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Hunger has reached alarming levels in Myanmar with the situation set to worsen in 2025, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today. A staggering 15 million people are expected to face hunger in 2025, up from 13.3 million last year.

About 5,000 internally displaced people have returned to the western Myanmar border town of Maungdaw after the insurgent group that captured it from the military finished securing the town, some of those going back told Radio Free Asia on Wednesday.

Against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, the Baltic Sea has been the scene of a string of incidents involving damage to key energy and communications lines.

The President held a meeting in Togliatti on the development of unmanned aircraft systems.

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U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would sign an executive action directing his administration to prepare to detain undocumented migrants at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

In his first response to the Indian Space Research Organisation's successful 100th launch from Sriharikota this morning, Union Minister of State for Space Dr Jitendra Singh said, "the launch of GSLV-F15/NVS-02 Mission is not simply another landmark milestone but this launch, being the 100th one, marks a quantum leap in India's Space journey

Israel's minister of defense says the occupying regime's military will remain in Syria's Jabal al-Shaykh "indefinitely."

A former rebel leader who helped defeat Syrian President Bashar al-Assad last month was named interim president of the country Wednesday.

The commander of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) militant group, which overran entire Syria amid intense Israeli strikes against the Arab country last December, has been named the country's new "president" for a "transitional period."

Syria's HTS administration has called for Israel's withdrawal from the territory it occupied in the Golan Heights following President Bashar al-Assad's fall in December.

The Israeli minister of military affairs says the regime's troops, who seized ground at a so-called "buffer zone" inside the strategic Syrian Golan Heights after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, will remain stationed there indefinitely.

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Defence ties between the UK and Nigeria have been strengthened following a visit from Lord Vernon Coaker this week.

Defence Secretary John Healey addressed the ADS Annual Dinner on 28 January 2025.

A £173 million Ministry of Defence training contract with British business Draken will boost Teesside International Airport and support jobs across Teesside, Bournemouth and the Midlands - delivering on the Government's Plan for Change.

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise AFU formations on the territory of Kursk region.

At its meeting on 29 January, the Federal Council approved the negotiating mandate for an international treaty between Switzerland and Ukraine. In the process of rebuilding Ukraine, this will provide a legal basis for increased cooperation with the Swiss private sector.

On Wednesday (29 January 2025), NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte met with Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration and Minister of Justice, Ms Olha Stefanishyna, at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, where she also took part in a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council (NUC).

The largest nuclear power plant in northwestern Russia has reportedly come under a Ukrainian drone attack, among other oil and power facilities targeted by the Kiev forces.