Ecuador in diplomatic storm after raid at Mexican embassy
BSS : Ecuador faced criticism from the UN and across Latin America on Saturday after its security forces stormed the Mexican embassy in Quito to...
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Record flood waters rise in Urals
Reuters : Flood waters were rising in two cities in Russia’s Ural mountains on Sunday after Europe’s third longest river burst through a dam, flooding...
Israeli embassies ‘no longer safe’ after Syria strike: Iran
AFP : An adviser to Iran’s supreme leader warned Sunday that Israeli embassies are “no longer safe” after a strike in Syria which Tehran blamed...
US, China resume talks on safe military interactions
AFP : The United States and China held talks this week on safety in interactions between their armed forces for the first time in more...
Turkey to withdraw from Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces
TASS : Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has signed a decree announcing that the country will withdraw from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in...
6 killed in Russian strikes on Ukraine’s Kharkiv
Al Jazeera : Russian strikes on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, have killed six civilians and injured 10 people, regional officials said. Ukraine’s national police said...
Pelosi joins call for Biden to stop transfer of US weapons
Reuters : Representative Nancy Pelosi, former House speaker and a key ally of Joe Biden, signed a letter on Friday from dozens of congressional Democrats...
Mexico suspends ties with Ecuador
Al Jazeera : Mexico has suspended diplomatic relations with Ecuador after police forcibly broke into its embassy in Quito and arrested former Ecuadorian vice president...
Europol maps out 821 most threatening crime groups
Deutsche Welle : The European Union’s law enforcement agency Europol on Friday published an analysis of 821 criminal groups that it said posed a major...
Iran says ISIL members planning Eid al-Fitr ‘suicide attack’ arrested
Al Jazeera : Iran says it has arrested members of the ISIL (ISIS) group who were planning an attack at the end of the Muslim...