Hippos, the world’s second-heaviest land animal, can briefly detach from the ground while running, British scientists have found Read Full Article at RT.com

Russian envoy to China Igor Morgulov says the BRICS group is creating a financial system that would resist third-party dominance Read Full Article at RT.com

Four Ukrainian servicemen have crossed the Dnieper River to surrender to Russia, according to RIA Novosti Read Full Article at RT.com

The conflict is about NATO and its expansion, and Moscow seees Kiev as a proxy for the bloc Read Full Article at RT.com

The left-wing New Popular Front (NFP) is reportedly leading in the French parliamentary elections Read Full Article at RT.com

An FPV drone detonated in the territory of a farm

The 2024 Summer Olympic Games will be hosted by the French capital of Paris between July 26 and August 11

According to the news portal, now the Hungarian prime minister is heading to Beijing, where he is expected to arrive «at dawn on Monday.»

The Israeli prime minister insists that «there will be no smuggling of weapons to Hamas from Egypt to the Gaza border»

According to the television channel’s forecast, Marine Le pen and Jordan Bardells’s party may count on from 210 to 228 seats in the 577-seat legislature

RIYADH: The head of Saudi Arabia’s Project Masam said there is still a long way to go despite the project having cleared more than 450,000 landmines and explosive remnants of war in Yemen. “There is still a long way to go to reach a mine-free Yemen”, the project’s managing director, Ousama Al-Gosaibi, said in a statement. Since at least 2015, Houthi militias have planted landmines — conventional and improvised — in “quantities and sophistication that far exceeds reasonable limits,” Al-Gosaibi said

RIYADH: The Saudi culture and education ministries recently honored pre-university general education students who were winners of the second edition of the Cultural Skills Competition held in Riyadh. The winners received prizes worth a total of SR9 million ($2.4 million) while the organizers of the competition signed three agreements to support distinguished talents.

JEDDAH: Google recently awarded five seed grants to faculty members at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology to support research in artificial intelligence in Saudi Arabia.

A five-member Indian delegation from the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) will be visiting Colombo from July 7-9 for bilateral discussions on collaboration between the National Centre for Good Governance and Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration (SLIDA) for capacity building programmes of Sri Lankan Civil Servants in India.

Árdís Lára Gísladóttir and Ásta Katrín Helgadóttir, from Suðurnes exceeded everyone’s expectations when they became world champions in a new sport called Hyrox, the first competition was held in Germany in 2017. The competition now was held in Nice in southern France, and the sport is getting hugely popular all over the world. In Hyrox, the participants take on eight training tasks and run a kilometre between each task.

