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Intense battles between junta troops, the Kachin Independence Army and joint People's Defense Forces have killed 40 civilians, locals told Radio Free Asia on Wednesday.

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Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron met the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on 24 January.

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A high-ranking Iraqi official has called on the United States to push for an end to the unreeling Israeli ground and air offensives against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, than to carry out strikes in Iraq against facilities run by the country's anti-terror resistance groups.

Iraq's National Security Adviser Qasim al-Arji has said that the US forces' attack on Popular Mobilization Forces was a violation of Iraq's sovereignty.

The spokesman for the commander-in-chief of Iraq's Armed Forces has denounced the recent US strikes against sites and facilities of the Iraqi army and anti-terror groups as "unacceptable" and a "blatant" violation of the Arab country's sovereignty.

Russia accused Ukraine of shooting down a Russian military cargo plane that crashed on January 24 in the Belgorod region near the border with Ukraine, killing all 74 people on board, including 65 Ukrainian POWs who were on their way to a prisoner exchange.

Russia on Wednesday accused Ukraine of shooting down a military transport plane that Moscow said was carrying 74 people, including 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war who were set to be swapped for Russians held by Kyiv.

As Ukrainian forces struggle to fend off Russia's invasion with dwindling supplies of rockets and other munitions, some supporters are arguing that there is more the Biden administration could do to re-arm them without waiting for long-delayed congressional approval.

January 23, a distance meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group addressed situation of the battlefield, Ukraine's most urgent needs and defence industry capacity.

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said he is trying to "put some urgency" into providing ammunition and defense systems to avoid a "too little, too late" scenario as Ukraine fights off Russa's full-scale invasion.

Exercise Steadfast Defender 24, NATO's largest exercise in decades, began on Wednesday, January 24, 2024 as the dock landing ship USS Gunston Hall (LSD 44) departed Norfolk, Virginia, United States and following a series of operations will commence her transit across the Atlantic.

Iran-backed Houthi militants launched new attacks Wednesday on merchant shipping in the Gulf of Aden, just hours after the United States carried out preemptive strikes to stave off what it said was an imminent attack on shipping lanes in the Red Sea.

The Philippine armed forces will seek to ensure the country has "unimpeded" access to natural resources within its waters in the South China Sea, Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro said this week as he signaled a more defiant strategy toward China.

Prime Minister Hun Manet said on Wednesday that no foreign military bases will be allowed on Cambodian territory - a statement likely made to blunt criticism over China's recent involvement in the development at Ream Naval Base on the Gulf of Thailand.

At least nine people were killed and another 75 wounded Wednesday in Khan Younis as tank shelling hit a United Nations training center, where 800 displaced Palestinians were housed in the southern Gaza city, a U.N. relief official said.

Nine people were killed and 75 injured on Wednesday in a direct hit on a training centre turned shelter in southern Gaza run by UNRWA, the UN agency that assists Palestinians, according to initial reports.

Work harder to end the war in Gaza and recognize the State of Palestine were the messages once more from many countries on Wednesday, taking part in the two-day Security Council debate over the Middle East crisis.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal says he agreed with his Slovak counterpart, Robert Fico, on a policy of "new pragmatism" as the two neighbors try to improve relations that have soured since the populist Slovak leader won an election last year vowing to halt military aid to Kyiv.