Democrats on Tuesday called for a congressional briefing on a stunning hoax in which Donald Trump was secretly taken to a different plane than the one the public and press believed he was traveling on, an episode first reported by the Washington Post and also by the New York Times. Critics now question why journalists … Read more
The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has plans for a new radar to succeed the AN/TPY-2. The AN/TPY-2 is most commonly associated with the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) ballistic missile defense system, but it can … Read more
Father after father spoke to AFP in Afghanistan about the education ban that prevents their daughters from going beyond primary school, drowning in despair. The pain and anguish it causes behind closed doors emerge from interviews carried out by AFP throughout the country, in which even deeply religious parents question the sentence. The Taliban authorities … Read more
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A Syrian court on Tuesday convicted in absentia ousted President Bashar Assad and his brother of murder, torture and crimes against humanity committed before and during the country’s 14-year civil war that left nearly half a million dead. The verdicts from a court in Damascus are the first against Assad or … Read more
President Donald Trump applied a new condition to talks with Iran on Monday, saying he would demand compensation from the country for past misdeeds after Tehran said compensation from the United States was needed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Iran said an agreement with Oman to manage the waterway would not be enough to … Read more
Survivors of Monday’s earthquake have recalled the “terrifying” experience in interviews with CNN en Español. Gabriel Mónaco, who lives on the 25th floor of a building in Medellín, said he was in bed with his phone when everything started shaking. “It was like a scene from ‘The Exorcist’ the way the bed moved,” he said, … Read more
Shortly before Air Force One took off from Turkey at the end of last month’s NATO summit, President Trump secretly escaped from the presidential plane and was transferred to another plane with the help of an airport catering truck, according to a US official with direct knowledge of the matter. The ruse was employed because … Read more
LONDON (AP) — Timing is everything in comedy and, it seems, in British politics for a perennial joke candidate who wears a trash can on his head. Count Binface, a self-styled intergalactic space warrior, landed at the center of the U.K. political universe ahead of a special election Thursday that was derided as a sham … Read more
Zelensky mocks Putin over Russia’s dependence on North KoreaOn The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondentsGet a weekly dispatch from our international correspondentsGet a weekly dispatch on international newsVolodymyr Zelensky has mocked Vladimir Putin for his dependence on ally North Korea, saying Russia is no longer capable of waging its war … Read more
Update: On the evening of August 10, Russia’s Supreme Court removed Yabloko from the ballot for the State Duma, the lower house of the country’s parliament, ruling in favor of a suit filed by the Rodina party.What’s happening with Yabloko ahead of the election?Yabloko last cleared the threshold for the State Duma in 1999, when it won 5.93 percent of the vote — above the 5 … Read more