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The two Koreas traded barbs at the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday, with the North threatening a potential nuclear catastrophe in the Korean Peninsula and the South asserting that its military exercises with the U.S. will continue to take place.

The "west-led irrational structure" of the UN Security Council must be reformed to prevent the "high-handedness and arbitrariness" of forces within the body, including the United States, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) told the General Assembly on Tuesday.

As part of his working trip to Germany today, Defence Minister Martin Sklenár visited Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW)'s headquarters in Munich. KMW is a world-renowned manufacturer of artillery, wheeled and tracked armoured platforms, including Leopard 1 and 2 main battle tanks.

In 2024, Estonia´s defence budget will exceed three per cent of GDP for the first time, including an additional EUR 350 million being directed by the new state budget strategy toward ammunition stocks, meaning that Estonia will be purchasing EUR 1.35 billion worth of ammunition in the coming years.

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The Philippines and the United States will hold annual maritime military drills dubbed Samasama from October 2-13 in the southern part of the island of Luzon, the Philippine armed forces said on Wednesday.

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When the Taliban seized power, it soon launched a purge of Afghanistan's universities in a bid to promote its radical Islamic values.

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The leader of Yemen's Ansarullah resistance movement says the Sana'a-based National Salvation Government will employ all available legal means to end the Saudi-led aggression and occupation of the Arab country in case the ongoing talks in Riyadh fail to bear any fruit.

The United Arab Emirates has been trying to hinder the negotiations between Yemen's Ansarullah resistance movement and Saudi Arabia aimed at bringing an end to the Riyadh-led coalition's war on the Arab world's poorest nation.

Azerbaijan on Wednesday arrested the former head of Nagorno-Karabakh's separatist government as he tried to flee into Armenia following Azerbaijan's military offensive in the region.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has welcomed Iran's proposal regarding the so-called Zangezur corridor connecting Azerbaijan to Armenia, saying the corridor can pass through Iran in the event Armenia does not allow it to pass through its territory.

A leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has criticized the normalization of ties and reconciliation between certain Arab states and the Zionist regime, underlining that the presence of occupiers in Saudi Arabia means accepting the occupation of Palestinian territories.

The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has denounced the latest Israeli airstrikes against its positions in the besieged Gaza Strip, stressing that the Palestinian nation will resolutely continue their struggle against the occupying regime.

Statement by Ambassador Barbara Woodward at the UN Security Council meeting on Middle Eastern Peace Process.

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BRI-logo-black-background-250.jpgLush green hills and a majestic lake surround a private university here that is training tomorrow's elite Indonesian digital workers with help from a Chinese technological powerhouse reviled by the U.S. government.