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(Bloomberg) — South Korea sent drones across the border into North Korea for the first time on Monday, an unprecedented tit-for-tat military move after Kim Jong Un’s regime dispatched five unmanned aerial vehicles into its air space. Most Read from Bloomberg The exchange of drones, which briefly stopped flights from […]

President Joe Biden and Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.Mandel Ngan/Getty Images Biden has made restoring the 2015 Iran nuclear deal a top foreign policy goal. Trump withdrew from the deal in May 2018, pushing tensions with Iran to historic heights. An effort to revive the deal is stalled. Visit BusinessInsider.com […]

According to the United Nations human rights agency, Russia’s war against Ukraine has killed at least 6,826 civilians and injured at least 10,769 from Feb. 24 through Dec. 19. The agency said the actual figures are likely considerably higher since the information from some places is delayed, and many reports […]

Volodymyr Zelensky has warned of a new wave of Russian attacks over Christmas. In his nightly address on Friday following his return from a trip to the US, the Ukraine president said: “With the holiday season fast approaching, the Russian terrorists could again step up their activities,” he said. “They […]

Fox News Florida Republican congressman Matt Gaetz insisted Thursday that had he joined the vast majority of his colleagues in standing and applauding Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky before his speech to lawmakers Wednesday, it would have been a “North Korea-style” act. Appearing on Tucker Carlson’s show, the right-wing representative was […]

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian medics said Israeli forces shot dead a 23-year-old man and wounded five others early Thursday during clashes in the occupied West Bank. Ahmed Daraghmeh was mortally wounded when Palestinian militants exchanged fire with Israeli troops that entered the city of Nablus to escort Jewish […]

The WHO had advised regulators to stop the sale of the four Indian-made cough syrups A parliamentary committee in The Gambia has recommended prosecution of the Indian manufacturer of cough syrups suspected of causing the deaths of at least 70 children in the country. It said Maiden Pharmaceuticals should be […]

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong leader John Lee said on Tuesday he will meet China’s President Xi Jinping to report on the city’s political, economic and COVID-19 situations during his maiden duty visit in Beijing this week. Lee will depart for a four-day trip on Wednesday afternoon, he said […]

BANGKOK (AP) — A Thai navy ship sunk in the Gulf of Thailand and ships and helicopters were working Monday to rescue sailors from the water. As of midmorning, 75 sailors had been rescued and 31 were still in the water, the navy said. Strong winds blew seawater onto the […]

A mural praises the Russian Wagner group and its mercenaries fighting in Ukraine on March 30, 2022 in Belgrade, Serbia.Pierre Crom/Getty Images Convicts and mercenaries have been recruited to help fight Russia’s war in Ukraine. One convict recruited to the Wagner group deserted and turned himself in to Ukrainian forces. […]