Does a dozen guns, three bulletproof vests, nine grenades, four walkie-talkies and a laptop constitute the Hamas terror group’s central headquarters? That’s the evidence Israel has so far presented to justify its controversial Wednesday assault on Gaza’s largest hospital. Israel’s repeated threats to attack the Dar Al-Shifa Hospital had evokedContinue Reading
The murky world of covert submarine operations has again been highlighted with unsubstantiated reports of 55 deaths of a Chinese crew. But not all may be as it seems. Rumours began circulating on August 21 after anti-Chinese Communist Party activist social media account “Lude Media” posted a claim that ChairmanContinue Reading
Moscow’s highest-profile oligarchs are laying low – either in hiding or behind bars in secret police prisons – as the hunt to weed out sympathisers of a failed coup attempt gains pace. The mutiny by mercenary war lord Yevgeny Prigozhin collapsed as quickly as it began. But it’s the easeContinue Reading
It sounds like a Bond movie plot device: a nuclear-tipped torpedo is on its way to destroy New York City with a radioactive tsunami. Now, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BOAS) – the group behind the infamous Doomsday Clock – warns that Russia’s rogue President Vladimir Putin wants 30Continue Reading
On Monday, Ukraine began its long-anticipated counter-attack against invading Russian forces. On Tuesday, a massive blast tore open the massive Nova Kakhovka dam, flooding most of the emerging battlefield. Hours later, Moscow crowed it had crushed Kyiv’s forces. Coincidence? News of the environmental and human tragedy exploded upon the worldContinue Reading
China has erupted in anger after Tokyo deployed air defence missiles to a remote island, labelling Japan as a “dangerous country” that could launch an attack on the region within the decade. Beijing-based Institute of Modern International Relations official Liu Jiangyong told the Communist Party’s Global Times that Japan wasContinue Reading
After two years of tense peace, hundreds of Chinese troops have encroached upon what India perceives to be its side of the border before being stopped in a battle involving branches, bricks and iron bars. Now India’s in uproar, convinced a looming war with China is all but inevitable. InContinue Reading
The US navy this week released a photo of its Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Tennessee, surfaced, alongside a similar British Vanguard-class submarine somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. That’s odd. What makes it even more unusual is that it is the fourth display of its super-secretive doomsday weapons since October.Continue Reading