The leader of Yemen's Ansarullah popular resistance movement praises Iran's recent retaliatory strikes against the Israeli regime.
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An air defense radar at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility was the target of Israel's strike early on Friday, ABC News reported, citing a senior US official.
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Today, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on two entities for their roles in establishing fundraising campaigns on behalf of Yinon Levi (Le...
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The text of the following statement was released by the G7 foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representat...
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The text of the following statement was released by the G7 foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representat...
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Iran's Foreign Minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian has warned that the Zionist regime will be met with a quick and severe response in case of its another mischief following the Islamic Republic's r...
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Millions are on the brink of famine in Sudan but "a window of opportunity" exists for the international community to act now as the main planting season approaches, a senior official with the Foo...
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The United States is committed to strengthening the global nonproliferation regime by taking action to disrupt procurement networks supporting proliferation activities of concern.
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The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and the Republic of Slovenia on the occasion of U.S. - Slovenia Strategic Dialogue.
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A new oral vaccine for cholera has been given the green light for manufacture by the UN health agency allowing for the massive scale-up of lifesaving immunisation in the world's most vulnerable c...
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The Department of State is designating four entities pursuant to Section 1(a)(ii) of Executive Order 13382, which targets proliferators of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery....
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During an era of "profound uncertainty" and as the international rules-based order "is being rigorously tested", the Head of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) told t...
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The Biden administration "cannot support a major military operation in Rafah," said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a news conference Friday at the G7 meeting in Italy.
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Following reports of alleged Israeli strikes inside Iran near a nuclear power station early Friday, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued a new appeal to all parties to "stop the dang...
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China's top diplomat met the outgoing Indonesian president and his successor in Jakarta on Thursday, as Beijing deepened its engagement with future leader Prabowo Subianto, amid a competition for...
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Afghanistan's Taliban government confirmed Friday that one of its leading religious scholars was assassinated by unknown assailants in neighboring Pakistan.
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Former Bulgarian Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov is clear on who was to blame for the recent collapse of his government: the U.S.-sanctioned oligarch Delyan Peevski.
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Israel had vowed to make Iran pay for Tehran's unprecedented drone and missile attack on April 13.
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The Thai government is looking to expand humanitarian aid to Myanmar as fighting between junta forces and rebels intensifies across the border in Kayin state, a senior spokesman from the Ministry...
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The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) has set up an information support force and Chinese President Xi Jinping presented a flag to the force at its establishment ceremony on Friday in Beijin...
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From remote states tucked in the Himalayan mountains in the north to the deep south, millions of Indians lined up at polling booths Friday at the start of a phased election in which the country's...
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AUKUS partners are making significant strides toward creating an innovative ecosystem that supports our shared interests and deepens our defense and security cooperation.
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A Tu-22M3 of the Russian aerospace forces has crashed in Russia's Stavropol Territory while returning to a home airfield after completing a combat mission, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Fr...
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International affairs analysts see a foreign policy shift with far-reaching repercussions for the U.S. and China in Argentina's decision this week to buy American-made F-16 fighter jets and its e...
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The United States is urging Cambodia to be transparent over a proposed $1.7 billion canal financed by China that is worrying Vietnam due to its potential impact on water resource management.
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John Can Unsalan, aka Hurrem Can Unsalan, the president of Orlando, Florida-based steel trading firm Metalhouse LLC, was sentenced to six years in prison for conspiracy to commit money laundering...
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Last night, the Russian Armed Forces have foiled attempts by the Kiev regime to launch terrorist attacks on the territory of the Russian Federation using the Vampire RM-70 multiple-launch rocket ...
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Palestine's application for full UN membership will not be submitted to the UN General Assembly due to the veto by the United States on 18 April in the UN Security Council. Switzerland abstained ...
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Russian Ministry of Defense reported on the progress of special military operation.
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Two senior United Nations officials raised the alarm Friday that an attack on the North Darfur capital of El Fasher could be imminent and may trigger a deadly intercommunal conflict across Darfur...
