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Norway agrees $364-million air defense deal with US
OSLO — Authorities in Oslo announced on Monday that they had agreed to buy AIM-120C-8 AMRAAM air defense missiles from the US in a deal worth over 4 billion Norwegian kroner ($364m, €337m).It is one of the largest single purchases ever made by the Norwegian Armed Forces.In a statement released by the Norwegian Defence Material Agency, the country’s Defence Minister Bjoern Arild Gram said, "with more and newer missiles, the Norwegian Armed Forces will have a better ability to protect Norway against air attacks."Norway shares a border of almost 200km with Russia and has been ramping up its defences since Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The missiles purchased in the deal are primarily for the country’s ground-based air defence systems.The weapons can...
October 29, 2024

Norway agrees $364-million air defense deal with US

Georgian opposition supporters rally outside the parliament in Tbilisi on Monday
Georgia’s president calls for rally to save ‘European future’ as thousands protest disputed election
TBILISI — Georgia’s President Salome Zourabichvili has called on citizens to protest the results of a disputed election in an attempt to save the country’s “European future.”In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Zourabichvili – a pro-Western figure whose powers are largely ceremonial – said the election had been marred by unprecedented levels of interference, which aimed to knock the post-Soviet country from its path toward Europe and keep it within the Kremlin’s orbit.Tens of thousands of Georgians massed outside the parliament on Monday night, calling for the annulment of Saturday’s parliamentary election that the opposition has said was rigged with Russia’s blessing.Speaking soon after addressing crowds in the capital, Tbilisi, Zourabichvili said the...
October 29, 2024

Georgia’s president calls for rally to save ‘European future’ as thousands protest disputed election

Police patrol near Rohrbach, Upper Austria, after two people were shot dead on Monday
Austrian mayor shot dead with suspect on the run, police say
VIENNA — A manhunt is underway in northern Austria after a hunter allegedly fatally shot two people and fled the scene, local police said Monday.Franz Hofer, mayor of Kirchberg ob der Donau, was killed in the village of Altenfelden in Austria’s rural Muhlviertel region, near the border with Germany and the Czech Republic.A second man was also shot dead a short while later, Upper Austria police spokesperson Ulrike Handelbauer told CNN.A large-scale police operation with helicopters and special forces is underway, she said.Police said Roland Drexler, 56, is suspected of having killed the two men and made a getaway in a Volkswagen Caddy. “The man is believed to be extremely dangerous and armed,” police said.A dispute over hunting rights appeared to have sparked the incident, police...
October 29, 2024

Austrian mayor shot dead with suspect on the run, police say

Ursula von der Leyen
EU calls for swift probe of alleged irregularities in Georgia election
BRUSSELS — The European Union has urged the Georgian authorities to "swiftly, transparently and independently" investigate reported irregularities in the parliamentary elections on Saturday. The closely watched poll saw the ruling party, Georgian Dream, win a majority of seats with 54% of all votes, followed at a distance by several opposition parties.A joint observation mission led by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said the elections were "well organized and orderly" but found a "tense environment" and "widespread reports of pressure on voters", including cases of intimidation, coercion and vote-buying that "compromised" the secrecy of the vote."Those irregularities must be clarified and addressed....
October 28, 2024

EU calls for swift probe of alleged irregularities in Georgia election

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon is more commonly known by the name Tommy Robinson
English far-right leader Tommy Robinson jailed for violating court orders
LONDON — The founder of the English Defence League (EDL) Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson, has been sentenced to 18 months in jail after he admitted to breaching court orders on multiple occasions in front of London judges on Monday.The 41-year-old was ordered by the UK’s High Court in 2021 to cease promoting libellous allegations about a teenage Syrian refugee after the teenager successfully sued the far-right activist for libel over a series of posts that falsely blamed the refugee of violently beating up a white female student.However, Robinson continued to repeat the comments in a series of interviews published on YouTube and in a televised speech broadcast at a far-right rally in central London in July. The speech was later posted on his X account.During the...
October 28, 2024

