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Defense ministers of the United Kingdom and France have gathered in Kiev to discuss further military aid to Ukraine, which is striving for more weapons to boost its slowed counteroffensive against Russian forces. UK Defense Secretary Grant Shapps arrived in Kiev on Wednesday and met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, …

Moscow says Ukraine’s Western allies coordinated along with Kiev last week’s attack on the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in the Crimean Peninsula. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said at a briefing on Wednesday that the attack was “planned in advance using Western intelligence means, NATO satellite assets, …

A new report says the US capital has seen a 28 percent uptick in homicide this year, as violent crimes continue to rise across the country. The report published on Wednesday noted that victims of crime upsurge in Washington, DC cover a wide range from little schoolgirls to immigrants. It …

Cuba’s ambassador to the United States has slammed a violent “terrorist attack” on the country’s embassy in Washington, DC, over the weekend. In an interview with US media on Tuesday, Lianys Torres Rivera said that the Sunday night incident was part of a pattern of attacks directed at Cuban overseas …

North Korea has amended its constitution in a bid to update its nuclear doctrine and boost its nuclear power status, citing “provocations” from the United States. After two days of meetings ending on Wednesday, North Korea’s parliament, known as the Supreme People’s Assembly, added a law to the constitution, stipulating …

Nearly half of ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh have fled the enclave in fear of reprisal from Azerbaijan, Armenia says, as part of an exodus caused by a military operation that brought the mountainous region back under Azerbaijan’s control. Last week, Azerbaijan launched an operation designed to seize control of Nagorno-Karabakh, …

A leading Arab American rights group is suing the US government and calling on a federal court to halt any further actions admitting Israel into the visa waiver program (VWP). The lawsuit, filed by the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), states that based on credible reports and investigations, Israel is …

Fifty-five percent of US citizens say they oppose a defense pact with Saudi Arabia that would commit the US to send forces to defend the kingdom in the event of an attack. In a poll conducted between 29-31 August by Harris Poll and the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, 55 …

Republican US House speaker, Kevin McCarthy, has rejected a stopgap funding bill advancing in the Senate, nudging the US government to the brink of its fourth partial shutdown in a decade. The Senate plan which advanced on a wide bipartisan margin on Tuesday unveiled a stopgap funding measure that would …

Lebanon’s army said on Wednesday it had exchanged smoke bombs with Israeli troops at the border, the second such incident in a week. The Lebanese army, in an online statement, said Israeli troops had fired smoke bombs at a Lebanese patrol that was accompanying workers removing “infringements” that the army …

France’s ambassador to Niger landed in Paris on Wednesday after leaving Niamey following weeks of tensions between Paris and the post-coup regime in the West African country, the foreign ministry told AFP. The return of the ambassador, Sylvain Itte, comes two months after a coup in Niger ousted its pro-Paris …

The Czech Republic will buy 24 US-made F-35 fighter jets, Prime Minister Petr Fiala told reporters on Wednesday. “The first F-35s will be ready in 2029 and our pilots will start training with them in the United States then,” Fiala said. He added that the first supersonic jets would arrive …

The Russian foreign ministry says Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s latest remarks on distancing his country from its alliance with Moscow are aimed at shifting blame for his failures onto Moscow while submitting to Western pressure was behind the “severe” defeat in Karabakh. In a statement on Monday, the ministry …

Niger’s military government has demanded a “negotiated framework” for the French troop planned pull-out from the West African country. In a statement released overnight, the government said the timeframe for the pull-out “must be set out in a negotiated framework and by mutual agreement.” The statement came after French President …

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accused Guyana on Monday of allowing Exxon Mobile to take over a long-disputed border region rich in oil. During his weekly TV show, Maduro said that Exxon-Mobile, a company bidding for the offshore oil blocks, and the United States Southern Command were transforming Guyana into a US military …

Russian Black Sea Fleet commander Viktor Sokolov has appeared at a meeting in footage released by the country’s defense ministry, a day after Ukraine claimed to have killed him in a missile strike. The Russian defense ministry released the video and photos on Tuesday, showing Sokolov — one of Moscow’s most senior …

Last week, the “hacker” who targeted the Kuwaiti Ministry of Finance announced that the data he succeeded in obtaining after penetrating one of the ministry’s systems was being offered for sale. The Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai reported that the hackers set the required ransom amount at 15 bitcoins (about 400,000 US …

Colombian second division club Tigres FC has announced its president, Edgar Paez, was fatally shot after his team’s loss on Saturday night. According to local media reports, the 63-year-old Paez was driving home with his daughter after a home loss to Atletico FC when he was shot by two men …

Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement says Saudi Arabia and its allies continue to violate the terms of a UN-brokered truce, stressing that 12 Yemeni soldiers got killed in one month along border areas. Mohammed Abdul-Salam, the spokesman of Ansarullah and head of Yemen’s national negotiating delegation, told Reuters news agency on Tuesday …

Palestinians have continued to protest near the border fence between the besieged Gaza Strip and the Israeli-occupied territories for the 10th consecutive day against the Israeli settler incursions into the al-Aqsa Mosque complex. On Monday, protesters waved Palestinian flags and set tires ablaze, amid chants condemning settler raids into the flashpoint …