Eurasian leaders launch 'CIS Plus' format in Dushanbe
Leaders of CIS member states signed an agreement establishing the new ‘CIS Plus’ format at a summit in Dushanbe, expanding the organisation’s fr...
Two senior advisers to US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth have been placed on administrative leave as the Pentagon investigates an alleged unauthorised disclosure of sensitive national security information.
Fox News has reported that one of US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth’s top advisers, Dan Caldwell, has been placed on administrative leave for allegedly disclosing information without authorisation. Citing a Defence Department official, the report stated that Caldwell was suspended amid a growing investigation into the leak of sensitive communications.
Caldwell, who has previously called for a significant reduction of the US military presence in Europe and the withdrawal of American forces from Iraq and Syria, is now under investigation following a March 21 memo signed by Department of Defense Chief of Staff Joe Kasper. The memo ordered a probe into “recent unauthorised disclosures of national security information involving sensitive communications” and authorised the use of polygraphs in accordance with legal and policy guidelines.
In a separate development, Fox News also reported that Darin Selnick, Hegseth’s deputy chief of staff, was placed on leave the same day. Selnick, a retired Air Force officer and long-time veterans’ affairs advocate, was reportedly escorted from the building.
Both Caldwell and Selnick, formerly associated with the group Concerned Veterans for America — which was once led by Hegseth — are now under scrutiny as part of a broader investigation launched in March.
At present, no confirmed link has been established between either official and the alleged leak.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
Leaders of CIS member states signed an agreement establishing the new ‘CIS Plus’ format at a summit in Dushanbe, expanding the organisation’s framework for cooperation with other states and regional bodies.
Large parts of Kyiv were plunged into darkness in the early hours of Friday after Russian drones and missiles struck Ukrainian energy facilities, cutting power and water to homes and halting a key metro link across the Dnipro river.
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for promoting democratic rights in her country and her struggle to achieve a transition to democracy, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.
Today, 10 October, the CIS Heads of State Council meeting is underway in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, in a limited format attended by leaders from member states.
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