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Myanmar: UNICEF reports three children killed as an airstrike hits a school sheltering displaced families in Kayah state
UNICEF says a school used by displaced families in Loikaw, Kayah state, was hit in an airstrike on 1 November,…
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Kim Yo Jong denies North Korea was behind the Binance hack: “absurd rhetoric, nothing new”
North Korea denied it was behind the cyberattack on Binance, from which $6.3 billion in digital assets were stolen. Kim…
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Taiwan holds live-fire drill on Kinmen, while Pratas faces “pressure without invasion”
Taiwanese forces held a live-fire exercise on Kinmen before dawn on November 3, with simulated threats from sea and air.…
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South Korea launches the submarine Seo Hui, the second 3,600-tonne Jangbogo-III Batch-II boat
South Korea’s Navy launched the submarine Seo Hui (SS-088) at Hanwha Ocean’s Okpo shipyard on November 3. It combines AIP…
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Belousov in Beijing: Russia-China partnership at an “unprecedentedly high level”, ahead of the APEC summit in Shenzhen
Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov met Zhang Shengmin, vice chairman of China’s Central Military Commission, in Beijing on November 3.…
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North Korea claims it tested a cluster warhead on a cruise missile, its second in three days
Pyongyang’s KCNA says a medium-sized cluster warhead was tested on a strategic cruise missile on November 2, after a similar…
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Erdoğan in Seoul: Turkey and South Korea agree to deepen cooperation on nuclear energy and defence
After talks with President Lee Jae Myung in Seoul, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Turkey and South Korea will expand cooperation…
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Japan scrambles fighters as a Chinese WZ-7 drone crosses the Miyako Strait twice, Tokyo says
Japan’s Joint Staff says a Chinese WZ-7 high-altitude reconnaissance drone flew twice through the Miyako Strait on November 2, prompting…
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U.S. Navy and Bangladesh Navy open CARAT Bangladesh 2026 with mine countermeasures ship USS Warrior and a P-8A
The annual CARAT exercise began in Chattogram on November 2, with the U.S. Navy mine countermeasures ship USS Warrior and…
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Steinmeier: Xi Jinping uninterested in a three-way summit on Ukraine, wants Europeans at the negotiating table
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier told ARD that Xi Jinping shows no interest in a summit with the US and Russia…
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North Korea more isolated than ever, says head of UN human rights office in Seoul
James Heenan, head of the UN human rights office in Seoul, says North Korea is changing fast but its people…
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U.S. Navy and Indian Navy open Exercise Tiger Triumph 2026 in Visakhapatnam
The fifth Tiger Triumph exercise between U.S. and Indian forces has opened in Visakhapatnam, with a focus on disaster response…