US aims to make 100,000 artillery shells a month in 2025, US official says
September 16, 2023 2:01 AM Around 14,000 were produced six to eight months ago. Read More
EU ends import bans on Ukraine grain
September 16, 2023 1:06 AM Kyiv has promised to control exports, to avoid “grain surges”. Read More
Russian general in Algeria in apparent return to work after Wagner mutiny – paper
September 16, 2023 12:53 AM Russian general Sergei Surovikin is in Algeria as part of a Defence Ministry delegation, in an apparent return to official duties after coming under suspicion…
French ambassador in Niger being held hostage by junta, Macron says
September 16, 2023 12:49 AM France’s ambassador in Niger is being held hostage at the French embassy by the military junta which has seized power in the West African nation,…
UN secretary-general calls for equality for Global South at Cuba G77 summit
September 16, 2023 12:46 AM United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday praised efforts to support the Global South in the international arena as he opened a summit of the…
US astronaut, two Russian cosmonauts blast off for ISS
September 16, 2023 12:34 AM A Russian spacecraft blasted off from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur cosmodrome on Friday carrying two Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. astronaut to join the crew of the…
U.S. ambassador to Russia visits jailed reporter Gershkovich
September 16, 2023 12:16 AM U.S. Ambassador Lynne Tracy visited Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in a Moscow prison on Friday, the embassy said, as he prepares for a…
Belgian education minister condemns school arson attacks
September 16, 2023 12:12 AM Belgian education minister Caroline Desir has condemned a series of arson attacks on schools in recent days in protest against a new mandatory sex education…
EU troops confront would-be rioters in exercise echoing Bosnia political crisis
September 16, 2023 12:09 AM As a group of would-be protesters grows, shouting and blowing their whistles at the EU force’s camp in Sarajevo, a military aircraft flies low and…
British killer nurse Lucy Letby to appeal conviction for seven murders
September 16, 2023 12:03 AM British nurse Lucy Letby has applied to appeal against her conviction for murdering seven babies and trying to kill six more, a court spokesperson said…