Saudi Arabia Cuts Oil Prices: Media
Major oil producer Saudi Arabia has reduced February’s price of crude for buyers in all regions, Reuters and Bloomberg reported on January 7, quoting a company statement. Based on...
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Ukraine Has Lost 500,000 Troops: Ex Prosecutor-general
Ukraine’s leaders should acknowledge that they have lost 500,000 service members since the start of the country’s conflict with Russia, and that the monthly casualty rate is around 30,000...
China Sanctions U.S. Defense Firms; Taiwan Prepares for Upcoming Elections
On January 7, China’s Foreign Ministry declared that Beijing has sanctioned five American defense industry firms following “gravely wrong actions taken by the US,” and as a countermeasure to...
Italy Calls for “European Army”
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani told Italy’s La Stampa newspaper on January 7 that European Union leaders should set up a common European army. Without a joint military, Tajani...
US Defense Intelligence Agency Cautions Israel Against War With Hezbollah; Hezbollah Targets Critical Israeli Base
On January 7, The Washington Post reported that a clandestine examination from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in Washington concluded that Israeli forces would find it “difficult to succeed”...
Turkey Accuses West of Hypocrisy on Ukraine and Gaza
On January 3, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan declared that the West has lost any right to speak about principles and morality by taking one stance on Ukraine and...
Israel Mulls Plan to Resettle Palestinians in Africa
Officials from Israel are conducting clandestine discussions with the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other African nations over plans for the possible resettlement of thousands of Palestinian migrants...
Red Sea Chaos Sends Shipping Rates to New Highs
Container freight rates are skyrocketing as assaults by Yemen-based Houthi rebels on cargo ships in the Red Sea have compelled shipping giants to deploy vessels around southern Africa’s Cape...
France to Boost Ukraine’s Domestic Arms Industry in Lieu of Sending Materiel
Paris plans to boost Kyiv’s own military industry instead of continuing to send equipment to the country, the French envoy to Ukraine, Gael Veyssiere, declared on January 2. France...
Zelensky Pledges to Isolate Crimea in 2024
Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky has predicted that his country’s armed forces will “isolate” Crimea in 2024. The region, which joined Russia in 2014 after a brutal nationalist coup in...
Iran Deploys Navy to Red Sea
On January 1, Iran’s Alborz destroyer crossed the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and entered the Red Sea, as per reports by the country’s state-run IRNA and Tasnim news agencies. The deployment...
Australia Takes the Lead in Move to Cashless Society
In the last financial year ending June 30, Australia recorded its first decrease in the amount of cash in circulation since 1966, when the country began using dollars instead...
Times: U.K. Arms Stockpile Reduced to “Nothing”
The U.K.’s arms stockpiles have been almost completely emptied by almost two years of deliveries to Ukraine, as per reports by British news outlet The Times. The British newspaper...
Israel Says Gaza War Will Not End in 2024, Declines Hostage Deal With Hamas
Israel will continue to wage war in Gaza throughout 2024, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari declared in a statement on December 31. Characterizing a strategic...
Burundi’s President Calls for Public Execution of Homosexuals
During a press conference on December 29, Burundian President Evariste Ndayishimiye urged for homosexual couples to be publicly stoned, even suggesting the country’s population could help mete out the...