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North Korea will send more troops to Russia to assist in its war against Ukraine, possibly as early as July, a South Korean lawmaker said Thursday, citing information from Seoul's spy agency.The confirmation comes just a week after Sergei Shoigu, head of Russia's Security Council, said North...
World
Government-sponsored vigilantes in northwest Nigeria killed more than 100 gang members in a gun battle earlier this week, a local official said late on Wednesday.For years, heavily armed criminal gangs locally known as "bandits" have been intensifying attacks in rural areas northwest and c...
Thai cannabis store owners and activists on Thursday hit out at new government plans to tighten the rules on selling the drug by requiring a doctor's approval, three years after it was decriminalised.The kingdom was the first country in Southeast Asia to decriminalise the drug when it removed ca...
Germany on Thursday urged Iran to keep working with the UN's nuclear watchdog, labelling a vote by Iranian lawmakers to halt cooperation with the IAEA "a totally wrong signal".Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul told journalists that Germany "urges the Iranian government not to go do...
At least 29 pupils who were sitting their high school exams in the Central African Republic have been killed in a stampede after the explosion of a power transformer set off panic, the health ministry told AFP Thursday.Just over 5,300 students were sitting the second day of the baccalaureat exams wh...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared a “historic victory” against Iran despite a US intelligence report concluding that American strikes set back Tehran’s nuclear program by just a few months.Iran and Israel agreed a ceasefire on Tuesday ending 12 days of tit-for-tat ...
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Gaza’s civil defense agency said Israeli fire killed at least 20 people on Wednesday, including six who were waiting to collect food aid in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory.The latest in a string of deadly incidents near aid distribution sites came after the United Nations had condemned t...
Sports,Football
Neymar on Tuesday extended his contract with Brazilian club Santos until the end of 2025, as he attempts to recapture his form in time for next year's World Cup."I made a decision and I followed my heart. Santos is not just my team, it's my home, my roots, my history, and my life,"...
Will he play nice? That's the question for NATO leaders nervously waiting to see if a carefully choreographed show to please US President Donald Trump will pay dividends when the alliance summit gets down to business on Wednesday.Every precaution is in place to avoid a Trump blow-up at the Hague...
Iran said Wednesday that it executed three men accused of spying for Israel, the day after a truce between the two countries came into effect."Idris Ali, Azad Shojai and Rasoul Ahmad Rasoul, who attempted to import equipment into the country to carry out assassinations, were arrested and tried ...
Japan on Wednesday called its first surface-to-ship missile test within its territory necessary training given the current "severe security environment", as it boosts military capacity to counter China.The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) fired a single "Type-88" missile t...
World,Politics
AFP, Jerusalem: US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that "great progress" was being made to end the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza as a new ceasefire push began more than 20 months since the start of the conflict."I think great progress is being made on Gaza," Trump told reporters...
AFP, MOSCOW: The Kremlin on Wednesday said Washington was not yet ready to remove barriers to the work of their respective embassies, as efforts to normalise relations between the two countries stall."Despite some progress, the American side is not yet ready to seriously address the diffic...
AFP, MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin will not travel to Brazil for next month's BRICS summit due to the outstanding International CriminalCourt (ICC) arrest warrant on the Russian president, the Kremlin said Wednesday."The president will participate via video link. This is due to certain diffi...
AFP, Celaya, Mexico: Gunmen killed 10 people in an attack on a house in a central Mexican city plagued by gang-related violence, authorities said Wednesday.Several others were wounded in the shooting on Tuesday night in Irapuato in Guanajuato state, the municipal government said in a statement....
AFP, The Hague: President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday he had discussed a ceasefire in Ukraine with US leader Donald Trump on the sidelines of NATO's summit in The Hague.Zelensky said on social media that the meeting was "long and substantive" adding: "We discussed how to ach...
Most equities extended a global rally Wednesday after Iran and Israel agreed to a ceasefire that ended more than a week of hostilities, while the dollar struggled to recover from a sharp drop stoked by bets on a US interest rate cut.However, wariness over the agreement by the Middle East foes helped...
Chinese Premier Li Qiang warned on Wednesday that global trade tensions were "intensifying" as he addressed the opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum in the northern city of Tianjin.Officials including Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong are attending this week's gathering ...
Iran on Wednesday branded NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte's gushing note to President Donald Trump on US strikes targeting key nuclear sites as "disgraceful, despicable and irresponsible".On Tuesday, Rutte hailed in a pre-NATO summit note to Trump what he called his "decisive ac...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday hailed a "historic victory" in his country's 12-day war against Iran and vowed to prevent Tehran rebuilding its nuclear facilities."We have achieved a historic victory," Netanyahu said in a televised address to the nation a...
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