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... .
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 ... .
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 ....
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 .
China is sharply increasing its nuclear arsenal and could have up to 700 deliverable warheads by 2027 and at least 1,000 by 2030, as the Communist giant aims to surpass US global power by the middle of the 21st century, the Pentagon has warned in a new report. Advertisement ... "The US is using this report to hype up the "China nuclear threat" theory ... .
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 ... ....
A team of Italian archaeologists exploring ruins connected to the legendary Neo-Assyrian Empire have discovered an ancient industrial wine press. Dating to approximately 700 BC, the remains of the wine press were found at an archaeological site known as Khanis, which is in the Duhok governate in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq... Top image ... .
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). .