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Von der Leyen was travelling to Bulgaria as part of a tour to eastern EU states
EU chief von der Leyen's plane hit by suspected Russian GPS jamming
BRUSSELS — The navigation system of a plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen was disrupted due to suspected Russian interference, the European Commission said.A spokesperson said the "GPS jamming" happened while the Commission president was about to arrive in southern Bulgaria on Sunday, but she still landed safely.They added: "We have received information from the Bulgarian authorities that they suspect that this was due to blatant interference by Russia."The Financial Times, citing unnamed officials, reported that von der Leyen's plane had to land at Plovdiv Airport with the pilots using paper maps.The European Commission said "threats and intimidation are a regular component of Russia's hostile actions" and that the incident would reinforce its...
September 01, 2025

EU chief von der Leyen's plane hit by suspected Russian GPS jamming

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping at a welcoming ceremony of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Tianjin, China on August 31, 2025
China's Xi outlines vision for reshaped world order at summit with Putin
TIANJIN — Chinese leader Xi Jinping made a veiled swipe at the United States on Monday as he criticized “bullying practices” and cast his country as a new leader of world governance, at a time when President Donald Trump’s America First foreign policy is upending the globe.“The house rules of a few countries should not be imposed on others,” Xi told more than 20 world leaders gathering at a two-day summit orchestrated to play-up China’s global leadership and its close and enduring partnership with Russia, as the two neighbors seek to rebalance global power in their favor at the expense of the US and its allies.The meeting of the Beijing- and Moscow- backed Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in the northern port city of Tianjin is China’s biggest diplomatic event of the...
September 01, 2025

China's Xi outlines vision for reshaped world order at summit with Putin

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects a missile production line in an undisclosed location on August 31, 2025
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un inspects missiles days before visiting Beijing for military parade
SINGAPORE — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un examined a “newly inaugurated” missile production line on Sunday before a planned trip to Beijing to witness a massive military parade alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin.During Sunday’s inspection, Kim learned about the “overall condition of the state missile production capacity,” North Korean state media reported on Monday.Images published by KCNA appeared to show Kim at an undisclosed location inspecting several dozen missiles in various stages of production and talking with uniformed officers.Kim’s inspection this Sunday comes as he prepares to travel to Beijing, where China’s military parade on Wednesday will mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II following Japan’s formal surrender.North Korea has...
September 01, 2025

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un inspects missiles days before visiting Beijing for military parade

Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto (center) speaks following a recent wave of nationwide protests at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta on August 31, 2025
Indonesia’s deadly protests paused but deep resentment remains
JAKARTA — Indonesia’s worst wave of violent protests in years seems to have come to a pause for now after the government ordered the military and police to take stern action against rioters and looters.Some students and civil society groups called off their protest on Monday, citing fears of heightened security measures imposed after deadly riots across the country on the weekend, Reuters reported.At least five people have been killed in the protests, which began peacefully over controversial housing perks for lawmakers but erupted on Thursday when an armored police vehicle hit and killed a rideshare driver, according to government-run news agency Antara.The unrest escalated over the weekend as thousands of protesters across the sprawling archipelago set fire to legislative buildings...
September 01, 2025

Indonesia’s deadly protests paused but deep resentment remains

Aerial footage shows plane wreckage at Fort Morgan Municipal Airport in northeast Colorado on Sunday
1 killed, 3 injured after small planes collide midair at Colorado airport
DENVER — One person was killed and three others injured after two small planes collided in midair by the Fort Morgan Municipal Airport in northeast Colorado, authorities said.A Cessna 172 and an Extra Flugzeugbau EA300 collided while both pilots were attempting to land on Sunday morning, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. Two people were aboard each plane.Emergency responders reported seeing “black smoke” and “active flames,” according to dispatch audio recorded on the website Broadcastify. At least one person was “trapped in one of the planes,” according to the recording.Footage from CNN affiliate KMGH shows one of the two planes wrecked on the side of a runway, surrounded by black ash and fluid.The two occupants of the Cessna survived with minor...
September 01, 2025

