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Children are being arrested and beaten as Venezuelan govt. continues crackdown over electoral fallout
Mexico's courts could use masked judges for cartel trials
Controversial proposal comes after a spate of murders of police chiefs, prosecutors and members of the judiciary by powerful drug gangs
Russia faces "difficult fight" to retake Ukraine-held area, says top US spy.
North Korea has ordered all its students abroad to return home for ideological training – to reverse the outside influence the students have been exposed to while overseas
Top Hamas figure calls for renewal of suicide attacks
Khaled Mashal declared that the Hamas movement abroad 'puts its trust in the leader Yayha Sinwar who the Zionist intelligence is chasing to harm and kill him.'
Sweden prosecutes Quran burners with hate crime
Two men have been accused of committing "offenses of agitation against an ethnic or national group" for burning Qurans in front of mosques and other public places.
WSJ: Russia moves 90% of aircraft outside ATACMS range
Russia has relocated 90% of its aircraft beyond the range of ATACMS missiles, while the US still restricts Ukraine’s use of long-range missiles against targets within Russian territory.
Ukraine says fear of escalation among allies is major problem
Belarusian leader claims he is being advised to ''turn away from Russia'' and ''fight together with Ukraine''
Alexander Lukashenko, the self-proclaimed president of Belarus, has said that someone was allegedly advising him to turn away from Russia and side with Ukraine in the fight against Russia.
Business Insider: Russia feels unfamiliar pain as Ukraine hobbles its air defenses, forcing tough choices
Ukraine's increased attacks on Russia have exposed and created gaps in its air-defense coverage, war experts say, reducing Russia's upper hand.
Americans Facing Death Penalty in Congo for Botched Coup Attempt
Ukrainian drones reportedly attack Russia's Kirov Oblast for first time
Kotelnich in Kirov Oblast is located some 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) from Ukraine's border.
‘No country for women’: Korean rights group decries Telegram deepfake porn explosion
Womenlink condemned the state in which crimes and violence targeting Korean women “are neither punished nor prevented” amid snowballing revelations of digital sex crimes on Telegram
Russia Warns US Against Western Missile Strikes into Russian Territory
Ukraine’s F-16s Have Scored Their First Aerial Kills
The nimble jets reportedly shot down Russian cruise missiles on Monday.
Korea to Try a 4-Day Workweek Every Two Weeks, Starting in 2025
Gyeonggi Province is pushing forward with South Korea’s first pilot four-and-a-half-day workweek program aimed at improving people's work-life balance, quality of life, happiness and ideally, the falling birth rate. Korea's most populous province has allocated an initial budget 250 million won ($186,971) for the program, part of an annual investment of 10 billion won pledged for the initiative. In a p...
UAE suspends deal to buy fighter jets from France over Telegram CEO's arrest: Report
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and French aerospace giant Dassault have a deal for the supply for 80 Rafale fighter planes
Zelensky: The Kursk operation is one of the points of Ukraine's plan for victory in the war
President Zelenskyy highlights the Kursk operation's role in Ukraine's victory plan, disrupting Russian buffer zone plans and preventing further occupation.
MV Sounion: US says tanker attacked by Houthis could be leaking oil
The Greek-flagged MV Sounion is on fire after being attacked several times last week, the Pentagon says.