By JAMEY KEATEN (Associated Press). KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces fired cruise missiles at the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa and shelled the eastern Donetsk region early Wednesday, killing at least six people and damaging dozens of homes, regional Ukrainian officials said ... It was not possible to verify the battlefield claims ... ___ ... ___.
Iran’s PresidentIbrahim Raisi, on a multi-day trip to South American countries, pushed for a “new world order” which would include Iran as a key player and would challenge the US, the West and what Iran sees as the previous order of “global domination and arrogance.” ... However, the speech does not come in a vacuum ... .
PresidentVladimir Putin said that any further mobilisation would depend on what Russia wanted to achieve in Ukraine, adding that he faced a question only he could answer – should Russia try to take Kyiv again? ... .
The United States has confirmed that top diplomat AntonyBlinken will visit China this week, a long-anticipated trip that had been postponed in February amid increasingly fraught tension between the two superpowers ... It did not specify which officials ... US officials were quick to lower expectations ... US media had previously reported on the spy base ... .
The fourth meeting on a permanent joint mechanism between Türkiye, Finland, Sweden, and NATO started in the Turkish capital Ankara on Wednesday ... The meeting comes before the NATO leaders convene in a summit in Vilnius, Lithuania on July 11-12 ... .
Two weeks ago, the United States and Germany brought the world closer to the brink of all-out world war when they announced they were nearing completion of plans for Air Defender 2023, an air war simulation unprecedented in scale. The massive war games operation launched Monday from air fields in the northern part of Germany....read full story.
Cambodia has begun the construction of its second expressway, funded by a Chinese company, which will link the capital Phnom Penh with Bavet city on the eastern border with Vietnam. Cambodian Prime MinisterHun Sen presided over a groundbreaking ceremony for the Phnom Penh-Bavet expressway on...read full story. .
SEOUL--South Korea sued North Korea on Wednesday for $35 million in compensation for a liaison office that North Korea blew up in 2020, in a case highlighting the breakdown of ties between the neighbors as the North presses on with its weapons programs ... Reclusive North Korea does not accept queries from foreign journalists ... .
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