At a glance• Vladimir Putin could send tanks into a European Nato country tomorrow, a German general is warning• The Russian president could launch a ‘limited attack’ on Nato territory, says Lieutenant General Alexander Sollfrank• Britain has deployed aircraft to ea
US President Donald Trump will host all five Central Asian leaders in Washington on Thursday for the first time, a few months after they held separate summits with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping.The West has upped its interest with the resource-rich region, where Moscow
The 2036 development strategy of Russia’s Rostec state corporation assumes that the country will remain the world’s second-largest arms exporter, Executive Director Oleg Yevtushenko said."This year, Rostec approved its new development strategy through 2036. The difficult situation in t
NATO’s most senior military officer has delivered a four-word warning to Vladimir Putin over his ongoing war in Ukraine. Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, chair of NATO's military committee, said “Putin will not succeed” as he stressed the alliance stands united behind Kyiv amid rising tension
Stanislav Tkachenko, a Ukrainian soldier who managed to escape from the encirclement of Russian troops in the Krasnoarmeysk area, said it was a suicidal attempt."Essentially, we were surrounded. We had been cut off a week earlier. We asked our [military] command to get us out, and they rep
Lukoil said Thursday it had accepted an offer from global commodity trader Gunvor to buy its foreign assets, which Russia’s second-largest oil company is seeking to sell after Washington imposed sanctions on it last week.The planned asset sale is the most consequential action so far by a
President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to begin testing US nuclear weapons in response to actions by rival countries, an announcement that came moments before his meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.Trump in a post on social media said, “The United States has more Nuclear Weapo
Vladimir Putin has been warned "Moscow will be wiped off the map" if he were to attack NATO with nuclear weapons. Belgian defence minister Theo Francken said he isn’t concerned about Russian nuclear sabre-rattling as he championed the strength and unity of the military alliance.He said h
Why speed of the upswing has been much faster than analysts predicted and why the rally is likely to continue?COMMENT | LUKE HARTIGAN | The price of gold surged above US$4,100 (Approx. Shs14 million) an ounce (Approx.28g) on Oct.15 for the first time, taking this year’s extraordinary ral
An artistic impression of an oil refinery. Uganda hopes to complete construction of a 60,000 barrels/day refinery by 2030. COURTESY IMAGE/PETROLEUM AUTHORITY OF UGANDA.Delayed construction heightens importance of missing piece in
