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Oleksandr Usyk kissed the blue-and-yellow flag of Ukraine and looked to the Saudi Arabian sky as he waited to discover if he had honored his war-torn country by retaining his world heavyweight titles. When he heard the winning words “and still,” an emotional Usyk raised his left arm and pulled…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian authorities on Saturday reported shooting down Ukrainian drones in Crimea, while Ukrainian officials said Russian forces pressed ahead with efforts to seize one of the few cities in eastern Ukraine not already under their control and kept up their strikes on communities in the north…

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Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) announces the authorization of a Presidential Drawdown of security assistance valued at up to $775 million to meet Ukraine’s critical security and defense needs. This authorization is the Biden Administration’s nineteenth drawdown of equipment from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021. Capabilities in…

Home » News » World » US Readying About $800 Million in Additional Security Aid for Ukraine, Says Report 1-MIN READ Last Updated: August 19, 2022, 11:44 IST washington US President Joe Biden (Image: Reuters) Biden would authorize the assistance using his Presidential Drawdown Authority), which allows the president to…

Ireland has contributed more than €2.3 million to Nato in the last decade for intelligence sharing, training and other costs. Although not a Nato member, Ireland is involved in several Nato initiatives and projects. The most significant of these, the Partnership for Peace (PFP) programme, is cost free but payments…

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday reviewed ongoing bilateral initiatives, including defence collaboration projects and cooperation in civil nuclear energy. During their telephonic conversation, they also discussed important geopolitical challenges, including those related to global food security, a statement issued by the Prime…

China’s slowdown and global recession fears have hit some commodities prices, though the Reserve Bank’s commodity price index is still 14 per cent up on a year ago and well above the 2011 resources boom peak. This week China cut some interest rates for a second time this year, and…

Alexander Darchiev, a Russian Foreign Ministry official, warned the United States on Friday that if it designates Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism it will have crossed a "point of no return." The comments from Darchiev, the director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's North American Department, came in an…

Alexander Vindman, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, criticized former Representative Tulsi Gabbard, a Hawaii Democrat, over remarks she made Friday about sanctioning Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine. Gabbard was filling in as a host on Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight when she said that Europe is…