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Nearly 5,000 villagers in central Myanmar's Sagaing region have fled their homes after junta troops conducted raids in Monywa township, home to the region's largest city, residents told RFA Burme...
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The year-long ongoing war in Sudan is "a crisis of epic proportions", and the world must rethink the way it supports the Sudanese people amid rampant atrocities against civilians and no end in si...
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Prison and junta authorities killed four inmates following a protest in northern Myanmar jail, a resident told Radio Free Asia on Friday.
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The UN's top human rights official on Friday raised alarm over the escalating violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state between junta and opposition forces amid reports of the military regime forcing m...
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The 1995 genocide in Srebrenica must be globally condemned, support for victims must be expressed, and denial of genocide and glorification of war criminals be banned to prevent future similar tr...
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The relationship between the two most-populous countries in Central Asia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, has arguably never been better.
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The Group of Seven (G7) nations have called on Armenia and Azerbaijan to remain "fully committed" to the peace process as the group's foreign ministers issued a communique after their meeting in ...
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Armenia has agreed to return four abandoned border villages that it has controlled since the early 1990s to Azerbaijan as the initial step in defining the frontier between the two bitter South Ca...
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Israel has carried out strikes on air defense facilities in southern Syria, causing material damage, the Syrian Defense Ministry said on Friday.
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The M503 flight path's connecting routes of W122 and W123 from west to east have been activated starting Friday, a move that safeguards the rights and interests of passengers and is beneficial fo...
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Countries in the Middle East have expressed their disappointment over a U.S. decision to use its veto to deny Palestine's full membership in the United Nations (UN).
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On April 19 in Vilnius, Lithuania's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gabrielius Landsbergis, met with Marija Pejčinović Burić, Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CoE). The meeting focused...
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Taiwan's Civil Aviation Administration (CAA) on Friday reiterated its objection to the decision by the Chinese authorities to expand the use of controversial flight paths close to the airspace of...
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The computerized war games of this year's Han Kuang military exercises began Friday and will include lessons learned from the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas conflict, according ...
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European nations are struggling to agree on providing urgently needed weapons to Ukraine as Kyiv's forces struggle to hold ground against invading Russian forces.
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Hacker collective known as Anonymous announced that it managed to breach the IDF's cyber defenses and abscond with a vast trove of data.
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A decentralized hacker group says it has managed to break into the Israeli military's computers, accessing a trove of "top secret" documents.
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg chaired a virtual meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council at the level of defence ministers on Friday (19 April 2024), to address Ukraine's urgent need for air...
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Ukrainian leaders briefed NATO defense ministers about the situation on the battlefield and the country's critical needs during a remote meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council today.
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The security guarantees outlined in the Istanbul agreements for resolving the conflict in Ukraine were utterly serious, nearly on par with Article 5 of the Washington Treaty (also known as the No...
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Police in Pakistan's port city of Karachi said Friday two suicide bombers attacked a van carrying five Japanese autoworkers, but they all escaped unhurt.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stepped up his calls for urgent military assistance, saying NATO members must decide "whether we indeed are allies," as a crucial vote in the U.S. Congress...
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed to NATO members Friday to step up arms deliveries to Ukraine, which is struggling with diminished munitions while Russia has an air advantage and ...
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine is "a stark reminder" of the challenges to multilateralism and remains the top priority of UN partner the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE...
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A spokesman for the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) says more than 14,000 Palestinian children have so far been killed in Israel's ongoing war on Gaza.
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The sound of explosions have been heard near the central Iranian city of Isfahan and Tabriz in the country's northwest after air defense systems fired at "suspicious objects" early Friday.
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Iran and Israel have traded attacks and threats in recent weeks, increasing fears of a full-scale war between the archfoes.
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Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi has commended the Islamic Republic's retaliatory strikes on the Israeli-occupied territories on April 13, stressing that the military operation showcased the coun...
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The European Commission has decided to provide financial support to industrial projects aimed at increasing ammunition production capacity.
