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China’s top diplomat on Wednesday visited Myanmar and met with the leader of its military government as growing instability from the neighboring country’s civil war causes concern in Beijing.
The governor of Russia's Belgorod region declared a state of emergency Wednesday following Ukraine's bombardment of the region.
Ukraine is keeping us its assault on Russia by launching drone attacks on the Belgorod region and pushing deeper into Kursk, where more than 70 Russian towns and settlements are believed to be under Ukranian control.
Germany recently became the latest Western power to announce plans to substantially deepen security ties with the Philippines — a development that highlights how Manila is also looking...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday his country’s troops were “moving further” into Russia’s Kursk region and claimed that hundreds of Russian soldiers had been captured or surrendered.
Myanmar is proving to be a hurdle in China’s efforts to be perceived as an international peacekeeper, including a failed attempt to broker peace through coercing the military junta into conceding land
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his army to repel Ukrainian troops who have entered Russian territory. Authorities said about 120,000 people have been evacuated from...
Putin vows to respond to Ukraine's push into Russia.
In the predawn hours on a Sunday in late July, members of one of Haiti’s largest armed gangs attacked the town of Ganthier, about 25 miles east of the capital and on a road that the authorities...