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Vafa Nagi is running for parliament as an independent opposition candidate in Azerbaijan's parliamentary elections next month. And she doesn't have any illusions.

U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday continued to pressure leaders of nations sharing a region with Venezuela to resolve the oil-rich nation's political crisis stemming from its vote last month.

Vietnam's strategic balance between global powers is unlikely to change with To Lam, the former security tsar, at the helm of the country as Hanoi seeks to deepen its ties with both Washington and Beijing to boost its economic growth, experts told VOA.

One Russian man refused to leave his border-region home until it was hit with an explosive, and then he and his wife jumped into a neighbor's car to escape.

Superb Ukrainian intelligence and U.S.-provided weaponry are being credited for enabling the rapid advance of Ukrainian forces into Russian territory over the past week. Some analysts believe they could move even faster if Washington allowed them to use the most sophisticated weapons at their disposal.

The Belgorod region has declared a regional state of emergency due to the escalating situation, with authorities considering elevating the emergency status to the federal level, the region's governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on his Telegram channel on Wednesday.

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The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to repel the AFU attempt to invade the territory of the Russian Federation

Last night, as the Kiev regime attempted to launch a terrorist attack using unmanned aerial vehicles and Tochka-U tactical missiles against the facilities on the territory of the Russian Federation, four tactical missiles and 117 fixed-wing UAVs were shot down by on-duty air defence systems.

The Ukrainian armed forces lose up to 270 soldiers and 16 armored vehicles, the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) said on Wednesday.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces went on the offensive on August 6 to seize territory in Russia's Kursk region, but their advance was stopped, said Valery Gerasimov, chief of Russia's General Staff. He stressed that the operation in Kursk will be completed by defeating the enemy and reaching the state border.

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Minister of National Defence Laurynas Kasčiūnas is on a visit to Kyiv. He met with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

During the visit in Kyiv Minister of National Defence Laurynas Kasčiūnas has met with Minister of Defence of Ukraine Rustem Umerov and Minister of Strategic Industries Oleksandr Kamyshin.

A dystopian future in which swarms of killer drones hunt for human targets is drawing closer, but fully autonomous AI drones remain an elusive technology, at least on the battlefields of Ukraine.

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The Royal Air Force are using sustainable aviation fuel on routine operations for the first time.