US, China resume talks on safe military interactions
AFP : The United States and China held talks this week on safety in interactions between their armed forces for the first time in more than two years, the US military said on Friday....
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Turkey to withdraw from Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces
TASS : Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has signed a decree announcing that the country will withdraw from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) on April 8. The decree has been...
6 killed in Russian strikes on Ukraine’s Kharkiv
Al Jazeera : Russian strikes on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, have killed six civilians and injured 10 people, regional officials said. Ukraine’s national police said the attack early on Saturday was launched by drones....
Pelosi joins call for Biden to stop transfer of US weapons
Reuters : Representative Nancy Pelosi, former House speaker and a key ally of Joe Biden, signed a letter on Friday from dozens of congressional Democrats to the president and Secretary of State Antony Blinken,...
Mexico suspends ties with Ecuador
Al Jazeera : Mexico has suspended diplomatic relations with Ecuador after police forcibly broke into its embassy in Quito and arrested former Ecuadorian vice president Jorge Glas who had sought political asylum there. Glas,...
Europol maps out 821 most threatening crime groups
Deutsche Welle : The European Union’s law enforcement agency Europol on Friday published an analysis of 821 criminal groups that it said posed a major threat to the bloc’s internal security. The Hague-based agency...
Iran says ISIL members planning Eid al-Fitr ‘suicide attack’ arrested
Al Jazeera : Iran says it has arrested members of the ISIL (ISIS) group who were planning an attack at the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. A concerned citizen called law...
Teen hospitalised after attack in France
AFP : A 15-year-old teenager has been badly beaten in a town south of Paris and rushed to hospital following a cardiac arrest, in the latest incident of school violence in France. Thursday’s attack...
Trump says Israel ‘losing PR war’ in Gaza
AFP : Former US president Donald Trump has said that Israel is “losing the PR war” in Gaza because of the images coming out of the territory and must end the conflict quickly. “Every...
Ukraine war Six Russian planes destroyed
BBC Online : Ukraine has carried out a drone attack against targets in southern Russia, and claims to have destroyed six Russian planes at an airbase in Rostov region. Security sources told BBC Ukrainian...
India’s top court puts order banning Islamic schools
Reuters : India’s top court put on hold a lower court’s order that effectively banned Islamic schools in the country’s most populous state, lawyers involved in the case said on Friday, giving a breather...
14 killed in head-on collision in Bolivia
News Desk : A total of 14 people were killed when a minibus and a tractor-trailer collided head-on Thursday on a highway that links the Bolivian departments of Oruro and Potosi, local authorities said....