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In a bizarre new gesture of hostility, North Korea (DPRK) has sent some 900 balloons filled with garbage into the territory of its enemy South Korea since May 28, DW reports.

Undeterred by global criticism, the World Health Organization (WHO) aims to conclude a global pandemic treaty by 2025.

In a historic move, Mexico elected its first female and Jewish president, with preliminary results showing Claudia Sheinbaum receiving the most votes.

The United States, Japan, and South Korea have agreed to hold a trilateral joint exercise named Freedom Edge this summer. Following a meeting of the defense ministers from the three allied nations, these exercises will span multiple domains, including land, sea, air, cyber, and space.

China has unveiled the world’s first Artificial Intelligence (AI) hospital, with robot doctors who can treat thousands of patients daily.

At least some 100,000 Hungarians, many armed with “No War” signs and Hungarian flags, participated in a “Peace March” to support Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who seeks an end to the war in neighboring Ukraine.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led alliance was projected to win a majority in the six-week-long national election after the last of the country’s hundreds of millions of voters went to the polls.

South Africa was heading towards a national coalition government for the first time since the late Nelson Mandela led the nation to government in the historic 1994 election that ended apartheid, election results suggest.

Russia has warned that U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied weapons against targets in Russia demonstrates Washington’s deep involvement in the conflict. However, the chief of the NATO military alliance has defended these policies.

A mayoral candidate was shot dead in Mexico’s southwestern state of Guerrero Thursday as Mexicans prepared for local and national votes in which they were likely to elect the nation’s first female president amid massive killings.

Fourteen pro-democracy activists were convicted in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case to date, raising concerns that the territory is losing its autonomy to mainland China faster than expected.

The foreign ministers of the NATO military alliance gathered in Prague on Thursday for a two-day meeting amid concerns that Western attempts to halt Russia’s aggression in Ukraine are undermined by Hungary’s perceived pro-Russian stance.

Iran says it is mobilizing regional forces to attack Israel and its allies as it seeks to continue the policies of the Islamic Republic’s president and foreign minister, who recently died in a helicopter crash.

There is uncertainty over whether outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte will become the next secretary general of the NATO military alliance, with Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia opposing the move.

Former Dutch intelligence chief and political outsider Dick Schoof was appointed as prime minister Tuesday for a coalition cabinet dominated by the anti-Islam Party for Freedom (PVV).

The World Health Organization (WHO) has admitted that it has been unable to roll out its controversial pandemic-related treaty that critics say would increase the organization’s powers in case of another international health crisis.

European diplomats suggest that U.S. President Joe Biden appears “unwilling” to pressure Iran over revelations that it has expanded its stockpile of enriched uranium to nearly weapons-grade levels.

Continuing the destruction of the Armenian Christian heritage in Azerbaijan, Muslim Azerbaijani authorities have destroyed the 19th century St. John the Baptist Church in the town of Shushi and are building a mosque in the village of Karintak where the church once was, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.

As Ukraine remains engaged in a fierce battle to resist the ongoing Russian invasion, NATO states in Eastern Europe are planning to use drones as means of protecting their borders against nearby “unfriendly countries” such as Russia and its ally Belarus, Newsweek reports. To this end, a number of states have stated they will exceed NATO’s two-percent target and commit more than 3% of their gross domestic product to defense.

Taiwan’s embattled President Lai Ching-te has offered “cooperation” and “goodwill” towards China after Beijing held threatening war games nearly encircling the democratically ruled island nation.