Category: 4. World

Austrian extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, who jumped down to earth from the stratosphere in a 2012 stunt, died in a paragliding accident in the eastern Italian town of Porto Sant’Elpidio on Thursday.

According to local media, the 56-year-old…

Brazilian lawmakers have passed a bill that drastically weakens the country’s environmental safeguards and is seen by many activists as the most significant setback for the country’s environmental legislation in the past 40 years.

The new law…

The identities of more than 100 British officials, including members of the special forces and MI6, were compromised in a data breach that also put thousands of Afghans at risk of reprisal, it can be reported.

The latest fallout from the breach…

Rumors of a government reshuffle had been circulating in Ukraine for the past three years and now they have become reality. On Thursday, the Ukrainian parliament approved the nomination of Yulia Svyrydenko as prime minister. Svyrydenko is a…

NATO forces could capture Russia’s heavily fortified Kaliningrad Oblast “in a timeframe that is unheard of” if necessary, U.S. Army Europe and Africa commander General Chris Donahue said, Defense News reported on July 17.

Kaliningrad Oblast,…

Russia has repeatedly shattered its own records for aerial assaults on Ukraine this summer, culminating in a peak attack on July 9 with the launch of 728 Shahed-type drones.

Throughout the war, Russia steadily expanded the reach and intensity of…