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A number of Chinese embassies, including the Chinese Embassy in Pakistan, on Sunday adjusted COVID-19 testing requirements for inbound travelers to China, requiring one negative nucleic acid test result within the past 48 hours before boarding.

A Chinese health official said on Saturday that the 20 newly released measures on epidemic prevention and control were well conceived based on ample practical experience and related assessment data.

The number of deaths from the coronavirus pandemic in Iran increased to 144,612 with two more Iranians killed by the deadly disease over the past 24 hours, Iran's Health Ministry announced on Sunday.

Taiwan's Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) reported 18,611 new COVID-19 infections on Sunday, all but 40 of which were locally transmitted, and 61 deaths from the disease.

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A Telegram channel with close ties to the private Russian mercenary group Vagner has published a video of a fighter who allegedly defected to the Ukrainian side in Russia's war against Ukraine being killed with a sledgehammer.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said that following the return of Ukrainian forces to the southeastern Kherson region investigators uncovered hundreds of war crimes in areas freed from Russian occupation.

Ukrainian forces have targeted the village of Sabivka in the Lugansk region using the US-supplied multiple rocket launcher HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System), the Lugansk People's Republic's (LPR) mission to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination on the ceasefire regime (JCCC) said.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz urged the Vietnamese leadership to take a firm stance on the situation in Ukraine following a meeting with Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh in Hanoi on Sunday, German media report.

Ukraine's chief negotiator at the talks with Russia Davyd Arakhamia believes the negotiations could start anew in the second half of 2023, Ukrainian media report.

Russia's withdrawal from the southeastern city of Kherson marks another victory for Kyiv as the front lines on the battlefield continue to be redrawn. But as the fighting shifts into a new phase with winter looming, what's next for the nearly nine-month war?

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Ukrainian officials Sunday began moving food, water and medicine into the southern city of Kherson, two days after Kyiv's forces entered the strategic regional capital that Russia had captured at the start of the war and now has fled.

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A strong explosion in a busy area at the heart of a busy pedestrian street in Turkey's port city of Istanbul has left several people dead and scores injured, according to the local governor, published videos and Turkish media.

A bomb explosion at a popular Istanbul shopping center Sunday has left at least six people dead and more than 50 others injured. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the attack had what he called "the smell of terror."

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The missile wings of the 20th Air Force are changing their procedures on how nuclear code change operations are done, with each wing having switched one squadron's area of responsibility to the new Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Cryptography Upgrade program. The missile wings of the 20th Air Force are changing their procedures on how nuclear code change operations are done, with each wing having switched

Only five of the 49 types US war planes met mission readiness targets for five or more years in the span between fiscal years of 2011 and 2021, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has unveiled.