Author: Yash Mehra

One of the suspects in a widespread stabbing spree was found dead by Canadian police on Monday, while the second suspect—his brother—remained at large and was possibly injured, according to officials. In a nation unaccustomed to outbreaks of widespread violence, the brothers Damien and Myles Sanderson are accused of killing 10 people and injuring 18 others during a stabbing spree that wreaked havoc on an indigenous hamlet in Saskatchewan on Sunday. The assaults were among the worst in contemporary Canadian history. Police reported that while some of the victims looked to have been targeted, others appeared to be victims at…

In an early-Sunday stabbing spree that left 10 people dead and at least 15 injured, largely in a thinly populated indigenous village, Canadian police searched for two suspects. Canada hunts suspects in stabbing spree The stabbings at 13 different crime locations were among the bloodiest mass murders in Canadian history and are sure to have an impact on the whole nation, which is not used to the kind of large-scale violence more frequently witnessed in the United States. “I am shocked and devastated by the horrific attacks today,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a statement. “As Canadians, we mourn…

Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the president of Ukraine, has warned Europeans to prepare for a challenging winter as a result of Russia’s invasion of his nation, which has caused Moscow to reduce its oil and gas exports. After Moscow shut down a major pipeline that transports Russian gas to the continent, Zelenskiy was speaking on Saturday night. In his daily video speech, Putin declared that “Russia is preparing a decisive energy blow on all Europeans for this winter.” Moscow has blamed the electricity outages on technical difficulties as well as Western sanctions imposed as a result of its invasion of Ukraine. European…

In preparation for the election of a new Grand Master, Pope Francis on Saturday disbanded the leadership of the Knights of Malta, a large-scale Catholic religious order and humanitarian organization. After five years of sometimes tense debate inside the order and between some of the old guard’s senior leaders and the Vatican over a new constitution that some thought would reduce the Vatican’s authority, the pope finally made the move by issuing a decree. The organization, formally known as the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, and of Malta, was established in Jerusalem about 1,000…

An important nuclear power plant in Ukraine lost access to external electricity once more, raising concerns as the energy dispute between Moscow and the West continues. International energy officials said on Saturday that a crucial nuclear power facility in Ukraine once more experienced a loss of external electricity, raising worries as the energy conflict between Moscow and the West has heated up recently amid the ongoing conflict. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Ukraine’s biggest facility in Europe, Zaporizhzhia, had its final main external power line shut off but a reserve connection was still able to continue sending…

For the second time in a week, NASA postponed a launch attempt of its massive, next-generation rocket ship on Saturday. Artemis launch delayedPush back for Moon to Mars NASA on Saturday postponed an effort to launch its enormous, next-generation rocket ship for the second time in a week, blaming a persistent fuel leak that the space agency claimed might push back the launch of its moon-to-Mars Artemis programme by at least a few weeks. About three hours before the scheduled 2:17 p.m. EDT (1817 GMT) liftoff time for the 32-story-tall Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and its Orion capsule from…

According to two persons with knowledge of the case, Ravil Maganov, the chairman of Russia’s second-largest oil giant Lukoil, passed away on Thursday after falling from a hospital window in Moscow. He is the latest in a line of executives to pass away suddenly and without apparent cause. The 67-year-old had apparently fallen to his death, according to reports in different Russian media, although the details of his fall were not immediately clear. According to a source in law enforcement, the death was a suicide, according to the Russian state news agency TASS. According to the source cited, Maganov suffered…

As Beijing escalated military exercises close to the democratically governed island, Taiwan said on Wednesday that it would exercise its right to self-defense and launch a counterattack if Chinese soldiers breached its territory. Beijing, which asserts Tai-wan as its own despite the adamant opposition of the Taipei administration, has conducted military drills around the island this month in retaliation for Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, visiting Taipei. According to Tai-wan defence authorities, China’s continuous “high intensity” military patrols close to Tai-wan and its goal to turn the Tai-wan Strait between the two sides into its…

While Mikhail Gorbachev was remembered on Wednesday as a great leader who contributed to the end of the Cold War, Russia, which is currently at war with Ukraine to reclaim some of the authority it lost when the Soviet Union fell, reacted coolly to his passing. The last Soviet leader, Gorbachev, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 91 at a hospital in Moscow following a two-year battle with a severe illness. He established alliances with Western nations and signed armaments agreements with the United States between the heady years of 1985 and 1991 in order to bring about…

Officials from the World Health Organisation stated on Tuesday that it is feasible to end the monkeypox outbreak in Europe, pointing to data showing that case counts are decreasing in a few countries. Despite limited vaccine supplies, there are positive signs of a consistent week-over-week reduction in the number of cases beginning in many European nations, including France, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and Britain, as well as a slowdown in some regions of the United States. According to WHO Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge, “We believe we can eliminate persistent human-to-human transmission of monkeypox in the (European) region.” “We must…