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China is very disappointed with the US decision, emphasizing that the urgency of accepting Palestine as a full member of the UN is now more apparent than ever. China will continue its efforts and...
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Over last weekend, as Iran began its air assault against Israel, at home it announced new enforcement of the mandatory wearing of the hijab. The initiative is called the Nour (Light) Plan.
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Commander of the Iranian Army's Ground Force Brigadier General Kioumars Haydari says Iran's recent retaliatory operation against Israel constituted four historic achievements, noting that the ope...
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The Palestinian death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has risen to 33,970, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said in a press statement on Thursday.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says his country's military reaction would be "immediate and at a maximum level" in case the Israeli regime commits folly again and decides to ta...
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Palestine condemned on Thursday "in the strongest terms" the U.S. veto on Palestine's full membership in the United Nations.
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The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has slammed the United States for blocking Palestine's request for full membership in the United Nations, amid a genocidal Israeli war on Gaza.
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The Lebanese Islamic Resistance on Friday night announced that a missile attack was launched on the gathering of the Zionist soldiers on the border of occupied Palestine.
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The U.S. "overcapacity" narrative aims to hit Chinese industries, which is another example of U.S. economic coercion and bullying, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Friday.
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Israel's military reportedly struck targets inside Iran in retaliation for an unprecedented air attack Tehran launched last weekend on its sworn enemy, but the limited scope of the operation and ...
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The DPRK Missile Administration has conducted a power test of a super-large warhead designed for "Hwasal-1 Ra-3" strategic cruise missile and a test launch of "Pyoljji-1-2" new-type anti-aircraft...
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If Iran decides to respond to a suspected Israeli strike on its territory on April 19, it might not have to pull its punches like it did the last time.
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The Lebanese Islamic Resistance has targeted the positions and military bases of the Zionist regime on five occasions since Friday morning.
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday the United States was not involved in Israel's predawn aerial strike inside Iran and declined to confirm reports that Washington was notified of...
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The spokesperson for Iran's Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the "irresponsible and unconstructive" US veto of a Palestinian request to the United Nations Security Council for full UN memb...
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The commander of a Palestinian resistance group affiliated with Saraya al-Quds, the military wing of the Gaza-based Islamic Jihad movement, has been killed in violent clashes with the Israeli reg...
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China's Foreign Ministry on Friday again rebuked US accusation of Chinese overcapacity, saying that the US' claims, while sounding like an economic concept, are a disguise for its malign attempt ...
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Israeli military aircraft have carried out a string of airstrikes against positions in Syria's southwestern provinces of Daraa and As-Suwayda as well as neighboring Iraq.
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The United States on Thursday voted against a Palestinian request for full UN membership at the Security Council.
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Both Tel Aviv and Tehran downplayed Israel's predawn aerial strike inside Iran on Friday, suggesting neither side wants to see the situation escalate into a full-scale regional conflict.
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The United States on Thursday voted against a Palestinian request for full UN membership at the Security Council.
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OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Minister for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade of Malta Ian Borg and OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid made the following statement regarding the actio...
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U.S. President Joe Biden announced new sanctions against Iran on Thursday targeting Tehran's drone program, steel industry and an automobile company, a move he said was aimed at "holding Iran res...
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Cambodia appears to have given the Chinese navy extended and exclusive access to its naval base in Ream despite official claims that they only arrived for training purposes, a U.S. think tank sai...
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India's mammoth general elections have begun, marking the start of a seven-phase democratic exercise for the world's largest democracy that will span over six weeks with a billion people eligible...
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North Korea has conducted a power test of a "super-large warhead" for a strategic cruise missile, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported citing North Korea's KCNA.
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Water levels are still rising in rivers crossing Kazakhstan and Russia as floods continue to wreak havoc and force the evacuation of thousands from towns and cities.
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Beijing officials are decrying the deployment of U.S. medium-range missiles in the Asia-Pacific region for the first time since the Cold War.
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The leader of Tibet's government-in-exile on Wednesday said he was hopeful that a U.S. bill urging China to resolve issues related to Tibet through dialogue with the Dalai Lama or Tibetan leaders...
