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Venezuela's opposition has shut down its "embassy" in Washington after removing US-backed Juan Guaido and dissolving his so-called "interim government".

Zahra has relied on handouts of cooking oil, rice, and flour from local and foreign aid agencies to feed her seven children.

For the 430th Expeditionary Electronic Communications Squadron, delivering communication coverage to the American warfighter, the nation's allies and coalition partners is a primary objective.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has called on the transitional authorities in Burkina Faso to ensure that their investigation into the killing of at least 28 people at the end of December will hold those responsible to account, regardless of their position or rank.

Nigeria has been experiencing serious security threats for years, as terrorist organizations and various armed gangs have proliferated throughout the country, carrying out crimes and insurgent violence. In consequence, the army is stepping up its operations, and the pressure on military personnel is increasing.

The Gambian authorities have filed charges against eight military personnel related to a failed coup attempt to oust President Adama Barrow in December 2022, the government spokesperson, Ebrima G. Sankareh, said on Saturday.

France may withdraw its special military forces stationed at a base in the Burkinabe capital of Ouagadougou over stalled defense cooperation, a French newspaper reported on Saturday, citing sources.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that Turkey has no problem with Greece if it abandons plans to extend the country's maritime boundaries in the Aegean Sea.

Two people were injured on January 6 in a shooting in a town in southern Kosovo that has a majority Serb population, officials in Kosovo and Serbia said.

The deputy head of the United Nations aid office in Afghanistan has called for the Taliban to immediately lift bans on women attending university and working for nongovernmental organizations after a meeting with the Taliban-led government's minister of higher education.

Iranian Space Agency has begun the process of implementing the country's 10-year space plan as it held the first session for mulling the execution of the strategic plan on Saturday.

To promote Air Defence cooperation between the countries, India and Japan are all set to hold the joint Air Exercise, 'Veer Guardian-2023' involving the Indian Air Force and Japan Air Self Defence Force (JASDF) at Hyakuri Air Base, Japan from 12 January 2023 to 26 January 2023. The Indian contingent participating in the air exercise will include four Su-30 MKI, two C-17 & one

A meeting took place on Friday to mark the 60th founding anniversary of the Equipment Assembly Complex.

Artistes from various central art troupes in the DPRK are intensifying frontline-style information and agitprop activities to encourage the working people in the capital city of Pyongyang who turned out in the gigantic advance of this year in hearty response to the idea and spirit of the Sixth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Rodong Sinmun Saturday says in an editorial that the Sixth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) is a historic meeting which confirmed the positive and scientific policy orientation for dynamically pushing forward Korean-style socialism to a new change and development by thoroughly applying the idea of independent politics, self-supporting economy and self-reliant defence, the invariable guideline

The United States has joined the European Union in condemning the execution of two men in Iran on January 7 after they were found guilty of killing a member of the Basij force during antiestablishment protests.

In response to the hanging of two Iranian protesters, a German lawmaker of Iranian descent has demanded that Germany expel the ambassadors of the Islamic Republic.

The EU is appalled by the execution of Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini arrested and sentenced to death in connection with the ongoing protests in Iran.

The commander of the Iranian Army's Ground Force says the military unit is in the "most appropriate" situation to carry out drone operations and is capable of countering any kind of threat.

The UK has condemned the executions of Mohammad Mahdi Karami and Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini who were part of the recent protests in Iran.