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The Surinamese police issued an arrest warrant Wednesday for Suriname’s former president, Desi Bouterse, who was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for the killings of 15 opponents.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that approximately 40% of jobs worldwide by the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI). The IMF also warned that this technological shift in the global job market would intensify social inequalities and potentially lead to increased social unrest.

U.S. Navy SEALs recently intercepted a vessel carrying Iranian-made missile components and other armaments intended for Yemen’s Houthi rebels. During this operation, conducted last week, two SEALs were reported missing, according to a statement released by the U.S. military on Tuesday.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards claimed responsibility for an attack on what they referred to as Israel’s “intelligence center” in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, the Iranian state media reported on Monday.

Britain’s prime minister warned the Iran-backed, Yemen-based Houthis of further Western strikes after they hit a U.S.-owned ship in the Red Sea.

A U.S. fighter jet shot down an anti-ship cruise missile that was fired from the Iran-backed Houthis towards an American warship in the Red Sea, the United States Central Command said late Sunday.

Dutch mosques have urged the Netherlands to ban the burning of the Koran after several people were injured when the leader of anti-Islam group Pegida tried to torch that book, deemed holy by Muslims.

British police confirmed Sunday they had detained six suspects involved in an alleged Palestinian plot to attack the London Stock Exchange, impacting global financial trade.

Frederik X became the King of Denmark on Sunday following the formal abdication of his mother, Queen Margrethe II, who was on the throne for 52 years. Tens of thousands of Danes gathered in Copenhagen to witness the historic succession.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) will host political and business leaders in Switzerland to discuss an unknown disease that allegedly could kill “20 times” more people than the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Netherlands faces political turmoil after information leaked that a Dutch engineer was named as the person responsible for sabotaging Iran’s nuclear program shortly before he died in Dubai.

Voters in Taiwan elected pro-Western Lai Ching-te as the island’s next president despite China’s threat to intervene militarily.

The European Union entered the weekend after days of upheaval resembling the Nazi era in two of its largest economies, Germany and Italy.

The Middle East was rapidly moving towards a broader armed conflict Friday as Iran-backed groups pledged revenge for massive overnight U.S.-led military strikes in Yemen.

Ukraine’s embattled president suffered a domestic political defeat Friday as parliament refused to consider a conscription bill that proposes a crackdown on draft dodgers.

Malaysia has become the latest nation to start rolling out a digital identity document system called MyDigital ID, despite security concerns and fears of more government control over people’s lives.

After weeks of continuous attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea, coalition forces, led by the U.S. and the U.K., initiated major retaliatory strikes against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. This operation, marking the first significant counteroffensive against the Houthis, was supported by coalition partners from Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, and Bahrain.

Papua New Guinea’s prime minister has declared a state of emergency across the Pacific island nation as at least 16 people were killed in unrest sparked by anger over a sudden pay cut to police and public sector workers.

At least 10 people were killed as Ecuador plunged further into civil war Wednesday, a day after gunmen stormed a television station in the country’s largest city.

The United States and Britain confirmed Wednesday that their militaries shot down 21 drones and missiles over the Red Sea launched by Yemen’s Houthis in what London branded the “largest attack” yet by the Iran-backed group.