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Russia claims jailed opposition leader and anti-corruption crusader Aleksei Navalny died of “natural causes” but refuses to release his body until his mother agrees to a “secret funeral,” Navalny’s mother and his spokeswoman said Thursday.

Iran is reportedly providing Russia with a massive number of highly accurate ballistic missiles, deepening the military cooperation between the two U.S.-sanctioned countries and raising concerns in wartorn Ukraine and Israel.

U.S. officials have reportedly warned allies that Moscow will launch an anti-satellite nuclear weapon into orbit this year, a potentially devastating move threatening the West’s military and communications capabilities.

U.S. President Joe Biden’s White House is reportedly planning to send long-range tactical missiles to Ukraine as it is suffering setbacks in its battle against Russia’s invading military.

A British cargo ship was sinking in the Gulf of Aden after Houthi rebels attacked it and two other U.S. vessels in the region, Israeli and British sources said Tuesday.

Chinese hackers are intensifying their attempts to infiltrate critical U.S. infrastructure networks to position themselves for future sabotage according to FBI Director Christopher Wray.

Security has been stepped up in The Hague after the Dutch city turned into a war zone with two rival groups of Eritreans fighting each other over the weekend, injuring at least six police officers, officials said.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Saturday he regretted that the nation’s most powerful women resigned over a presidential pardon in a child sexual abuse case, but added: “It was the right decision.”

The widow of opposition leader, Kremlin critic, and anti-corruption crusader Alexei Navalny has vowed to continue his work and blamed Russia’s president for her husband’s death in an Arctic Circle prison on Friday.

The U.S. was preparing over the weekend to build five military bases for Somalia’s National Army after signing a security pact with the African nation’s government.

The United States military said Sunday they carried out five “self-defense strikes” in areas of Yemen controlled by the Iranian-backed Houthi militia.

Tens of thousands of Hungarians expressed outrage on Friday over a presidential pardon for an official sentenced in a pedophilia case that has left longtime Prime Minister Viktor Orbán fighting for his political life.

At least hundreds of people have been detained across Russia as the young and old took to the streets to protest the death of prominent Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who died in prison on Friday, several sources said Saturday.

After months of fighting for a critical eastern town that is feared to have killed tens of thousands, battle-worn Ukraine said Saturday its troops have withdrawn from Avdiivka.

The jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny – a prominent vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin – has died, prison officials said Friday.

Hungarian Reformed Bishop Zoltán Balog has apologized for advising the country’s president to give a presidential pardon to a former deputy director of an orphanage who was an accomplice in the sexual abuse of children.

Iran appeared closer to a nuclear confrontation with Israel after a well-informed Iranian official said the Islamic Republic has everything it needs for a nuclear bomb.

Greece has become the first religiously Christian Orthodox nation to legalize same-sex marriage.

Chinese Scientists have claimed a breakthrough in creating a High-Power Microwave (HPM) weapon, marking a quantum leap in directed-energy warfare for use in urban warfare combat scenarios, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.

The United Kingdom saw an unprecedented surge in antisemitism following the Oct. 7 genocidal attack on Israel by Hamas, with thousands of antisemitic incidents recorded since then, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports.