President Joe Biden said Friday the United States and NATO will not be intimidated by Russia's President Vladimir Putin and warned that the Western alliance would defend "every inch" of its territory if attacked.. "America's fully prepared, with our NATO allies, to defend every single inch of NATO territory," he said.
Russia on Friday vetoed a Western bid at the UN Security Council to condemn its annexations of Ukrainian territory but found no other support, with China and India abstaining.. "Council members have voted in different ways, but one thing is clear -- Not a single other member of this Council recognizes Russia's attempted illegal annexation of Ukrainian territory.
Twenty members of a Jewish sect escaped from detention in Mexico following a raid targeting the group, which is accused of drug trafficking and rape, an official said Friday.. Twenty sect members were taken to a government-run shelter on September 23, after a raid by the Mexican authorities on the sect compound in the town of Tapachula in southern Chiapas state.
The US Congress approved $12.3 billion in aid Friday to help Ukraine battle its invasion by Russia as part of a stopgap spending bill that averts a chaotic government shutdown ahead of a midnight deadline.. Government shutdowns threaten the finances of hundreds of thousands of workers who risk being sent home without pay as parks, museums and other federal properties close.
Hackers have stolen sensitive Mexican files including previously undisclosed information that President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was taken to hospital by air ambulance in January with a heart problem, the government said Friday.. The files revealed that Lopez Obrador, 68, was taken by air ambulance on January 2 from his ranch in Palenque, in the southern state of Chiapas, to be treated at a military hospital in Mexico City, Loret de Mola said.
Ukraine's forces pushed forward their counteroffensive against Russian troops in the Kharkiv region on Friday, as more evidence emerged of violence against civilians in formerly occupied territory.. Russian forces have often been accused of murdering civilians in occupied areas during the seven-month-old war, and on Friday a Russian strike killed 25 civilians in the southern region of Zaporizhzhia.
The body of a man in a chequered jumper inside a car with blown-out windows, his tattooed hand still clutching the steering wheel.. - 'Ukrainian, not Russian' - AFP saw more than a dozen damaged cars and vans on Friday afternoon, all with their windows blown out.
As a ceasefire deadline in war-ravaged Yemen draws near, civilians hope the truce will be extended -- fearing any fresh fighting would wipe out the small gains they have made.. "I hope the truce will continue until the war stops completely," she said, adding that she dreamt of expanding her farm "on the ground, and not on the roof of the house".
Fighter jet engines whined this week on a stretch of highway in central Finland, where the military trained on stretches of road that double as spare landing strips.. The goal of the exercise was to train a new batch of the Nordic country's fighter pilots to take off and land on these rural runways.
Five years after the failed secession push in Catalonia which landed him in jail, Oriol Junqueras remains convinced that defying Spain with a banned independence referendum was the right move. . Despite passions running high over independence, the region itself also remains divided, with only 41 percent in favour of separation while 52 percent want to remain in Spain, the latest survey suggested.
