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The Jordanian Anti-Narcotics Department has dismantled a criminal gang connected to drug trafficking networks in the Middle East and arrested 14 suspects in the city of Madaba. The Public Security Directorate conducted raids on various sites where large quantities of drugs were stored for sale and distribution, following weeks of
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Russia’s air defense units destroyed 84 Ukrainian drones overnight, RIA news agency reported on Monday, citing Russian defense ministry data.
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The Israeli military said it struck weapons depots belonging to the armed group Hezbollah in southern Lebanon on Sunday. “A short while ago, the IDF (Israeli military) struck Hezbollah weapon storage facilities in southern Lebanon. These weapon depots were used by the terrorist organization to advance and carry out terror
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Vietnam plans to evacuate more than 250,000 residents from coastal areas on Sunday ahead of the arrival of Typhoon Bualoi, which is expected to lash the country’s steel-producing central belt. The storm — the 10th to affect Vietnam this year — is currently at sea generating winds of 130 kilometers
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Hundreds of South Korean public services remained offline on Monday after a fire at a data center disrupted government websites and exposed vulnerabilities in the country’s digital infrastructure. Authorities said 62 government services had been restored out of about 647 systems affected by the fire which broke out during
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Russia’s top diplomat insisted to world leaders Saturday that his nation has no intention of attacking Europe, but any aggression against his country “will be met with a decisive response.” Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke as unauthorized flights into NATO’s airspace — intrusions blamed on Russia — have raised alarm
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The Danish defense ministry said Saturday that “drones have been observed at several of Danish defense facilities” overnight Friday into Saturday. The renewed drone sightings come after there were several drone sightings in the Nordic country earlier this week, with some of them temporarily shutting down Danish airports. The Danish
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Two migrants died overnight while trying to cross the Channel to Britain, French authorities said Saturday, adding that some 60 others had been rescued. The incident occurred south of the beaches of Neufchatel-Hardelot, when about 100 people were trying to get to the UK on a makeshift boat. About 60
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The people of Seychelles voted Saturday in an election to choose a new leader and parliament, with President Wavel Ramkalawan seeking a second term in Africa’s smallest country. Ramkalawan’s chief political rival, Patrick Herminie of the United Seychelles Party, is a veteran lawmaker and parliamentary speaker from 2007
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An Indonesian archipelago that’s home to three-fourths of Earth’s coral species, a stretch of Icelandic coast with 70 percent of the country’s plant life and an area along Angola’s Atlantic coast featuring savannahs, forests and estuaries are among 26 new UNESCO-designated biosphere reserves. The United Nations
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A niece of a notorious militant propagandists on trial for joining the Daesh group and taking her children with her apologized to all victims of the militants as well as her family. Speaking in court on Friday, Jennyfer Clain, a niece of Jean-Michel and Fabien Clain, who publicly claimed responsibility
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Istanbul’s jailed opposition mayor said Friday that he was “not afraid” as he denounced the legal case against him as part of a broader campaign of “judicial harassment,” accusing the government of weaponizing the judiciary to silence dissent. Ekrem Imamoglu, a key rival to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
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Russia has ill intentions toward the whole world and Europe is finally more united in its views on the threat from Moscow, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Friday. “European allies have never been so united... we need to be vigilant. Russia has ill intentions toward the whole world,
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President Donald Trump on Thursday unveiled a fresh round of punishing tariffs on a broad range of imported goods, including 100 percent duties on branded drugs and 25 percent tariffs on heavy-duty trucks, set to come into force next week. Tariffs have been a feature of Trump’s second term,
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Two teenagers, aged 16 and 17, were shot dead Thursday after gunmen opened fire on a school parking lot in northeastern Brazil, the state government said in a statement. Another three teens, one aged 16 and two aged 17, were wounded in the incident in the town of Sobral in
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Clashes between rival drug gangs claimed at least 10 lives in the second deadly riot in an Ecuadoran prison in days, police in the violence-wracked country said Thursday. Bloody fighting broke out in a prison in the troubled coastal city of Esmeraldas, near the Colombian border, where police said they