World’s biggest warship visits Oslo, angering Russia. The world’s biggest warship, the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, arrived in Oslo on Wednesday for a stopover criticised by neighbouring Russia as an “illogical and harmful” show of force.The 337-metre (1,106-foot) nuclear-powered ship sailed into the Oslo Fjord under escort, where it will stay for several […]

Russia puts ICC prosecutor Khan on wanted list. Russian authorities have putInternational Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan on a “wanted” list after theHague-based court issued an arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin inMarch.Khan’s picture could be seen in the Russian interior ministry’s database on Friday. The notice described him as a man born on March […]

Lavrov points to failed US-led attempts to isolate’ Russia. Efforts by Washington and its satellites to isolate Moscow are failing completely, with the global majority being unwilling ‘to pull the chestnuts out of the fire’ for former colonial powers, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.Addressing the online Global Conference on Multipolarity on Saturday, Russia’s top […]

Russian volcano spews ash across Kamchatka Peninsula. Russia’s Shiveluch volcano erupted on Tuesday, spewing a cloud of ash across a vast swath of the Kamchatka Peninsula and potentially posing a risk to flights, according to local volcanology authorities. The Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team (KVERT), which monitors eruptions in the region, issued an aviation code […]

Finland joins NATO as Russian war prompts shift .Finland becomes the 31st member of NATO on Tuesday, in a historic strategic shift provoked by Moscow’s war on Ukraine, which doubles the US-led alliance’s border with Russia.Last year, the Kremlin’s all-out invasion of Ukraine upended Europe’s security landscape and prompted Finland — and its neighbour Sweden […]