Unlike elsewhere on the 600-mile-long front, Russian forces in Kherson are just across the river from the city and are using small drones to harass the population, either by crashing into targets and exploding or by dropping grenades and small camouflaged mines.

Germany ordered the closure of all three Iranian Consulates in the country on Thursday in response to the execution of Iranian German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd, who lived in the United States and was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020 by Iranian security forces.

Russian forces struck a residential building in Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv on Thursday, killing three, including two teenage boys, and injuring scores of others, and launched scores of other attacks as they continued their grinding onslaught in the country’s east.

Vladimir Putin is suffering grievous manpower losses as a result of his illegal and immoral invasion of Ukraine.

Survivors of the worst natural disaster to hit Spain in this century awoke to scenes of devastation on Thursday, after villages were wiped out by monstrous flash floods.

The ICBM – the first fired by the North since Dec. 18 – lofted eastward from the Pyongyang area at 7:10 a.m., South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin acknowledged North Korean troops joining the fight in Ukraine could encourage other nations to take action. But he did not elaborate.

The small island nation has played a critical role in efforts to get humanitarian aid into Gaza since the war began. The president of Cyprus said he was “quite optimistic” that a Lebanon cease-fire deal could emerge in one to two weeks.

The academy graduates about 2,500 soldiers annually. “This institution, a cornerstone of our military, has been instrumental in shaping the leaders who have defended our nation for generations,” commandant Command Sgt. Maj. Errol Brooks said.

The opposition immediately raised objections that the investigation into vote-rigging would not be independent because its head was appointed by parliament, which is dominated by the ruling party Georgian Dream. Georgian Dream has deepened the country’s ties with Russia.

The U.S. Army’s Bavarian Alps resort hotel in Garmisch-Partenkirchen is undergoing a $30 million facelift in the midst of celebrating a milestone.  

The effort spearheaded by the Treasury and State Departments is aimed at punishing “third party countries” that are accused of providing material assistance to the Kremlin or assisting Russia in evading the thousands of sanctions that have been imposed on it since February 2022.

Flash floods in Spain turned village streets into rivers, ruined homes, disrupted transportation and killed at least 95 people in the worst natural disaster to hit the European nation in recent memory.

Ukraine should strike North Korean troops if they enter the country to fight alongside Russia, President Joe Biden said, as officials warned the soldiers are expected to move closer to the front line over the next few weeks.

The Pentagon could not say whether North Korean troops are already fighting in Ukraine. But CNN reported a small number of North Korean troops are inside Ukraine and officials expect that number to grow.

The Military Family Readiness Center spouse hub is the first facility of its kind in the Air Force. Among other things, it provides a venue for spouses to explore career advancements and to build lasting relationships.

Finland’s president said North Korea’s dispatch of troops to Russia represents an escalation of the Russia-Ukraine war that goes against China’s own stated position on the conflict, following talks Tuesday with the Chinese president.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday launched a massive exercise of the country’s nuclear forces featuring missile launches in a simulation of a retaliatory strike, as he continued to flex the country’s nuclear muscle amid spiraling tensions with the West over Ukraine.