Eurasia

Ukraine’s military has confirmed that it conducted its first ever strike using a Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 armed drone yesterday. The TB2 destroyed a 122mm D-30 howitzer belonging to Russian-backed separatist forces in the country’s eastern Donbass region that Ukrainian authorities said was responsible for killing one of its soldiers and …

From My Lai to WMD Lie In dominant capitalist-imperialist media, America’s imperial crimes are airbrushed out of historical memory, like they never took place. Thus it is that CNN can without the slightest hint of irony show a clip of the late Colin Powell saying this last year: “the one …

Turkey’s ties with Ukraine have complicated relations with Russia. Ukraine has used a Turkish drone for the first time in its conflict with pro-Russian separatists, according to Turkish media. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine posted a video yesterday showing an aerial view of an unspecified target …

The Arab coalition in Yemen said on Tuesday it carried out 21 attacks targeting “mechanisms and elements” of the Houthi militia in two districts near the strategic city of Marib in the last 24 hours. The coalition said more than 85 Houthi militants have been killed and nine military vehicles …

Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal has ruled that Polish law takes precedence over European Union law. The power struggle has angered European federalists, who are seeking to turn the 27-member EU into a European superstate — a United States of Europe — and who do not take kindly to those who challenge …

Nie przestraszycie dyktatora ze wschodu, twardo wypychając z Polski ludzi czy budując mur. W tym starciu wygra ten, kto będzie większym sk…em i nie będzie się liczył z życiem ludzi. A tu szans – mam nadzieję – nie macie. Panie prezesie, panie premierze, panowie ministrowie. Z rosnącą bezradnością, jak tysiące …

The Iran-backed Houthis have raided homes in Abedia district, south of Marib district, abducting dozens of civilians and transporting them to undisclosed locations, a Yemeni rights group said. The Mothers of Abductees Association, an umbrella organization for thousands of female relatives of war prisoners, documented the abduction of 47 civilians …

A man who allegedly planned to attack a mosque started to “hate” Muslims after reading far right political posts on the internet, a court has heard. Sam Imrie, 24, denies charges including under the Terrorism Act. Mr Imrie, of Glenrothes, Fife, told the High Court in Edinburgh how he became …

Zemmour represents the France of yesteryear: the France of Napoleon, Notre Dame de Paris and General Charles de Gaulle, a France that does not want to become an Islamic Republic. “The danger for France is to become a second Lebanon,” Zemmour often says, meaning a country fragmented between sectarian communities …

El encarecimiento de la energía afecta tanto a los bolsillos de las economías familiares como a las perspectivas de crecimiento La necesidad perentoria de poner remedio a la escalada de precios de la energía -gas y electricidad- no ha sido suficiente para desatascar la discusión en el seno de la …