Why is NATO’s Steadfast Defender 2024 military exercise significant? | Explained

Why is NATO’s Steadfast Defender 2024 military exercise significant? | Explained

A truck transports a military vehicle towards Warsaw in Poland, on February 20, 2024. There has been a significant increase in the movement of military equipment on almost all roads in Poland due to NATO’s largest military exercise in decades, Steadfast Defender-24. | Photo Credit: AFP The story so far: The North Atlantic Treaty Council … Read more

Iran’s ‘women’s revolution’ could be a Berlin Wall moment | CNN Politics

Iran’s ‘women’s revolution’ could be a Berlin Wall moment | CNN Politics

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. CNN  —  The Islamic regime in Iran has ruled for decades with fear and intimidation. Outrage at the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22 year-old who died after being detained by Iran’s morality … Read more

Breakdown of US-Russia diplomacy runs deep, beyond Ukraine

Breakdown of US-Russia diplomacy runs deep, beyond Ukraine

Eyeing each other warily across negotiating tables, U.S. and Russian diplomats never much trusted each other. Yet even during the Cold War, they hashed out agreements on the biggest issues of the day. Now the fierce, mutual hostility over Russia‘s invasion of Ukraine raises a critical question: Is U.S.-Russian diplomacy effectively dead? The answer is … Read more

Britain’s MI5 spy chief Ken McCallum says: Beware of Russian and Chinese agents

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Britain’s top domestic spymaster cautioned the population on Wednesday to treat the threat of spying from Russia and China as vigilantly as terrorism, warning that foreign spies were seeking to steal technology, sow discord and attack infrastructure. The 9/11 attacks on the United States almost 20 years ago made tackling terrorism the biggest priority for … Read more

Russia says it expelled British warship from waters near annexed Crimea

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A senior Russian security official said on Thursday that Moscow had used its navy and air force to expel a British warship, HMS Dragon, from what he described as Russian territorial waters near Russian-annexed Crimea last October. Russia annexed the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, drawing sanctions and condemnation from the … Read more

President Pranab Mukherjee: The people’s Rashtrapati

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By Thomas Mathew Pranab Mukherjee – or Pranab-da, as many of us fondly called him — was a man who made the long journey as a small boy from Mirati, a village in West Bengal’s Birbhum district, to Rashtrapati Bhavan, without ever losing his sense of equanimity and humility. Even as a doughty fighter of … Read more

Russian gamers race to prevent nuclear ‘war’ | CNN

Russian gamers race to prevent nuclear ‘war’ | CNN

Story highlights Latest craze in Moscow is war game in which players race to find nuclear codes Russian officials are playing on fears, staging a mass nuclear drill CNN  —  “Attention! Attention!” blares the Russian voice from a loudspeaker. “The nuclear bombs will be launched in one hour.” Inside a room styled as a Soviet-era … Read more