Germany’s defense minister said on Saturday that his country’s commitment to spend 2% of GDP on defense was just the starting point and that more would likely be needed. Earlier in the day, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz insisted that the 2% spending target would be met “in the 2020s, in the 2030s and beyond.” However, … Read more
Russia has said an investigation into the causes of his sudden death is still underway. Moscow: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s body is apparently not in the morgue where prison authorities said it was being kept, his team said on social media on Saturday. Navalny’s lawyer arrived in the town of Salekhard with Navalny’s mother … Read more
Anti-Kremlin activist Bill Browder said he believes Alexei Navalny’s death was intended as a message to political opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of elections next month. Dissident Navalny, who died Friday, had been serving a 19-year prison sentence on charges of extremism in Russia, which he vehemently denied. World leaders reacted with dismay and … Read more
With more U.S. aid stalled in the Republican-held House, concerns that Ukraine could be left high and dry are growing as its war with Russia nears its second anniversary. And House lawmakers did little to ease those fears when they left Washington a day early Thursday for a scheduled week-and-a-half break without acting on a … Read more
Many of the deaths are never solved and remain listed as accidental and suicides. Jailed Russian opposition figure and outspoken Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny died Friday in an Arctic Circle jail, the Russian prison service said. But his death is only the most recent of a long line of Vladimir Putin’s critics who have been … Read more
Supporters of the leader of Russia’s political opposition, Alexei Navalny, showed up to memorials across the world Friday to mourn his reported death. Russian prison authorities said Friday that Navalny, 47, had died while in prison at a penal colony north of the Arctic Circle, where he was serving a 19-year sentence. Memorial service at … Read more
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson said he is “skeptical” of the threat posed by the development of a Russian anti-satellite capability in a recent interview on CNN. “[I]n terms of destroying another satellite, like I said, there [are] already ways to do that. There are these… what they call kinetic kills, where you can take a … Read more
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged to defend Canada’s “interests” in an increasingly “complex world,” but avoided criticizing former president Donald Trump, after he repeated his threat to turn his back on NATO members — like Canada — who miss their defence spending targets. “We’re always going to be there to work with our American partners,” … Read more
Canada has been briefed on U.S. intelligence that the White House publicly confirmed Thursday involves Russia’s “troubling” development of an anti-satellite weapon, a senior government official told Global News. The official spoke on background to confirm the briefing on intelligence that has yet to be declassified by the United States. White House National Security Council … Read more
