Tuesday, October 27

Tag: Russia

US pushes Russia to share more information on plague lab case

America’s top diplomat has urged Russia to share more information about the death of a laboratory technician at a plague research institute last week. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, speaking in Iceland on Tuesday (Wednesday AEDT), said the global community needed further details. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during his visit to Iceland on Tuesday, October 6. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool) “I think it’s incumbent upon Russia to obviously share more information with the world. That’s what they should do. That’s what we hope they will do,” he said. “And the more we can learn about what happened, then the better all of us can be in a position of responding.” Rubio said the US government was monitoring developments “very closely, hour by hour”. He a...

Hunter Biden weighs in as Republican demands Trump Jr wedding investigation

A top Republican senator has demanded an investigation into a wedding gift worth hundreds of thousands of dollars made by a Russian oligarch to Donald Trump’s son. Umar Kremlev rented a private island as part of a three-day wedding celebration between Donald Trump Jr and his wife Bettina. Donald Trump Jr. and his wife Bettina Anderson were married in the Bahamas in May. AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson He also paid for a fireworks show for the couple at an estimated cost of almost $100,000. Now Utah Senator John Curtis has demanded an investigation into the gift. "A toaster is a wedding gift," Curtis said. "A private-island party paid for by a Putin-connected oligarch is something else." Curtis invoked the Senate’s previous investigati...

EU and Nato vow to step up pressure on Russia after ‘new escalation’ in Germany

Reuters Ursula von der Leyen and Mark Rutte accused Russia of becoming increasingly reckless in its attacks on Europe The heads of Nato and the European Commission have warned that Russia is growing increasingly reckless and vowed to respond to a "new normal". "Leipzig marks a new escalation on European Union soil directly attributed to Russia," said Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, a day after Germany blamed Russia for a failed drone attack last month on Leipzig airport. "We have to step up and that means being ready to respond to Russia's recklessness faster and better," von der Leyen said. Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte said the whole alliance, which includes the US, stood "in full solidarity with Germany". Russia has rejected German acc...

Zelensky tries to fix crisis over removal of defence minister and counts the cost

EPA/Shutterstock Protesters in Ukrainian cities have welcomed the change of commander-in-chief but continue to call for the return of Mykhailo Fedorov With an acting defence minister in place and a new commander-in-chief in charge of the military, Ukraine's recent political crisis is over, right? Not so fast. The political fallout from President Volodymyr Zelensky's 15 July decision not to re-appoint Mykhailo Fedorov as defence minister, as part of a cabinet reshuffle, continues to reverberate about Kyiv and beyond, even as air raid sirens wail and Russian drones and missiles are intercepted overhead. Fedorov's mostly young supporters are still mounting daily street protests, demanding that Zelensky reinstate the popular young innovator widely credited ...

Many Ukrainian soldiers outraged over removal of defence minister, troops tell BBC

Olga Ivashchenko/Bloomberg via Getty Images Crowds took to the streets of Kyiv on Thursday following the removal of defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov "My operation is scheduled for tomorrow," says the disfigured soldier, still recovering from his terrible injuries. "I hope when I wake up after the anaesthetic, Fedorov will be back at the Ministry of Defence," the unnamed soldier says in a video posted on Telegram. "Otherwise, everything I was fighting for will have been in vain." Among Ukraine's battle-weary soldiers and wounded veterans, there's a collective sense of outrage at this week's political developments. President Zelensky's decision not to re-appoint his successful young defence minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, in his latest cabinet reshuffle, has...

US military action in Venezuela is seen as both a blessing and a curse for Russia’s Putin

The lightning US operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro can be seen as both a benefit and a burden for Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose forces botched an attempt to capture Ukraine's capital and topple its leader at the start of Moscow's invasion nearly four years ago. The ouster of Maduro highlights another Kremlin failure to support an ally, following the downfall of Syria's former President Bashar Assad in 2024 and last year's US and Israeli attacks on Iran. With the US determined to establish control over Venezuela, Russia stands to lose a strategic foothold in the Western Hemisphere, along with billions of dollars invested in its oil industry. Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro during their meeti...
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