Category: World

A person casts her vote at a polling station during the second round of the presidential election in Ankara, Turkey May 28, 2023. (credit: YVES HERMAN/REUTERS) Turks were voting on Sunday in a presidential election runoff between the incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu that will decide whether the president extends his […]

The biennial Formidable Shield exercise ended on Friday. The important integrated air and missile defense drill brought together 20 ships, 35 aircraft as well as ground units, and some 4,000 personnel from across thirteen NATO and partner countries. This exercise takes place every other year, but this year is of increased importance because air defense […]

The US Army continues to search for new unmanned aerial solutions for its needs on the future battlefield. This essentially means a competition among drone makers to make a new drone that the US can use. The US Army program recently concluded a “base period” for the Future Tactical Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (FTUAS) Program of […]

This feature, which focuses on the illegal trade in substandard and fake medicines, is part of a UN News series exploring the fight against trafficking in the Sahel. From ineffective hand sanitizer to fake antimalarial pills, an illicit trade that grew during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 is being meticulously dismantled by the UN and […]

Russia on Saturday dismissed criticism from US President Joe Biden over Moscow’s plan to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, saying Washington had for decades deployed just such nuclear weapons in Europe. Russia said on Thursday it was pushing ahead with the first deployment of such weapons outside its borders since the 1991 fall of […]

Dozens of packages of cocaine marked with Nazi swastikas as well as the name “Hitler” were seized at a port in northern Peru, from where would have been shipped to Belgium, police said on Friday. Police said it was investigating whether there were links to Nazi groups, saying there were no well-known groups in Peru […]

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. A bill signed into law this week in Colorado prohibits family courts from ordering children to participate in reunification programs that isolate them from […]

The US National Hurricane Center acts as WMO’s Regional Specialized Meteorological hub, based in Miami, Florida. There is a 40 per cent chance of a near-normal season, 30 per cent possibility of an “above-normal season”, and also 30 per cent of a below-normal season, according to forecasters with the Climate Prediction Center. The hurricane season […]

Portuguese authorities found materials that could be relevant clues to the location of Madeleine McCann during their search this week of the Arade reservoir 31 miles from where she went missing. As the police wrapped up the search on Friday, they said that they had found “some material that will be subjected to the competent […]

Volker Türk was issuing a clarion call to protect and expand civic space, arguing that it’s the only way to enable us all “to play a role in political, economic, and social life, at all levels, from local to global.” Hate speech going unchecked He said with more and more decision-making migrating online, “with private […]