Senior Ukrainian intelligence officer Vadim Skibitsky does not see a path to a battlefield victory over Russia, he has told The Economist Read Full Article at RT.com

Raiffeisen Bank will start its withdrawal from Russia in the third quarter of 2024 under pressure from the EU, Johann Strobl has announced Read Full Article at RT.com

Sao Tome and Principe is drawing up plans to negotiate reparations with Portugal, a minister from the island nation has said Read Full Article at RT.com

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu reported the latest estimates of Ukrainian military casualties on Friday Read Full Article at RT.com

The Russian army carried out active defensive operations on the left bank of the Dnieper, conducting precise strikes on enemy military facilities, equipment and artillery weapons on the right bank

«Customs officers found 60 kg of cocaine when inspecting a container of fresh bananas, which had arrived from the Ecuadorian port of Puerto Bolivar,» the statement said

«The Group divested the LeasePlan subsidiary in Russia in February 2024 and no longer operates any business locally in the country,» the French bank said

Last year, RUSADA reported identifying 150 potential violations by Russian athletes involving performance enhancing drugs

Ce 3 mai 2024, notre pays le Gabon, à l'instar de la communauté internationale, célèbre la 31e édition de la Journée mondiale de Liberté de la Presse, sous le thème : «La presse pour la planète : crise environnementale et urgence du journalisme ». La crise environnementale nécessite une couverture médiatique approfondie et continue pour éveiller les consciences des populations à travers le monde d'une part, et d'autre part, pour promouvoir des solutions durables. La Presse, considérée (...) - COMMUNICATION / SUJET_ECRIT_MAISON

India has tested a missile-assisted torpedo delivery system that can hit submarines hundreds of kilometres away Read Full Article at RT.com

The Kommersant newspaper has revealed new details about the Ukrainian plot to blow up the Crimean Bridge in October 2022 Read Full Article at RT.com

Two people have been injured in Ukrainian UAV attacks on Belgorod Region, local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov has said Read Full Article at RT.com

China has described the US as the “biggest threat to space security” after Washington accused Beijing of developing anti-satellite weapons Read Full Article at RT.com

As many as 83% of Russians expressed confidence in Vladimir Putin

According to Vadim Skibitsky, «meaningful negotiations can begin only in the second half of 2025 at the earliest»

The share of people who approve of the way the president is handling his job went up by 0.4 percentage points to 78.2%

The crews of Su-30SM aircraft of the Aerospace Forces provided fighter support

Nondefense revenues also increased last year in absolute figures and amounts to nearly one trillion rubles ($10.92 bln), Sergey Chemezov stressed

Just over a month into the new fiscal year and two weeks after the federal budget, the Department of National Defence is struggling to reconcile the Liberal government's approach to military funding — giving with one hand while taking with the other.

With some Canadian consumers struggling to afford groceries, and as frustrations with corporate profits boil over, the federal government says it's trying to coax international grocers to set up shop in Canada. 

[New Times] Countries in the East African Community (EAC) want to adopt a single currency as part of the broader plans to integrate under a single market, and ultimately one region that trades together.

[AI London] Authorities across East and Southern Africa continued to impose severe restrictions on the right to freedom of expression and media freedom over the past year, said Amnesty International on World Press Freedom Day.

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Artillery of the Battlegroup Center delivered a strike on the Ukrainian army’s field ammunition depot in the Krasnoarmeisk direction

News of the Russian deployment to the airbase follows after Niger’s military rulers told Washington in March that it must withdraw the nearly 1,000 US military personnel stationed in the country

Most enterprises have switched to three-shift work since the beginning of the operation and increased production capacities

On May 2, in an interview the French leader named two conditions for sending troops to Ukraine: Kiev's request and Russia's breakthrough on the front line

As of today, 141 out of the 193 UN member states, including Russia, recognize Palestine as an independent nation

When she was told that the seat she wanted was taken and that she had to sit somewhere else, one woman lost her cool and threw the hot cocoa she had just ordered on the countertop. The incident, which was captured on CCTV, happened on Wednesday (May 1) afternoon at The Homme Baker, a bakery cafe in Queenstown. It filed a police report the next day. On the day of the incident, the bakery shared the CCTV footage in an Instagram story, seeking help to identify the woman so it could make a police report and file claims for any damage to its equipment. «This customer threw her scalding hot cocoa on our countertop and all over our electricals, potentially causing damage to our POS (point-of-sale) equipment,» the bakery wrote.  It added that the woman had supposedly gotten upset after being told that the four counter seats were occupied and she had to sit at the communal area outside. «She also used [an] expletive... on one of our bakers. We do not tolerate such abusive language or behaviour towards any of our staff.»

Beledweyne (HOL) - The fleeing continues in the central Somali town of Beledweyne for the second day following floods caused by heavy rains.

Vehicles are bought out from official sellers in China, Europe and Korea

Surplus minerals will be exported, Head of the Federal Agency for Mineral Resources Yevgeny Petrov said

«A temporary ceasefire is possible only for the purpose of releasing the Israeli hostages that are still being held by Hamas in Gaza,» Yulia Rachinsky-Spivakov said, when asked if a ceasefire was possible during religious holidays

According to Balazs Orban, in this way the United States is trying «to weaken Russia,» «stop German-Russian energy cooperation» and find new export markets for LNG