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18.05.2024 12:00 Russia continues to pound Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region in an offensive that has seen the active combat zone grow as Moscow looks to establish what President Vladimir Putin called a "buffer zone."

18.05.2024 12:00 Taiwan should expedite its military reforms and send a clear message to China about what the costs of potential aggression would be, China expert Amanda Hsiao told a panel discussion Friday, while noting the increasing challenge the country faces in responding to Chinese pressure.

18.05.2024 12:00 The Council today decided to suspend the broadcasting activities in the European Union of four additional media outlets, which spread and support the Russian propaganda and war of aggression against Ukraine: Voice of Europe, RIA Novosti, Izvestia and Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

18.05.2024 12:00 China's effort to establish itself as a "near-Arctic power" have become increasingly confined to the territory of its close ally Russia as other nations lose interest in cooperating with Beijing, according to Canadian security experts.

18.05.2024 12:00 Russian President Vladimir Putin concluded his two-day trip to China Friday after Beijing and Moscow reaffirmed their "strategic relationship" by signing a joint statement and vowing to cooperate against "destructive and hostile" pressure from Washington.

18.05.2024 12:00 The DPRK Missile Administration conducted a test fire of tactical ballistic missile into which a new autonomous navigation system was introduced in the East Sea of Korea on Friday.

18.05.2024 12:00 A Turkish court gave several lengthy prison sentences to pro-Kurdish politicians for instigating protests in southeastern Turkey in 2014 when the Islamic State group attacked the Syrian border town of Kobani.

18.05.2024 12:00 Hundreds of Syrian mercenaries have been sent by Turkey to Niger in recent months to protect Ankara's economic and military interests in the West African nation, a rights group and experts said.

18.05.2024 12:00 DePape Attempted to Kidnap Nancy Pelosi and Assaulted Paul Pelosi on Account of Her Official Duties as Then-Speaker of the House of Representatives

18.05.2024 12:00 Over 7,000 Iranians, including convicts and some with ties to the state, own what experts estimate to be billions of dollars of property in Dubai, according to a report by the Netherlands-based outlet Radio Zamaneh.

18.05.2024 12:00 The European Union has joined the United States and the International Atomic Energy Agency in urging Iran to abandon suggestions that it might develop nuclear weapons.

18.05.2024 12:00 A US media report has said that a number of American allies within NATO are moving closer to sending troops into Ukraine to train its armed forces.

18.05.2024 12:00 Flanked by goose-stepping Chinese soldiers, Russian President Vladimir Putin laid a bunch of red roses at a World War II memorial to Soviet soldiers in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin — known as China's "Little Moscow" — on Friday.

18.05.2024 12:00 The United States hopes that by the upcoming NATO summit in Washington, nearly all 32 alliance members will meet the pledge made 10 years ago to increase defense spending to 2 percent of GDP, said U.S. Ambassador to NATO Julianne Smith.

18.05.2024 12:00 A working group, appointed by Minister of Defence Antti Häkkänen, has completed its report on additional restrictions on real estate acquisitions in Finland by parties outside the EU and the EEA.