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China is challenging Japan's latest analysis of the threat posed to the Indo-Pacific region by Beijing as a hyped-up threat and false accusation.
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The threat of a wider war between Israel and Iran may give U.S. President Joe Biden more breathing room to provide military assistance to Israel without restrictions sought by progressive lawmake...
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Spokesman of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) called the publication of news from a Zionist media that the building of the Dimona power plant was damaged in Iran's punitive attack agains...
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Iran activated an air defense system in the early hours of Friday after the sound of an explosion heard near a major airbase in the central province of Isfahan, an Iranian official says.
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The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that the number of martyrs in the Gaza Strip has increased to 34,012 since the start of the Zionist regime's aggression in this area.
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Voting for the first phase of India's general elections began Friday, kicking off a seven-phased process lasting until June 1.
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The initiation of the west-to-east operation of W122 and W123 routes that connect with M503 route, effective Friday, benefits both sides of the Taiwan Strait, said a Chinese mainland spokesperson...
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The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) has set up an information support force.
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A Negotiation was held between Im Chon Il, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and Yevgeny Shestakov, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic o...
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A Solomon Islands politician ousted as premier of the Pacific island country's most populous province after opposing diplomatic recognition of China has been reelected to its provincial assembly,...
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The Government of Pakistan strongly condemns today's heinous terrorist attack in Karachi's Landhi Area. All necessary measures will be taken to bring the perpetrators to justice. Such dastardly a...
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In April, the Swiss Armed Forces Cyber Command is taking part in 'Locked Shields 2024', the world's largest cyber defence exercise, along with national and international partners. The exercise wi...
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Civil society in Ukraine has a key role to play in uniting the country and building resilience against Russia's war of aggression. Norway is allocating NOK 70 million to a newly launched, applica...
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The President listened, via videoconference, to a report of the Head of the Republic of Crimea Sergei Aksyonov on the socio-economic situation in the country. Special attention was paid to the su...
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Australia welcomes the significant and tangible steps made by the United States Government to further streamline export control licensing requirements for AUKUS trilateral partners. A licence-fre...
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Littoral manoeuvre, land-based strike and battlefield aviation are among the Australian Army capabilities to receive large investment commitments under the newly released Integrated Investment Pr...
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DRDO's Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) has handed over the first batch of the indigenous Leading Edge Actuators and Airbrake Control Module to Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), marking a...
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The 37th and final defendant was sentenced today in a Northern District of Mississippi case that targeted the violent activities, drug trafficking, and money laundering of the Simon City Royals p...
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An Indian national was sentenced today to five years in prison for selling controlled substances on dark web marketplaces and ordered to forfeit approximately $150 million.
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The Department of State, the United States Agency for International Development, and the Department of Commerce, in partnership with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Government of Ukraine, ho...
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The Department of State is today designating Ben Zion Gopstein, the founder and leader of Lehava, an organization whose members have engaged in destabilizing violence affecting the West Bank. Und...
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The United States offers its congratulations to the people of Solomon Islands, the Solomon Islands Electoral Commission, and the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force on successfully executing an or...
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U.S. Central Command conducted an air drop of humanitarian assistance into Northern Gaza on April 18, 2024, at 1:09 p.m. (Gaza time) to provide essential relief to civilians affected by the ongoi...
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Statement by Ambassador Barbara Woodward at the UN Security Council meeting on Sudan.
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The UK warmly welcomes the significant progress made with our partners the US and Australia to advance the AUKUS trilateral partnership, working together for a free and open Indo-Pacific and ther...
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Russian Defence Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu inspected fulfilment of state defence order at a defence industry enterprise in Omsk region that produces tanks and heavy flamethrower s...
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The Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Albany (SSN 753) arrived in Faslane, Scotland for a scheduled port visit, April 17, 2024.
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Federal Chancellor Scholz visited China for the second time during his time in office. In addition to business relations, the visit focussed on geopolitical challenges and sustainability strategi...
