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25.09.2024 12:21 Israel has conducted the deadliest bombardment of Lebanon since a devastating five-week conflict with Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in 2006.

25.09.2024 12:21 The world is locked in a "purgatory of polarity" with a growing number of governments and others feeling entitled to a "get out of jail free card", Secretary-General António Guterres told the UN General Assembly, which opened its annual high-level meeting on Tuesday.

25.09.2024 12:21 The Egyptian government has confirmed sending arms shipments to Somalia amid regional tension over Ethiopia's controversial deal with the self-declared republic of Somaliland.

25.09.2024 12:21 The United States will soon launch the Partnership for Indo-Pacific Industrial Resilience with at least 12 of its allies in the Indo-Pacific and Europe, including Taiwan, to address supply chain constraints regarding weapons, a senior U.S. defense official said Monday.

25.09.2024 12:21 China test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile with a dummy warhead into "the high seas of the Pacific Ocean," the country's Ministry of National Defense reported Wednesday.

25.09.2024 12:21 China has responded angrily to comments by U.S. President Joe Biden, at a weekend summit of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, about Chinese aggression, saying the grouping was a U.S. tool to ensure its hegemony.

25.09.2024 12:21 This year's United Nations General Assembly meeting, which opened Tuesday, takes place against a backdrop of intense competition between the United States and China, mounting geopolitical and security challenges, and pressing issues such as climate change and digital security. What Beijing brings to the conversation and says will be watched closely.

25.09.2024 12:21 Chinese officials on Tuesday rolled out a slew of major policy measures to support the country's economy, the housing market and the stock market, including cuts to the policy rate and the reserve requirement ratio , all aimed at creating a favorable monetary and financial environment for stable economic growth and high-quality development.

25.09.2024 12:21 Myanmar's junta attacked a powerful insurgent group on Tuesday, just days after the rebels said they would stop fighting and end cooperation with a shadow civilian government opposing military rule.

25.09.2024 12:21 The Republic of Korea Ministry of National Defense and the U.S. Department of Defense held the 25th Korea-U.S. Integrated Defense Dialogue from September23-24, 2024, in Seoul.

25.09.2024 12:21 The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine found new evidence showing common patterns of torture by Russian authorities against Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war in occupied Ukrainian territories and in the Russian Federation.

25.09.2024 12:21 The death toll from intensive Israeli airstrikes on southern and eastern Lebanon since Monday reached 558, including 50 children and 94 women, with injuries reaching 1,835, Lebanese Health Minister Firas Abiad said on Tuesday.

25.09.2024 12:21 Leaders addressing the General Debate of the 79th United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday called for cessation of the violence that has ravaged the Middle East for months, and some of them directly pointed their fingers at Israel for the "genocide" it committed against the Palestinians.

25.09.2024 12:21 Fifty Democratic members of Congress sent a letter to President Joe Biden in late August requesting more humanitarian assistance for Sudan and calling on the U.S. to do more to help end the conflict. Leading the effort is U.S. Representative Sydney Kamlager-Dove of California, who told VOA in a recent interview that she is concerned that international partners aren't doing enough to support humanitarian

25.09.2024 12:21 Harini Amarasuriya, a member of parliament from the National People's Power , was sworn in as the new Sri Lankan prime minister on Tuesday, a day after Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as the ninth executive president of the country.