Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea, travelled to Russia for a summit with President Vladimir Putin on his heavily guarded luxury train. The train consists of 90 carriages, is fully armoured, and travels at a slow speed of about 50km/h.
WATERBIRDS. Philippine Mallards and Wandering Whistling Ducks are spotted in Maqueda Bay in Jiabong, Samar in this undated photo. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has recorded at least 2,173 endemic and migratory waterbirds in its latest survey held in seven sites in Eastern Visayas from Jan. 9 to 20, 2023. (Photo courtesy of DENR) TACLOBAN CITY - The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has recorded at least 2,173 endemic and migratory waterbirds in its latest survey held in seven sites in Eastern Visayas. In a report released Thursday, the DENR 8 (Eastern Visayas) said the Asian Waterbird Census (AWC) was conducted from Jan. 9 to 20. It recorded the sighting of egrets, herons, Philippine ducks, shanks, common sandpipers, plovers, moorhens, curlews, terns, kingfishers, black-winged stilts, great knots, and crows. The department also reported a rare sighting of the Eurasian coot in the Maqueda Bay Wetlands. Known as the Australian coot, it is
make clear that in part, quote, we are prepared for diplomacy and a diplomatic path forward, but we are also prepared to respond if russia advances with a further invasion of ukraine. threatening overtly that the u.s. and allies are prepared to impose sanctions on russia far, far beyond what was implemented the last time russia invaded ukraine in 2014. and that the u.s. is prepared to help ukraine defend its territory if, in fact, russia invades. now, russia already has a bit of a blueprint for this. of course, you may recall they invaded and annexed a part of ukraine back in 2014 and are clearly still incredibly aggressive in all of this. if russia wasn t sufficiently deterred by the international response in 2014, what can we do differently this time around? what can the u.s. do?