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The Security Council met this afternoon on the situation in the Middle East, including the question of Palestine. The Council heard a briefing from Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the...
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More than 60 people in Vietnam have been given long prison sentences for being members of the so-called "Provisional National Government of Vietnam," since it was classified as a terrorist organi...
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Seven people have been found dead in Kazakhstan as floods caused by abrupt warm weather that led to a massive snowmelt continue to wreak havoc across the country and in southern Russia.
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China's government has turned the country's tech companies like Huawei and ZTE into its "proxies" and uses their dominant market share in developing countries around the Indo-Pacific region to ex...
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Nigeria has been Africa's largest or second-largest oil exporter for years, but relies heavily on imports to meet local energy needs. The government is trying to change that, saying the country's...
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PACE has paid tribute to Alexei Navalny, declaring that the Russian state bears full responsibility for his death, and urged a series of sweeping measures to counter what it called Vladimir Putin...
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Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released Securing Electio...
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A group known as Cyberpartisans says it hacked into the computers and security systems of a major Belarusian state-run producer of nitrogen compounds and fertilizers and is demanding the release ...
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China refutes US 'debt trap' claim, says international creditors account for big chunk of developing countries' debts
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Hong Kong has arrested 291 people for endangering national security in the near four years since the city's first national security law took effect. They range from 15 to 90 years old, according ...
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday warned of "small cliques" and called for joint efforts to preserve hard-won peace in the South China Sea during his visit to Indonesia.
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The US petition regarding China's maritime, logistics and shipbuilding sectors is filled with numerous unfounded accusations, distorting normal trade and investment activities, and China strongly...
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The U.N. Security Council Sanctions Committee on North Korea approved a request from UNICEF for a sanctions exemption so that vaccine storage equipment could be transported into North Korea, U.N....
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Israel has for now retreated from its plan to strike back at Iran after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received a call from US President Joe Biden, sources say.
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The Korean Central News Agency Thursday released a detailed report that another flourishing socialist living space was built in the Hwasong area of the capital city under the grand plan and outst...
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Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian says the United States was informed about Tehran's decision to punish the Israeli regime and after the operation 'True Promise' was accomplished wi...
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Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) dismisses reports of affliction of damage to the Israeli regime's Dimona nuclear reactor during the Islamic Republic's recent Operation True Promise ...
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The Permanent Representatives of the United States, Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, German...
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The Thai Foreign Ministry urged Myanmar's military junta to release Aung San Suu Kyi in a statement that also welcomed this week's move of the former de facto leader to house arrest.
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An armed ethnic group intercepted a junta convoy near the Thai-Myanmar border on Thursday, according to an announcement from rebel forces.
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A new report by a team of Tibet-focused cybersecurity analysts details how hackers with links to the Chinese government are using cyber espionage tactics to target members of the Tibetan governme...
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A missile carrying no warhead fell off a P-3C anti-submarine aircraft during routine aerial training Thursday, according to the Air Force Command Headquarters.
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The European Union has decided to impose new sanctions on Iran's drone and missile programs under the pretext of Tehran's recent retaliatory operation against Israel.
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Iran's nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami reaffirmed on Wednesday the country's commitment to nuclear activities that align with its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
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The UK sanctioned a further 7 individuals and 6 entities that enabled Iran's destabilising activity in the Middle East, including its direct attack on Israel.
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Under the pretext of preventing the escalation of tensions in the region, following Iran's legitimate defense against the aggressive act of the Zionist regime, the UK regime sanctioned Brigadier ...
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In response to Iran's unprecedented attack on Israel, the United States is taking sweeping actions against several actors involved in Iran's unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program, suppliers and c...
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The United States and United Kingdom in a coordinated move have imposed new widespread sanctions on Iran's drone and missile programs after Tehran's recent retaliatory operation against Israel.
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A senior commander in Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has said that the country's nuclear facilities are fully secure, and that Iran has its finger on the trigger to fire powerful m...