English far-right leader Tommy Robinson jailed for violating court orders

Mark Rutte
Nato says North Korean troops deployed to Russia's Kursk region
LONDON — North Korean troops have been deployed to Russia and are operating in the Kursk border region where Ukrainian troops have a foothold, Nato has said for the first time.The alliance's Secretary General, Mark Rutte, said he could confirm the deployment after weeks of intelligence reports, following a meeting with South Korean security and defense officials on Monday.The newly installed Nato chief said the deployment represented a "significant escalation" and a "dangerous expansion" of Russia's war in Ukraine.Last week, President Vladimir Putin refused to deny that North Korean troops had arrived in Russia, following reports that Pyongyang was preparing to send thousands of troops to aid its ally."This is our sovereign decision," Putin said,...
October 28, 2024

Nato says North Korean troops deployed to Russia's Kursk region

Georgian PM Irakli Kobakhidze
Georgia PM rejects vote-rigging claims as president calls mass rally
TIBILISI — Georgia's prime minister has hailed a "landslide" election result, rejecting allegations of vote-rigging and violence."Irregularities happen everywhere," Irakli Kobakhidze of the Georgian Dream party told the BBC's Steve Rosenberg in an exclusive interview.Official preliminary results from Georgia's election commission gave the ruling Georgian Dream an outright majority of 54%, despite exit polls for opposition TV channels suggesting four opposition parties had won.Georgia's pro-Western president, Salome Zourabichvili, has condemned the "total falsification" of the vote and called for opposition supporters to rally outside parliament on Monday.Election observers have suggested that the number of vote violations may have affected...
October 28, 2024

Georgia PM rejects vote-rigging claims as president calls mass rally

Georgian PM Irakli Kobakhidze
Georgian PM rejects Russian influence and embraces Europe ahead of elections
TBILISI — Georgia's Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze leaves the impression of a relaxed, yet composed and focused man.No big entourage in tow for our interview, he readily chatted about football, remembering a moment of pride over domestic legend Temur Ketsbaia, a former Newcastle United player, and pointing out there's a new, rising star at the same club.At the same time, Kobakhidze clearly knows what is at stake for his country in the upcoming parliamentary elections on Sunday — a pivotal, high-velocity moment as the outcome could potentially shape the nation’s future integration within the EU and its movement away from Russian influence.The political landscape in Georgia has become increasingly polarised, with opinion polls continuing to present unreliable and...
October 25, 2024

Georgian PM rejects Russian influence and embraces Europe ahead of elections

Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro was welcomed as a guest by Vladimir Putin - but he left empty-handed
Venezuela vents its anger at Brazil's Brics snub
Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro was welcomed as a guest by Vladimir Putin — but he left empty-handedCARACAS — Venezuela has criticized Brazil's decision to veto its admission to the Brics group of emerging economies.Venezuela's foreign ministry described the move, which came at the group's summit in Russia attended by more than 20 heads of state, as an "immoral aggression".Relations between the two left-wing governments have worsened since July's contested presidential election in Venezuela. President Nicolás Maduro said he had secured re-election, despite evidence that the opposition's Edmundo González won by a landslide.Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva initially supported Maduro, but eventually said he would not accept the official...
October 25, 2024

Venezuela vents its anger at Brazil's Brics snub

Russia's war in Georgia lasted five days, but for many Georgians the invasion is still raw
Tense election fight for Georgia's future in Europe
GORI — Georgians know all about Russia's wars. Several years before Russia invaded Ukraine, its army launched a five-day war in August 2008. The city of Gori was bombed and occupied, and a fierce battle further north in Shindisi left the station destroyed and the railway abandoned.So when the country's four opposition groups label Saturday's pivotal election as a choice between Russia or Europe, their aim is to end 12 years of rule by the governing Georgian Dream party, who they accuse of drifting back into Russia's orbit.They want to revive Georgia's stalled bid to join the European Union."In these streets we had Russians," says Mindia Goderdzishvili, running the campaign in Gori for the opposition group Coalition for Change. "People here have this in...
October 25, 2024

Tense election fight for Georgia's future in Europe

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