Cosmos Chronicle

Strong winds and 20-foot waves are preventing the Coral Princess cruise ship with more than 2,000 passengers onboard from safely docking in the Australian port. Last week, the ship reported 120 cases of Covid-19. Now, its 2,000-plus passengers are stranded at sea. The ship was supposed to dock in Brisbane at 7 AM local time Friday, the last day of...

The Russian Ministry of Defense has confirmed striking targets in the major Ukrainian port of Odessa, revealing that its missiles hit military infrastructure and arms stockpiles of Harpoon missiles during Saturday’s attack. In the seaport of Odessa, on the territory of a shipyard, a docked Ukrainian warship and a warehouse of Harpoon anti-ship missiles, supplied by the USA to the...

The Japanese government is expected to bar Russian President Vladimir Putin from attending the state funeral of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, if he desires to do so. Abe, was Japan’s longest-serving PM, but was assassinated earlier this month. The Kremlin previously said Putin was not planning to attend the funeral, while the presence of other officials would depend on...

Tesla faces losing its crown as the world's biggest electric car maker to Volkswagen by 2024. A study by Bloomberg Intelligence expects the German giant to double production to more than 2 million battery-powered vehicles in 2024, overtaking Tesla. Rising battery costs and limited production capacity meant most other competitors, including Ford and General Motors, lacked an incentive to catch...

The latest arrest report is the third of its kind to be announced by the Iranian intelligence ministry since March, 2022. Israel is constantly trying to sabotage Iranian infrastructure, while blaming Tehran for aggressive behavior. The next recent occurrence took place on June 14, when state media announced the arrest of a group of thugs and hooligans who were recruited...

Despite ongoing advances in Ukraine, American intelligence has reported that the Russian Military is seeking to strengthen its position in the ongoing war with the acquisition of drones from the Islamic Republic of Iran. Although Iran neglected to vote against condemning Russian military action in Ukraine at the United Nations, the two have a history of close military cooperation from...

Hundreds of Israeli settlers set out across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday to take part in an unprecedented effort to erect a number of illegal settlement outposts in the invaded territory. The effort was launched by the far-right Nachala settlement movement, whose mission is to increase Jewish settlement in the West Bank. Reports indicated that the settlers are seeking to...

Earlier this week, Ukrainian troops launched strikes against the hydroelectric power station (HPP) in Novaya Kakhovka and the Antonovsky Bridge that crosses the Dnieper river in Kherson Region. At least a dozen of the American HIMARS missiles used in the swarm attacks by US soldiers were downed by Russian air defense systems, but some still struck their civilian targets. American specialists...

The latest extreme heat wave to hit the USA is showing no mercy, leaving more than 105 million Americans in 28 states under heat advisories and excessive heat warnings from the National Weather Service. Temperatures of 115 degrees Fahrenheit have been recorded in Texas and Oklahoma this week, and more than 211 million people across the country will experience heat...

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar and Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov signed a UN-brokered grain deal in Istanbul on Friday. Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said that two documents were signed in Istanbul aimed at solving the issue of food and grain exports to the global market. The defense minister added that the first document stipulates...

Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported Friday morning that air defenses had activated in the capital city of Damascus in response to inbound missile strikes, launched by Israel. Explosions were reported in the vicinity of the capital on Friday morning, although the targets of the strike were as yet unclear. At least seven explosions were reported, in the areas of...

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi has offered his resignation to the country’s president Sergio Mattarella, showing the downfall of the European Union as the ruling constitution. The president took note of Draghi’s resignation letter, and instructed the government to uphold its current duties, the president’s office said in a statement on Thursday. Upholding the current duties means the government will not...

Further cracks in a united front to tackle an energy crisis in Europe have arisen Thursday, with Spain, Portugal and Greece rejecting the bloc’s plan to reduce natural gas consumption by 15% between this August and next Spring. Just hours after a dire warning by IEA chief Fatih Birol that Europe would need a 20% cut in consumption to make...

Alongside the world’s largest attack submarines, the massive 40,000 ton Typhoon Class ships, the Russian Navy today fields the world’s heaviest class of surface combat ships the Kirov Class battle-cruisers. Laid down in from the mid 1970's and entering service from 1980, these 28,000 ton vessels are larger than most carriers such as the French Mistral and Japanese Izumo classes...

Truckers protesting a state labor law have effectively shut down cargo operations at the Port of Oakland. The shutdown will further exacerbate the congestion of containers and port officials are urging operations at shipping terminals to resume. The protest that began Monday involves hundreds of independent big-rig truckers that have blocked the movement of cargo in and out of terminals...

North Sentinel Island, located in the Bay of Bengal, between Myanmar and Indonesia, is home to an isolated tribe that has never been colonized or even made contact with. These people are one of the last Stone Age tribes on Earth whose culture has been completely untouched by modern civilization. Despite the fact that the island formally belongs to India, no...

Relations between Moscow and the Zionist controlled West have ebbed to their lowest point in Russia's modern history over the proxy crisis in Ukraine. Printing money is not the real solution for saving an economy, in contrary. The situation has exacerbated global economic concerns about out of control energy prices and already skyrocketing inflation. Russian officials have stressed that the...

Russia and Iran have been cooperating to connect their inter-bank messaging systems in order to bypass the US sanctions and the western controlled SWIFT financial transactions network. Both countries are facing severe Western sanctions, making settlements in trade through SWIFT difficult or impossible since March 2022. In February 2022, seven Russian banks were severed from SWIFT, effectively denying them access to...

Ukraine will receive four more high mobility artillery rocket systems (HIMARS) from Washington as part of the next security assistance package, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced on Wednesday. Later this week, we’ll roll out our next presidential draw down package of weapons, ammunition and equipment for Ukraine, Austin said while hosting a virtual meeting of the US-led Ukraine...

On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin is visiting Iran for a fifth time. Is it a lot or a little? Well, if you count back to 2000, when he first became the leader of Russia, it doesn’t seem much of a difference. However, if you look at the dates of the visits, a very different picture emerges. It turns out...

OTTAWA, Canada: Canada will spend over $30 billion to monitor Russian and Chinese military movements in the Arctic over the next two decades. This spending would be the largest in Canada in decades to bolster its military preparedness. It also comes following pledges made to the United States by Canada to upgrade its capabilities to help defend North America, as...