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Iran has condemned the G7 statement regarding Iran's retaliation of Israel's attack on its consulate in Syria, pledging that it will not hesitate for a second in responding to aggressors.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says Tehran informed the United States of its plan to carry out strikes against Israel in retaliation for the regime's terrorist attack on the Is...
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Iran's foreign minister says the country could have conducted its recent retaliatory strikes against the Israeli regime in a wider scope, but sufficed to hit only part of the regime's military po...
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Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has called on the UN Security Council to force Israel to stop any further military action against Iran or face the Islamic Republic's "decisive" response...
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Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has warned against adventurism by the Zionist regime, saying that the Islamic Republic will respond to any miscalculation more severely.
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President Ebrahim Raeisi says Iran will make Israel and its supporters regret the "slightest attack" amid reports that Tel Aviv was "making a decision to act" against the Islamic Republic.
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An IRGC official has warned that if Israel takes action against Iran's nuclear facilities, it will definitely face "tit-for-tat" retaliation against the regime's nuclear centers with advanced wea...
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Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi has warned the Zionist regime that the tiniest act of aggression against Iranian soil will be met with a response that will make the regime and its supporters regre...
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The modern battlefield has been transformed by drones in the air and on the high seas, and now both Russia and Kyiv appear to be on the cusp of deploying large numbers of ground drones onto Ukrai...
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The Cyber Security Command of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has called on the Iranian people to report any pro-Zionist activities in cyberspace.
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In the evening on Wednesday 17 April, the special European Council discussed the security situation in Europe and the Middle East.
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On 17-18 April, representatives from more than 50 countries and organisations gathered at an international workshop in Kyiv to discuss measures for identifying and clearing mines and unexploded o...
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The Commission has topped up the budget of the MSCA4Ukraine initiative, set up to support researchers forced to flee Ukraine, with an additional €10 million. The scheme, set up under Marie Skł...
This week marks two years since three OSCE officials were unjustly detained in Luhansk and Donetsk. The OSCE Chair-in-Office, Minister for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade of Malta Ian Borg...
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday agreed to hold an urgent meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Co...
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Right-wing politicians in Europe called for an end to Western support for Ukraine in its war against Russian invaders, as hundreds of people gathered in Brussels this week for the European Nation...
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Previously deferred debt repayments to China are coming due in Kyrgyzstan, raising public concerns in the Central Asian country about deepening financial dependence on its powerful eastern neighb...
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The Group of Seven on Thursday reaffirmed its support for Ukraine's defense, addressing both its urgent short-term financing needs and long-term reconstruction. Germany will host a Ukraine recove...
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Russia says the latest aid package by the United States for Ukraine will fail to change the military situation in favor of Kiev, as Washington gears up for a seminal weekend vote on a long-stalle...
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In the morning, the Russian Armed Forces have foiled attempts by the Kiev regime to carry out terrorist attacks on the territory of the Russian Federation using Tochka-U operational-tactical miss...
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg underlined the importance of strengthening support to Ukraine at the G7 meeting of Foreign Ministers in Capri, Italy, on Thursday (18 April 2024).
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Once hailed for its strides in economic growth and social advancement, Bangladesh now grapples with an uncertain trajectory as its faltering economy threatens to reverse hard-won gains in poverty...
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Check against delivery!
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Efforts by China-linked hackers to infiltrate computer systems and networks that run key sectors of the U.S. economy — only to lie in wait for an opportunity to strike — appear to predate Chi...
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The Security Council rejected Palestine's request for UN membership on Thursday, with the United States casting a veto.
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Speaking just days after launching a massive aerial attack on Israel, Iran told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday that Israel "must be compelled to stop any further military adventurism again...
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Israel has launched an attack in Iran, U.S. media reported quoting U.S. government officials, in what appears to be retaliatory strikes for the unprecedented air attack Tehran launched last weeke...
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The director of the CIA warned Thursday there is a "real risk that the Ukrainians could lose on the battlefield by the end of 2024," in its war against Russia.
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The Albanese Government will deliver a sovereign, autonomous undersea capability, through the Ghost Shark Program.
