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Ukraine’s Drones Hit Putin’s Hometown: St. Petersburg Oil Terminal and Kronstadt Base Struck in Deepest Strike of the War
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…
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Xi Purges and Promotes: Two New PLA Generals Fill Ranks Hollowed Out by China’s Military Corruption Sweep
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…
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Venezuela’s Government Is Hiding the True Death Toll — Families Are Digging Through Rubble Alone
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…
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Russia Burned Through 40,000 Soldiers in June and Gained 37 Square Miles
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…
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Iran Picked July 4 to Bury Khamenei — and the Mourners Are Screaming “Revenge”
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…
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One Man Survived 8 Days Buried Alive in Venezuela — But Tens of Thousands Remain Unaccounted For
One Man Survived 8 Days Buried Alive in Venezuela — But Tens of Thousands Remain Unaccounted For On July 2, 2026, rescue workers pulled 43-year-old security guard Hernán Alberto Gil Flores alive from the rubble of the Galerías Playa Grande shopping center in La Guaira, Venezuela — eight full days after back-to-back earthquakes struck the…
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Iran Buries Its Slain Supreme Leader as Nuclear Talks Hit Pause — and Nobody Trusts the Ceasefire to Hold
Iran Buries Its Slain Supreme Leader as Nuclear Talks Hit Pause — and Nobody Trusts the Ceasefire to Hold Iran began a week of state funeral processions on July 3 for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in joint U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on February 28, 2026. The ceremonies — expected to draw between 15…
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Nearly 600 Russian Drones and Missiles Hit Kyiv in One Night — and the U.S. Can’t Agree on What to Do Next
Nearly 600 Russian Drones and Missiles Hit Kyiv in One Night — and the U.S. Can’t Agree on What to Do Next Russia launched 496 drones and 74 missiles at Ukraine overnight on July 2–3, 2026, with the assault concentrated on the capital Kyiv in one of the war’s most intensive bombardments to date. Ukrainian…
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Ukraine Torched a Third of Russia’s Oil Refineries — Now Ordinary Russians Can’t Fill Their Tanks
Ukraine Torched a Third of Russia’s Oil Refineries — Now Ordinary Russians Can’t Fill Their Tanks Ukrainian drone attacks have knocked approximately one-third of Russia’s oil refining capacity offline, triggering nationwide fuel shortages and rationing across the country, The Washington Post and wire services reported on July 1, 2026. An AP count found more than…
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Soldiers in the Streets, 900+ Jailed: South Africa’s Anti-Immigrant Crackdown Turns Violent
Soldiers in the Streets, 900+ Jailed: South Africa’s Anti-Immigrant Crackdown Turns Violent South African authorities arrested more than 900 people on July 1, 2026, as nationwide anti-immigrant demonstrations swept the country in what organizers had billed as a final enforcement of their self-imposed “deadline” for undocumented migrants to leave. Police monitored 120 marches across the…