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South Korean Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong (L), U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (C) and Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi pose for a photo during their trilateral foreign ministerial talks in Honolulu on Feb. 12, 2022, in this photo provided by the South Korean foreign ministry. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (Yonhap) […]

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said Thursday his country could host nuclear weapons if it faces any external threats, as tensions soar between his ally Russia and the West over Ukraine.Lukashenko is due to hold talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Friday. “If necessary, if such stupid and mindless steps are taken […]

Russia’s Navy has launched drills involving 20 warships in the Caspian Sea, the Defense Ministry announced Thursday. Video published by the Defense Ministry shows the ships from the Caspian Fleet departing from their base in Makhachkala in the republic of Dagestan. Russian Defense Ministry In addition to 20 warships, the drills will involve several small missile and small artillery […]

French President Emmanuel Macron held a news conference Thursday morning at the Élysée Palace, after African and Western leaders met in Paris on Wednesday night to start fleshing out plans for how to continue fighting Islamist militants in the Sahel region once France and its European allies begin pulling troops out of Mali. Follow FRANCE […]

Russia’s claims it is withdrawing troops from the Ukrainian border is false, the US and NATO have said, with the number actually increasing by 7,000. NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg told reporters ahead of a defence meeting in Brussels on Wednesday that the West had “not seen any withdrawal of Russian forces and, of course, that […]

Al-Shabab fighters have attacked several police stations and security checkpoints in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, officials and the armed group said – a show of force as the country prepares to hold a long-delayed presidential election. The latest attack came as indirect parliamentary elections are held in the Horn of Africa country [Feisal Omar/Reuters] Al-Shabab fighters have […]

Deep below the crust of Earth, past the thick mantle and liquid outer core, lies a 1,220-kilometer (760 mile) ball of solid inner core. But a new study has suggested that the inner core is not solid at all, instead forming a ‘superionic state’ with hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon, making it unlike either a liquid or […]

Western allies are skeptical of Russia’s claim that some of its military units are returning to their bases after exercises near Ukraine, saying there is no evidence yet that Moscow will keep its word Russia has made two overtures to ease tensions around Ukraine: Reporting a pullback of troops near its neighbor and welcoming talks […]

MOSCOW, February 16. /TASS/. Russia will do everything within its power to prevent a war with Ukraine, Federation Council speaker Valentina Matviyenko said on Wednesday. “Our stance has been clearly defined by the Russian leader: we, on our part, will do everything to prevent a war with Ukraine, to make sure that it never starts […]

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz became the second European leader in a week to refuse a Russian-administered coronavirus test on his visit to the Kremlin on Tuesday. The new German leader met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in hopes of defusing tensions in the Ukraine standoff a day after he spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv.   Putin […]