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Even on the streets of London, Finn Lau does not feel safe from the reach of the Chinese Communist Party.

A session of the Permanent Commission of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA) of the DPRK took place.

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India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have signed an agreement to carry out the two countries' bilateral trade in their own national currencies, thus reducing dependence on the US dollar.

Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the Republic of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa at the initiative of the South African side.

Russian forces struck the Kharkiv region for a third time late on July 16, the governor said as Russia reported an apparent retaliatory strike on towns in the Belgorod region bordering Ukraine.

Fighting in eastern Ukraine "somewhat intensified" as Ukrainian and Russian forces clashed in at least three areas on the eastern front, Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said Sunday on the messaging app Telegram.

Russia-installed officials said traffic was halted Monday on a bridge linking Crimea to Russia's Krasnodar region, amid reports of explosions on the bridge.

Another Russian general has reportedly been fired in the latest shakeup in the military since Wagner mercenary group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin launched a short-lived mutiny three weeks ago.

A long convoy transporting Wagner troops entered Belarus from Russia on July 15, the independent Belarusian military monitoring project Belaruski Hayun reported.

Iran will reportedly resume so-called morality police patrols aimed at enforcing the country's laws on women wearing head scarves, or hijab.

Iraq has ramped up the deployment of its guards on the Kurdistan region's border with Iran, after Islamic Republic's top general warned that the Baghdad government's failure to deal with anti-Iran militants will prompt a fresh round of Iranian strikes.

Hundreds of Israeli reserve doctors have reportedly suspended their military services in the regime's occupation army to protest radical policies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's extremist cabinet.

The closure of Libya's largest oil fields is posing a threat to domestic oil production in long-term, the Ministry of Oil and Gas of the Libyan Government of National Unity said on Saturday.

Myanmar's armed resistance groups are asking the U.S. government for over half a billion dollars in humanitarian and nonlethal aid to help them oust the country's military regime, including money for drones, armored vehicles and radar jamming gear.

Police violence against African-Americans. Poverty in the United Kingdom. Widespread pollution. An oligarchy controls the U.S. government.

The head of the Pakistani Army has threatened the Taliban-led government in Kabul with an "effective response" if it continues harboring militants who launch attacks in Pakistan.

Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Carlos Del Toro announced today, that a future Navajo-class Towing, Salvage, and Rescue ship will be named USNS Billy Frank Jr. (T-ATS 11).

The US is considering military options to address "Russian aggression in the skies over Syria," an unnamed Pentagon official has declared, further voicing rising concerns about "growing ties between Iran, Russia and Syria across the Middle East."

Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry has criticized Moscow, saying it "did not ensure full implementation" of an agreement that instituted a cease-fire between Azerbaijan and neighboring Armenia in September 2020.