Russian armed forces provide Moscow with clear military superiority in the post-Soviet region, despite Russia’s troops not being able to match the whole of NATO. The Kremlin is busy modernizing its army, experts told DW. The US, Russia, and China … Read More
Gianpaolo Barra, editor of the Italian Catholic monthly ‘Il Timone’, reads the declaration at the conference. The six-point profession of faith, titled ‘We testify and confess,’ reaffirms the Church’s unchanging teaching in key areas. Cardinals, bishops, priests and lay faithful … Read More
One summer day in 1989, I saw an unshaven, long-haired young man approach a microphone to address 250,000 people in Budapest. They had gathered in Heroes’ Square for the ceremonial reburial of the leaders of a 1956 anti-communist uprising crushed … Read More
Does Auschwitz require Germans to protect Jews from Muslims, or all minorities including Muslims from everybody? A country ill at ease with its past faces a dilemma it wasn’t ready for. Source: Christoph Schmid One of the world’s most fraught … Read More
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he’ll send as many as 4,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border until Congress relents on his demands for a massive border wall. “Anywhere from 2,000 to 4,000,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One … Read More
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 struck off the southern Philippine island of Mindanao on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage from the quake, which hit at a depth … Read More
Hezbollah has been steadily consolidating power and weapons—and some fighters maintain it played a role in shooting down an Israeli jet over Syria. Israeli security officers survey the wreckage of an F-16 that crashed near the Harduf kibbutz, in northern … Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States plans to sanction Russian oligarchs this week under a law targeting Moscow for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, in what could be the most aggressive … Read More
CHINESE defence minister General Wei Fenghe said his visit to Moscow was a demonstration of the strong diplomatic relationship between the two countries and a warning to the United States, saying “we’ve come to support you”. General Wei Fenghe was … Read More