TASHKENT -- Sergei grew up in Namangan, the eastern Uzbek city where Islamic traditions persisted despite decades of atheist Soviet rule ... "I never thought they'd be back." ... SEE ALSO. Uzbekistan Holds Talks With Taliban On Trade, Energy, RailwayProjects ....
The Pentagon announced on Thursday it had received approval for a potential sale of $650 million worth of air-to-air missiles to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia... .
ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa could fall within "months if not weeks", an Oromo group allied with Tigrayan rebels told AFP Wednesday, as the fighters advanced southwards ... Earlier on Wednesday OLA spokesman Odaa Tarbii said his group intended to topple Abiy's government, calling his removal "a foregone conclusion" ... Image. Section ... Right .
The Lebanese judge leading investigations into last year's Beirut port blast was forced to stop work Thursday over a lawsuit filed by an ex-minister he had summoned for interrogation ... .
BUDAPEST -- A top official in Hungary's governing party has confirmed for the first time that the government had bought spyware that was allegedly used to monitor journalists, lawyers, businesspeople, and opposition figures in dozens of countries around the world ...Opposition lawmakers are demanding a probe into the use of Pegasus ... ....
( University of Udine ) AssyrianWinePress and the Assyrian Love of Wine ... Boutique Wine for Byzantines ... Inside square-shaped artificial caves, laborers would crush piles of grapes beneath their feet, after which the grape juice would run out through drains into collecting basins carved into the rock face at lower levels ... Top image ... Source ... .
The Pentagon report also says that China has continued its aggressive, top-level push to master advanced technologies and become a global innovation superpower ... destruction of nuclear weapons, and keeps its nuclear force at the minimum level required for national security.
In this photo released by the TaiwanPresidentialOffice, Taiwan's PresidentTsai Ing-wen, right presents a gift to Raphael Glucksmann, the chair of the EU's foreign interference committee during a meeting in Taipei, Taiwan on Thursday. AP-Yonhap ...China's defense ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday ... (Reuters). .