Mexico arrests Guerrero gang leader
The Mexican authorities have arrested a gang leader who they say was a key figure in the disappearance of 43 students last year in the town of Iguala in Guerrero state. The Mexican authorities have arrested a gang leader who they say was a key figure in the disappearance of 43 students last year in the town of Iguala in...
Taliban militants attack mosque at air force base in Pakistan, killing 16
Militants raided an air force base Friday in northwest Pakistan, killing 16 people praying inside a mosque. The attack on the 10-acre Badaber base outside Peshawar is the largest assault on military personnel this year. It's the highest-profile assault in the area since terrorists killed 145, mostly children, during a...
Calm night in Donbas: only one militant attack recorded
The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine only once overnight, the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) wrote on Facebook on Friday. "The last day was almost calm in the Donbas conflict zone. The only shelling of our positions was recorded in the direction of...
Migrant crisis: Croatia closes border crossings with Serbia
Croatia has closed seven of its eight road border crossings with Serbia following a huge influx of migrants. Officials said they had no choice after more than 13,000 people entered the country since Hungary fenced off its border with Serbia earlier this week. Many have been taken by bus to reception centres but some say they...
Carpathian hutsuls in retro photos
Carpathian secrets The Carpathians seem to harbour many secrets. Some historians think it was from the area of the Carpathian Mountains that the Indo-Europeans began to spread across Europe in the western and eastern directions; the mysterious White Croatians are believed to have had their state there; there are stories...
A whale of a time (video)
We were sent this video of a magnificent Humpback whale breaching the surface of the Bay of Fundy last Friday. ...
Global food prices fall at fastest rate in seven years
Last month saw a 5.2% fall in global food prices, the biggest drop in seven years, according to the UN. Its Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) saw monthly falls in all major commodities, from milk and vegetables to oils, sugar and cereals. Food producers are being hit by slowing demand in China and a Russian embargo on...
Moscow sends troops to Syria without consent: media
Some Russian military contractors are not willing to be deployed to another hotspot, this time in the Middle East, from Novorossiyck military port, according to the Russian online newspaper gazeta.ru. "We don’t want to go to Syria, we don’t want to die there,” said one of the lieutenants from a military...
Ukroboronprom deputy chief: Javelins are a myth from action movies
Serhiy Pinkas, deputy chief of State-owned Ukroboronprom, which unites major defense industry enterprises, has told about supplies of military equipment to the ATO zone, integration of Ukrainian arms industry with NATO, and connection between Porsche, Mercedes, Audi, and Ivano-Frankivsk-based Karpaty factory. Earlier this year,...
Lawmaker stripped of immunity in parliament, arrested (VIDEO)
Outspoken member of parliament Ihor Mosiychuk of the populist Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko saw his political career collapse on Sept. 17 when the Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin showed parliament a video of the lawmaker allegedly negotiating bribes of tens of thousands of dollars and hryvnias. Mosiychuk was promptly stripped...
Gunmen attack Pakistan air force base in Pesha
At least eight militants have been killed in an attack on a Pakistani air force base in Peshawar, officials say. Up to 10 gunmen attacked a guard post and then entered the Badaber air base, Major General Asim Bajwa said. He said security forces had surrounded the area and a hunt was on for the remaining gunmen. In an email to...
Saakashvili’s reaction on the national anthem of Ukraine became a new hit of the internet (video)
This was the Congress party "Petro Poroshenko Bloc" in Kiev. Saakashvili gave a commentary for journalists but expectedly sounded a national anthem of Ukraine. First politician tried to continue the conversation, but after several failed attempts mysteriously fell silent and began to look into the...