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Violent war criminals are buying their way out of prison time in Bosnia-Herzegovina, exploiting a loophole that the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe (OSCE) and others warn triv...
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Burkina Faso's military junta has expelled three French diplomats for "subversive activities," according to a government statement Thursday.
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The current Philippine administration unilaterally abandoned the 'gentleman's agreement' between China and the Duterte administration on the Ren'ai Jiao (Ren'ai Reef). China urged the Philippines...
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Kosovar Prime Minister Albin Kurti said a deputy chief of the Kosovo Police remains in Serbian custody after being detained by Serbian police at the border, a move some Kosovar officials said was...
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Lebanon's Hezbollah has announced it carried out a missile attack on a gathering of Israeli forces in the al Malikiyah military base to support the Palestinian resistance and the people in Gaza.
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The Republika Srpska National Assembly is discussing the adoption of legislative initiatives that would undermine the constitutional order of the country, the functionality of its institutions an...
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Quds Brigades (Saraya Al-Quds), the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, announced on Thursday night that it has targeted Ashkelon, Sderot and some Zionist towns adjacent to t...
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The news sources reported early on Thursday that the Israeli regime's bases in northern occupied Palestine were attacked by missiles.
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The Palestinian presidency on Wednesday condemned the remarks by U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) Linda Thomas-Greenfield over full UN membership for Palestine.
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Israel's military said Thursday it conducted airstrikes throughout the Gaza Strip targeting Hamas fighters and infrastructure along with aerial strikes that killed two Hezbollah militants in sout...
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Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Security Council Vassily Nebenzia has said that the Council must urgently consider imposing sanctions on Israel for its non-compliance to the Gaza ceas...
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Adnan Al-Husseini, a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and head of the Jerusalem Affairs Department, rejected on Wednesday the plan to change the current ...
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Qatar's prime minister has said Doha is reassessing its role as a mediator in negotiations between the Palestinian resistance group Hamas and the Israeli regime aimed at bringing about a ceasefir...
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Statement by Ambassador Barbara Woodward at the UN Security Council meeting on the Middle East.
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The United States has predictably cast its veto against a bid by the Palestinian Authority (PA) for Palestine to be recognized as a full member of the United Nations.
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday called for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and also expressed China's support for Palestine over the upcoming UN Security Council (UNSC) vote on its f...
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The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) on Wednesday launched a flash appeal worth 2.822 billion U.S. dollars for the occupied Palestinian territory.
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Commander of the Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Ismail Qa'ani has extended his condolences to the Hamas political bureau chief over the martyrdom of...
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The Security Council met today in an all-day open debate on the situation in the Middle East, including the question of Palestine. The Council heard an address from the United Nations Secretary-G...
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The United Nations Relief Works and Agency (UNRWA) has warned that the grip of a "man-made" famine is tightening its grip across the war-torn Gaza Strip, as Israel has severely blockaded the Pale...
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What will it take for Palestine to become a full UN Member State? As the Security Council takes up the matter while the devastating war in Gaza enters its seventh month, we looked at Palestine's ...
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Recent escalations in the Middle East make it even more important to support efforts towards lasting peace between Israel and a fully independent, viable and sovereign Palestinian state, UN Secre...
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The Security Council today blocked Palestine's bid to become a full member of the United Nations due to a United States veto on a draft resolution that would have recommended the granting of such...
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At least 13 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a gathering of Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip, local eyewitnesses and medical sources said on Wednesday.
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UN independent human rights experts on Thursday raised alarm over the "systematic destruction" of the Palestinian education system in the Gaza Strip, as Israel's military operation continues unab...
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Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa stressed on Wednesday the key challenges facing the Gaza Strip amid ongoing conflict.
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The Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip from ongoing Israeli attacks has risen to 33,899, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said in a press statement on Wednesday.
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The historic Trilateral Summit held on 11 April 2024 provided the Philippines, Japan and the United States the opportunity to build upon their robust bilateral relations, expand their economic co...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday stressed Israel's "right to defend itself against Iran," when receiving British Foreign Secretary David Cameron and German Foreign Minister ...
