Bucharest has begun negotiations with the Israeli government for the purchase of the Iron Dome air defense system, Romanian Defense Minister Vasile Dincu said on Wednesday, referring to a television interview he gave the previous evening. Speaking as a guest on Digi 24 news television, the minister confirmed Israeli press reports that there are “good chances” that Romania will be the first European... 

Demonic country from hell known as Russia which is the father of lies just stole 4 territories from Ukraine, as a result, Ukraine now wants to join NATO immediately. What a devilish dirty scumbag nation Russia is!!!!!!!!!!!! The father of lies, the children of the devil! First when the US was warning that Russia will invade, Russia kept LYING and denying, they even called the US “paranoid”,... 

To avoid being enlisted in the Russian military, US citizens in Russia are encouraged to leave the nation as soon as possible, the US Embassy in Moscow said in a security notice on Tuesday. The embassy issued a warning that Russian authorities may refuse to recognize those who hold dual Russian-US citizenship and may prevent them from receiving US consular aid, citing the continuing partial mobilization... 

The US military revealed Monday that earlier this month a US Coast Guard had ship embarked on a routine patrol in the Bering Sea and its crew was surprised to come across a Chinese PLA Navy guided missile cruiser. But more rare and unexpected was that the Coast Guard soon discovered the Chinese ship wasn’t alone as it sailed off Alaska’s coast, but was accompanied by two additional Chinese military... 

Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg has threatened Vladimir Putin with ‘severe consequences’ if he used nuclear weapons on Ukraine. Fears are growing that Russia is seeking to escalate the conflict as its invasion falters. It comes as Kremlin-installed authorities in four Ukrainian regions under its control claimed victory in annexation votes yesterday, with Moscow warning it could use nukes to... 

Japan on Tuesday demanded Russia apologise for detaining a diplomat over alleged espionage, denying the charge and accusing Moscow of blindfolding and pinning the man down in ‘unbelievable acts’. Motoki Tatsunori, a Japanese diplomat based in the eastern city of Vladivostok, was deemed ‘persona non grata over illegal intelligence activities’, top government spokesman Hirokazu... 

Tagesspiegel newspaper reports that a sudden loss of pressure in three natural gas pipelines between Russia and Germany is likely to have been a “targeted attack” carried out by either Russia or Ukraine. Pressure in the Nord Stream 2 undersea gas pipeline dropped from 300 to 7 bars on Sunday night, followed by a similar occurrence in Nord Stream 1’s on Monday afternoon. The sudden drop of pressure... 

Vladimir Putin announced a “partial” mobilisation on September 21 with 300,000 reservists to be called up – but reports said up to one million people could be enlisted. Russian soldiers have reportedly been sent to war with “rusty and mouldy” weapons. After Vladimir Putin announced a “partial” mobilisation earlier in September, thousands of Russians have been drafted into... 

Kazakhstan has risked the wrath of Putin by offering to ‘care for’ Russian men fleeing conscription due to the ‘hopeless situation’ back home. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, president of the ex-Soviet state, also offered muted criticism of Putin’s war – saying that the ‘territorial integrity of states must be preserved’ as the despot moves to carve up Ukraine... 

Ukraine has discovered two more mass graves containing the bodies of hundreds of people in the the northeastern town of Izyum, which Kyiv recaptured from Russia this month. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the mass burial sites were found in Izyum in the Kharkiv region – days after the area was liberated by Ukrainian troops having spent four months under Russian occupation. Ukraine... 

Russian troops have been deployed near the border with Georgia today even as the Kremlin tries to stamp out rumors that Putin is about to introduce martial law and ban people from leaving in order to avoid being conscripted into the army. Many are fleeing to Finland as well, about 17,000 already fled to Finland. Russia is getting empty… its citizens are fleeing. Soon there will be only Putin... 

Putin’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has repeated threats that Russia would be prepared to use nuclear weapons to defend annexed Ukrainian territories. Russia’s top diplomat was addressing the UN General Assembly and the world’s media in New York yesterday, amid condemnation of referendums being held in four eastern Ukrainian regions aimed at annexing territory it has taken by... 

President Joe Biden declared on Friday that the US will “never recognize” the referendums that took place in the Donbass republics and two regions of Ukraine that are under Russian control. Washington and its allies will seek to impose “severe economic costs” on Moscow over the referendums, he added. The joining Russia referendums, which began on Friday, were called “a... 

Iran’s president has called for a ‘decisive’ crackdown on the mass protests that have sent the Islamic theocracy reeling over the past week after the death in custody of a woman detained by the Islamic Republic’s morality police. The call for harsh measures come as the country’s ayatollahs scramble to get to grips with violent countrywide demonstrations that have seen... 

A former Chinese deputy policing minister has been jailed for life in a huge crackdown on dissent by Chinese despot Xi Jinping. Sun Lijun was handed life imprisonment, with no possibility of parole, but did have his death sentence commuted ahead of a Communist Party conference next month. State press agency Xinhua reported that Sun, 53, was convicted of collecting 646 million yuan ($91 million) in...