Colombian President Gustavo Petro has signed a decree banning coal exports to Israel in protest against the ongoing war that Tel Aviv has been waging in Gaza for more than 10 months, American media reports. Commenting on the decision, Colombian President Gustavo Petro said: "They are making bombs from Colombian coal to kill Palestinian children." […]
Photo: Dra. Claudia Sheinbaum/H. Claudia Sheinbaum wins presidential election in Mexico Almost 60% of voters voted for 61-year-old Sheinbaum, while 29% voted for her main rival, Senator Xochitl Galvez. Mexico has completed its presidential elections, with the ruling party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum winning. She became the first woman to lead the country, AP reported on […]
Tony Radakin, Britain's Chief of the Defence Staff, said he was absolutely confident Ukraine would win the war. Admiral Radakin, known for his optimistic viewpoint, insists that Russia is “failing” in Ukraine, even despite a new Russian offensive in the Kharkiv region, where Russian troops have seized part of the territory due to Ukraine’s shortage […]
A passenger train has been derailed by a landslide caused by heavy rain in southern Germany. No one was hurt. In Schwäbisch Gmünd, Baden-Württemberg, two carriages of an intercity train derailed late on Saturday evening due to a landslide caused by heavy rainfall. There were 185 passengers on board at the time of the incident, […]
Ukrainian and Japanese companies signed 23 memorandums of economic cooperation ahead of the Ukraine Reconstruction Conference 2024 (URC2024). In particular, Ukraine and Japan will deepen cooperation in the following areas: infrastructure restoration and green building; energy sector; agricultural sector and modernization of agricultural machinery; development of drones for mine clearance purposes; financing the construction of […]
President Volodymyr Zelensky will take part in the G7 summit, which will be held from June 13 to 15 in the city of Brindisi in southern Italy. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni speaks to journalists, European Pravda reports, citing the ANSA news agency. Meloni said the G7 summit would involve "at least fifteen" countries and […]
The Pentagon has extended a contract with Elon Musk's SpaceX to provide Starlink internet services in Ukraine, Bonnie Poindexter, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Space Systems Command, told Bloomberg. “The contract provides access to the Starlink constellation, equipment and customer support under agreed terms,” Poindexter said. Notably, this is part of $2.5 billion in contracts […]
Russia's attacks on Ukraine's power grid since winter have destroyed half its power-generating capacity, leading to scheduled blackouts and rolling blackouts, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday. "As a result of Russian missile and drone strikes, nine gigawatts of power have already been destroyed. The peak of electricity consumption last winter was 18 gigawatts. […]
In response to Russian leader Vladimir Putin's statements regarding the alleged "illegitimacy" of Zelensky's presidency, he stated that Putin is the only person who recognizes the current Russian "president" as legitimate, while in Ukraine the president is elected by the people themselves. “The Ukrainian people are the only ones who can recognize the legitimacy of […]
Photo: US Army Europe. Czech military to train thousands of Ukrainians Prague does not plan to send its instructors directly to Ukraine, given the geographical proximity of the two countries. The Czech Republic may train four thousand Ukrainian soldiers on its territory this year. This was stated by the Minister of Defense of the Czech […]