Texas Weekly Online

Ukraine invites UN and Red Cross to Russia’s Kursk region

Kremlin slams invitation as ‘pure provocation’ as it prepares to welcome Red Cross chief. Ukraine says it has asked the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to verify the situation in areas of Russia’s Kursk region seized by Kyiv. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on Monday that he had Read More

Ukraine’s ‘Bucha witches’ volunteer to shoot down Russian drones

Bucha, Ukraine – Valentyna beams when she talks about her new vocation – a “witch of Bucha”. That’s the unofficial moniker of almost 100 women aged 19 to 64 who are volunteers in part-time military service in air defence units in the suburban community northwest of Kyiv. Each “Bucha witch” trains to handle assault rifles Read More

Dem rep demands Secret Service expand Trump protective perimeter: ‘Unacceptable’

A Democratic congressman demanded that the U.S. Secret Service expand the protective perimeter around former President Donald Trump following a second assassination attempt on Sunday.  “Two assassination attempts in 60 days on a former President & the Republican nominee is unacceptable,” Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., wrote. “The Secret Service must come to Congress tomorrow, tell Read More