The military regimes of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso marked their divorce from the rest of West Africa Saturday as they signed a treaty setting up a confederation between them. The first summit of the three countries, who all pulled out of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) earlier this year, also saw calls for greater cooperation across a wide range of sectors. «Our people have irrevocably turned their backs on ECOWAS,» Niger's ruling General Abdourahamane Tiani told his fellow Sahel strongmen at the gathering's opening in the Nigerien capital Niamey. The three leaders, who took power through coups in recent years, «decided to take a step further towards greater integration» and «adopted a treaty establishing a confederation», they said in a statement issued at the end of the summit. The «Confederation of Sahel States», which will use the acronym AES and be headed by Mali in its first year, will group some 72 million people. Their ECOWAS exits were fuelled in part by accusations that Paris was manipulating the bloc, and not providing enough support for anti-jihadist efforts. - Shift away from France - «The AES is the only effective sub-regional grouping in the fight against terrorism,» Tiani declared on Saturday, calling ECOWAS «conspicuous by its lack of involvement in this fight». The exit came as the trio shifted away from former colonial ruler France, with Tiani calling for the new bloc to become a «community far removed from the stranglehold of foreign powers». All three have expelled anti-jihadist French troops and turned instead towards what they call their «sincere partners» -- Russia, Turkey and Iran. In early March, the AES announced joint anti-jihadist efforts, though they did not specify details. Insurgents linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group have carried out attacks for years in the vast «three borders» region between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, despite the massive deployment of anti-jihadist forces. ECOWAS is due to hold a summit of its heads of state in the Nigerian capital Abuja on Sunday, where the issue of relations with the AES will be on the agenda. Relations between ECOWAS deteriorated following a July 2023 coup that brought Tiani to power, when the bloc imposed sanctions and even threatened to intervene militarily to restore the ousted president, Mohamed Bazoum. The sanctions were lifted in February but relations between the two sides remain frosty. After several bilateral meetings, this is the first meeting of all three Sahelian strongmen since coming to power through coups between 2020 and 2023. Niger's Tiani first welcomed his Burkinabe counterpart Ibrahim Traore in the capital on Friday, followed by Malian Colonel Assimi Goita who arrived Saturday. - 'Serious project' - «The aim is to show that this is a serious project with three committed heads of state showing their solidarity,» said Gilles Yabi, founder of the West African think tank Wathi. The trio have made sovereignty a guiding principle of their governance and aim to create a common currency. Sunday's summit comes as several West African presidents have called in recent weeks for a solution to resume dialogue between the two camps. Notably, Senegal's new President Bassirou Diomaye Faye said in late May that reconciliation between ECOWAS and the three Sahel countries was possible. In June, his newly re-elected Mauritanian counterpart, President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, called on West African countries to unite again against the expansion of jihadism. But the successive summits on the same weekend raise fears of a stiffening of positions between the AES and ECOWAS. «I do not see the AES countries seeking to return to ECOWAS. I think it's ECOWAS that will have to tone it down (the situation),» Nigerien lawyer Djibril Abarchi told AFP. Beyond military cooperation, the leaders Saturday also talked about «mutualising» their approach to strategic sectors such as agriculture, water, energy and transport. They also asked that indigenous languages be given greater prominence in local media. The question of creating a common currency to replace the CFA franc was not mentioned in the final communique. © Agence France-Presse  

Minister of Labour and Social Security, Pearnel Charles Jr., says that over 200 residents have been displaced in Rocky Point, Clarendon due to flooding or damage to homes from the passage of Hurricane Beryl. Charles Jr., who was speaking at the...

A man was fatally shot and an illegal gun reportedly seized in Seaforth, St Thomas on Saturday during an alleged confrontation with the police.  Dead is Franco Alex Campbell, 26-year-old of Seaforth Capture Land, St Thomas. It is reported that...

A Haryana Sikh group, led by Didar Singh Nalvi, demands immediate Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (HSGMC) elections before state assembly elections. They criticize the expired, government-nominated committee for illegally using Gurdwara funds. Despite the previous postponement due to exams and parliamentary elections, they urge the government to prioritize Gurdwara elections, asserting the constitutional duty to hold them promptly.

Mogadishu (HOL) - Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud reiterated that the al-Shabab group has been instigating conflicts among clans in several regions of the country to create discord.

According to Strochevoy, the IAC plans t expand its activities, despite the political problems

According to Hamas, al-Ghussein was killed in an Israeli raid on the city of Gaza

Simultaneously, the IDF struck a Hamas weapons manufacturing facility embedded by the terrorist organization in the area of the school

The flood situation in Assam is improving, with 23 lakh people still affected across 29 districts. In Darrang, 1.63 lakh people are impacted, and 98 villages remain submerged. Water levels of the Brahmaputra River are receding. The government is providing relief and plans to build new embankments. Residents in Char areas rely on boats due to submerged roads.

Controversy surrounds Rahul Gandhi's visit to New Delhi station as railway officials question origin of loco pilots in video. Loco pilots raise safety concerns and demand improved working conditions. Political leaders urged to refrain from demotivating railway personnel.

The United States and NATO keep on saying that they are not at war with Russia, Lavrov said