A member of China’s highest military body is being slapped with a corruption investigation. Adm. Miao Hua is one of six members of an exclusive commission led by Xi that oversees China’s military. He’s the latest in a string of high-ranking defense officials to be purged from China’s military. A top-ranking admiral in China’s Central…
Israel is creating a new military dividing line in Gaza, separating off the far north of the strip, satellite images studied by BBC Verify appear to show. Troops are in control of, and are clearing, an area across the width of north Gaza. Satellite images and videos show that hundreds of buildings have been demolished…
Brazil came within a whisker of a far-right military coup and the assassination of a supreme court judge just days before President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took power in January 2023, a federal police report has claimed. The report about the alleged plot to help the rightwing populist Jair Bolsonaro cling to power was…
It seems hard to believe that it’s less than a week since Hezbollah’s communication devices started exploding all across Lebanon. The days since have represented a series of catastrophic setbacks for the formidable, Iranian-backed Shia militia. With its networks disrupted, its fighting men mutilated, its leadership assassinated and its military infrastructure under constant bombardment, Hezbollah…
A curator at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds has spoken to Sky News about going viral in an entertaining cross-generation TikTok video. “Serving curatorial realness fr [for real]” is how the social media video that has amassed more than four and a half million views is described. Curator Mark Murray-Flutter spoke to The UK…
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia on Wednesday suspended peace talks with the National Liberation Army, or ELN, after blaming the rebel group for an attack that killed two soldiers and injured more than 20. “Today the dialogue process is suspended,” said the government’s peace delegation in a statement. “Its viability is severely damaged, and its…
A potential larger war between Israel and the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah may be approaching, remarks made by the Israeli government on Monday suggested. The possibility for an agreement is running out as Hezbollah continues to “tie itself” to the Palestinian militant organization Hamas, and refuses to end the conflict, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant…
Three Israeli hostages, whose bodies were found last year in underground tunnels in Gaza, were likely killed in a military airstrike aimed at a Hamas commander, an investigation into their deaths concluded. An investigation into the deaths of Nik Beizer, 19, Ron Sherman, 19, Elia Toledano, 28, found there was a “high probability” that the…
