The United Arab Emirates announced it shot down a ballistic missile fired on the country as Israel’s President Isaac Herzog was making a landmark visit to Abu Dhabi. A statement from Herzog’s spokesman said that Israel’s president was informed of the incident and that his visit was expected to proceed as planned. The UAE’s defense ministry said “air defenses intercepted … Read More

The first ever fighter jet patrols by the Russian military in Syria along Israel’s Golan border have started with the Russian Ministry of Defense saying that the flights are planned to continue as a regular series of patrol flights. The Russian fighter jets along with Syrian fighter jets, strike aircraft, and radar planes, took a provocative course that included skirting … Read More

The volcano at the island nation of Tonga erupted with an explosive force that was more than 600 times as powerful as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, according to scientists. Scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center said that they came up “with a number that’s around 10 megatons of TNT equivalent.” That means the volcano blast was equal to the … Read More

The recent eruption of the Tonga volcano in the South Pacific was so loud that many Tongans could not hear and had to signal to each other while evacuating according to reports. A journalist in Tonga said, “The first explosion…our ears were ringing and we couldn’t even hear each other, so all we do is pointing to our families to get … Read More

Biden in a press conference said that he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin will advance into Ukraine. Biden said, “My guess is he will move in. He has to do something.” Biden spoke at a nearly two-hour White House press conference where he indicated there was disagreement within NATO about imposing strong sanctions on Russia because it would harm the … Read More

The Foreign Minister of Russia, Sergey Lavrov, has warned that Moscow is running out of patience with the West as Russia continues to levy demands that the US and NATO have dismissed as non-starters. Lavrov said at a news conference, “We have run out of patience. The West has been driven by hubris and has exacerbated tensions in violation of … Read More

American and Ukrainian officials are watching from afar as Russia has begun emptying out its embassy in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital. Reports say that mostly the families of Russian diplomats boarded buses to leave with 18 people, mostly children and wives, embarking on a 15-hour drive home to Moscow, according to a senior Ukrainian security official. Then they say another … Read More

A massive volcano eruption in Tonga exploded that was so powerful it was recorded around the world. Satellite images showed a huge eruption like a nuclear bomb mushroom cloud with a plume of ash, steam and gas rising like a mushroom above the blue Pacific waters north of New Zealand. Scientists said images showed the huge eruption as a 3 … Read More