1 killed, 3 injured after small planes collide midair at Colorado airport

Russian President Vladimir Putin talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a family photo session at the SCO summit in Tianjin, 1 September 2025
Putin blames West and NATO for war in Ukraine at China summit
TIANJIN - Russian President Vladimir Putin openly blamed the West and NATO for his ongoing all-out war against Ukraine during his address at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin on Monday.Putin defended his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, telling those gathered that the war was "a result of a coup in Ukraine, which was supported and provoked by the West," a reference to bloody Euromaidan protests in Kyiv, which ended in the removal of Kremlin-allied President Viktor Yanukovych in 2014."The second reason for the crisis is the west's constant attempts to drag Ukraine into NATO," Putin added.The Russian president has repeatedly lobbed similar accusations in the past without providing evidence.The Russian leader spoke ahead of bilateral...
September 01, 2025

Putin blames West and NATO for war in Ukraine at China summit

The Lithuanian military is attempting to limit the possibility of using unused roads connecting the country to Russia to reduce the risk of a land invasion
Lithuania installs 'dragon's teeth' fortifications along its border with Russia
VILNIUS — Lithuania has finished putting up the so-called "dragon's teeth" on its border with Russia's Kaliningrad exclave, the Lithuanian Defence Ministry said on Saturday.The concrete fortifications, meant to stop incoming tanks, are the latest step in a series of defence measures taken by the Baltic country to deter Russian aggression."We are starting from the tactical level — specific obstacles on the border — and later we will combine the entire engineering plan into one conceptual system," said Raimundas Vaiksnoras, commander of the Lithuanian army."This is a precautionary step aimed to ensure more effective defence," the Lithuanian Ministry of Defence stated in a post on X.The three Baltic states, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, are members...
September 01, 2025

Lithuania installs 'dragon's teeth' fortifications along its border with Russia

Dezi Freeman had a well-documented hatred of authority
Fugitive wanted over Australia police killings being helped, police say
SYDNEY — A fugitive who allegedly murdered two officers in a small rural town in Australia's Victoria is being helped by some members of the community, police have said.Dezi Freeman has been on the run since last Tuesday, when police arrived at his Porepunkah property to execute a search warrant, reportedly relating to a sex crimes investigation.Freeman, a known conspiracy theorist, escaped into thick bushland bordering the property, with a massive manhunt for him now in its seventh day.His wife, Amalia Freeman, had earlier urged him to turn himself in and offered her condolences to the families of the officers he is alleged to have killed.Victoria Police — which has previously appealed for Mr Freeman to surrender — say there had still been no sighting of the...
September 01, 2025

Fugitive wanted over Australia police killings being helped, police say

Unaccompanied minors walk up bank of the Rio Grande after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border early on April 30, 2021 in Roma, Texas
US judge blocks removal of Guatemalan children in US custody
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Sunday afternoon temporarily blocked the removals of unaccompanied Guatemalan minors in US custody as the government was in the process of repatriating some of them in the early morning hours.A notice sent to attorneys about the removals prompted an early Sunday morning scramble among lawyers who say kids were woken up in the middle of the night and would be at risk if returned to their home country.CNN first reported that the Trump administration was moving to repatriate hundreds of Guatemalan children who arrived in the US unaccompanied, in coordination with the Guatemalan government.During a Sunday hearing, Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan, a Biden appointee, said she received a call around 2:36 a.m. notifying her that the children were being processed for...
September 01, 2025

US judge blocks removal of Guatemalan children in US custody

President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen gets into a car after visiting a memorial wall in Kyiv, 20 September 2024
Bulgarian nationalists attack car believing von der Leyen was inside
SOFIA — The nationalist Revival party tried to prevent European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen from entering a weapons plant in Bulgaria's city of Sopot on Sunday, attacking a vehicle that those gathered believed she was in. Revival's leader Kostadin Kostadinov, who has previously called for Bulgaria's withdrawal from NATO, organised demonstrations with another nationalist party, Velichie, at the Vazov Machine Engineering Plants in Sopot in opposition to Bulgaria's European path and demanded protection of national sovereignty. Kostadinov was filmed blocking a black vehicle, claiming that the Bulgarian police — who were attempting to get the demonstrators to allow the car to pass — "wanted to run me over". In a video he shared on social...
September 01, 2025

Bulgarian nationalists attack car believing von der Leyen was inside

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