Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Meanwhile in China newsletter, which explores what you need to know about the country’s rise and how it impacts the world. Chinese companies are doing something rarely seen since the 1970s: setting up their own volunteer armies. At least 16 major Chinese firms, including a privately-owned dairy giant, have established … Read more
A cargo ship boat model is seen in front of “Red Sea” and “Houthi attacks” words in this illustration taken January 9, 2024. Dado Ruvic | Reuters U.S. and coalition forces under Operation Prosperity Guardian responded Tuesday in the Red Sea to what American officials said was the largest attack to date on merchant vessels … Read more
Comment on this storyComment NOVA IGUAÇU, Brazil — For years, police in Rio de Janeiro state have waged a bloody and expensive campaign against the gangs that dominate many of its impoverished favelas. But all the violence and effort, prosecutors and analysts say, has missed the most pressing security challenge confronting this notoriously turbulent region: … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment KYIV, Ukraine — The primary cross-border raids had been fast and furtive, the commander mentioned, only a handful of fighters coming into a village, scouting the terrain, taking just a few pictures at Russian border guards and slipping away. Later, they returned briefly to talk with villagers. Lastly, he mentioned, a … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment KYIV, Ukraine — Anti-Russian fighters attacked at the very least 10 villages in Russia’s Belgorod area on Monday with heavy shelling, its governor mentioned, within the newest signal of escalating cross-border preventing, as Moscow claimed to dam the start of a large-scale Ukrainian counteroffensive. A spokesman for the Russian Protection Ministry, … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment KYIV, Ukraine — Russian officers stated Tuesday {that a} counterterrorism operation has expelled saboteurs from the Belgorod area, which borders Ukraine, after militias made up of Russians combating on Ukraine’s aspect within the warfare mounted an assault on a border publish and focused a constructing of the Federal Safety Service, or … Read more