Iran military vows ‘more severe’ reprisals if US attacks continue
Iran's military on Saturday vowed "more severe" retaliatory attacks on US naval vessels if Washington kept up its strikes on Iranian ships, hours after US Central Command said it had destroyed three Iranian tankers.
Ask me anything: Ukraine’s president holds 14-hour press conference
The gesture came on Thursday, as Ukraine’s president held what his office called a “marathon” press conference lasting more than 14 hours, with 300 journalists in attendance, which looked more like a forced march by the end. In the space of a few weeks, he has faced protests over a controversial peace deal in Ukraine’s […]
Thousands flee, dozens reported killed as Turkey pushes Syria assault
Turkey pounded Kurdish militia in northeast Syria for a second day on Thursday, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee and killing dozens, in a cross-border assault on U.S. allies that has turned the Washington establishment against Donald Trump. The Turkish offensive against the U.S.-allied Syrian Democratic Forces, launched days after Trump pulled […]
Ukraine’s Zelensky denies Trump tried to ‘blackmail’ him
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denied Thursday that Donald Trump tried to blackmail him by withholding military aid to Kyiv in a phone call between the two leaders. “There was no blackmail,” the comedian-turned-politician told a news conference. A transcript of the phone conversation showed Trump asked Zelensky to investigate his political rival, Joe Biden. The […]
Xenophobic Attacks: Rwanda, DRCongo refugees in South Africa seek UN help
Foreign nationals from Rwanda, DR Congo, Burundi, and Bangladesh sleep outside the UNHCR office in South Africa pleading for protection from xenophobic attacks. They also attributed their safety’s threat to high levels of crime. “Hundreds of people, originally from Rwanda, DR Congo, Burundi and Bangladesh, sleep outside the UNHCR office in Cape Town.” AFP reported. […]
US Customs impounds more than 14,000 fake Nike shoes from China
The United States Customs and Border Protection officers have impounded 14,806 pairs of fake Nike shoes that, if genuine, would’ve been worth a total of more than $2 million (N721 million). The shoes arrived from China at the Los Angeles/Long Beach Seaport in containers marked as “napkins.” What was inside weren’t napkins at all, but […]
