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22.08.2024 16:30 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in the Middle East hoping to broker an elusive cease-fire deal aimed at ending Israel's devastating war in the Gaza Strip.

22.08.2024 16:30 "Continuous" Israeli military evacuation orders in Gaza threaten already extremely vulnerable people in the enclave with further forced displacement, raising concerns that vital services could soon be cut off, UN humanitarians warned on Wednesday.

22.08.2024 16:30 The Philippine Navy is focusing on protecting the country's vast exclusive economic zone with its available capital ships, a ranking naval official said on Tuesday.

22.08.2024 16:30 United Nations-appointed special rapporteur Richard Bennett confirmed Wednesday that the Taliban, Afghanistan's de facto leaders, had prohibited him from entering the country.

22.08.2024 16:30 The first WFP food supplies destined for desperate communities in Sudan's Darfur have crossed the Adre border from Chad, after it was reopened by the Sudanese authorities following a six-month closure.

22.08.2024 16:30 Yuanjun Tang, 67, a naturalized citizen of the United States and resident of Queens, New York, was charged by criminal complaint with acting and conspiring to act in the United States as an unregistered agent of the People's Republic of China and making materially false statements to the FBI. Tang was arrested today in Flushing, Queens, and will be presented this afternoon.

22.08.2024 16:30 Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to deepen development ties with Fiji and support Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka's plan for an "ocean of peace," as the Pacific leader finished a 10-day visit to the Asian superpower before attending a major regional forum next week.

22.08.2024 16:30 The Iranian parliament has ended the debate on nominees for the country's new cabinet and approved all of President Masoud Pezeshkian's 19 cabinet picks.

22.08.2024 16:30 The General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces has rejected a media report saying that the helicopter crash in May in which Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi died was caused by weather conditions and the aircraft's inability to handle the weight it was carrying.

22.08.2024 16:30 Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Wednesday that Hamas' Rafah Division in Gaza has been "defeated" and signaled that the military was shifting its focus to the fighting against Hezbollah along the Israel-Lebanon border.

22.08.2024 16:30 Taiwan's military will hold the Tien Ma Exercises next week in Pingtung County, during which a new generation of TOW missile launch platforms will be tested as part of night-time shooting drills for the first time, a military source said.

22.08.2024 16:30 President Lai Ching-te on Wednesday called on democratic nations to take "concrete action" to address the threat of China's authoritarian expansion, noting that Taiwan was not the only target as Beijing sought to change the international order.

22.08.2024 16:30 Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te on Wednesday urged the world's democratic countries to come together and act to prevent China from expanding authoritarianism and changing the rules-based international order.

22.08.2024 16:30 Russian President Vladimir Putin, making his first visit to Azerbaijan in six years, marveled at how Baku, the capital city, had developed. "It's an oasis, I would say, in the region," he said at an August 19 meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Ilham Aliyev.

22.08.2024 16:30 Oleg Chistyakov, also known as Olegs Čitsjakovs, 55, of Latvia, made his initial appearance in a federal court in Kansas City, Kansas, today after being extradited from Latvia. Chistyakov is the third defendant in this case to face charges in connection with a years-long conspiracy to sell sophisticated avionics equipment to Russian companies, after Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine and despite heightened additional U.S.