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ussia and Belarus began joint military exercises on Monday, sparking fears in Kyiv and the West that Moscow could use its ally to launch a fresh ground offensive in Ukraine. Russia-Belarus begin joint military exercises, sparking fear in Kyiv of new offensive Russia and Belarus began joint military exercises on Monday, which have triggered fears in Kyiv and the West that Moscow ... Reuters 2h

Russian forces stepped up mortar and artillery attacks on the recently liberated city of Kherson in southern Ukraine on Wednesday, Ukraine's military said, while also exerting pressure along frontlines in the east. Russia fired 33 missiles from multiple rocket launchers at civilian targets in Kherson in the 24 hours to early Wednesday, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces said in its morning report. Russia denies targeting civilians. Heavy fighting also persisted around the Ukrainian-held city of Bakhmut, now largely in ruins, in the eastern province of Donetsk, and to its north, around the cities of Svatove and Kreminna in...

Ukraine has pushed the Russian Navy into a largely passive stance in the Black Sea in recent months. This was in sharp contrast to the beginning of the war when they dominated the area. In the past few days there has been a significant change in the pattern however. Today the Black Sea near Sebastopol was busy with submarines and warships. Open sources, including analysis of Sentinel 2 satellite imagery from the European Space Agency, shows the increased activity. When the Sentinel 2 satellite passed over at 10:47 am local time there were a number of ships outside the harbor....

A fire broke out on the flagship of the Russian Navy, according to local media reports. The blaze started on the Admiral Kuznetsov, Russia's only aircraft carrier, while it was docked at the Zvyozdochka shipyard in the Barents Sea port city of Murmansk, located in the far north-west of Russia, news agency Tass said. An emergency services source told the agency on Thursday morning that 20 people had been evacuated, the fire was extinguished and that "there were no casualties."

Former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. insinuated Wednesday that student survivors of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting were being manipulated by Democratic billionaire George Soros to organize for gun control. In a tweet, the former Wisconsin sheriff wrote that media appearances and an activism campaign from students of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School against gun violence had "George Soros' fingerprints all over it."

ALL it took was some 30,000 Republican primary voters in a tiny state to turn Christine O’Donnell into the brightest all-American media meteor since Balloon Boy. For embattled liberals, not to mention the axis of Comedy Central, “Saturday Night Live” and Bill Maher, she’s been pure comic gold for weeks: a bottomless trove of baldfaced lies, radical views and sheer wackiness. True, other American politicians have dismissed evolution as a myth. Some may even have denied joining a coven. But history will always remember her for taking a fearless stand against masturbation, the one national pastime with more fans than...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Tuesday Democrats were trying to turn Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld into "a bogeyman" two months before U.S. congressional elections, and it dismissed their calls for his ouster. Congressional Democrats, striving to grab control of the House and Senate from President George W. Bush's Republican Party in November's congressional elections, are pushing for a vote of no confidence in the 74-year-old Rumsfeld, one of the longest-serving U.S. defence secretaries. "The president strongly supports the defence secretary. It's not going to happen," White House spokesman Tony Snow told reporters, referring to Democratic calls to...

We began the forgery scandal assuming CBS would be very embarrassed by their gross journalistic faux pas. This false assumption assumed CBS cares about news integrity and ignores the reality that CBS is a willing participant in this fraud on the American people.The very nature of the CBS program - the breathless combo of uncritical treatment of Barnes and these documents- demonstrate that CBS was striking a well timed dagger at the President. CBS knew exactlty what the reaction would be and they and the DNC/ Kerry Campaign are prepared.CBS knows that "if you strike at the king, you must...

'Muslims are new bogeymen of racist Aussies' February 19 2003 at 09:05AM Sydney - "Islamaphobia" is alive and thriving in Australia, according to a new academic study which has found 55 percent of Australians would be concerned if a close relative married a Muslim. The study, one of the most extensive ever undertaken, shows while there is antipathy towards other minorities such as Asians, Jews and Aboriginals, Muslims are the new bogeymen of racist Australia, seen as unable to fit into its western-style society. "The results clearly indicate an expanding Islamaphobia, no doubt linked to recent geopolitical events, media representations...