56 h. ago CIA chief visits Maduro successor as Machado vows to become Venezuela’s president

John Ratcliffe meets Delcy Rodríguez in Caracas less than two weeks after his agents helped to oust her precedessorThe CIA chief whose agents reputedly played a key role in abducting Nicolás Maduro has flown to Venezuela to meet his successor as the sidelined opposition leader, María Corina Machado, vowed she would become the country’s first elected female president.Machado’s comments were broadcast on Friday, a day after she handed her Nobel peace prize medal to Donald Trump in recognition of what she called a principled and decisive move against Maduro, whom US special forces snatched on 3 January. Continue reading...

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63 h. ago NATO fighter jets intercept commercial flight over passenger 'bomb threat'

NATO fighter jets were scrambled to intercept a commercial flight over a WiFi hotspot name - the flight had taken off early yesterday when an alert was triggered.

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66 h. ago NATO fighter jets scrambled over Turkish Airlines passenger's WiFi hotspot name

NATO fighter jets were scrambled to intercept a commercial flight over a WiFi hotspot name - a Turkish Airlines flight had taken off early yesterday when an alert was triggered

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8 d. ago Moment Russian drone blasts into Ukrainian tower block in massive bombardment as Putin continues 'revenge strikes' that saw nuclear

Russiabombarded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles in a large-scale overnight attack, officials said Friday, killing at least four people in the capital.

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1 week ago Russia brands Keir Starmer 'illiterate' and 'a fool' for vowing to station British troops in Ukraine as Putin attack dog threatens UK with missile strikes

A senior Russian official has branded Sir Keir Starmer as 'illiterate' and 'a fool' after he vowed to base British troops in Ukraine as part of a peace deal. 

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3 w. ago Zelensky embraces Canada's Carney ahead of crunch Trump meeting tomorrow

Nato was forced to scramble fighter jets as Vladimir Putin unleashed a missile and drone barrage on Ukraine just hours before Zelensk ywas due to meet Donald Trump.

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3 w. ago Zelensky embraces Canada's Mark Carney ahead of crunch Trump meeting tomorrow

Nato was forced to scramble fighter jets as Vladimir Putin unleashed a missile and drone barrage on Ukraine just hours before Zelensk ywas due to meet Donald Trump.

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3 w. ago Nato scrambles fighter jets as Putin blasts Ukraine ahead of Zelensky's crunch Florida meeting with Trump

Polish and allied warplanes were deployed near Ukraine's border amid the overnight onslaught.

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3 w. ago NATO fighters scrambled as Putin strikes Ukraine day before Trump peace talks

Russia used the full forces of its Tu-22M3 long range strategic bombers to inflict further misery on Ukraine and NATO was forced to scramble fighters for the second consecutive day

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3 w. ago NATO jets scrambled as Russian bombers fly near UK waters on Christmas Day

Russian Tu-95MS nuclear bombers flew over the Norwegian Sea northeast of Scotland on Christmas Day, prompting NATO fighter jets to scramble and monitor the 7-hour flight over neutral waters.

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3 w. ago Ukraine war briefing: Russian forces attack Odesa twice in one day

Emergency crews at work after port facilities and ship damaged, governor says, while Donald Trump says peace talks going ‘OK’. What we know on day 1,399Russian forces struck Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa late on Monday and damaged port facilities and a ship, the regional governor said, in the second attack on the region in less than 24 hours. Oleh Kiper said on Telegram that emergency crews were tackling the aftermath of the latest attack and that no casualties had been reported but provided no further details. An earlier overnight attack hit port and energy infrastructure in the Odesa region, causing a fire at a major port and disrupting electricity supplies to tens of thousands of people. “Russia is attempting to disrupt maritime logistics by launching systematic attacks on port and energy infrastructure,” deputy prime minister Oleksiy Kuleba said on Telegram.A Russian general was killed after an explosive device detonated beneath his car in what Moscow described as a likely a...

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4 w. ago Top Putin general linked to Salisbury poisonings 'was blown up in Ukraine drone strike on Russian 'shadow fleet' tanker in the Mediterranean

Averyanov is linked to some of Russia's most notorious covert operations abroad, including the assassination of Yevgeny Prigozhinin 2023.

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