The first Australian soldier has been charged over Afghanistan war crimes, but those ultimately responsible remain in command
The murder allegation could be the start of a lengthy string of trials, which is unlikely to ever reach the top brass Earlier this week, an Australian soldier, Oliver Schulz, 41, was charged with murder by the Australian Federal Police in relation to the killing of a civilian in Afghanistan in 2012. Schulz was remanded […]
Ceasefire deal in Nagorno-Karabakh violated – Russian MOD
Azerbaijani troops have crossed the contact line in the disputed region, Moscow has said Azerbaijani forces have violated a Russia-brokered 2020 peace deal between Baku and Yerevan, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday. The Russian peacekeepers stationed in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region are now investigating the incident, it added. On Saturday, an Azerbaijani military […]
US general admits to sharing ‘core values’ with coup leaders
Michael Langley insisted only a “very small number” of Africans trained by Washington overthrew their governments General Michael Langley, head of US AFRICOM, appeared to admit that the Pentagon’s “core values,” instilled into tens of thousands of African military officers, were compatible with staging coups as he was grilled during a House Armed Services Committee […]
NATO carried out ‘inhumane experiment’ in Balkans – health minister
The US-led military bloc bombed Serbia with toxic depleted uranium, which Britain now wants to give to Ukraine NATO’s use of depleted uranium munitions in its air war against Yugoslavia was a “horrible and inhumane experiment” against the entire region, Serbian Health Minister Danica Grujicic has said. Contamination from these munitions led to a surge […]
EU losing its appetite for more sanctions – Polish PM
Warsaw will nevertheless push Brussels to hit Moscow with fresh restrictions, Mateusz Morawiecki has said The EU is suffering from sanctions “fatigue” and has “less appetite” to impose further economic penalties on Moscow, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Saturday. The sanctions proposed by Morawiecki will likely be opposed by some of the bloc’s […]
Putin names country behind Nord Stream blasts
The Russian president believes Washington orchestrated the attack on the gas pipelines US intelligence agencies were most likely behind last September’s sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines, Russian President Vladimir Putin told Russia 24 TV on Saturday, adding that he agrees with the conclusions made by veteran American journalist Seymour Hersh. It would be […]
Biden snubs two NATO allies for ‘democracy’ summit – media
Türkiye and Hungary have yet to approve Sweden’s and Finland’s bids to join the US-led military bloc The administration of US President Joe Biden has left NATO allies Türkiye and Hungary off the invite list for next week’s Summit for Democracy, Foreign Policy magazine reported on Thursday, citing three US officials familiar with the decision. […]
Kremlin comments on ‘piracy’ suggestion of former president
The US and its allies, who “stole” Russia’s assets, are the real pirates, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has told journalists The term “pirated content” has a whole new meaning in the contemporary world, the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told journalists on Saturday. He spoke in support of a suggestion by former President Dmitry Medvedev to allow […]
Ukraine inflated International Legion numbers – NYT
The newspaper’s story is the latest of many tales of corruption and incompetence to surface from the volunteer unit The true number of recruits that signed up for Ukraine’s International Legion was several times smaller than the figure touted by officials in Kiev, the New York Times reported on Saturday. Additionally, some of the most […]
ChapGPT users’ data exposed due to bug
OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman has said the company “felt awful” about the leak The artificial intelligence chatbot service ChatGPT suffered an outage and data breach due to a bug, the developer, OpenAI, announced on its site on Friday. Experts had previously warned about the service being a cybersecurity risk. The company explained that the service […]