Category: International

The UK government is set to designate the Russian mercenary organisation Wagner as a terrorist organisation, making it unlawful to be a member or supporter of the group, BBC reported on Wednesday. Its assets will be designated as terrorist property and seized under a drafted order that will be submitted to parliament as Wagner, according to the Home Secretary Suella Braverman, is “violent and destructive… a military tool of Vladimir Putin’s Russia,” and its operations in Africa and Ukraine pose a “threat to global security.” Braverman continued: “Wagner’s continuing destabilising activities only…

Local authorities in New York said Monday at least three people were injured after a shooting between two groups near the route of the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn. According to local media outlets, the shooting erupted when two groups started fighting near 1187 Eastern Parkway around 5:20pm —the time the West Indian Day Parade was just winding up. Authorities noted that the injured are expected to survive as their wounds are non-life threatening. An FDNY vehicle was hit in the windshield by a possible stray bullet while driving…

At least one person died and tens of thousands of people were left stranded in a quagmire after torrential downpours in the Nevada desert turned the annual Burning Man festival into a disaster, with officials conducting an investigation into a casualty.   Several videos surfaced on social media from the scenes showing “burners” struggling across the wet grey-brown site, with some using trash bags as makeshift boots. Several others were also shown stuck in the dense mud. The events at the Burning Man festival were called off — that drew some 70,000…

The Russian defence ministry said early Monday that it thwarted two Ukrainian drones off Crimea over the Kursk Region, as Kiyv ramped up its attack on Moscow’s facilities amid its slow-paced counteroffensive on multiple fronts. The ministry wrote on its Telegram Monday: “At about 1:00am today, an attempt by the [Kyiv] regime to carry out a terror attack on facilities on Russian soil with the use of two unmanned aerial vehicles was foiled.”  “[Russian] air defence forces on duty destroyed the Ukrainian UAVs over the Black Sea off the Crimean…

Tropical Storm Idalia has hit the Carolinas with heavy rain, following its earlier landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region as a powerful Category 3 hurricane.  Idalia’s impact in the Carolinas included heavy rainfall and potential flash flood risks.  The storm’s arrival had raised concerns about potentially devastating floods.  However, the Carolinas seem to have been mostly spared from severe damage. The accurate forecasts and evacuation plans played a key role in preventing more significant harm. The storm, which packed winds of nearly 125 mph, left a trail of damage in…

Idalia is projected to build into a major hurricane and make landfall early on Wednesday somewhere around Florida’s Big Bend region, where the panhandle meets the peninsula. Expected to strengthen to a Category 3 hurricane, Idalia could deliver sustained winds of at least 111 mph (178 kph), create dangerous coastal surges and drench parts of Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas with up to 10 inches (25 cm) of rain, the National Hurricane Center reported. Here is a list of some of the most powerful hurricanes to hit the mainland U.S.…

Vivek Ramaswamy, a Republican presidential candidate and wealthy former biotech businessman, has been called out by American rapper Eminem not to use any of his songs during his political campaign. Ramaswamy is enjoying a surge in the Republican primary race, and a video of him rapping along to Eminem’s Lose Yourself at the Iowa State Fair went viral this month, AFP reported. In the letter disclosed on Monday and dated August 23, BMI, a performing rights organisation, informed Ramaswamy’s campaign at the Grammy-winning rapper’s request that it will no longer licence Eminem’s…