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Iranian Navy Repeatedly Aimed Laser at American Military Helicopter

September 29, 2023 Elizabeta Bozinovska

American military helicopter AH-1Z Viper, which was sent to the Gulf region as part of US efforts to deter Tehran’s seizures of commercial tanker ships, was repeatedly a target of laser attack by Iranian naval […]

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Zelensky, Navalny Among Favorites for Nobel Peace Prize

September 29, 2023 Elizabeta Bozinovska

Although many experts believe campaigners for women, Indigenous peoples, or the environment could well steal the Nobel Peace Prize stage this year, Russian dissident Alexei Navalny and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky are emerging as strong […]

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Disputed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic to Cease to Exist on January 1

September 28, 2023 Elizabeta Bozinovska

The Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) will cease to exist on January 1, 2024, said a decree signed by Azerbaijan’s breakaway region’s President Samvel Shakhramanyan, putting an end to the history of the unrecognized former Soviet […]

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Poland Might Seek Extradition of Ukrainian Nazi Veteran that Embarrassed Canada

September 28, 2023 Elizabeta Bozinovska

Poland’s Education Ministry has taken steps toward extraditing the 98-year-old Ukrainian Nazi veteran Yaroslav Hunka, who was honored by Canadian parliamentarians last week in the presence of Ukraine President Volodimir Zelenskyy. Hunka was introduced as […]

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UN Women’s Bahous Asks UN to Declare ‘Gender Apartheid’ in Afghanistan

September 27, 2023 Elizabeta Bozinovska

The intensifying crackdown by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on women and girls makes them prisoners living in darkness, confined to their homes without hope or future and the UN Security Council must support governments seeking to […]

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Syria’s Vice Foreign Minister Slams US ‘Terrorist War’ in UNGA Address

September 27, 2023 Elizabeta Bozinovska

Syria’s vice foreign minister Bassam Sabbagh accused the US of creating “American chaos” and destabilization in the Middle East by launching its “terrorist war” in Syria. Addressing the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Sabbagh, who […]

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Trump Trial in Georgia: Court Orders Jurors’ Identities to Be Kept Secret

September 26, 2023 Elizabeta Bozinovska

The trial jurors’ identities in the former President Trump’s criminal case in Georgia will be kept private, the state judge overseeing the case ordered Monday, granting the request from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. […]

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State Department Denies Iran FM’s Request to Visit Washington

September 26, 2023 Elizabeta Bozinovska

The State Department revealed on Monday that the US has denied Iran’s top diplomat a waiver needed to visit Washington citing Iran’s detention of American citizens and state sponsorship of terrorism, State Department spokesman Matt […]

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US Ambassador Claims Western Spy Ring Gave Canada Intel for Indian Murder Claim

September 25, 2023 Elizabeta Bozinovska

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was provided with the information necessary to accuse the Indian government of murdering a prominent Sikh separatist by the so-called ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence group before he made the dramatic allegations, […]

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Havana Cries ‘Terrorism’ After Cubа Embassy in US Attacked with Molotov Cocktails

September 25, 2023 Elizabeta Bozinovska

The Cuban embassy in the US on Sunday evening was the target of a terrorist attack by an individual, who launched two Molotov cocktails, Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez has said on X (formerly Twitter) […]

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Senior US Diplomat Says Relationship with Saudi Arabia in Very Good Shape

September 22, 2023 Elizabeta Bozinovska

In one of the first comments since Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s first interview with a Western outlet since 2019, a senior US diplomat said on Thursday that Washington’s bilateral relationship with Saudi Arabia […]

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State Department Charges Former Contractor with Espionage

September 22, 2023 Elizabeta Bozinovska

A former US government contractor, a naturalized US citizen born in Ethiopia, was charged yesterday with spying on behalf of an unspecified foreign state, the US Justice Department announced, noting that the accused stole top […]

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Washington to Support EU Windfall Tax on Frozen Russian Assets

September 21, 2023 Elizabeta Bozinovska

Calling the proposal a sensible way to help finance Ukraine’s reconstruction, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen voiced support for the European Union’s plan to impose a windfall tax on profits generated by frozen Russian sovereign […]

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Ukraine Fight Can Be Sustained, Claims General Milley

September 21, 2023 Elizabeta Bozinovska

The war in Ukraine could be sustained because the United States and its allies are “rich,” Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley noted on Tuesday at a press conference in Germany. […]

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Nagorno-Karabakh Announces Ceasefire with Azerbaijan While Baku Declares Victory

