If Russia holds an accession referendum in Kherson, it will almost certainly manipulate the results, but residents of the Kherson region will continue to demonstrate their opposition to Russian occupation. According to Ukrinform, the UK Ministry of Defense said this in its latest intelligence update published on Twitter. According to the ministry, the Russian-imposed military-civilian administration... 

The people of South Ossetia are not even Russians. They are IRANIANS yet Putin still wants the region despite Russia being already enormous. Why? Maybe Putin wants to go down in history as “Putin the Conqueror” or something. Anatoly Bibilov, the current incumbent leader of occupied Tskhinvali / South Ossetia, has signed a decree calling for a July 17 referendum on “joining”... 

Any country supporting Taiwan militarily would face the “worst consequences,” China’s government warned Saturday, adding that “no one and no force” would be able to stop the Communist Party if it took action against the island country, according to a report. China’s relationship with Taiwan has come into focus against the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,... 

The ongoing escalation of tensions is connected to the failure to implement the Minsk accords, Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said China has expressed “concern” over how the situation is developing in Ukraine, after Russia announced its recognition of the Donetsk and Lugansk republics. Speaking to his US counterpart Antony Blinken in a phone call on Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said... 

So now shortly after Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated his new best friend Joe Biden, Jews are calling Trump a lame duck who should give them West Bank before he goes away. Nice, isn’t it? America’s number 1 ally… :-D Here’s a small portion from Haaretz: This is the way the world of U.S. President Donald Trump ends: not with a bang but a whimper. For many months, he built his... 

The bulldozers arrived in Abu Dis to demolish a one-story structure that was under construction, and whose owners had ignored repeated warnings by Israeli authorities to halt the building. The structure belonged to the Surkhi family in Abu Dis. The bulldozers also tore down a wall surrounding a playground. “I can tell you 100% that the implementation of the annexation plan has begun,” Abu Hilal... 

Several European leaders reportedly sent personal letters to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in recent days virtually begging him not to push ahead with plans to unilaterally annex parts of the West Bank: “I ask you, in a spirit of friendship, that your new government not take unilateral action [in the West Bank]. Such a move would destabilize the Middle East,” French President Emmanuel... 

The embattled Prime Minister wants Washington to approve of Israel’s further expansion into the Jordan Valley, just days after he urged Donald Trump not to miss a rare chance to back Tel Aviv’s territorial appetites. Benjamin Netanyahu, who fiercely fights for re-election, believes that “the time has come to extend Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley,” a swath of land... 

Governor Mike Dunleavy said he was aware of Moscow’s plan to stage an independence referendum to reclaim Alaska, and promised to arrange a gold nugget for the visiting Ukrainian leader, in a phone call with Russian pranksters. The governor seemed honored to receive such a ‘high-profile’ call from none other than Ukrainian prime minister and the country’s ambassador to the US. Unsurprisingly,... 

Mr. Kiyoto Tsuji, Parliamentary Vice Minister of Japan has denounced the annexation of the Golan Heights by Israel. Speaking at an open debate at the United Nations Security Council on the situation in the Middle East, Mr. Tsuji stated very clearly that Japan does not recognize the annexation of the Golan Heights by Israel and he urged Israel to fully freeze its settlement activities which are undermining... 

A bill that would extend all Israel’s new laws onto the Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank has been approved by the Israeli ministerial committee. Some ministers however criticized this attempt to annex another part of Palestinian territory. According to the new bill approved by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation on Sunday, the Israeli laws would be applied through a military decree... 

Israel’s Economy Minister Naftali Bennett has proposed the annexation of parts of the Palestinian land of the West Bank under Israel’s full military control. Bennett, who heads the far-right Jewish Home religious party, said on Sunday that he favors “implementation of Israeli sovereignty over the zone where 400,000 (settlers) live and only 70,000 Arabs.” The hawkish Israeli minister also... 

In a letter to Netanyahu, Knesset leaders urge for sanctions against the Palestinians, expansion of settlements, and annexation. In a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, several right-wing factions in the Israeli Knesset argued that Israel should annex West Bank settlements as punishment for the recent Palestinian bid for United Nations membership. The letter was signed by Likud...