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Head of state Rumen Radev and his Italian counterpart, Sergio Mattarella, visited the Novo Selo Training Area today.
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A preliminary agreement has been reached in Brussels on providing nonlethal assistance to Armenia from the European Peace Facility (EPF), according to a diplomatic document obtained by RFE/RL.
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The Defense Innovation Board (DIB) held its Spring Board Meeting virtually on April 17th, 2024.
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Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoană met Argentine Defence Minister Luis Petri at NATO Headquarters on Thursday (18 April 2024) for talks on working toward a partnership between the Alliance a...
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Kim Son Gyong, vice-minister for International Organizations of the DPRK Foreign Ministry, Friday released the following press statement "The Asian trip by the U.S. representative to the UN indic...
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The United States commends Norway for its plan to reach NATO's shared commitment to spend at least 2% of its gross domestic product on defense during this calendar year, Secretary of Defense Lloy...
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Kenya's military chief was among nine people killed in a helicopter crash Thursday, according to Kenyan President William Ruto.
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Conventionally armed, nuclear‑powered submarines and infrastructure will receive $53 billion to $63 billion over the next decade as part of Australia's investment in developing a Navy with enha...
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The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Argentina of Basler BT-67 Aircraft and related elements of logistics and program supp...
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This month, Georgia's ruling party has introduced divisive new laws aimed at combating what they have called "gay propaganda" and "foreign agents." They have justified the legislation in nativist...
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi criticized the United States on Thursday for its votes on previous United Nations resolutions for a Gaza cease-fire, following talks in Jakarta with his Indonesia...
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A Colombian national was extradited from Chile to the United States yesterday to face charges related to kidnapping and assaulting two U.S. Army soldiers who were on temporary duty in Bogota, Col...
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In response to growing campaign violence, Chad's transitional president, General Mahamat Idriss Deby, has ordered his military to arrest angry civilians and make sure peace reigns in the run-up t...
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Today, in response to Iran's unprecedented attack on Israel on April 13, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is targeting 16 individuals and two entities enab...
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China has slammed an annual Philippine-U.S. joint military exercise scheduled to begin next week, warning against "maritime provocations."
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Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) conducted a successful flight-test of Indigenous Technology Cruise Missile (ITCM) from the Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur off the coas...
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was informed about a further attempted drone attack today on the training centre of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), causing no dam...
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The United States has announced new sanctions on Iran targeting its drone production capabilities after its attack on Israel, the U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement on April 18.
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NATO is working to send more air defense systems to Ukraine, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday, noting that Ukraine had an "urgent, critical need for more air defense."
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The United States and Ukraine's other partners have already started working on Ukraine's economic recovery even as Kyiv focuses on defending itself because both Kyiv and its partners know that "p...
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Taiwan's Army has recently concluded two rounds of drills in southern Pingtung county testing the precision shooting capabilities of its missiles and rockets, the Military News Agency (MNA) repor...
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The European Union's foreign policy chief called on EU member states to give Ukraine more air defense systems as the embattled country grapples with increasingly intense Russian air strikes on it...
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British Army soldiers are a step closer to getting their hands on one of Europe's most lethal tanks - the Challenger 3 - the Defence Secretary has announced.
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Pakistan announced Thursday that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will pay a three-day official visit to Islamabad, starting April 22, as the neighboring countries seek to mend relations after an ...
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The ongoing global spread of "bird flu" infections to mammals including humans is a significant public health concern, senior UN medics said on Thursday, as they announced new measures to tackle ...
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Burkina Faso has ordered three French diplomats to leave the coup-hit country within two days over "subversive activities", a year after the junta ruling the African nation cut off ties with Fran...
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Israel carried out a predawn missile strike inside Iran on Friday local time, U.S. media reported, citing unnamed U.S. officials.
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Today, Secretary Yellen participated in the 5th Ukraine Ministerial Roundtable, chaired by Prime Minister Denis Shmyhal, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, and World Bank President Ajay ...
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