Section: Protothema (Greece)
Up in Arms: Ukrainian aircraft-engine plant caught up in US-China rivalry
Ukrainian tycoon Vyacheslav Boguslayev is having a hard time parting with the company he has controlled for the past three decades, and it’s not just because it is close to his heart. The 80-year old is caught up in the global rivalry between the United States and China as he seeks to sell his defense company, Motor Sich. At stake for...
When the Sun sets in Libya, two US allies get down to war
On July 26, Libya’s internationally-recognized government announced a brazen air raid on a hangar housing drones deployed in support of rival commander Khalifa Haftar. A day later, his forces said they retaliated with strikes on a military base that sent fireballs into the night sky. Neither side officially acknowledged the worst-kept...
Two Ukrainian military aircraft IL-76TD blown up in Libya
Two Ukrainian military aircraft IL-76TD destroyed on the territory of Al Jafra airbase in Libya. This is reported by Avia.pro. The aircraft were destroyed by rocket attacks. Soon information was published that one of the planes suffered as a result of a strike of Bayraktar TB2 Turkish drone, but the army representatives did not confirm this...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel seen shaking for 3rd time in several weeks (video)
The German Chancellor has been spotted trembling uncontrollably two times in recent weeks. The first shaking episode happened on 18 June as Merkel greeted newly elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Merkel has toned down the concerns about her condition saying that the shaking bouts were caused by dehydration. Angela Merkel has once...
“F**k you, Mr. President”: Joe Biden’s son tells Trump
Hunter Biden, son of 2020 Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden, couldn’t contain his anger during a Monday interview over President Trump’s warning the DOJ may investigate his Ukraine business dealings. Biden, an admitted cocaine addict, told The New Yorker in an interview that he heard of the potential probe as a helicopter was...
The hero who betrayed his country
Deniss Metsavas was visiting his relatives in Russia in the summer of 2007 when the incident occurred. While out with his cousin at a nightclub in Smolensk, Metsavas struck up a conversation with an attractive woman he hadn’t met before. They hit it off and spent the night flirting and dancing before retiring to a sauna in the early hours...
Merkel appears shaking again (video)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel appeared shaky again as she attended an official ceremony to appoint a new justice minister in Berlin on Thursday. Standing alongside President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Schloss Bellevue, the president’s official residence, Angela Merkel was filmed holding her arms across her chest, while her legs appeared...
In Russia’s north, a Gulag grave site, a child-abuse trial & a battle over historical Truth
In a patch of forest deep in Russia’s north lies a burial site for victims of Stalin’s Great Terror. Between 1937 and 1938, up to 9,000 gulag prisoners were brought here by night, shot in the head, and stacked atop one another inside 236 rectangular pits that had for years been concealed among the trees. Sandarmokh, as the site is...
What really happened to Malaysia’s missing airplane
At 12:42 a.m. on the quiet, moonlit night of March 8, 2014, a Boeing 777-200ER operated by Malaysia Airlines took off from Kuala Lumpur and turned toward Beijing, climbing to its assigned cruising altitude of 35,000 feet. The designator for Malaysia Airlines is MH. The flight number was 370. Fariq Hamid, the first officer, was flying the...
Four men charged with downing MH17 plane and killing 298 people
Four men have been charged with murder over the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in 2014 which killed 298 passengers and crew. Dutch national police chief Wilbert Paulissen has named three Russians and one Ukrainian man as murder suspects – five years after the MH17 plane was shot down as it flew over Ukraine. Investigators will issue...
