The Chinese military is increasing its aggression against the United States and its allies at a dramatic rate, according to a senior Pentagon official ... ....
Colombian President Gustavo Pedro on Saturday said four children who survived a plane crash have been found alive in the country's Amazon rainforest after five weeks of an intense search operation ... The siblings, who appear gaunt in the photo, were alone when searchers found them and are now receiving medical attention, Petro told reporters ... ....
Because he targeted universities and airlines, the FBI had dubbed him the Unabomber, reports the Associated Press..Theodore "Ted" Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died Saturday. He was 81... .
) — Shortly after Biden administration officials said The Wall Street Journal’s Thursday report that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had reached an agreement to establish a spy base in Cuba was “not accurate,” another Biden official reportedly “clarified” that Chinese spy facilities in Cuba are real and have been a concern for years ... military ... U.S.
SABOTAGE. Investigators reconstructed the voyage of a yacht, rented from a Polish-based company owned by Ukrainians, with suspected involvement in the explosions. Reuters ... An empty maritime smoke buoy found close to the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea is pictured in an undated photograph ... .
Turkish security forces seized $1 billion of counterfeit money in Istanbul, and arrested six people involved in the operation, including one Ghanaian and three Swedish nationals, the Governor's office said on Friday. Gendarmerie forces tracked...read full story. .
In the slopes overlooking downtown Medellin, Colombia’s second-largest city, gun-toting gangs reign over vast stretches of neighbourhoods, overseeing the local drug trade, demanding extortion fees from businesses and enforcing rules about who comes and goes on their turf ... “We want to start down a different path ... Fredy Builes/Reuters] ... .
Russian PresidentVladimir Putin said that Ukrainian troops have started a long-expected counteroffensive and were suffering “significant” losses in their efforts to punch through Moscow’s defence lines in Ukraine... “But the Ukrainian troops haven’t achieved their stated tasks in a single area of fighting,” he said ... https.//t.co/ilySwoUjWw ... .
Godwin Emefiele, who was suspended from his post as governor of Nigeria's Central Bank on Friday, has been detained by the country's security services. He served in the post for nearly a decade ... .
UNITED NATIONS — The humanitarian situation in Ukraine is “hugely worse” than before the Kakhovka dam collapsed, the U.N.'s top aid official warned Friday ... “This is a viral problem,” he said in an interview with The Associated Press. “But the truth is this is only the beginning of seeing the consequences of this act.” ... to help flood victims.
The government of Nicaragua announced Friday it has confiscated properties belonging to 222 opposition figures who were forced into exile in February after being imprisoned by the regime of PresidentDaniel Ortega... .