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A Pentagon report says China is expanding its nuclear force, has increased military pressure against Taiwan and has strengthened its ties with Russia over the past year.
Greece will almost double its defense spending after parliament approved the 2025 state budget Sunday with a roll-call vote.
“We are talking about a system of state terror," Stephen Rapp, former U.S. war crimes ambassador at large, said of how people lived in Syria under the Assad regime.
The 10-year deal is for the supply of 500,000 barrels of oil per day, or about 0.5 per cent of the world’s supply
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stressed that no country or world leader has the right to negotiate with Russia on behalf of Ukraine. He noted that any dialogue with the Kremlin must be held according to an agreed action plan and only from a position of strength.
The current US administration is confident that the military assistance already provided or planned to be provided to Kyiv by the end of Joe Biden’s presidency will suffice for Ukraine until the end of 2025.
Around 30,000 Russians of working age die annually from HIV, according to Vadim Pokrovsky, the head of Russia’s Federal Methodological Center for HIV/AIDS Prevention.
‘All ranks’ among casualties in Kursk after Pyongyang sent thousands of soldiers to reinforce Russia’s war effort
US-Canadian pioneer member of Greenpeace, who was arrested in Greenland in July, will now spend Christmas with his sons
Ukraine's Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi looks back on a year on the job, assessing the defensive strategy deployed by the Ukrainians in the face of an ever-growing Russian army.
“Ukraine is a strong country and has proven it on the battlefield throughout Putin's aggression. Does anyone else in Europe have this experience now? No. Does Orban have such an army? No. How will he put pressure on Putin? With a joke, a smile? Let him keep it,” Zelensky said, as reported by Interfax-Ukraine.
A video of the explosion that killed Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, Head of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops of the Russian Armed Forces, has been posted online. A source of Ukrainska Pravda reports that the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) is behind it.