Section: VICE News (USA)
Russia Could Be Using A ‘trust-building Exercise’ To Send Spy Planes Over North America
For years, Russia and the West have been flying spy missions over each other’s territory and, for years, both sides have been okay with the mutually-agreed-upon snooping. But Russia is taking the spying to the next level, and American lawmakers are worried.Since the 2002 ratification of the Treaty on Open Skies, 34 nations Canada, America,...
Investigation Underway In Istanbul Airport Attack That Killed 41 People
Turkish investigators pored over video footage and witness statements on Wednesday after three suspected Islamic State suicide bombers opened fire and blew themselves up in Istanbul’s main airport, killing 41 people and wounding 239.The attack on Europe’s third-busiest airport was the deadliest in a series of suicide bombings this...
Cold War 2.0: The US Military Is Beefing Up Its Presence In The Former Soviet Bloc
US Army Major Christopher Rowe scanned the unfamiliar terrain as his Stryker armored vehicle sped past the Russian border, less than 15 miles away. It was just after 3:00am, but the summer sun was already rising over northeastern Poland. From the commander’s hatch, Rowe looked out on a stretch of rolling farmland and thick pine forests that...
Belgian Police Arrested 12 People In Overnight Counter-terrorism Raids
Belgian police arrested 12 suspects in a major anti-terror operation overnight on Friday, amid increased security alerts in Belgium and France around the Euro 2016 soccer tournament and just three months after extremist bombers wrought carnage in Brussels.On Saturday, following the raids, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel chaired a meeting of...
Putin Says US Is ‘probably World’s Only Superpower,’ Walks Back Trump Compliments
President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he accepted the United States was probably still the world’s sole superpower and he was ready to work with whoever won the presidency, but didn’t want to be told how to live by Americans. Putin’s comments follow a rocky period in US-Russia relations, which have been undermined by...
A 20 Year Old Just Pleaded Guilty To Hacking For The Islamic State
A hacker named Ardit Ferizi confessed this week to stealing the information of scores of federal employees and soldiers, and sharing the information with the Islamic State, and now faces up to 25 years in prison.Ferizi, a native Kosovar, pleaded guilty this week to providing material support for the Islamic State, and to, as the justice...
How Russians Became The Biggest, Baddest Hooligans At Euro 2016
As the Russian soccer squad takes on Slovakia in Lille on Wednesday in its second match at the 2016 European championship, local residents and police are bracing for more trouble. French authorities are on high alert for more violence involving Russian supporters at the tournament, which is hosted by several French cities this year.Last...
NATO Is Holding The Biggest Exercise In Poland In A Decade, And Russia Is Not Happy
A column of Strykers, the US Army’s eight-wheeled, 20-ton fighting machines, trundled across the narrow pontoon bridge to meet the Russian intruders in central Poland. Less than an hour earlier, a mixed team of German and British engineers had taken to the Vistula River with 30 giant M3 amphibious rigs to build a bridge almost a quarter of...
Ukraine Detains Man Accused Of Planning Attacks On Euro 2016 Soccer Championship In France
Ukrainian authorities recently apprehended a French citizen detained on the Ukrainian-Polish border, who had allegedly been planning attacks in France to coincide with the Euro 2016 soccer championship it is hosting.The Ukrainian border guard service reported over the weekend that the unnamed 25-year-old had been arrested with an arsenal of...
Ivan The Terminator: Russia Is Showing Off Its New Robot Soldier
Russia is touting its Iron Man a humanoid military robot in the new global arms race that has sprung up over high-tech weaponry. “The development of a special military robot is one of the priorities of military construction in Russia,” the Russian daily newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda reported recently.The purpose of Iron Man, the...
