Hurricane Irma, rampaging across the Caribbean, has produced sustained winds at 295 kilometers per hour (183 miles per hour) for more than 33 hours, making it the longest-lasting, top-intensity cyclone ever recorded, France’s national weather service said Thursday. “Such an intensity, for such a long period, has never been observed ...
Russia’s top military boss was set to meet with a senior NATO commander in Baku on Thursday, as Moscow prepares to hold major war games next week with Belarus. The Russian defense ministry said Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov and Petr Pavel, chairman of NATO’s Military Committee, would ...
