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A bipartisan group of 16 US senators has asked the President Joe Biden administration to consider giving Ukraine advanced drones to fight Russian forces. In a Tuesday letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the signatories, including members on the Senate Armed Services Committee, urged the secretary to supply Ukraine with …

The United Kingdom has provided Ukraine with advanced laser-guided missiles capable of traveling as far as double a previous model’s range, a report says. The British Royal Air Force is supplying Ukraine with Brimstone 2 missiles, whose previous model had been delivered to Kiev some six months ago, the Daily Telegraph reported …

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Cuban counterpart, Miguel Diaz-Canel, have pledged to deepen their friendship in the face of their “common enemy,” the United States. Putin received Diaz-Canel in Moscow on Tuesday, where they unveiled a bronze monument to Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, whom Putin praised as a …

A new ballot shows voters and Republican operatives alike have labeled former US President Donald Trump the biggest loser of the midterm elections. The Harvard CAPS/Harris poll reported exclusively by The Hill on Monday, 20 percent of voters said Trump was the clear loser after the Nov. 8 election, while …

Iran has started enriching uranium to the purity level of 60% at its Fordow nuclear facility, following the recent resolution that the US and the European troika initiated at the UN nuclear agency’s Board of Governors to mount pressure on the Islamic Republic. Tehran has informed the International Atomic Energy …

A large percentage of people in Spain are turning to food aid as soaring inflation across the country has pushed food prices to a record high. According to the National Statistics Institute, an independent administrative autonomous institution, Spanish food prices jumped 15.4 percent in October to mark their biggest increase …

Germany has offered Warsaw the Patriot missile defense system to help it secure its airspace after a stray missile crashed and killed two people in Poland last week. “We have offered Poland support in securing airspace – with our Eurofighters and with Patriot air defense systems,” Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht told …

Britain has been bypassing its own sanctions against Russia, according to a report, which says it managed to track dozens of shipments of Russian oil into the United Kingdom since March. The British daily newspaper Sunday Times said in a report that the United Kingdom has purchased at least 39 shipments of Russian …

In a fresh blow to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government, scandal-tainted minister for internal affairs and communications has tendered his resignation following reports of his involvement in a funds-related scandal. Minoru Terada became the third Japanese cabinet minister to leave the office in less than a month. Terada had been under …

The US House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has reiterated his pledge to remove Democrat Ilhan Omar (Minn.) over her condemnation of Israeli war crimes, if he becomes speaker of the House. According to Press TV, he said that Omar wouldn’t be allowed to serve on the House Foreign Affairs …

North Korea’s Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui has called the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “a puppet of the United States” for joining the US-led condemnation of the country’s recent intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test. “I often take the UN secretary-general for a member of the US White House or its State Department,” …

US Congressman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has denounced Elon Musk for reinstating former President Donald Trump’s suspended Twitter account, calling it a “terrible mistake.” “As we showed in the January 6th hearings, the president used that platform to incite that attack on the Capitol, his comments about the vice president, his …

Former US House Speaker Paul Ryan says former President Donald Trump would probably lose if he is the Republican Party’s nominee in the 2024 presidential election. “I think we probably lose the White House with Trump,” Ryan, a Republican, told ABC News on Sunday. “And if there’s someone not named …

At least five people were killed and one dozen and a half injured in a mass shooting at an immoral nightclub in the US city of Colorado Springs. Police said Sunday the partygoers subdued the gunman, according to a social media post by the venue, Club Q, and police took …

Hawkish Republican Senator Tom Cotton has agreed with the Biden administration’s decision to grant sovereign immunity to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) over journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s 2018 murder. “What the administration has touted this week in granting sovereign immunity to Mohammed bin Salman is in keeping with the …

The southern Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou locked down its largest district Monday as it tries to tamp down a major COVID-19 outbreak, suspending public transit and requiring residents to present a negative test if they want to leave their homes. The outbreak is testing China’s attempt to bring a more …

A 5.6-magnitude earthquake killed at least 36 people and injured about 700 others in Cianjur town, Indonesia’s West Java province on November 21 afternoon, according to the town’s authorities. Herman Suherman, a government official in Cianjur, said that some residents were trapped in the rubble of collapsed buildings. News channel …

Israeli raids on Monday arrive after a wave of Israeli settler violence against Palestinians on Saturday when dozens of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians in Hebron’s old city in the southwest Bank. Israeli forces killed a Palestinian teenager and wounded five other Palestinians on Monday during a morning raid in the …

Pakistan has reopened a major Afghan border crossing that was shut for trade and transit after security forces clashed last week, officials from both sides said on Monday. As the crossing opened on Monday, three people were wounded in another clash reported on a northwestern border with Afghanistan, an Afghan …

The head of Russia’s state-run atomic energy agency, Rosatom, warned on Monday there was a risk of a nuclear accident at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, following renewed shelling over the weekend. Moscow and Kyiv have traded accusations of shelling the facility for months since Russian forces took …