It was a rare stroke of luck for Somali and US forces locked in a grinding war against the Islamic State’s most dangerous surviving branch. A captured ISIS fighter, exhausted and bleeding
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Guinea-Bissau’s military authorities have imposed an outright ban on protests, strikes and any activity deemed a threat to “peace and stability,” escalating their control just hours before a high-level delegation from West
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Global deaths and injuries from landmines and unexploded ordnance surged to their highest level in four years in 2024, driven by escalating conflicts and a wave of withdrawals from the international treaty
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North Korea has spent the past decade doing what few believed was possible: quietly transforming itself into one of the world’s most heavily armed nuclear states. Despite a struggling economy and crushing sanctions,
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Archaeologists have revived the ancient voices of Neolithic Catalonia by analysing and playing conch-shell trumpets that were once used across settlements, caves and mining complexes between the late fifth and early fourth
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North Korea marked the 80th founding anniversary of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) Air Force with grand celebrations at Kalma Airport, according to the state-run KCNA. The event highlighted the Air Force’s
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Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Sunday that Western Europe has effectively removed itself from the negotiations over the Ukraine crisis, blaming European actions for undermining past peace efforts, Reuters reported.
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Asia’s manufacturing engines lost further steam in November as slow global demand and persistent uncertainty surrounding international trade dragged down factory output across several key economies. According to data reported by Reuters,
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Oil prices rose sharply on Monday, climbing as much as 1.5 percent, after OPEC+ members reaffirmed their decision to pause production increases in early 2025 and renewed geopolitical tensions involving Venezuela unsettled
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India’s telecoms ministry has quietly directed all major smartphone manufacturers to preload a government-run cybersecurity app on every new device sold in the country, a move that is expected to trigger friction
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Airbus fleets began returning to normal operations on Monday after the European planemaker accelerated a global software update affecting roughly half of its A320-family jets. The recall, prompted by a vulnerability to
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Revenues at China’s top military firms fell last year as a sweeping anti-corruption drive disrupted arms contracts and procurement, according to a study released Monday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
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Cryptocurrency prices fell sharply on Monday, with Bitcoin sliding as much as 6% and Ether dropping more than 7%, adding momentum to a selloff that has gripped digital assets for weeks. According
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Two of China’s largest private property data agencies failed to release their monthly home sales figures for November, raising fresh questions about the outlook for the country’s real estate sector, Bloomberg reported.
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