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Frederik Willem de Klerk – the last president of a segregated South Africa, who freed Nelson Mandela – has died aged 85, sources confirm.

Iran is holding a large-scale military drill along its southern borders this week, following Israel’s declared commitment to act against Iran as nuclear negotiations are set to resume with world leaders.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that President Joe Biden’s administration is closely monitoring reports of a Russian military buildup on the Russia-Ukraine border.

As Europe focused on the coronavirus pandemic, it overlooked looming military conflicts in its eastern backyard from the Polish-Belarus border to the Balkans.

A Christian software company says it has been forced to remove its Bible application from the Apple App Store in China amid a government crackdown on printed and digital Bibles.

The United States military is testing Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system in Guam as it eyes possible threats from China.

More than two months after the chaotic and fumbled U.S. pullout from Afghanistan, scores of American families are still stuck living under the new Taliban regime.

Satellite images show China has built mock-ups of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier and destroyer in its northwestern desert, possibly for practice for a future naval clash as tensions rise between the nations.

Tens of thousands of people have marched through the Dutch city of The Hague to express anger about new COVID restrictions that they say further limit freedom in the once tolerant Netherlands.

Sierra Leone was plunged into mourning after at least 99 people died and more than 100 were injured when an oil tanker truck exploded near the capital, officials said.

U.S. President Joe Biden has condemned a “terrorist attack” against Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi and said his administration would help find those responsible.

Prices for fertilizers are spiking across the world, with per-ton rates for some products at or near record highs, a market reality that threatens to exacerbate rising consumer costs for everything from coffee to corn and rice.

Iraq’s prime minister has survived an attempted assassination by a drone armed with explosives.

Iran began its annual war games on Sunday, less than a month ahead of a planned return to talks with Western powers about resuscitating the 2015 nuclear deal.

The U.S. State Department approved its first major arms sale to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under U.S. President Joe Biden with the sale of 280 air-to-air missiles valued at up to $650 million, the Pentagon said on Thursday.

Hundreds of private planes transport leaders and their staff to the United Nations’ ‘COP26’ climate summit where ordinary people are told to limit travel or cycle to fight “global warming.”

Poland says it has summoned a high-level Belarusian diplomat over an “intrusion” into Polish territory of “uniformed individuals armed with long guns.”

Iran said Thursday it has significantly increased its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, weeks before talks resume to return to the 2015 deal that limited its nuclear program.

China and Russia are urging the U.N. Security Council to end a host of sanctions against North Korea ranging from the export of seafood and textiles to the cap on imports of refined petroleum products and the ban on its citizens working overseas and sending home their earnings.

The Chinese military is rapidly building up its strategic missile forces and is on track to deploy up to 1,000 warheads by 2030 — nearly four times the previous estimates, the Pentagon acknowledged in its annual report on Chinese military power made public Wednesday.