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The latest missile launched fell into Japanese waters and flew around 6,000km, according to South Korean and Japanese estimates, but has the capacity to go much further – approx. 15,000km – which “could cover the entire mainland United States,” the Japanese Defense Minister said. The US scrambled to “all necessary …

Russia’s defense ministry said on Friday that Ukraine had executed more than 10 Russian prisoners of war with direct shots to the head. The defense ministry was responding to a video circulated on social media which it said showed the execution of Russian prisoners of war. The defense ministry said …

The US Department of State has given Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman immunity from a lawsuit over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi despite Joe Biden’s earlier promise to hold the de facto ruler accountable for the crime. In a statement on Thursday, the US State Department announced that it …

Following investigation, Public Prosecutor’s Office says remains of explosives found at blast sites Swedish investigators confirmed on Friday that the blasts damaging the Nord Stream gas pipelines earlier this year were due to major sabotage. The Public Prosecutor’s Office said the remains of explosives had been found at the site, …

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the first woman to hold that powerful post, said on Thursday she will step down as the chamber’s Democratic leader as her allies prepared a passing of the torch to Representative Hakeem Jeffries. Pelosi, an 82-year-old liberal from California who has served two …

COP27 host Egypt is close to signing final agreements to build two wind and solar projects with a combined capacity of a gigawatt (GW) to boost the country’s lagging renewable power development. High levels of solar irradiation, strong winds, and expanses of desert in which to construct plants mean Egypt …

British finance minister Jeremy Hunt announced a string of tax increases and tighter public spending in a budget plan on Thursday that he said was needed after the blow dealt to the country’s fiscal reputation by former prime minister Liz Truss. Following is a snapshot of what he announced and …

French President Emmanuel Macron says his offer to cooperate with Australia on submarines is still “on the table,” almost a year after a bitter row between the two sides over a cancelled contract threatened bilateral ties. France signed a $58-billion deal with Australia to provide it with diesel-powered submarines in …

Ukraine says it has reached an agreement with Russia and Turkey to extend a United Nations-brokered initiative to ship out grain by 120 days. The country’s Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said in a tweet on Thursday that the “decision was just taken in Istanbul.” “The United Nations and Turkey remain …

UN climate talks got a boost Wednesday as Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva vowed to fight Amazon deforestation and global leaders reaffirmed key pledges. While G20 leaders meeting in Indonesia issued a final communique committing to pursue the more ambitious limits on global heating, action on the sidelines …

Russia’s Ambassador to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya says Ukraine and Poland are seeking to provoke a direct conflict between his country and NATO by making “irresponsible statements” about a missile that struck Poland near the Ukrainian border. The missile crashed in a rural area in Poland on Tuesday, killing two …

South Korea says North Korea has test fired a short-range ballistic missile into the East Sea. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in a statement on Thursday that the North had fired a short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) into the East Sea from the Wonsan area in Kangwon Province at …

Chinese President Xi Jinping rebuked Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for leaking details of their closed-door meeting at the G20 summit in Bali, highlighting the frosty relationship between the two leaders. According to Press TV, President Xi on Wednesday accused Trudeau of behaving inappropriately by leaking the substance of a …

Christopher Wray, the Director of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), on Tuesday told a US House committee hearing that China has stolen more American data and information “than every other nation combined”. In his speech at the annual ‘worldwide threats’ hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday, Wray …

The family business of former US President Donald Trump has signed a licensing deal worth $1.6 billion with a real estate developer based in Saudi Arabia to build a resort in Oman, as the 76-year-old businessman-turned-politician prepares his return to presidential politics. The Trump Organization, a group of about 500 …

The Republican Party have seized control of the US House with a slim majority far smaller than the party had been banking on. NBC and CNN projected the victory for Republicans with at least 218 seats in the 435-member House of Representatives. Republicans, however, failed to take control of the …

Soaring energy, food, and transport prices drove Britain’s inflation to a new high in October, jumping to a 41-year high of 11.1 percent, squeezing households and businesses amid a warning of recession in major economies by the world trade body. The Office for National Statistics in a report on Wednesday …

A missile that hit Poland was probably a stray fired by Ukraine’s air defences and not a Russian strike, Poland and NATO said on Wednesday, easing global concern that the war in Ukraine could spill across the border. Nevertheless, NATO’s chief said that Moscow, not Kyiv was ultimately to blame, …

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says Americans announce they are “in hurry” for returning to the 2015 nuclear deal in their ongoing messages to Tehran but “hypocritically” tell the press that rejoining the deal is not their priority. According to Press TV, speaking to reporters on Wednesday on the sidelines …

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has claimed that China poses “the single biggest state threat” to his country’s “economic security”, but insisted on engaging with Beijing on global issues. “I’m very clear that China poses a systemic challenge to both our values and our interests and it represents the single …