US Transforms Greek Bay into Strategic Military Stronghold
The United States is reinforcing its military footprint in the Eastern Mediterranean by heavily fortifying the naval base at Souda Bay, located on the Greek island of Crete
Iran has said it has asked the US and French authorities to help them decrypt the information from the black boxes of the Ukrainian jetliner that was accidentally shot down, which has provoked anger in countries demanding the data to be analyzed abroad, Reuters reports.
Canada, 57 of which citizens are among the 176 people killed in the crash, said France should analyze the black boxes, one of the few countries that have this opportunity. Kiev wants the devices to be shipped to Ukraine.
Tehran has given mixed signals whether it will hand over the black boxes.
An Iranian Aviation Service official said on Saturday that they would be sent to Ukraine, but a day later he said they would be analyzed in Iran.
“If the appropriate supplies and equipment are provided, the information can be taken out and reconstructed in a short period of time,” Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization said in its second preliminary report on the disaster released late on Monday.
A list of equipment Iran needs has been sent to French accident agency BEA and the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, the Iranian aviation body said.
“Until now, these countries have not given a positive response to sending the equipment to (Iran),” it said. It said two surface-to-air TOR-M1 missiles had been launched minutes after the Ukrainian plane took off from Tehran, Reuters reported.
Russia’s recently dismissed Transport Minister Roman Starovoit has reportedly died by suicide
Tsvetelina Penkova, Bulgarian MEP from the Socialists and Democrats group and secretary for international affairs of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, discussed Bulgaria's European trajectory
The return of compulsory military service is once again at the center of political debate in Europe, driven by heightened security concerns following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Danish MEP Niels Fuglsang, representing the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, described Bulgaria’s anticipated entry into the eurozone
Israel has carried out a wave of airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen, hitting ports, a power facility, and the radar system of a ship previously seized by the rebel group
At their summit in Rio de Janeiro, BRICS leaders issued a sharp rebuke of rising global tariffs and recent military actions in the Middle East
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