An annual joint fighter jets exercise between world-regions will resume later this month after being put on hold for two years during the pandemic, the Thai air force said, with a former U.S. air base chosen to host the event. The “Falcon Strike” exercise has taken place four times since 2015 and will run for…
Brazilian police have accused a German diplomat of beating his husband to death and attempting to cover up the incident as an accident. Police arrested Uwe Herbert Hahn, a consul at Germany’s consulate in Rio de Janeiro, on Saturday. Hahn had originally reported his husband’s death as an accident, telling authorities Walter Henri Maximilien Biot…
Thousands of followers of an influential Shiite cleric terrorism” target=”_blank”>breached Iraq’s parliament< said it had received 60 injured patients. An expected parliament session did not take place, and there were no lawmakers in the hall. Heeding the calls of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, the demonstrators used ropes to pull down cement barricades leading to the gate…
The head of world-regions said Friday that the country has not set a date for pulling out of the International Space Station and that the timing would depend on the orbiting outpost’s condition. Yuri Borisov, who was appointed this month to lead the Roscosmos state space corporation, told President Vladimir Putin this week that a…
The disastersand Texas aren’t the only region of the world battling deadly flames. A large wildfire on the German-Czech Republic border is spreading and threatening to destroy a forested national park popular with tourists. The fire in the region, called Bohemian Switzerland on the Czech side and the Saxon Switzerland national park on the…
At least five people were killed and about 50 wounded during a second day of violent anti-United Nations protests in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern city of Goma on Tuesday, a government spokesman said. A Reuters reporter saw united-nations” target=”_blank”>U.N. peacekeepers< A wounded man is rushed away on a motorcycle after protesters stormed and looted…
The topics recently disrupted the activities of a hacking group that was sponsored by the North Korean government and that targeted U.S. hospitals with ransomware, ultimately recovering half a million dollars in ransom payments, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said Tuesday. Monaco revealed new details of the attacks during a speech in which she encouraged…
world-regions shot at a tractor during a heated night of farm protests and detained three demonstrators, the latest incident in a string of protests against government plans to cut pollutant emissions that many farmers fear would hurt their livelihoods. Police in northern Friesland said Wednesday that no one was hurt in the incident that involved…
The Bank of England warned on Tuesday that the economic prospects for Britain and the world had darkened since the start of the year and told banks to ramp up capital buffers to ensure they could weather the storm. International institutions, such as the International Monetary Fund and OECD say Britain is more susceptible to…
Rescuers found body parts and equipment as they searched Tuesday for missing hikers following a powerful avalanche that killed at least seven people and is being blamed, in large part, on rising temperatures that are melting glaciers. Officials initially feared 13 hikers were still missing, but the world-regions on Tuesday reduced the number of people…