Author: Manuel Osborn

ROME (AP) — The slaying of an endangered brown bear near an Italian national park left her two young cubs motherless and sparked outrage in Italy on Friday. Italy’s environment minister and animal rights advocates voiced anger and dismay over the killing of the bear in the mountainous Abruzzo region. Local residents, including families with small children, had often stopped to watch the bear and her cubs during the animal family’s frequent evening excursions through streets near the park. The National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise described the slain animal, nicknamed Amarena — or Black Cherry in Italian —…

PANAMA CITY (AP) — The government of Panama said Thursday it will launch a new campaign to stem the flow of migrants through the dangerous, jungle-clad Darien Gap, after crossings hit 300,000 so far this year. In comparison, less than 250,000 migrants crossed in all of 2022. The plan, named “Darien is a jungle, not a road,” will be launched next week, officials said, but they could barely hide their frustration with neighboring Colombia’s inability to stop migrants from coming to the two countries’ roadless border. “Despite all the efforts, meetings with other countries involved have not managed to stop (the flow…

Russian President Vladimir Putin is seeking to take control of Wagner’s vast operations in Africa and the Middle East. According to  Bloomberg , according to a person close to the Ministry of Defense and two other people close to the PMC, the management of Wagner’s operations in the Central African Republic will be entrusted to a contracting organization associated with the Ministry of Defense. Also, according to sources, the entire secret foreign Wagner network should come under “effective Russian military command.” It would end a system that allowed Putin to deny his guilt but allowed Prigozhin to gain a fair amount of independence. Late last week,…

August 31, Minsk / Corr. BELTA/. Russian air defense forces shot down a Ukrainian drone over the Bryansk region. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the information of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. The message published in the Telegram channel of the defense department says that on August 31, at about 20.00, an attempt by Ukrainian forces to carry out a terrorist attack on the territory of the Russian state was suppressed. The Kiev regime planned to strike at objects with an aircraft-type drone. Source : belta

Colombo (25/7 – 30.77) In his book “Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday Massacre: Lessons for the International Community,” terrorism expert Dr. Rohan Gunaratna emphasizes the importance of de-radicalizing Islamic ideology to effectively combat Islamic terrorism. He identifies Wahhabism or Salafism as the root of Islamic terrorism, rapidly spreading worldwide through modern communication tools. Gunaratna warns that merely arresting perpetrators after attacks is insufficient; the focus should be on preventing radicalization in the first place. The Easter Sunday bombings in April 2019, which claimed over 200 lives, were fuelled by extremist ideologies inspired by events in the Middle East and Islamic extremists…

According to confirmed data, it is known about 11 damaged tanks of the Leopard 2 type (“Leopard”) transferred by Germany to Ukraine. Three of them are not recoverable and cannot be used in combat. For comparison, during the same period, the RF Armed Forces lost 12 T-80 tanks of the latest modification without a chance for recovery. This was announced today, on July 28, on the air of the FREEDOM TV channel by the military-political observer of the Information Resistance group Alexander Kovalenko. “Using exclusively verified data, that is, confirmed, according to the classification of destroyed and damaged tanks of the Leopard 2 type, there…

Mikhail Podolyak, an adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine , told The Guardian in an interview that Kiev needs 10-12 Patriot systems or similar air defense systems in order to be able to “cover the entire country.” He noted that the recent strikes on Odessa showed the importance of providing additional air defense systems. “It will be much more expensive to fix all this later than to provide the Patriot system to protect the south,” Mr. Podolyak said. He also noted that “Ukraine fatigue” is growing in some Western capitals. In his opinion, Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian…

Russia is accumulating forces for new attacks on the ports and other coastal infrastructure of Ukraine. This was stated by the speaker of the operational command “South” Natalia Gumenyuk on the air of the telethon. “The enemy is accumulating forces in order to intensify attacks on our infrastructure, the coastal zone. From radio intercepts, we hear that the occupiers warn civilian ships at sea about the impossibility of proceeding to Ukrainian ports,” Gumenyuk said. The day before, Gumenyuk said that in two or three months there might be no ports left in Ukraine . Recall, according to the Minister of Infrastructure Alexander…

Paris, Brussels (29/7 – 75) Kazakhstan has started arbitration proceedings against companies developing Kashagan and Karachaganak oilfields, over US$13 billion and $3.5 billion respectively in costs deducted as part of profit-sharing deals, its Energy Minister said on April 11. “I can only say these lawsuits have been filed in the interest of the people of Kazakhstan,” Energy Minister Almasadam Satkaliyev told reporters, declining to provide any further details about the claims. The offshore Kashagan field in northern part of the Caspian Sea, one of the biggest discoveries in recent decades, is being developed by Italian Eni, British Shell, French TotalEnergies,…

Sobyanin announced the prevention of a drone attack by air defense forces, no one was injured Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the Russian Defense Ministry shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that was trying to attack the capital. He wrote about it in his Telegram channel . “An attempt was made to attack an enemy drone at night,” the mayor said. According to him, no damage or casualties were recorded. On the morning of July 24, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the suppression of an attempt to carry out a terrorist attack by two Ukrainian drones on the territory of the Russian capital . In addition, a helicopter-type unmanned aerial…