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02.01.2025 15:00 Secretary-General of Hezbollah Sheikh Naeem Qassem has stated that the collaboration between Lebanon's resistance and Iran is a response to shared challenges in the region.

02.01.2025 15:00 The secretary general of Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance movement says the group has recuperated well following the assassination of its late leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut on September 27, emphasizing that his group has revived its military prowess as well.

02.01.2025 15:00 The Palestinian Authority on Wednesday temporarily suspended Al Jazeera broadcasts across the Palestinian territories, according to media reports.

02.01.2025 15:00 A decade after the unilateral control and capture of water resources of Harirud through the Salma dam, Afghanistan's rulers have built a second barrier on the river, further disrupting the flow of water to Iran and Turkmenistan.

02.01.2025 15:00 A ranking official of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict said the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New People's Army , will soon be an insignificant threat, as the country ushered in the New Year.

02.01.2025 15:00 Bulgarians and Romanians celebrated the lifting of European Union visa restrictions, as the two EU members gained full entry into the bloc's Schengen Zone.

02.01.2025 15:00 Hungary has been officially denied some $1 billion dollars in European Union funding that the bloc had frozen because of corruption allegations.

02.01.2025 15:00 Ethiopia's prime minister recently touted the country's mining resources and said the industry could achieve a historic milestone by generating up to $2 billion in gold revenue this year. He made the comment while inaugurating a gold exploration and mining factory in the Gambella Region.

02.01.2025 15:00 Russia targeted Ukraine with scores of drones overnight, and Ukrainian officials claimed most were downed or jammed by air defenses. At least one person was killed in Kyiv.

02.01.2025 15:00 Ukrainian forces have lost around 593,410 troops over 2024, according to Sputnik calculations of the Russian Defense Ministry's data.

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02.01.2025 15:00 Russian forces targeted several key facilities in Ukraine over the past 24 hours, including an energy infrastructure site supporting the defense industry, military airfields and a site for assembling unmanned boats, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.

02.01.2025 15:00 U.N. human rights monitors find that almost three years after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the human rights situation in the country and areas occupied by Russia is on a downward spiral, as military operations intensify, civilian casualties rise, and torture, summary executions and other gross violations proliferate.

02.01.2025 15:00 President Lai Ching-te delivered his 2025 New Year's Day address Wednesday, his first since assuming the presidency on May 20.

02.01.2025 15:00 President Lai Ching-te has called China the "real barrier" to cross-strait exchanges and urged Beijing to hold talks with Taipei to ease tourism restrictions.