A Belarusian opposition group said that an attack seriously damaged a Russian military aircraft at a Belarusian air base over the weekend and rendered it unable to operate. Satellite images collected on Tuesday showed possible damage, but could not confirm the extent. The images clearly show the plane, an A-50 early warning and control aircraft,…
More than 20,000 people are now known to have been killed in the earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria, making it one of the deadliest disasters in a decade. View Entire Post › Source link
Louis-Serge Parent lived about 100 metres from the bar Musi-Café in Lac-Mégantic, Que., which was at the epicentre of the damage after an oil-laden smashed train into the lakeside town in 2013, igniting an inferno. He still vividly remembers seeing the orange flames. He says the trauma of that day left him feeling like a “zombie.” Forty-seven people…
A U.S. push in Central Asia The U.S. secretary of state met with the president of Kazakhstan in Astana at the start of a new effort to isolate Russia as Belarus’s leader began a state visit to China — the latest examples of dueling diplomacy related to the war in Ukraine. Antony Blinken, the top…