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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says he has requested the country's Supreme Court to conduct an audit of the recent presidential election, following challenges from opposition leaders regarding his victory.

The Head of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee in the Iranian parliament (Majlis) has said that the Islamic Republic's response to the perpetrator of the assassination of the Hamas leader will be "painful and regrettable".

Speaker of Iran's Parliament, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf has reacted to the assassination of the Political Bureau Chief of the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, noting that Iran considers it a duty to respond to the Israeli crime at the right time and place.

Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani has called the Zionist regime a dangerous threat to world peace and security as it does not attach any value to the rules and regulations of international law.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been spotted in state media leading flood relief efforts after heavy rains caused the Yalu River to swell, inundating sections of nearby towns, residents in North Korea and China told Radio Free Asia.

China and democratic countries, including Australia and Japan, have increased their efforts to deepen engagement with Pacific Island countries in recent weeks, intensifying what some regional politicians and analysts describe as great power competition, especially in the security sector.

Authorities in a central Xinjiang city have detained more than 70 Uyghurs officials after purging them for being "two-faced" — part of a larger operation to investigate and jail those deemed disloyal to China and the Chinese Communist Party, police said.

China has revealed plans to bring in digital ID cards, a move the authorities say will protect user data, but free speech activists said the Chinese Communist Party's monitoring of online activity would only intensify under the new measure.

As the waves crashed along the coastline of Sabah in East Malaysia, three nations gathered to mark the conclusion of Exercise Keris Strike 2024.

Tucked away behind dimly lit screens are the faces of air battle managers and air surveillance operators illuminated by battlespace imagery.

The Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) is celebrating two decades of participation in Exercise Pitch Black, one of the world's premier multinational air combat training exercises.

Officials in Nigeria's Borno state say 19 people were killed and at least 20 injured when a bomb exploded in a popular tea house late Wednesday, the second major attack in recent weeks.

Ukraine said Thursday its air defenses shot down seven Russian aerial drones that targeted areas in central and eastern Ukraine.

Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has sent a written message to Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian concerning relations between the two countries.

A majority of members of the United Nations Security Council, in an emergency meeting following the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the Hamas political office in Tehran, condemned the Israeli attack and expressed concern about the regional escalation.

The chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Major General Hossein Salami has emphasized that the fire of anger and desire for revenge over the recent crimes of the Zionist regime in the region, especially in Gaza, are intensifying.

Iran's Acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani has said that the Islamic Republic is resolved to take any necessary action to defend its national security.

Iran's Acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov have exchanged views on the circumstances around the assassination of Hamas politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.

Iran's Acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani says the Islamic Republic will exercise its legitimate right to reciprocate and punish the Zionist regime.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has said that the Israeli regime's terror acts are because it is stuck in an impasse, adding that Iran's leadership, nation, and government will not relent in their support for the oppressed people of Palestine and the Axis of Resistance.