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North Korea is claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin has accepted “with pleasure” an invite from Kim Jong Un to visit his country.  The invitation reportedly was offered by the North Korean dictator as the two met at the Vostochny Cosmodrome space launch facility in Russia’s far east on Wednesday.  “At the end of the […]

South Korea’s Foreign Ministry expressed “deep concern and regret” Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un defied the United Nations’ Security Council resolutions during their meeting on Wednesday. “We express our deep concern and regret that despite repeated warnings from the international community, North Korea and Russia discussed military […]

Germany has invested heavily into what officials say will help them find the future of combat through an artificial intelligence (AI) virtual training area some have dubbed a military “metaverse.” “We compete with the big ones in the industry,” GhostPlay project manager Gary Schaal, a professor at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, wrote in a […]

Clashes intensified Wednesday in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, leaving at least five people dead and more than a dozen wounded, Lebanese state media and security officials said. Scores of civilians have been forced to flee to safer areas. The latest deaths bring to 11 the number of people killed since the fighting erupted again […]

Search teams combed streets, wrecked buildings and even the sea Wednesday to look for bodies in a coastal Libyan city where the collapse of two dams unleashed a massive flash flood that killed at least 5,100 people. The Mediterranean city of Derna has struggled to get help after Sunday night’s deluge washed away most access […]

Israel on Monday accused Iran of building an airport in southern Lebanon near the Israeli border, which Defense Minister Yoav Gallant believes will be used as a springboard for possible terror attacks. Gallant presented pictures of the airport during a conference at Reichman University, saying it bore the fingerprints of Iran and Hezbollah, the Lebanese […]

Syrian state media said the Israeli military carried out airstrikes in a coastal province on Wednesday, killing two soldiers, wounding six and causing material damage. There was no comment from Israel on the reported strikes. Syria’s state news agency quoted an unnamed military official as saying the missiles hit air defense units in the province […]

Three Indian soldiers and a police officer were killed in separate gunfights with rebels over the past two days in the mountainous Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said Wednesday. Indian government forces launched a joint operation against the militants late on Tuesday in the Kokernag area of Kashmir’s Anantnag district. After a lull overnight, fighting resumed there […]

The U.N. special envoy for Sudan who was declared unwelcome by the country’s military rulers announced his resignation Wednesday in a final speech to the U.N. Security Council. He warned that the conflict between Sudan’s two military leaders “could be morphing into a full-scale civil war.” Volker Perthes, who had continued to work outside Sudan, […]

A young man trapped under a bus in Berlin survived with minor injuries after 40 people joined forces to lift the vehicle off him in what police described as a heroic rescue effort. The 18-year-old got pinned by a tire of the rear axle when he fell down while running to catch the bus as […]