Zelensky says war will 'end sooner' with Trump as president
George Wright
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he is certain the war with Russia will “end sooner” than it otherwise would have done once Donald Trump becomes US president.
Zelensky said he had a “constructive exchange” with Trump during their phone conversation after his victory in the US presidential election.
He did not say whether Trump had made any demands regarding possible talks with Russia, but said he'd not heard anything from him that was contrary to Ukraine’s position.
A night with the drone squad targeting Russian forces in micro battles
In a dugout near the front in Donetsk, the Guardian joins Ukrainian police officers turned pilots during a shift
By Dan Sabbagh near Toretsk. Pictures by Julia Kochetova
The armoured car’s bumpy high-speed journey comes to a halt, and the Guardian team are dropped off in the November darkness, where two Ukrainians soldiers await. Using hard to detect red and green torchlight, they follow an unmarked trail across rough fields, punctuated by the sounds of frontline shelling, until a concealed opening appears. Inside, a specialist drone crew is at work.
Nearby, a drone flight of a few minutes away, is the frontline Donetsk town of Toretsk, where the Russian invaders have been gaining territory using surges of infantry and ceaseless artillery. Underground in the surprisingly warm bunker is a team of four Ukrainians, all members of the Khyzhak Brigade of police officers turned soldiers.
Super Typhoon Man-yi makes landfall in east Philippines
Tens of thousands fled their homes with Super Typhoon Man-yi bearing down on the Philippines. It's the sixth major storm to hit the country in the past month.
The Philippines is once more bracing for a major storm as Super Typhoon Man-yi begins to cross archipelago nation, with maximum sustained wind speeds of around 195 kilometers (121 miles) per hour and gusts in excess of that.
The country's meteorological agency PAGASA said on Saturday that it had made landfall over Panganiban on the eastern island province of Catanduanes at around 9:40 p.m. local time (1340 GMT/UTC).
It was set to move west across some of the country's more populous areas in the course of roughly the next 24 hours, with its center set to pass north of the capital Manila.
Gabon votes in post-coup constitutional referendum
More than a year after Gabon's ruler Ali Bongo was toppled in a military coup, Gabon's citizens are voting Saturday in a constitutional referendum hailed as a "major turning point" by the junta. The new constitution would require presidential candidates to be exclusively Gabonese and have a Gabonese spouse, eliminating Bongo's ability to return to power.
Gabon extended a night curfew Saturday as it held a referendum on a new constitution the ruling junta says will mark a new chapter after 55 years of dynastic rule in the oil-rich African nation.
The estimated 860,000 registered voters have faced an onslaught of calls by authorities on TV, radio and social media to make their ballot count -- whether they choose a green one meaning "yes" or a red one for "no".
With the campaign dominated by official propaganda by the junta that took power in August last year in a coup, local media say voter turnout will be a key factor.
Nihon Hidankyo starts funding drive to attend Nobel ceremony
By KAYOKO SEKIGUCHI/ Staff Writer
November 16, 2024 at 16:58 JST
The Japanese anti-nuclear organization that won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize has mounted a crowdfunding drive to help offset the expenses for sending a delegation to the award ceremony scheduled for Dec. 15 in Oslo.
The Nobel Committee only pays for the travel expenses of the three co-chairpersons who will take the stage to accept the award.
However, Nihon Hidankyo, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, is planning to send a delegation of 31 members, plus six caregivers.
Spies like them: The intelligence war between Iran, Israel
The charging of CIA official Asif Rahman for allegedly leaking US intelligence of Israeli preparations for retaliatory strikes on Iran in October has brought into open view the shadow war of espionage and counterespionage that has raged between actors locked in a regional conflict for decades.
The Iran-based Telegram channel Rahman is accused of leaking the intelligence to disavows any connection with Iran’s government, but that the affair has embarrassed a US administration reeling from an earlier conviction of another of its officers, Jack Teixeira, for leaking Pentagon papers is undeniable.
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