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Russia's permanent representative to the CSTO said NATO has not wanted and does not want to cooperate with the Russian-led alliance, and there is no point in banging on closed doors. The
Ukraine's intelligence directorate said Wednesday that North Korea deployed a missile unit inside Russia, escalating beyond the 8,000 DPRK infantry fighting there since 2025. The Reuters report, if confirmed, marks the first time North Korean missile systems may be positioned
Volodymyr Zelensky sat five rows behind Donald Trump at Senator Lindsey Graham's funeral at Washington National Cathedral, a seating arrangement that mapped the present state of US-Ukraine diplomacy more precisely than any
Merz told Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin in Dublin that Germany will not join EU sanctions against Israel, citing its historical responsibility. The stance deepens the EU's divide on the conflict, even as
Turkish President Erdogan offered Iraq defense industry supplies at a joint Ankara summit Monday. Baghdad committed to one million barrels of oil and a comprehensive energy deal, as both sides named PKK
Keiko Fujimori was sworn in as Peru's president on July 28 in Lima, becoming the country's ninth leader in a decade on a platform of mega-prisons and military-led crime crackdowns. Critics gathered
Bryan Kohberger filed a petition Sunday seeking to void his June 2026 guilty plea in the University of Idaho murders, claiming his prior defense attorneys pressured him into statements he believed were
Florida executed James Duckett and Dominick Occhicone simultaneously on Monday, carrying out the state's first double execution since 1964. Governor Ron DeSantis signed both warrants as part of his administration's accelerated capital
Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi met President Erdogan in Ankara Monday after stops in Washington and Tehran. Kurdish communities on the Development Road's northern corridor remained outside the negotiations as Iraq and
Senator Rand Paul's committee published Dr. Anthony Fauci's 1,141-page pandemic diary, revealing that ten of twelve scientists on a February 2020 call privately believed COVID-19 could have been deliberately engineered. The diary
Senator Lindsey Graham was honored Tuesday in two Washington services where President Trump eulogized him alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — the two foreign leaders whose
Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at the White House Tuesday for his first meeting with Trump since the Iran war began, navigating disagreements over Iran's nuclear sites, Turkey F-35 sales, and Lebanon's framework while
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