As North Korea, Iran and China support Russia’s war, is a ‘new axis’ emerging?
The thousands of North Korean troops US intelligence says arrived in Russia for training this month have sparked concern they will be deployed to bolster Moscow’s battlefront in Ukraine.
They’ve also turned up alarm from the United States and its allies that growing coordination between anti-West countries is creating a much broader, urgent security threat – one where partnerships of convenience are evolving into more outright military ties.
Hundreds of Iranian drones have also been part of Moscow’s onslaught on Ukraine, and last month the US said Tehran had sent the warring country short-range ballistic missiles as well.
Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin for two years, says report
Alleged talks between billionaire and Russian president could have enormous security implications
Fri 25 Oct 2024 15.47 BST
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man who is now central to Donald Trump’s election campaign, has been in regular contact with Vladimir Putin for the past two years, according to a report in the US.
The Wall Street Journal, citing several in-post and former US, European and Russian officials, reported that the conversations between the two men ranged from the personal to the geopolitical and included a request from the Russian leader not to activate his Starlink satellite internet service over Taiwan as a favour to the Chinese leader and Putin ally, Xi Jinping.
Uganda: Ex-LRA rebel commander gets 40-year sentence
Thomas Kwoyelo was found guilty of war crimes in August and has now received a 40-year prison term. He avoided the death penalty as he had expressed remorse and a willingness to reconcile with the victims.
A court in Uganda on Friday sentenced a former commander in the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group to 40 years in prison.
Thomas Kwoyelo was found guilty on 44 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity including murder, rape, enslavement, torture and kidnapping in August.
Education on hold as Lebanon’s schools turned into shelters for displaced
Hundreds of thousands of students in Lebanon have been left unable to access education as public schools have been turned into shelters for those fleeing the conflict. FRANCE 24's Rawad Taha reports from Beirut.
Since Israel expanded its war to Lebanon in early October, “75% of the schools are out of service [and] 45,000 teachers are unable to reach their workplaces or are displaced from their regions", said Hayam Isaac, Head of the Centre for Educational Research and Development.
“We are talking about 546,000 students who have been displaced from their schools, homes, and communities,” she added.
Poll: 57% of LDP candidates say coalition with DPP is possible
By TSUNEO SASAI/ Staff Writer
October 25, 2024 at 17:44 JST
At risk of losing a majority in the Lower House, 57 percent of Liberal Democratic Party candidates are open to forming a coalition with the opposition Democratic Party for the People, a survey showed.
Forty-eight percent of the LDP candidates said a coalition could be formed with Nippon Ishin (Japan Innovation Party).
Opinion polls indicate the current ruling coalition of the LDP and junior partner Komeito is in danger of falling short of a majority in the Oct. 27 Lower House election.
PKK claims attack on Turkish defence company near Ankara that killed five
Defence Ministry says it hit 34 targets of the outlawed group in north Iraq as Turkey arrests 176 suspects over assault.
The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has claimed responsibility for an attack on a Turkish state-run defence company near the capital, Ankara, that killed five people and wounded 22.
The “act of sacrifice” in Ankara “was carried out by a team of the immortals battalion” of the PKK, the group said on the Telegram messaging app on Friday.
‘Death trap’ Channel boats traded by smugglers in German city - BBC undercover
Jessica Parker
It costs €15,000 (£12,500) for the whole “package”, we are told. For that we would be given an inflatable dinghy, with an outboard motor and 60 life jackets, to get across the English Channel.
This is the “good price” offered by two small-boat smugglers to an undercover BBC journalist in Essen - a western German city where many migrants live or pass through.
A five-month-long BBC investigation has exposed the significant German connection to the lethal human smuggling trade across the English Channel.
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