September 20, 2023 Elizabeta Bozinovska

After authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh have announced their decision to cease hostilities with Azerbaijan following a proposal by local Russian peacekeeping forces and just one day after Baku initiated a so-called counter-terrorism operation in the breakaway […]

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Biden and Netanyahu to Meet at UNGA Sidelines, Discuss Saudi Normalization

September 20, 2023 Elizabeta Bozinovska

US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have arranged a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York during which a potential Israel-Saudi normalization deal and Iran are […]

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Five Americans Released from Iranian Detention Back on US Soil

September 19, 2023 Elizabeta Bozinovska

Following the initial stop in Doha, Qatar, the five Americans, all of whom had been designated as wrongfully detained in Iran, freed this week from Iranian detention returned to the US early Tuesday, CNN reports. […]

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Armenia Accuses Azerbaijan of ‘Unleashing Large-Scale Aggression’

September 19, 2023 Elizabeta Bozinovska

After Baku announced a major new military offensive in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh it claimed to be aimed against Armenian military assets in the region, the Armenian Foreign Ministry accused it on Tuesday of […]

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New Low in Russia-US Trade, US Census Bureau’s Data Shows

September 18, 2023 Elizabeta Bozinovska

According to data from the US Census Bureau, trade turnover between Russia and the US plummeted in July amounted to $277.3 million, plunging to its lowest level since the start of the Ukraine conflict, the […]

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US-Iran Prisoner Swap Successful, Five Americans on Their Way Home

September 18, 2023 Elizabeta Bozinovska

Five American prisoners left Iran Monday as part of the prisoner exchange plan that has also seen five Iranians imprisoned in the US released in accordance with an agreement brokered by Qatar that also saw […]

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US Auto Workers Union to Stage Historic First Strike at ‘Big Three’ Plants

September 15, 2023 Elizabeta Bozinovska

Strikes at plants of the US “big three” automakers – Ford, Stellantis (which owns Chrysler), and General Motors – started last night at midnight for the first time in the union’s history after Detroit’s Big […]

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Trump: The US is ‘Going to Hell’

September 15, 2023 Elizabeta Bozinovska

America is in rapid decline but re-electing him would give the country a last chance to turn things around, Donald Trump has said Thursday in an interview for the SiriusXM satellite radio station. “Our country’s […]

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US Ambassador Summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry after Diplomats Expelled from Russia

September 14, 2023 Elizabeta Bozinovska

The interference by the US Embassy in Moscow in the internal affairs of Russia is unacceptable and will be vigorously suppressed, states the information from the Russian Foreign Ministry with regard to declaring two employees […]

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UN Believes Most Deaths in Libya Floods Could’ve Been Avoided

September 14, 2023 Elizabeta Bozinovska

As relief workers struggle to deliver crucial aid in a humanitarian effort stifled by political divisions and debris from the flash floods that tore through Libya, the United Nations said Thursday that most of the […]

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Weeks-Long Manhunt Ends with Recapturing of Escaped Brazilian Convict

September 13, 2023 Elizabeta Bozinovska

Pennsylvanian state police said on social media that it managed to recapture convicted murderer, Brazilian Danelo Cavalcante, who escaped from a Pennsylvania jail last month and eluded for weeks the expanding manhunt. After he broke […]

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Austrian Chancellor Can’t Imagine Türkiye Becoming EU Member

September 13, 2023 Elizabeta Bozinovska

Türkiye does not stand a chance of ever becoming a member of the EU and the bloc has to acknowledge that, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer has stressed Tuesday urging Brussels to discontinue the stagnant accession […]

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US Threatens with New Sanctions Ahead of Putin and Kim Meeting

September 11, 2023 Elizabeta Bozinovska

As North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un is reportedly traveling towards Vladivostok for a summit with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, during which, as Washington believes, he’ll likely discuss the possibility of North Korea providing Moscow […]

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US Announces New Strategic Deal with Vietnam

September 11, 2023 Elizabeta Bozinovska

Amid strained relations between both Hanoi and Washington with China, the White House announced Monday that the US and Vietnam have agreed to dramatically upgrade their bilateral relations following a meeting between President Joe Biden […]

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US Nixes Testing the First-Ever Hypersonic Long-Range Missile

September 7, 2023 Elizabeta Bozinovska

The Pentagon canceled on Wednesday the test flight of the US hypersonic weapon Dark Eagle, which was meant to be the US Army’s first hypersonic long-range missile in its arsenal. Per the US Department of […]

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African Union Granted G20 Membership on Par with EU

September 7, 2023 Elizabeta Bozinovska

The African Union was granted Thursday permanent membership to the G20 grouping of nations in a move that would give the continental body of 55 member states the same status as the EU. The membership […]

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