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Violence continues in Bangladesh after youth protest leader’s death
By Sheikh Sabiha ALAM AFP Violence broke out in Bangladesh’s capital early Friday after a youth leader of the country’s 2024 pro-democracy ...Syria, Kurdish forces race to salvage integration deal
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi, Timour Azhari, Maya Gebeily and Jonathan Spicer Reuters Syrian, Kurdish and U.S. officials are scrambling ahead of a year-end deadline to ...Russian President Vladimir Putin warns Moscow will extend territorial gains in Ukraine if peace talks ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday that Moscow will seek to extend its gains in Ukraine if Kyiv and its Western allies ...Rwanda-backed M23 group says it has begun leaving seized Congo town
By RUTH ALONGA and WILSON MCMAKIN — Associated Press Rwanda-backed M23 rebels claimed to have begun a withdrawal from the city of ...Russia amasses 360,000 troops near NATO border as Putin plots ‘next move’
Russia has deployed up to 350-360 thousand combat-ready troops on the territory of Belarus, who are not involved in the war against ...Iraq welcomes first European flight to Baghdad in 35 years
A flight operated by Greece’s Aegean Airlines touched down in Baghdad on Tuesday, the first European passenger plane to land in the ...Taiwan says its military can respond rapidly to any sudden Chinese attack
Taiwan’s military can respond rapidly to any sudden Chinese attack with all units able to operate under a decentralised mode of command ...M23 says hundreds of Burundi soldiers captured in latest Congo offensive
The Rwanda-backed M23 group has captured hundreds of Burundian soldiers during its latest offensive in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a rebel ...Ukraine may give up NATO dreams for end of war, Zelensky says
By Adam Schrader UPI Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that his country may give up its dreams of NATO ascension, at ...Australia to review gun laws after 15 die in attack on Jewish festival
By Byron Kaye Reuters After Australia’s worst mass shooting in 1996, it took the government 12 days to ban semi-automatic weapons, organise ...














