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03.01.2025 07:53 The death toll of political prisoners in the military junta's prisons across Myanmar hit 31 in 2024 due to poor healthcare and inhumane treatment — nearly double the number of those who died for the same reasons in 2023, a year-end report by a political prisoners' rights group says.

03.01.2025 07:53 Myanmar's junta has enacted a cybersecurity law that will penalize unauthorized provision of virtual private networks, or VPNs, which many people use to circumvent internet restrictions to get access to news and information and to report on what is going on in their country.

03.01.2025 07:53 Yoav Gallant, former War Minister of the Zionist regime, who was dismissed in November after spearheading the genocidal war on Gaza for more than a year, has resigned from the Knesset .

03.01.2025 07:53 The Israeli army has reported a sharp rise in suicides among soldiers since the regime launched a campaign of death and destruction against the besieged Gaza Strip.

03.01.2025 07:53 The North Korean leader's powerful sister, Kim Yo Jong, was seen with two children attending a New Year's performance in a video released by state media, sparking renewed speculation about her family and its place in the Kim dynasty.

03.01.2025 07:53 Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has a complex legacy on the Korean Peninsula, former U.S. officials say, including the vital role he played in defusing a crisis between the United States and North Korea in 1994.

03.01.2025 07:53 The National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference held a New Year gathering in its auditorium in Beijing on the morning of Dec. 31, 2024. Party and state leaders Xi Jinping, Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, Li Xi and Han Zheng attended the gathering to ring in the year 2025. Also present at the gathering were

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03.01.2025 07:53 China's Ministry of Commerce on Thursday added 10 US companies including Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, Raytheon/Lockheed Martin Javelin Joint Venture, General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems, to the Unreliable Entity List for participating in arms sales to the Taiwan region.

03.01.2025 07:53 In response to Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's recent remarks that it is "an extremely important thing for a Japanese Prime Minister to visit China," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said during the meeting between President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in Lima, Peru, they agreed to maintain high-level exchanges between the two countries. Recently, high-level interactions between the two

03.01.2025 07:53 "We are fully confident of Hong Kong's better development and welcome global companies to invest in Hong Kong, to share the benefits of Hong Kong's development under the 'One country, Two systems'," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Thursday.

03.01.2025 07:53 Chinese President Xi Jinping welcomed the new year with an upbeat speech to the nation complete with rainbows, claims of economic recovery and concern for the struggles of ordinary Chinese that commentators said belied simmering public anger over his handling of the economy.

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02.01.2025 15:00 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on January 1 that the end of natural gas supplies to Europe via a major pipeline traversing Ukraine is a major defeat for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

02.01.2025 15:00 Russia launched a New Year's Day drone attack on Ukraine's capital early Wednesday, killing at least two people, injuring at least six others, and damaging buildings in two districts, authorities said.