President Biden moved Tuesday to check Russian President Vladimir Putin’s energy leverage, releasing strategic oil reserves as U.S. petroleum imports from Russia hit a record high and frustration mounted over the administration’s domestic fossil fuel crackdown.
Ukrainian authorities say troops from Belarus have entered a region in northern Ukraine to join the Russian invasion of the country. A Belarusian column of some 33 units reportedly entered the area of Chernihiv on Tuesday.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán rushed to his nation’s border with war-torn Ukraine Saturday after warning that as many as 600,000 people may seek refuge in Hungary.
The United States and Russian presidents tentatively agreed to meet to prevent a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine. But sustained shelling in the east and Moscow’s move to recognize two rebel-controlled republics raised doubts about when and if the meeting would occur.
Russia’s strategic nuclear forces held exercises overseen by President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, and Washington accused Russian troops massed near Ukraine‘s border of advancing and being “poised to strike.”
Canadian police detained protesters Friday to break the three-week “Freedom Convoy” by truckers and others angry over the country’s COVID-19 restrictions, including vaccine mandates.
Around 12,000 farmers and agribusiness stewards are expected to gather in Louisville, Kentucky on Friday for an event known as Global Agricultural Day of Prayer, CBN reports. Organized by the Praying Farmers group, the event is expected to be followed online by as many as one million people around the globe.
Canada’s prime minister imposed autocratic measures Monday to quell massive protests by truckers and others opposing his government’s COVID-19 restrictions.
A nation was grieving Sunday, and many paid tributes to a five-year-old Moroccan boy who died after being trapped in a well for four days despite massive rescue efforts.
U.S. President Joe Biden warned Tuesday that the ongoing build-up of Russian forces near Ukraine could lead to “the largest invasion since World War II” and “change the world.”
More than 8,000 men and women in uniform remain on high alert and ready to assist NATO allies while the world waits for word of invasion or war in Eastern Europe. Russian leaders repeatedly deny any plans to invade Ukraine.
Israel is concerned amid Syrian and Russian military jets’ joint patrol on Monday along Syria’s airspace and borders, including the armistice line along the Syrian border with Israel.
At least tens of thousands of people demanding an end to government-imposed COVID-19 lockdowns, vaccinations, and mask mandates faced riot police in Brussels Sunday after similar rallies across Europe.
Attacks by “Islamic extremists” in a border region of South Sudan killed dozens of people and left “huge numbers of Christian villagers with nothing but their clothes,” aid workers told Worthy News.
The Saudi-led coalition said late Monday it retaliated against the Houthi militia in Yemen after the rebels claimed responsibility for a rare drone attack that caused three oil tankers to explode in the United Arab Emirates, killing three people earlier in the day.
Troops of a Russian-led military alliance are withdrawing troops from Kazakhstan, officials said, after a weeklong deployment amid violent protests against the autocratic government.
A coalition of more than 100 Republican lawmakers is calling on the Biden administration to abandon negotiations with Iran aimed at securing a revamped nuclear agreement, according to a letter sent Wednesday to the State Department and obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon.
Kazakhstan’s health ministry said Sunday, at least 164 people had been killed in protests that have rocked the nation over the past week, leading to food and fuel shortages.
Kazakhstan’s authoritarian president has ordered troops to shoot at protesters without warning as unrest sparked by fuel prices threatened to escalate into civil war.
A Russian-led military alliance dispatches peacekeepers to Kazakhstan after the country’s president asked for help in controlling anti-government protests, which killed dozens.