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04.01.2025 09:01 Member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and China's Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi will visit Namibia, the Republic of the Congo, Chad, and Nigeria from January 5 to 11 at the invitation of these countries, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning announced on Friday. This will be the 35th consecutive year that Chinese foreign minister visits

04.01.2025 09:01 Chinese Foreign Ministry expressed strong opposition on Friday to US Commerce Department's announcement of considering new rules that could potentially lead to the restriction or ban of Chinese drones in the US citing national security concerns.

04.01.2025 09:01 When Charles was 12, the Revolutionary United Front rebel forces came through his home, the Kono District of Sierra Leone. They were marching for Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, and building an army by forcing citizens to join them. They were particularly interested in children and, during the 11-year civil war, 40-50% of the RUF forces and 20% of the government forces were

04.01.2025 09:01 The Defence Materiel Agency under the Ministry of National Defence signed a contract with the Swedish company SAAB Bofors Dynamics AB on acquisition of the Carl Gustaf M4 84mm antitank recoilless rifles and spares worth of EUR 14 million. The weapons will arrive in 2025 - 2026.

04.01.2025 09:01 The Armed Forces of the Philippines on Thursday confirmed that the Philippine Navy has taken custody of the submersible drone recovered by local fisherfolk off the waters of Masbate province.

03.01.2025 07:53 European gas prices reached a 15-month high on Thursday after Ukraine blocked the transit of Russian gas across its territory into the European Union.

03.01.2025 07:53 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a televised interview broadcast on January 2 that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's "unpredictability" could help end the war with Russia.

03.01.2025 07:53 The International Atomic Energy Agency is assessing observations and information collected from its recent missions to Ukraine's electrical substations, conducted in the aftermath of attacks on the nation's energy infrastructure, as part of the Agency's ongoing commitment to monitoring nuclear safety and security, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said today.

03.01.2025 07:53 Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Deby says all French military units will leave the African country by the end of January, weeks after the former French colony announced it was terminating its defense pact with Paris.

03.01.2025 07:53 Israeli airstrikes killed at least 40 people across Gaza on Thursday, including 10 people in a tent encampment sheltering displaced families, medics said.

03.01.2025 07:53 Civilians are not safe anywhere in the Gaza Strip, the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, warned on Thursday.

03.01.2025 07:53 The world's largest coast guard vessel, a Chinese ship known as "The Monster," has arrived at the disputed Scarborough Shoal inside the Philippine exclusive economic zone to boost Beijing's control over the maritime area, an American analyst said.

03.01.2025 07:53 Thousands of households in Moldova's breakaway region of Transdniester have been forced to cope without gas, heating, and hot water after supplies of Russian natural gas abruptly stopped on January 1 due to the expiration of a supply contract with Ukraine, a major transit hub for the gas.

03.01.2025 07:53 In the latest escalation of trade tensions between the world's two largest economies, China on Thursday announced export control measures targeting 28 U.S. companies and added 10 U.S. companies to a list of entities barred from doing business in China.

03.01.2025 07:53 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Kyiv is making preparations to reestablish ties with Syria after a diplomatic mission led by Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha visited Damascus to meet with the Middle Eastern country's new leadership.