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20.11.2022 19:00 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has firmly warned to respond to US threats with nuclear weapons amid Washington's ramped-up military activities in the region, including joint exercises with Seoul and Tokyo.

20.11.2022 19:00 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says Pyongyang's successful test-firing of the Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile confirms the country's ability to contain any nuclear threat, the Korean Central News Agency reports.

20.11.2022 19:00 The EU strongly condemns the DPRK's launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile that landed in Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone on 18 November. The EU is deeply concerned by such dangerous, illegal and reckless action.

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20.11.2022 19:00 The US Justice Department has named Jack Smith, a war crimes prosecutor, to serve as special counsel to oversee the department's investigations related to former president Donald Trump including his handling of sensitive documents and alleged efforts to overturn the disputed 2020 election.

20.11.2022 19:00 Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says Tehran will take retaliatory action against a recent "unconstructive" anti-Iran resolution passed by the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors.

20.11.2022 19:00 Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says arrogant powers are disgruntled by Iran's scientific advances as tremendous progress being achieved by the Islamic Republic is consigning liberal democracy propagated by the West to history.

19.11.2022 17:30 Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on November 18 that almost half of that country's energy infrastructure has been disabled by Russian strikes, as Moscow kept up attacks causing gas and electricity cutoffs and Ukrainian forces repelled Russian attacks in the east.

19.11.2022 17:30 Ukrainian authorities in Kyiv are warning of a "complete shutdown," as subzero temperatures are gripping the country.

19.11.2022 17:30 The Biden administration Friday defended its decision to declare Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, immune to U.S. lawsuits connected to the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

19.11.2022 17:30 Iranian protesters have set fire to the ancestral home of the Islamic republic's late founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in the central Iranian city of Khomein.

19.11.2022 17:30 Reports on social media Friday showed protesters in western Iran setting fire to the ancestral home of Islamic Republic founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

19.11.2022 17:30 Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced today the appointment of former career Justice Department prosecutor and former chief prosecutor for the special court in The Hague, Jack Smith, to serve as Special Counsel to oversee two ongoing criminal investigations.

19.11.2022 17:30 U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday that he appointed veteran prosecutor Jack Smith as special counsel for two ongoing federal investigations involving former President Donald Trump, just days after Trump announced his reelection bid.

19.11.2022 17:30 U.S. authorities are investigating claims that Chinese police are operating clandestine foreign stations in the United States, FBI director Christopher Wray told a Senate hearing on Thursday.