(AFP) — Russia is not planning to send troops to eastern Ukraine “for now” but will do so in case of a “threat”, a foreign ministry official said Tuesday after Moscow’s parliament ratified cooperation deals with Ukraine’s separatist republics. Deputy…
(AFP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to step back from “the edge of a precipice”, warning that an invasion of Ukraine could come within 48 hours. “You’ve got about 130,000 troops massing…
By Alfred AcenasEBC Hawaii-Pacific Bureau HONOLULU (Eagle News) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken completed his visits to Australia, Fiji, and Hawaii from February 7 to 13; engaging with allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific region with the…
A first batch of US troops — meant to bolster NATO’s eastern flank amid fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine — have arrived in Romania, the country’s defence minister said on Tuesday. US President Joe Biden announced last week…
By: Thomas I. LiknessEagle News Service (Eagle News) — U.S. President Joe Biden came out swinging in a speech marking the one-year anniversary of the January 6 insurrection. “For the first time in our history, a president had not just…
(AFP) — Carlos Batista da Silva holds his hand above his head, indicating on a wall the level where floodwaters reached inside his northern Brazil home. Although he was warned of the approaching deluge, his house was submerged before he…
A boat disaster off the coast of Madagascar this week has claimed 85 lives, maritime officials said Thursday, after retrieving 21 more bodies a day earlier. A total of 138 people had been aboard the 12-metre-long (39-feet) wooden vessel, which…
Chilean president-elect Gabriel Boric waves at supporters after delivering a speech, in Santiago, on December 19, 2021. The streets of Santiago exploded in celebration Sunday after leftist millennial Gabriel Boric was declared Chile’s new president with an unexpectedly large victory…
(AFP) — Panamanian authorities have seized a record haul of drug money — more than $10 million in cash — in a crackdown on gangs linked to neighboring Colombia’s embattled Gulf Clan. It took investigators more than 12 hours to…
(AFP) — The new Covid variant Omicron has many more mutations than the Delta variant, according to a first “image” of this new variant initially detected in South Africa, produced and published by the prestigious Bambino Gesu hospital in Rome.…
