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Vladimir Putin has stuck two fingers up to Donald Trump by unleashing a massive blitz of aerial attacks on Ukraine just hours after the US president again called for the killing to stop. President Putin showed no signs of stepping into line with other world leaders by giving in to Trump’s demands for world peace, after the American leader’s recent …

The youngest sister of Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn has expressed her wish for the military to construct a barrier along the Thai-Cambodian border, after a territorial dispute between the two countries escalated into deadly clashes earlier this year. “Please help consider how we can build a permanent wall between Cambodia and Thailand – not something temporary, but a long-lasting structure,” …

Hong Kong’s new lawmakers should stay united and cooperate with the government to demonstrate “effective democracy” and the “perfect partnership of patriots”, the city’s leader has said. Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu was speaking at a high-level seminar on Thursday centering on executive-legislature relations amid a wave of incumbent lawmakers announcing they will not seek re-election after the current Legislative …

EXPERT OPINION — In order for the U.S. to successfully compete for global influence against its adversaries and to avoid a kinetic fight, we must excel at cognitive warfare; that is military activities designed to affect attitudes and behaviors. This type of warfare is a subset of irregular warfare (IW) and combines sensitive activities to include information operations, cyber, and …

A member of the European Parliament has filed a police complaint against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban over an alleged attempt to install spyware on his devices. Daniel Freund of Germany’s Green Party claimed that he was targeted by hackers in 2024 and that “Hungary is the only plausible actor in this scenario.” “If confirmed, this would be an outrageous …

Hamas has revealed it has returned the bodies of two more Israeli hostages as part of the US-brokered ceasefire agreement, but the group claims it needs more time and specialized equipment to recover the rest of the deceased from the rubble-strewn ruins of Gaza. The armed wing of Hamas said in a statement that while it was committed to the …

The nation’s top court has blocked the handover of the detained ex-Ukrainian army officer to Germany Italy’s top court has suspended the extradition to Germany of a Ukrainian national suspected of coordinating the 2022 Nord Stream gas pipeline sabotage. The Court of Cassation ruled in favor of Sergey Kuznetsov, citing “incorrect legal classification” of facts described in the European arrest …

In a further sign of mounting tension between the US and China, the US Federal Communication Commission (FCC) on Wednesday took the initial step to “expel Hong Kong Telecom” from the US telecommunication network. In a notice issued late in the day, the US regulatory agency announced that it had sent “Communist Party-controlled” HKT International an order to show cause …

Ukrainian drones have targeted and damaged 16 Russian fuel tanks at the Morskoi Neftianoi Terminal in Russian-occupied Feodosia, Crimea , on the night of 13 October. The Ukrainian Armed Forces confirmed the damage to the Marine Oil Terminal on 15 October, noting that these were the tanks that had survived a previous attack on 6 October. A fire ignited by …

US President Donald Trump confirmed on Wednesday that he has authorized CIA operations on Venezuelan soil. The New York Times reported earlier that the decision would allow intelligence operatives to carry out lethal operations against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whose government Trump has accused of running “narco-terrorist” cartels and flooding the US with cocaine and fentanyl. A reporter asked Trump …