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30.11.2022 16:40 South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has threatened North Korea with unprecedented joint response with his country's allies if Pyongyang goes ahead with a seventh nuclear test.

30.11.2022 16:40 China successfully launched the Shenzhou-15 manned spacecraft via a Long March-2F carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Tuesday, which marked the completion, within two years, of all 11 space launch missions scheduled at the construction stage for the country's first permanent space station.

30.11.2022 16:40 Syria needs less military activity and more focus on the political process, UN Special Envoy Geir Pedersen told the Security Council on Tuesday, appealing for restraint amid a worrying trend towards escalation.

30.11.2022 16:40 U.S. efforts to ease tensions between Turkey and Kurdish fighters in northern Syria appear to be having little effect, with both sides refusing to back down despite warnings that a conflict will only benefit the Islamic State terror group.

30.11.2022 16:40 Turkish forces have launched a barrage of airstrikes on suspected militants in northeastern Syria and Iraq in recent days, after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed Kurdish groups for last week's bombing in Istanbul.

30.11.2022 16:40 The United States Department of Defense has identified four possible military courses of action that China could take against Taiwan, but did not offer any guess on when Beijing might be ready to act.

30.11.2022 16:40 Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense on Tuesday said all of its arms purchases from the United States are proceeding "within a controllable range," after a U.S. media report claimed the backlog of American weapons bound for Taiwan was approaching US$19 billion.

30.11.2022 16:40 One day after Canada launched its Indo-Pacific Strategy, Taiwan "sincerely" welcomed the document while a Chinese government spokesperson said China "expresses its strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition."

30.11.2022 16:40 Russia has donated 260,000 metric tons of fertilizer it produced that was sitting in European ports and warehouses for use by farmers in Africa, the United Nations said Tuesday.

30.11.2022 16:40 The Chinese response to a U.S. freedom of navigation operation in the South China Sea highlighted the premise behind the department's 2022 China Military Power Report released today.

30.11.2022 16:40 The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Qatar of the Fixed Site-Low, Slow, Small Unmanned Aircraft System Integrated Defeat System System of Systems and related equipment for an estimated cost of $1 billion. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress of this possible sale today.

30.11.2022 16:40 Humanitarian aid alone cannot overcome record levels of internal displacement globally, the UN Development Programme said in a report published on Tuesday, calling for urgent action to support people uprooted by climate, conflict and crisis.

30.11.2022 16:40 The U.S. Navy on Tuesday rejected China's claim that it had "tracked and dispelled" a U.S. warship from waters near Spratly Islands in the South China Sea that China claims almost in its entirety.

30.11.2022 16:40 UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is calling for urgent support and responsibility-sharing from the international community to preserve and reinforce Uganda's model refugee policy of social inclusion and integration, amid surging needs, drastic funding cuts to global humanitarian programmes and fresh displacement into the country.

30.11.2022 16:40 The United Nations World Food Programme and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, warned today of an imminent cut to food assistance to crisis-affected refugees in Chad unless urgent funding to bridge major funding shortfalls is received imminently.