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28.02.2025 13:42 North Korea has sent more soldiers to Russia and redeployed several to the front line in the Kursk region bordering Ukraine, Seoul's intelligence agency said on February 27.

28.02.2025 13:42 British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he and President Donald Trump discussed achieving an agreement to end the war between Ukraine and Russia that would involve Kyiv and be backed by European peacekeeping forces.

28.02.2025 13:42 British Prime Minister Keir Starmer sought to demonstrate strong U.S.-U.K. ties during a White House meeting with President Donald Trump amid growing fault lines in the transatlantic relationship over Ukraine and trade.

28.02.2025 13:42 Two weeks after it was hit by a drone, Ukrainian firefighters are still trying to extinguish smouldering fires within the large structure built over the reactor destroyed in the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear accident, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi of the International Atomic Energy Agency said today.

28.02.2025 13:42 US President Donald Trump says Ukraine can "forget about" joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization , dealing a blow to the European country's long-running aspiration that was supported by former President Joe Biden.

28.02.2025 13:42 Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his rebel militant group lay down its arms and disband in a momentous announcement that could bring an end to a bloody decades-long conflict with the Turkish government.

28.02.2025 13:42 Abdullah Ocalan, Turkey's jailed militant leader, has called on his Kurdish group to lay down arms and dissolve in order to end four decades of conflict which has claimed tens of thousands of lives.

28.02.2025 13:42 There is hope in Washington that the decision by the leader of a Turkey-based, U.S.-designated terror group to ask its factions to lay down their arms could ease tensions with Ankara and facilitate efforts to counter remnants of the Islamic State terror group.

28.02.2025 13:42 China has held a series of live-fire military drills across the Indo-Pacific region over the past week, from the Taiwan Strait to the Tasman Sea. Analysts say the exercises, which included "extremely capable" weapons systems, were aimed at testing the United States and regional countries' responses to military threats.

28.02.2025 13:42 The United States condemned longtime ally Thailand for deporting 40 ethnic Uyghurs to China on Thursday, warning that the men risk facing torture when they return to the northeastern region of Xinjiang, which they fled more than 10 years ago.

28.02.2025 13:42 The UN human rights office together with refugee agency, UNHCR, on Thursday strongly condemned Thailand's deportation of 40 Uyghurs to China, calling it a serious violation of international law and the fundamental principle of non-refoulement.

28.02.2025 13:42 For Sweden-based independent Uyghur researcher Nyrola Elima, Feb. 27, 2025, stands as a day of deep sorrow.

28.02.2025 13:42 The Trump administration's nominee for secretary of the Navy says the military service branch is at a "crossroads" and must course correct to expand and improve its maritime capabilities.

28.02.2025 13:42 Since the ceasefire began in Gaza on 19 January, "unparalleled progress" has been made in providing desperately needed aid to families across the devastated enclave, said UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, on Thursday.

28.02.2025 13:42 Ongoing gang violence in Haiti has displaced more than a million people, nearly a tenth of the population, or three times more than last year, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in the country said on Thursday.