Head of national spy agency says it cannot claim responsibility for the deaths, but is able to share details
Defence experts say Moscow is rapidly improving its intelligence operations after Ukraine invasionIt was a crude and violent assault, but as a bloody message, it was chillingly effective. An attacker ambushed Leonid Volkov, a close adviser to the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Nalvany, outside his home on the outskirts of Vilnius, Lithuania. The time was 10.06pm on Tuesday night as he arrived, after having filmed an anti-Putin video in time for this weekend’s election.The assailant...
A new report has found that U.S. government spending on artificial intelligence has exploded in the past year, driven by the Department of Defense.
Vladimir Putin’s landslide victory in a fake contest marks the latest phase in a transition from authoritarianism to outright autocracyOne of the curiosities of the Soviet Union was the serious weight its leaders attached to holding elections. In a dictatorship, why bother? Academic studies concluded that ensuring a 99% vote share for the only candidate on the ballot was a useful tool for civic mobilisation, and a way of isolating and intimidating anyone who aspired to a real democratic...
NIAMEY, Niger >> Niger’s junta said Saturday the U.S. military presence in the country is no longer justified, making the announcement on state television after holding high-level talks with U.S. diplomatic and military officials this week.
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Chief Imam of Imo State, Sheikh Suleiman Njoku, tells ABDULLATEEF FOWEWE the challenges Muslims are facing in the South-East and the importance of Zakat during Ramadan How did your family become a Muslim family in Igboland? I am Sheikh Suleiman Njoku, and currently serving as the chief Imam of Imo State and also holding the Read More
Another U.S. military asset left for Gaza on Thursday to help fulfill President Joe Biden’s promise to build a pier linking the war-torn territory to the rest of the world.
Royal commentators offer their verdict on the varying royal crises
The Pampa Police Department announced Pampa Police Chief Lance Richburg was awarded the 2024 Texas Police Chiefs Association’s Innovation Award.
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) This is a succinct factual summary of the situation, as-of 21 March 2024: https://theduran.com/nord-stream-investigation-sabotaged-dmitry-polyanskiy (without ads) https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/XwxLdwo75hY (without ads) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwxLdwo75hY (with ads) [I have cleaned up the auto-generated transcript because of its many successively repeated phrases and its many fillers such as “uh”, which hindered...
Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry blamed Israeli authorities for preventing the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini from entering Rafah, Gaza. In a press conference with Shoukry in Cairo on 18 March, Lazzarini explained that he was scheduled to visit Rafah and inspect the humanitarian conditions of the city but was denied entry. Shoukry described Israel’s entry refusal of a high-ranking UN official...