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16.08.2024 17:30 South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol proposed an official dialogue channel with North Korea that can "take up any issue" as tension rises on the Korean Peninsula.

16.08.2024 17:30 Taiwan's military on Thursday released rare footage of an under-development suicide drone.

16.08.2024 17:30 Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council said Thursday that China's claim of detecting more than 1,000 cases of espionage by Taiwanese spies was a means of achieving "goals" set by high-level Chinese authorities.

16.08.2024 17:30 The White House said Thursday that the latest Gaza cease-fire talks in Doha, Qatar, with top U.S. officials are off to a "promising start" but that closing a deal immediately appeared to be unlikely.

16.08.2024 17:30 As the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza passes the dark milestone of 40,000, UN rights chief Volker Türk called on Thursday for an end to the killing "once and for all" and the release of all hostages while negotiators prepared to meet in Qatar to renew efforts to halt the conflict and avert a wider war.

16.08.2024 17:30 The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Denmark of Precision Guidance Kits and related elements of logistics and program support for an estimated cost of $85 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress of this possible sale today.

16.08.2024 17:30 The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Italy of MQ-9 Block 5 Aircraft and related equipment for an estimated cost of $738 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress of this possible sale today.

16.08.2024 17:30 As Indonesia gears up to participate in U.S.-led joint military exercises this month, it agreed at a meeting this week to hold military training with China, a move analysts say points to Indonesia's nonalignment stance regarding the U.S.-China rivalry.

16.08.2024 17:30 Today, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned several companies, individuals, and vessels for their involvement in the shipment of Iranian commodities, including oil and liquefied petroleum gas , to Yemen and the United Arab Emirates on behalf of the network of Iran-based, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force -backed Houthi financial official Sa'id al-Jamal. OFAC is also updating

16.08.2024 17:30 At least 1.4 million girls in Afghanistan have been denied access to secondary education since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, UNESCO, the United Nations' cultural agency, said on August 15.

16.08.2024 17:30 President Joe Biden said Thursday he supports new elections in Venezuela, giving a VOA reporter a two-word response — "I do" — when asked "do you support new elections in Venezuela?"

16.08.2024 17:30 The Palestinian death toll from the ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has surpassed 40,000 as of Thursday, at a time when the Gaza ceasefire talks were set to resume in Qatar.

16.08.2024 17:30 The noble intention and benevolent care of the Workers' Party of Korea, which regards it as a sacred duty and an immutable mode of existence to uphold the people as Heaven and defend them with firm determination, warmly reached first to the minds of all those who suffered misfortune from the grand natural disaster. This boundlessly produces the legend of devotion for the people

16.08.2024 17:30 Kim Jong Un , president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, received a message of greeting from V. Putin, president of the Russian Federation, on August 13.

16.08.2024 17:30 Kim Jong Un , president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, sent a replay message to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, president of the Russian Federation, on August 15.