On February 16, the Russian Ministry of Defense (RuMoD) highlighted the capabilities of the Su-25 attack aircraft upgraded by the country in a Telegram post titled ‘Upgraded Su-25SM3: Superpower Over The Battlefield’. The post was accompanied by the hashtag ‘Z,’ a letter that became the...
At about 1am on February 24 last year, Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, received a troubling phone call. After spending months building up a more than 100,000-strong invasion force on the border with Ukraine, Vladimir Putin had given the go-ahead to invade. The decision caught...
Drought trends in the Horn of Africa are now worse than they were during the 2011 famine in which hundreds of thousands of people died. The IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center said on Wednesday that below-normal rainfall is expected during the rainy season over the next three...
While not close to the more than 100 exhibitors that came here from the US, dozens of Chinese firms are at IDEX 2023, some with prime locations on the show floor, others in a dedicated Chinese pavilion and more still in smaller booths that line concourses, advertising everything from...
Golden visa programmes offer residency permits and EU travel access in exchange for investment, but can pose risks such as money laundering and inflation of real estate prices. Despite concerns, variations of the golden visa have been adopted across Europe and in countries around the...
