🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦AFP: US announces another $100million in military aid for Ukraine after reports of atrocities committed by invading Russian forces.
Blinken: "I have authorized... security assistance valued at up to $100 million to meet Ukraine’s urgent need for additional anti-armor systems"
Blinken: "I have authorized... security assistance valued at up to $100 million to meet Ukraine’s urgent need for additional anti-armor systems"
🇷🇴🇷🇺A car crashed into the gate of the Russian Embassy in Bucharest, Romania
🇵🇪AFP: Peruvian President Pedro Castillo announced the end of a curfew in the capital Lima aimed at containing protests against rising fuel prices following crisis talks with Congress
🇹🇼🇺🇸Reuters: The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale to Taiwan of equipment, training and other items to support the Patriot Air Defense System in a deal valued at up to $95 million, the Pentagon said
🇷🇺🇺🇦AFP: NATO chief Stoltenberg warns Ukraine war could last 'many months, even years'
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#Germany: Hundreds of police officers were involved in the searches of homes across eleven states belonging to over 50 suspected members of neo-Nazi organization the Attomwaffen Division, also netting members of Combat 18 & other hard-right orgs:
https://twitter.com/potempkinbrain/status/1511718084167585796?s=21&t=xxcuFy6XK5EIqucrMzR9fw
#Germany: Hundreds of police officers were involved in the searches of homes across eleven states belonging to over 50 suspected members of neo-Nazi organization the Attomwaffen Division, also netting members of Combat 18 & other hard-right orgs:
https://twitter.com/potempkinbrain/status/1511718084167585796?s=21&t=xxcuFy6XK5EIqucrMzR9fw
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🇷🇴AP: A car carrying containers of flammable substances crashed into the gate of the Russian Embassy in the Romanian capital early Wednesday.
The car burst into flames, killing the driver, but did not enter the embassy compound.
The car burst into flames, killing the driver, but did not enter the embassy compound.
🇮🇹Ansa: Former rightist militant Paolo Bellini got life imprisonment Wednesday for his part in the 1980 bombing at Bologna train station that killed 85 people and injured 200 more.
Bellini, 68, a former member of Avanguardia Nazionale (National Vanguard), was found guilty of being the fifth bomber alongside the former NAR members already convicted, Giusva Fioravanti, Francesca Mambro, Luigi Ciavardini, and Gilberto Cavallini.
Bellini, 68, a former member of Avanguardia Nazionale (National Vanguard), was found guilty of being the fifth bomber alongside the former NAR members already convicted, Giusva Fioravanti, Francesca Mambro, Luigi Ciavardini, and Gilberto Cavallini.
🇦🇫The Defense Post: Six people were wounded in a grenade blast at a mosque in the Afghan capital Wednesday, police said, minutes after worshippers offered midday prayers marking the holy month of Ramadan.
Attacks on public targets have largely diminished since the Taliban seized power in August last year, but the Islamic State group continues to operate across the country.
Attacks on public targets have largely diminished since the Taliban seized power in August last year, but the Islamic State group continues to operate across the country.
🇧🇫Al Jazeera: Armed men have kidnapped an 83-year-old American nun in northern Burkina Faso, the bishop of the local diocese has said.
Armed groups, some with links to al-Qaeda and ISIL (ISIS), have taken over large swaths of territory in Burkina Faso and conduct frequent attacks on the army and civilians. A Canadian was found dead after a kidnapping there in 2019.
Armed groups, some with links to al-Qaeda and ISIL (ISIS), have taken over large swaths of territory in Burkina Faso and conduct frequent attacks on the army and civilians. A Canadian was found dead after a kidnapping there in 2019.
🇹🇷🇷🇺🇺🇦Reuters: Ukraine has bought more than 20 Bayraktar TB2 armed drones from Turkish company Baykar in recent years and ordered a further 16 on January 27. That batch was delivered in early March.
🇷🇺🇺🇦NYT: A video posted online on Monday and verified by The New York Times appears to show a group of Ukrainian soldiers killing captured Russian troops outside a village west of Kyiv.
🇾🇪🇸🇴Critical Threats:
Yemen: Yemen’s warring parties agree to a two-month ceasefire; Houthis violate ceasefire in six governorates across Yemen; Houthis reinforce positions in northern and central Yemen
Somalia: US-trained forces clear a village in central Somalia; South West State security forces secure villages in southern Somalia; al Shabaab shells an Ethiopian AMISOM base in southern Somalia; al Shabaab raids a Kenyan AMISOM base in southern Somalia
Yemen: Yemen’s warring parties agree to a two-month ceasefire; Houthis violate ceasefire in six governorates across Yemen; Houthis reinforce positions in northern and central Yemen
Somalia: US-trained forces clear a village in central Somalia; South West State security forces secure villages in southern Somalia; al Shabaab shells an Ethiopian AMISOM base in southern Somalia; al Shabaab raids a Kenyan AMISOM base in southern Somalia
🇮🇷Three clerics were stabbed by an unknown attacker at a religious shrine in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad, killing two, media reported on April 5 (RFERL)
- The IRGC-affiliated Tasnim news now claims the assailant who stabbed three Shia clerics was a 21-year-old Uzbek Pashtun named Abdul-Latif Moradi who had illegally come to Iran one year ago from Pakistan and then started living in Mashhad.
- The IRGC-affiliated Tasnim news now claims the assailant who stabbed three Shia clerics was a 21-year-old Uzbek Pashtun named Abdul-Latif Moradi who had illegally come to Iran one year ago from Pakistan and then started living in Mashhad.