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The military is holding an exercise in the annexed Crimea, and jets and helicopters have been relocated. It is Russia's response to a NATO maneuver in the Black Sea. The Russian military has launched an air defense exercise on the Crimean peninsula. To this end, around 20 fighter jets and helicopters as well as missile systems have been relocated, the Interfax agency reported, citing the Russian Black Sea Fleet. With the exercise, Russia is responding to Sea Breeze, an exercise between Ukraine and NATO that began on Monday.  The annual maneuver in the Black Sea is to last two weeks, 5,000 soldiers from 32 countries as well as around 30 warships and 40 aircraft are involved. During arms control talks in Vienna, Russia denounced the "extent and aggressiveness" of the NATO exercise. Sea Breeze does not contribute to security in the region. Russia accuses Great Britain of military provocation The situation in the Black Sea has recently been tense. Last week, the British destr...

According to the Pentagon, the renewed attacks were aimed at pro-Iranian targets, including an arsenal. This was preceded by drone attacks on US personnel, it said from Washington. The US military has carried out several air strikes in the Iraqi-Syrian border region. As the Pentagon announced, the attacks were aimed at targets used by pro-Iranian militias. President Joe Biden had authorized the "precise defensive attacks", said John Kirby, spokesman for the US Department of Defense, on Sunday evening (local time).  From the attacked facilities, militias launched drone strikes on US personnel and facilities in Iraq . There are two targets in Syria and one in Iraq. Weapons were stored there, among other things. Kirby said the background was the ongoing series of attacks by Iran-backed groups against US targets in Iraq. Biden ordered the military action to stop further attacks. The US acted in accordance with its right to self-defense. Pentagon sends "chilling message"...

In Iraq, pro-Iranian militias are killing democracy activists and the government is doing nothing about it. The power of the militias is endangering the country - and the entire region. The fear is like a burdock. It sticks to him, no matter how hard he tries, he can't shake it off. Whenever he leaves the house, he looks behind him to see if anyone is following him; on every street corner he checks whether a suspicious car is parked anywhere. Sometimes, says Mohammed al-Temimi, a black SUV with no license plate chases him. Just a week ago, two men who looked like militiamen, muscular and with shaved heads, bumped into him in front of a falafall shop. "They wanted to make it clear to me that they were watching me." Mohammed al-Temimi supports the protest movement that arose in October 2019 in the Iraqi capital Baghdad and the southern provinces of the country and whose supporters revolt against the rulers' corruption and nepotism. Til today. The 21-year-old is sitting ...

Joe Biden has promised that "we will leave no one behind . " With just over two months to complete the total withdrawal of international troops from Afghanistan, the US president has announced a plan that will mobilize, together with his men, about 50,000 Afghans who have worked for foreign forces , mainly in tasks of interpretation. The resurgence of the ever- advancing Taliban forces has put those who cooperated with foreigners in grave danger. Read more:  Withdraw US troops from Afghanistan on September 11, 2021 "They're coming," Biden explained during a conversation with reporters during a break. "We have already started the process. Those who helped us are not going to be left behind." The leader, who recalled that they "risked their lives for us," has offered details of the operation. It will include the relatives of the assistants of the international troops, who will be relocated in different countries. In total, an estimated 50,000 p...

Iran's new president looks like a revenant of the old one: another frowning, bearded man, another cleric. The new one is called Ebrahim Raissi , is 60 years old and a career civil servant, most recently head of the judiciary. In the elections, he got more than 60 percent of the vote. Raissi is a product of the ruling system through and through. But precisely his choice could change this system significantly: towards a totalitarian dictatorship. Read more:  The powerful Ayatholla Khamenei Isn't that Iran long ago? The elections have never been free. Only those candidates are admitted who do not question the "Islamic Republic". And at the head of the state are not the president and the government, but the revolutionary leader, appointed for life. Within that framework, however, there was room for debate and competition. Those who were elected by the majority enjoyed a certain legitimacy. Only: this time not even half of the citizens went to the vote. The turnout was 4...

A new book by two journalists from the newspaper Washington Post says that, in early 2020, the then president of USA, Donald Trump, proposed sending naval base in Guantanamo to US patients Covid-19 returning from sightseeing in Asia. According to the authors, Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta , the former president would have suggested the idea up to two times in February last year, when the World Health Organization had not yet declared the pandemic situation and known cases of coronavirus were concentrated in the Asian continent. Don't we own any island? Why not Guantanamo ? We import goods, we aren't getting to import an epidemic  Trump said during a gathering within the White House crisis room together with his closest collaborators and officials. high ranking. Read also:  Just broken his silence The two Post journalists recreate this situation in their book from interviews with more than 180 people, some of them high-ranking US government officials and health officials....

MoSef Dahman , the surgeon who treated Lady Di on the fateful night of August 31, 1997 when she lost her life, has just broken his silence at the 'Daily Mail' to, among other things, banish conspiracy theories and claim that the doctors at the Paris hospital did everything possible to prevent the tragic outcome of the Princess of Wales.  I did not take a vacation that summer for the simple reason that my wife was pregnant with my son (they already had a daughter). As a result, I worked all summer he says of his service presence. Although the accident of the Princess of Wales in the Alma tunnel would occur around 00:23 hours, she would not arrive at the Parisian hospital until 2:06 when the first doctors who attended her tried to stabilize her on the scene. On the way he would suffer cardiac arrest.   I was resting in the service room when I received a call from Bruno Riou , the main anesthesiologist on duty, telling me to go to the emergency room. They did not tell me it was L...

According to official results, hardliner Ebrahim Raeissi will be the new President of Iran. The previous head of justice is the favorite of the powerful Ayatholla Khamenei. According to official partial results, the ultra-conservative candidate Ebrahim Raeissi won the presidential election in Iran with more than 62 percent of the vote. Of the 28.6 million ballot papers counted, "more than 17.8 million" went to Raeissi, said the chairman of the national election commission. More than 59.3 million Iranians were eligible to vote. Read also:  Ebrahim Raeissi is a clear favorite Raeissi's competitor Abdolnaser Hemmati had recently admitted his defeat, as reported by the YJC news agency, among others. He hoped that Raeissi's government, led by the spiritual and political leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, would bring prosperity to Iran, the state media quoted in a letter from the former central bank chief to his adversary. The former commander of the Revolutionary Guard, Mohsen...