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16.04.2024 14:50 Recent drone attacks on the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in Ukraine have raised the risk of a nuclear accident to a new level, the head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency warned on April 15, calling on the UN Security Council to do everything in its power to minimize the risk.

16.04.2024 14:50 Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said Monday he was convinced that his predecessor, Rodrigo Duterte, had entered into a questionable "secret agreement" with Beijing on the South China Sea, while maintaining there was no record of its existence.

16.04.2024 14:50 The Philippines says it has no plans to give the United States more access to military bases in the Southeast Asian country, putting a cap on the current total number of nine sites.

16.04.2024 14:50 A supplemental review of the original investigation into the 2021 suicide bombing attack that killed 13 U.S. service members and roughly 170 Afghan civilians at Hamid Karzai International Airport's Abbey Gate has reaffirmed the military's findings of the initial investigation and identifies the attacker.

16.04.2024 14:50 Humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip has increased substantially in the last few days, White House national security spokesman John Kirby said Monday, but the United States needs to see that aid sustained, he added.

16.04.2024 14:50 As UN chief António Guterres on Monday reiterated his appeal for "maximum restraint" in the Middle East following Iran's drone and missile attack on Israel, independent human rights experts said that the alleged use of artificial intelligence on targets in Gaza by the Israeli military had taken an "unprecedented toll" on civilians, housing and services.

16.04.2024 14:50 Hanoi authorities are considering a baseline marking Vietnam's territory in the Gulf of Tonkin, Radio Free Asia has learned.

16.04.2024 14:50 "The world is forgetting about the people of Sudan" the UN chief warned on Monday, calling for a boost in humanitarian funding and a global push for peace to end a year of brutal fighting between rival militaries.

16.04.2024 14:50 A full year of conflict in Sudan has already caused immense suffering and death but the situation could easily worsen with the news that the warring parties are arming civilians, UN rights chief Volker Türk said on Monday.

16.04.2024 14:50 French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that world donors have pledged $2.1 billion to help relieve the humanitarian crisis in war-ravaged Sudan.

16.04.2024 14:50 Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said he will relinquish the office on May 15, according to a statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office Monday.

16.04.2024 14:50 Israel appears determined to exact a measure of revenge against Iran, just days after the Iranian military and some of its allies across the Middle East launched an unprecedented aerial assault on the Jewish state.

16.04.2024 14:50 Leading diplomats and politicians across the globe, fearing another major escalation of fighting in the Middle East, urged restraint as the world waited for Israel's response after it endured an unprecedented air attack by Iran over the weekend.

16.04.2024 14:50 Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control is designating 12 entities and 10 individuals pursuant to Executive Order 14038. This action builds on U.S. sanctions imposed in response to Belarus's fraudulent August 2020 election, as well as President Alyaksandr Lukashenka's support for Russia's illegal full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today's action sustains U.S. financial pressure on the

16.04.2024 14:50 A Pennsylvania man was sentenced today to 70 years in prison for torturing an Estonian citizen in 2015 in the Kurdistan region of Iraq and for the illegal export of weapons parts and related services.