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20.02.2024 14:03 Papua New Guinea will give the military the power to arrest, Prime Minister James Marape said Monday, following at least 26 deaths in an intertribal ambush that occurred Sunday in remote Wapenamanda.

20.02.2024 14:03 Tensions between Somalia and Ethiopia escalated over the weekend following allegations by Somalia's president that Ethiopian security forces tried to bar him from attending the African Union summit in Addis Ababa.

20.02.2024 14:03 Iran's so-called axis of resistance is a loose network of proxies, Tehran-backed militant groups, and an allied state actor.

20.02.2024 14:03 Iran's Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman-adjacent southern coastline stretches roughly 1,700 km and is home to over half a dozen US military bases, making it vital for the Islamic Republic to maintain adequate military resources to defend its shores using asymmetric means.

20.02.2024 14:03 Myanmar's military junta is going forward with a mandatory draft set to begin in mid-April, but critics say doing so has the potential to negatively impact the economy and the military itself.

20.02.2024 14:03 Major political parties in Pakistan have been struggling to cobble together a coalition government nearly two weeks after the controversy-marred national elections produced no clear winner.

20.02.2024 14:03 A Taiwanese cruise ship was escorted back to Kinmen Monday after being boarded and inspected by Chinese coast guard personnel, according to the Coast Guard Administration .

20.02.2024 14:03 Several Chinese coastal patrol boats were operating Monday morning in waters off the coast of the Taiwan-held Kinmen Islands, according to ship tracking information posted on the China Ports website.

20.02.2024 14:03 On Feb. 14, Taiwan's Coast Guard responded after a Chinese speedboat trespassed within 1.1 nautical miles of the eastern coast of the Island of Kinmen, setting off a chase in which the Chinese boat capsized, causing the deaths of two of the four men on board.

20.02.2024 14:03 Both Taipei and Beijing have said they will "enforce the law" in the waters between Kinmen island and China's mainland after last week's incident that resulted in the deaths of two Chinese men.

20.02.2024 14:03 U.S. President Joe Biden said Monday he is "considering additional sanctions" against Moscow following the death of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny.

20.02.2024 14:03 U.S. President Joe Biden said Monday that he is willing to meet with House Speaker Mike Johnson in order to secure the long-awaited passage of a bill that contains funding for the provision of additional arms to Ukraine.

20.02.2024 14:03 The Houthi group in Yemen said on Monday that they have fired missiles at a British ship in the Gulf of Aden.

20.02.2024 14:03 The 60th edition of the Munich Security Conference wrapped up its three-day gathering here on Sunday, with participants calling for enhanced international cooperation to address the world's pressing challenges.

20.02.2024 14:03 An opinion poll revealed that 90 percent of the Lebanese hold the United States accountable for Israel's continued attacks on Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, al-Akhbar local newspaper reported on Monday.