the Middle East.. Despite decades of mutual distrust between Russia and Iran, both countries now see common interests in resisting Western powers and their crippling sanctions.
Truss' attempt to boost growth in a recession-threatened economy was fuelled by eye-watering levels of debt, damaging her government's credibility on financial marketsLiz Truss, the shortest serving prime minister in UK history, leaves lasting scars on the economy after her botched budget rocked markets, spiked borrowing costs and tanked the pound.. However, the costly measures were fuelled by eye-watering levels of debt that damaged the government's credibility on public finances and sent bond yields and mortgage rates soaring.
After a series of humiliating battlefield defeats in Ukraine, Moscow is trying out a new tactic it hopes will swing the tide of the war: bombarding power stations just as winter sets in.. Maybe we will only hate them more," Olga, who declined to give her last name, told AFP. Russia's pivot to systematically attacking Ukraine power stations comes after a series of defeats in Ukraine.
British Prime Minister Liz Truss, who announced her resignation on Thursday after just six weeks in power, goes down as the shortest-serving premier in the last 100 years.. - Andrew Bonar Law: 209 days - The Canadian-born son of a Scottish clergyman, who ruled for less than a year in 1922-1923, was the shortest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century.
Austria's president on Thursday called for wide-ranging reforms of the country's political culture following fresh revelations over a graft scandal, which led then-chancellor Sebastian Kurz to resign last year.. "We need a complete overhaul," President Alexander Van der Bellen said in a televised address on Thursday, alluding to Austria's political culture being repeatedly tainted by corruption.
Here are the main contenders potentially in the running to succeed UK Prime Minister Liz Truss, after she announced her resignation on Thursday: - Rishi Sunak - Truss easily beat the former chancellor of the exchequer in this summer's Tory leadership contest, winning party members over with promises to slash taxes and regulations without curbing government spending.. - Penny Mordaunt - The current cabinet member, 49, was an early grassroots favourite to succeed Johnson, and came within eight MPs' votes of beating Truss to make the final run-off against Sunak.
The Organization of American States will hold a special meeting Thursday on the political crisis in Peru, where President Pedro Castillo faces several investigations he denounces as a "coup d'etat.". A formal request was presented to the OAS last week, and the body said in a statement that a "special meeting" on Peru would be held in Washington at 1830 GMT on Thursday.
More than 30 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, Finland plans to erect a barbed-wire fence on its border with Russia dividing East and West, following the war in Ukraine.. "I think the fence shows an emotional reaction to the war," professor Olga Davydova-Minguet, an expert on Russia and border issues, told AFP. The Finnish border has great symbolic value as a boundary between the East and West, but it has been "a very pragmatic and practical border", said Jussi Laine, professor of human geography at the University of Eastern Finland.
