Putin sends hypersonic missile frigate to Atlantic
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday sent off a frigate towards the Altantic and Indian oceans armed with new hypersonic Zircon cruise missiles which he said were uni...
Read moreCar bombs kill at least 15, level houses in central Somalia
MOGADISHU (Reuters) -Two car bombs detonated by al Shabaab militants killed at least 15 people and flattened homes in central Somalia's Hiraan region on Wednesday, a resident involved in the re...
Read moreSKorea's Yoon weighs ending military agreement with North after drone intrusion
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said on Wednesday he would consider suspending a 2018 inter-Korean military pact if the North violates its airspace again, his office said...
Read moreRepublican US House to open with McCarthy fighting for speaker gavel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The new Republican-held U.S. House of Representatives convenes on Tuesday for what could be a chaotic election for speaker, as top Republican Kevin McCarthy fights to over...
Read moreRussian nationalist fury grows over strike that killed 63 troops in east Ukraine
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian nationalists and some lawmakers have demanded punishment for commanders they accused of ignoring dangers as anger grew over the killing of dozens of Russian soldiers in o...
Read moreBritain to brand Iran's Revolutionary Guard as terror group, Telegraph reports
(Reuters) - Britain will officially declare Iran's Revolutionary Guard, which has arrested seven people with links to the United Kingdom over anti-government protests, as a terrorist group, the Te...
Read moreUS, SKorea in talks over nuclear planning, tabletop exercise
SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -South Korea and the United States are discussing joint planning and implementation of U.S. nuclear operations to counter North Korea and hope to conduct a tabletop exer...
Read moreGermany may extend NATO task force leadership past 2023, media reports
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's defence ministry is looking into whether it will need to extend its leadership of a NATO joint task force beyond 2023 due to delays by Britain, the next country in lin...
Read moreColombia, Ecuador agree on joint plan to confront organized crime on border
BOGOTA (Reuters) - The armed forces of Colombia and Ecuador on Wednesday signed an agreement to implement a plan to contain drug trafficking and organized crime on their shared border, authorities...
Read moreRussia says 63 soldiers killed by Ukrainian strike in Donetsk region
(Reuters) -Russia's Defence Ministry said on Monday that 63 Russian soldiers had been killed in a Ukrainian New Year's Eve attack on their quarters in the Russian-controlled part of Ukraine's Done...
Read moreJapan says it scrambled jets to monitor Chinese aircraft carrier operations
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan said on Monday it scrambled jet fighters and dispatched aircraft and warships over the past two weeks to keep tabs on China's Liaoning aircraft carrier and five warships tha...
Read moreAt least 14 dead in attack on prison in Mexico’s Juarez
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican authorities said on Sunday at least 14 people died in an armed attack at a prison in the northern border city Juarez and two more died during a later armed aggressi...
Read moreSKorea, US discussing nuclear drills amid tension with North, Yoon says
SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea and the United States are discussing possible joint exercises using U.S. nuclear assets, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said, as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ...
Read moreLula takes over in Brazil, slams Bolsonaro's “violent threats to freedom”
BRASILIA (Reuters) -Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sworn in as Brazil's president on Sunday, delivering a searing indictment of far-right former leader Jair Bolsonaro and vowing a drastic change of ...
Read moreCriminal justice postgrad charged with murdering 4 Idaho university students
(Reuters) - A grad student seeking a criminal justice degree from Washington State University has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of four University of Id...
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