The alleged drug-carrying speedboat that U.S. President Donald Trump ordered to be bombed, killing the 11 people on board, reportedly turned around when it saw that it was being tracked by federal authorities, raising new criticisms over the administration’s decision to carry out the attack.
U.S. President Donald Trump is growing more frustrated with the lack of a peace deal in Ukraine and is prepared to escalate his sanctions war against Moscow as long as Europe stops buying Russian crude.
Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian foreign minister, said last week that the approximately 900 pounds of missing enriched uranium, which can make six nuclear weapons, is buried under the rubble after the U.S.’s bombing of its nuclear enrichment facilities and said it is unclear if the stockpile can be retrieved.
Romania said it scrambled fighter jets late Saturday after its military detected a Russian drone inside its airspace just days after Poland said it shot down drones from Russia near its border region.
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, who has recently faced major protests over frustrations about the country’s inequality, has moved to remedy the crisis by attempting to meet some of the key demands by the demonstrators.
NATO members used Poland’s engagement with Russian drones near its border last week as an example of why it needs to fortify its defenses in its eastern flank after Donald Tusk, the Polish prime minister, said the incident is the “closest we have been to open conflict” since the end of WWII.
Investments in European companies that focus on military technologies have seen a significant acceleration since the start of the Ukraine War as countries turn to surveillance and drone warfare to counter what they see as a looming threat from Russia.
Ukraine launched another drone attack on Russia in the overnight hours Saturday into Sunday and struck the Kirishi refinery in the Leningrad region, which produces 355,000 barrels of crude per day and is one of the country’s most important oil refineries.
Hundreds of thousands of protesters across France clashed with police and attempted to interfere with normal traffic over the government’s plan to cut €44 billion in spending to rein in its ballooning budget deficit and debt load.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Israel on Sunday and the two prayed together at the Western Wall in Jerusalem amid a show of friendship, even as Israel carries out a genocide in Gaza and an attack on Qatar, which has a close relationship with the U.S.