U.S. Navy officer suspected of passing secrets to Taiwan, China
A U.S. Navy flight officer with knowledge of sensitive American intelligence collection methods faces espionage charges over suspicions he passed secret information to Taiwan and possibly to China, U.S. officials said, according to Reuters.U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, identified the suspect as Lieutenant Commander Edward...
Netanyahu acknowledges attacks on arms shipments to Hezbollah: media
Israel has attacked ”dozens” of arms shipments on their way to the terrorist group Hezbollah, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged, according to Jewish News Agency (JTA).”We act when we need to act, including here, across the border, in dozens of strikes, to prevent Hezbollah from obtaining game-changing weaponry,” he said...
Brazil`s parliament committee endorses impeachment of President Roussef
Brazil`s President Dilma Rousseff has suffered a blow to her hopes of staving off impeachment proceedings, after a parliamentary committee voted they should go ahead, according to BBC News.The 65-member congressional committee voted 38 to 27 to recommend impeachment over claims she manipulated government accounts to hide a growing deficit, BBC...
Several injured by car bomb attack in south-east Turkey
Security source reports blast at police base in Hani, north of Diyarbakir in the mainly Kurdish south-east, The Guardian reported.A vehicle laden with explosives rammed into a gendarmes` base in Turkey`s mainly Kurdish south-east on Monday, wounding several people, a security source said, according to The Guardian.About 20 ambulances rushed to...
Groysman`s spox: almost all positions in new Cabinet agreed
Virtually all the positions regarding formation of the new Cabinet of Ministers of Ministers have been agreed, according to Dmytro Stoliarchuk, press secretary of Rada Speaker Volodymyr Groysman, the nominee for the post of a prime minister.”The outcome of today`s talks on the formation of the Cabinet. Virtually all the positions have been...
Ukraine sends first large batch of dairy foods to Europe
Ukraine has shipped the first batch of dairy foods to the European Union on an industrial scale, according to a Ukrainian supplier.The shipments were handled by the Milk Alliance group of companies on the order placed by the Ukrainian Trade House, Nadezhda, based in the Bulgarian city of Varna, the company`s press service said citing head of the...
Savchenko asks Poroshenko to act more resolutely for her release
Nadia Savchenko`s lawyer Nikolai Polozov says that the Ukrainian captive pilot, who was convicted in Russia of killing Russian journalists in Ukraine`s east, has written statements for her lawyers to appeal in particular to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.”[Addressing] President Poroshenko, Nadia suggested that he should act more resolutely...
Bloomberg: Rosneft surpasses Gazprom as Russia`s most valuable company
Rosneft OJSC became Russia`s most valuable company as its market capitalization exceeded that of natural-gas exporter Gazprom PJSC for the first time since its shares began trading in 2006, according to Bloomberg.Rosneft stock rose 4.2% in London by 3:40 p.m., boosting the value of Russia`s largest oil producer to $51.7 billion. Gazprom gained...
Russian proxies attack Ukraine troops 29 times since midnight
The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 29 times from 00:00 to 18:00 local time on Monday, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) headquarters.The number of the attacks has remained at the previous day`s level, the ATO HQ said. ”However, the intensity of the enemy`s...
Leninska Kuznya to build four Gyurza artillery boats for Ukraine`s Navy
Public joint stock company Plant Leninska Kuznya (Lenin`s Smithy) on April 8 held an official ceremony in Kyiv for the launch of the construction of four Gyurza-class armored artillery boats under Project 58155 for the Ukrainian Navy, according to an UaPosition correspondent.These watercraft are being built on the Defense Ministry`s order under a...
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