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Earlier in October, South Korean Defense Minister Kim Yong-Hyun told lawmakers that North Korea was likely planning to send troops to Ukraine to fight alongside Russia.
‘The worst problem we are facing is the one coming from North Korea,’ top Ukrainian intelligence officer says.
Russian schools are increasingly an arena for propaganda and militarisation. A rapidly growing number of teachers have had enough.
The government said it is the initial phase of a plan that would expand to become a publicly funded national programme.
During a meeting that lasted 35 minutes, the pope reportedly presented Ukraine's head of state with a bronze bas-relief with a flower and an inscription, "Peace is a fragile flower."
As EastFruit analysts report, following Kazakhstan, which banned the exports of apples from the country, Belarus has also introduced a similar ban recently. The ban also includes exports to Russia. In addition to apples, onions and white cabbage are also restricted from exports. It seems that the so-called “Eurasian Customs...
The news organization's initial reasoning was that the control of the city was "the heart of the issue."
Russian leader breaks Turkmen law by turning up in bullet-proof vehicle deemed unlucky by country’s former president
Switzerland has imposed an entry ban on the far-right Austrian extremist Martin Sellner. This prevents him from speaking at an event planned by the Swiss Junge Tat far-right group in canton Zurich.
Audit flags several irregularities, including granting visas to Russians “without any legal basis.”
Nihon Hidankyo, made up of survivors of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is recognised for work to rid world of nuclear weapons.
As average population falls reach 95% in some regions, experts call for urgent action but insist ‘nature can recover’
A new mayor was sworn in Thursday in a city in southern Mexico where his predecessor was killed and beheaded less than a week after taking office. The new mayor, Gustavo Alarcón, a doctor, had been elected as an alternate on the same ticket as deceased Mayor Alejandro Arcos in the June election. Arcos took office on Oct. 1 in the violence-wracked city of Chilpancingo, the capital of the southern state of Guerrero.
Gunmen have invaded another town north of Haiti’s capital, just a week after a massacre killed at least 115 people in the country’s central region.
Russia's grinding offensive in one eastern sector has come at huge human and material cost, including five divisions' worth of tanks and vehicles.
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Lithuania has installed “dragon’s teeth” anti-tank barriers on bridges that link the country to Russia.