Winter cold is setting in on a frontline reeling after months-long failed counteroffensive, Aleksey Danilov says NATO’s war textbooks should be shelved as no modern training manual can prepare soldiers for the war in Ukraine, according to the secretary of Kiev’s National Security and Defense Council.
Myanmar has seen significant rise in poppy farming as cultivation in Afghanistan declines, according to the UN Myanmar has become the world’s largest center of opium production in 2023, having overtaken Afghanistan, a new report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has found.
Disruptions are forcing shippers to use longer and costlier routes, analysts say Reduced water levels along the Panama Canal are disrupting global trade, forcing shippers to sail longer routes and pay higher freight costs, Reuters reported on Monday.