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North Korea ‘is in its strongest strategic position in decades’, US military intelligence said in May.

Kyiv’s strategy to strike the Russian oil industry is “the most efficient thing Ukraine can do” to hurt Moscow's war machine. Still, it will not break the army and will not stop Moscow’s war, Russian economist Vladislav Inozemtsev told Euronews.

Earthquake causes violent shaking of buildings and triggers tsunami warning

President says Ukrainian forces in east have reclaimed 160 sq km of land and cleared another 170 sq km as counteroffensive ‘achieving results’. What we know on day 1,304

Estonia’s foreign minister condemned the incursion as ‘unprecedentedly brazen’

Russia is a key supplier of military goods to Vietnam, providing it with fighter jets, tanks and ships

Russia and Vietnam have developed a mechanism to conceal arms deal payments to avoid American and other Western sanctions, using profits from joint energy-sector ventures to pay for defense contracts, according to internal Vietnamese documents obtained by The Associated Press

Donald Trump suggests networks that carry critical coverage should lose licenses, amid calls for boycott of ABC owner Disney – key US politics stories from 18 September 2025

US president ends second state visit with warning that illegal migration could destroy the UK

PM cannot afford for US president to walk away from Ukraine crisis and must persuade him to publicly support specific Gaza plans

An unusual feature of Donald Trump’s second state visit to the UK was the spectacle of the Royal Marines, the Coldstream Guards and the Royal Air Force “beating retreat” as the president and King Charles looked on.