Category: World

Russia Rains 400+ Missiles and Drones on Kyiv, Killing 22 — Hours Before Trump’s NATO Summit Opens Russian forces launched 68 missiles — including 23 ballistic missiles and six hypersonic Zircon anti-ship missiles — along with 351 drones at Ukraine overnight on July 6, with Kyiv as the primary target. The combined assault killed at…

Super Typhoon Bavi Hits U.S. Pacific Islands With 180 mph Winds — The Third Cat 5 of 2026 Super Typhoon Bavi made direct landfall on Rota in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands on Monday morning local time, delivering maximum sustained winds of 180 miles per hour and at least 20 inches of…

Russia Bombs Kyiv With 68 Missiles and 351 Drones on Eve of NATO Summit as Trump Heads to Turkey Russia struck Kyiv and the surrounding region with 68 missiles and 351 drones overnight Sunday into Monday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 46 others in the second large-scale ballistic missile attack on the capital…

Millions Flood Tehran Streets for Khamenei’s Funeral — Chanting for Revenge Against the U.S. Mourners dressed in black flooded Tehran’s streets Monday for the 12-hour funeral procession of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in a joint U.S.-Israeli airstrike on February 28, 2026 — the opening strike of an ongoing military campaign against…

50,000 Missing, Nearly 3,000 Dead: Venezuela’s Earthquake Disaster Deepens as Rescue Window Closes and Answers Stay Elusive Ten days after twin magnitude 7.5 and 7.2 earthquakes struck Yaracuy state in northwestern Venezuela on June 24, 2026, the official confirmed death toll had risen to at least 2,645 as of July 3, with the figure continuing…

Ukraine’s Drones Hit Putin’s Hometown: St. Petersburg Oil Terminal and Kronstadt Base Struck in Deepest Strike of the War Ukrainian defense forces struck oil export infrastructure at St. Petersburg’s Great Port and a military facility in the adjacent island fortress of Kronstadt in the early hours of July 4, 2026. President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the…

Xi Purges and Promotes: Two New PLA Generals Fill Ranks Hollowed Out by China’s Military Corruption Sweep Chinese President Xi Jinping promoted two officers to the rank of full general at a formal military ceremony on July 4, 2026, filling critical command vacancies created by an ongoing anti-corruption purge that has removed some of the…

Venezuela’s Government Is Hiding the True Death Toll — Families Are Digging Through Rubble Alone Two powerful earthquakes — magnitude 7.5 and 7.2, striking just 39 seconds apart — hit northwestern and central Venezuela on June 24, 2026, killing at least 2,595 people, injuring more than 12,400, and leaving nearly 50,000 people unaccounted for as…

Russia Burned Through 40,000 Soldiers in June and Gained 37 Square Miles Ukraine’s military estimated Russia suffered 39,490 casualties — killed, severely wounded, or missing in action — during June 2026 alone, a figure that far exceeds Russia’s estimated monthly recruitment capacity of 24,000 to 30,000 soldiers. The Institute for the Study of War reported…

Iran Picked July 4 to Bury Khamenei — and the Mourners Are Screaming “Revenge” The dayslong funeral of Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei began Saturday, July 4 — the same day the United States marks its 250th anniversary. Ceremonies opened at the Imam Khomeini Mosalla in Tehran, where crowds beat their chests and…