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Last year, 27,180 grave violations were committed against children caught up in war - the highest number ever verified by the UN, the Security Council heard on Wednesday.

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The European Union will not lift political and economic sanctions on Kosovo unless the government in Pristina de-escalates tensions with ethnic Serbs, the EU envoy for dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia said on July 4 after a meeting with Kosovar Prime Minister Albin Kurti.

Iran tried to seize two oil tankers in international waters near the strategic Strait of Hormuz early on July 5, firing shots at one of them, the U.S. Navy said.

Cambodia said it has declared the 22 people on Meta's oversight board "persona non grata," barring them from entering the country, after the regulatory group recommended suspending Prime Minister Hun Sen's Facebook account.

Laos has begun importing gasoline from China instead of purchasing it from neighboring Thailand amid an ongoing economic crisis, including surging inflation that has prompted one lawmaker to call for an increase in salaries for domestic workers and state employees.

Amid increasing tensions in Asia during his first year in power, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has embraced the United States and other democratic allies, and shifted away from six years of his predecessor Rodrigo Duterte's pivot to China.

NATO's Assistant Secretary General for Operations, Tom Goffus, reiterated NATO's steadfast commitment to promote regional stability during a visit to Kosovo on Wednesday (5 July 2023).

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Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, at the initiative of the Armenian side.

The UK and Polish Foreign and Defence secretaries signed the 2030 Strategic Partnership following talks at Lancaster House.

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Israel's military on Wednesday ended its two-day siege of the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, with residents emerging from their homes or returning from nearby shelters to find widespread destruction in their community.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday that the current persecution of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija is the greatest in the last 15 years.

On July 5, U.S. forces prevented two attempted commercial tanker seizures by the Iranian Navy after the Iranians had opened fire in one of the incidents near the coast of Oman.

Afghanistan's Taliban administration has ordered hundreds of female-run beauty salons to close within a month, the latest in a series of curbs blocking women's access to work and public spaces in the poverty-stricken country.

Forces from the United Kingdom Royal Navy, U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force completed a weeklong large-scale mine countermeasures exercise in the Arabian Gulf, July 2.

U.S. President Joe Biden met with Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson as the White House works to persuade Turkey to approve Sweden's NATO accession ahead of the alliance's summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, next week.