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31.05.2024 13:00 Unprecedented humiliating defeats for Myanmar's military in its war against ethnic minority and pro-democracy insurgents are putting mounting pressure on junta leader Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, who is facing widespread criticism and calls to step down, a think tank said in a report on Thursday.

31.05.2024 13:00 Iranian border guards opened fire on a vehicle carrying Pakistani citizens near the border village of Mashkel in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan Province, killing four people and injuring two others.

31.05.2024 13:00 South Africa's long-ruling African National Congress party, which gained power under President Nelson Mandela, has received less than 50% of the vote in early election results.

31.05.2024 13:00 A Thailand-based Chinese man who created a cybercrime operation that seized control of Americans' computers and led to $5.9 billion in fraudulent claims from the U.S. COVID-19 relief program was arrested in Singapore, according to the Justice Department.

31.05.2024 13:00 A 35-year-old Chinese national is facing charges related to committing cybercrimes that FBI Director Christopher Wray described as "likely the world's largest botnet ever."

31.05.2024 13:00 Syria remains plagued by a severe and complex security and humanitarian situation, against a backdrop of broader political impasse, senior UN officials told the Security Council on Thursday, underscoring the need for a comprehensive approach that involves all key stakeholders.

31.05.2024 13:00 Analysis confirms that Russia used ballistic missiles produced in North Korea in its war against Ukraine. North Korean missile debris was found throughout Ukraine, according to an unclassified report released today by the Defense Intelligence Agency.

31.05.2024 13:00 With no let up in reported street battles and Israeli bombardment across Gaza on Thursday, UN humanitarians warned that the flow of vital lifesaving aid into the enclave has fallen by more than two thirds since the Israeli military stepped up its campaign in Rafah and seized the key aid conduit.

31.05.2024 13:00 Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi called on the international community Thursday to stop the war in Gaza.

31.05.2024 13:00 Vietnam protested what is said was China's violation of its sovereignty after Beijing dispatched a navy hospital ship to the Paracels, a group of small coral islands and reefs in the South China Sea currently occupied by China but claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan.

31.05.2024 13:00 The top UN aid official in Sudan warned on Thursday that "the noose of war is tightening its stranglehold" on civilians in El Fasher, expressing her profound distress at the dire humanitarian situation there.

31.05.2024 13:00 If Georgia's protesters couldn't force their government to back down by turning out in the streets, could they defeat it at the ballot box?

31.05.2024 13:00 Several Georgian NGOs say they will challenge domestically and internationally the so-called "foreign agent" law pushed through parliament by the ruling Georgian Dream party despite a presidential veto and weeks of protests against the law, seen as mirroring a repressive Russian measure and jeopardizing the country's hopes to join the European Union.

31.05.2024 13:00 The Palestinian death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has risen to 36,224, according to a statement by health authorities in the Palestinian enclave on Thursday.

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