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Coast Guard to match ‘presence with presence’ with ‘strategic competitors’ who operate in and around US waters.

Russian forces and their armed affiliates have subjected Ukrainian prisoners to extrajudicial executions, sexual violence and other abuses, the U.N. human rights office said in a report on Tuesday.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres renewed his call Monday for the global abolition of nuclear weapons as concerns grow over Russia's threat to use them in the Ukraine war. "Decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we can hear once again the rattling of nuclear sabers," Guterres told a special…

United Nations envoy to Yemen Hans Grunberg arrived in Riyadh on Monday as part of efforts to expand the truce in the war-torn country. The nationwide truce is set to expire on October 2. It was first adopted in April and has since been twice renewed for a two-month period…

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Iran is stepping up arrests of activists and journalists in a crackdown against civil society as anti-regime protests rage nationwide, activists say. Twenty journalists have been imprisoned since the protests erupted earlier this month over the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, who had been arrested by the country's notorious morality…

BEIJING: The US withdrawal from Afghanistan after two decades of war opened up an opportunity for China to expand its influence and lock down access to the country's vast mineral deposits.

Swedish seismologists says blasts detected near gas pipelines, which are leaking into Baltic sea

The war in Ukraine and its global fallout transfixed the meeting of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly this year