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Taiwan has told the incoming Trump administration it is interested in securing a massive $15 billion military weapons deal with the United States, the Financial Times reported exclusively on Tuesday (November 12).

Police say pro-Palestine protesters gathered on Amsterdam’s central Dam Square despite a protest ban following the first pogrom in the Netherlands against Jews since World War Two.

The CEO of Unbabel, a major translation service powered by artificial intelligence, has announced that human translators may not be required at all in three years, CNBC reports.

A Russian warship carrying Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles carried out drills in the English Channel earlier this month, Sky News reports. Russia began mass-producing Zircon missiles in 2023 in an effort to strengthen its nuclear weapons capability.

After four decades of developing chemical weapons for use against its enemies, Iran’s Islamic terror regime may now have supplied its proxies, including Hamas and Hezbollah, with pharmaceutical-based agents (PBAs) that attack a person’s central nervous system, the US’ Westpoint Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) warns in a new report.

China’s President Xi Jinping on Tuesday expressed outrage over a hit-and-run attack that killed at least 35 people at a sports center in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai.

Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema survived calls for her resignation despite the Dutch capital’s fist pogrom against Jews since World War Two.

A United Nations General Assembly committee has adopted the U.N.’s first-ever resolution on the “responsible” military use of artificial intelligence (AI), Dutch and South Korean officials confirmed Monday.

Kyiv and Moscow expressed hope that the return of Donald J. Trump to the White House may speed up ending Europe’s deadliest conflict since the Second World War after Ukraine and Russia engaged in their most significant drone strikes in years.

Communist-run China is working on its first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier after Chinese leader Xi Jinping told his army to prepare for war, several sources confirmed Tuesday.

Hungary’s fiercely anti-migration prime minister has condemned “the antisemitic rioting in Amsterdam” that left numerous Jews injured and raised questions about the community’s future in the country.

A massive pileup of cars that miraculously killed only one person and injured dozens outside Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, Monday raised new questions about poor road conditions and reckless driving in the mainly Muslim Southeast Asian nation.

The U.S. Military launched strikes on nine targets at two locations in Syria, targeting Iranian-backed militia groups in response to several attacks on U.S. personnel over the past 24 hours, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on Monday.

Haiti’s main airport temporarily shut down due to gang violence amid the anticipated appointment of a new interim prime minister, the U.S. Embassy stated on Monday.

Cuba was rocked by a 6.8 magnitude earthquake at 11.49 am on Sunday (November 1), causing further damage to power lines and buildings in the island country that is still reeling from the effects two recent hurricanes, Reuters reports.

Israel’s National Security Council (NSC) has urged Israeli soccer fans not to attend the match between France and Israel in Paris on Thursday after Jews were hunted in the streets of Amsterdam in scenes resembling the 1930s and World War Two.

The US launched multiple strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen on Saturday evening, according to a US Defense official. The strikes targeted several advanced weapons storage facilities across at least three locations, which were being used to threaten vessels navigating international waters off Yemen.

While antisemitic violence rocked Amsterdam, injuring dozens, Israel’s embassy in The Hague endured electronic attacks, shutting down its phone network, Worthy News learned Saturday.

The Dutch prime minister pledged Saturday to ensure that the Jewish community in his country “feels safe” after U.S. President Joe Biden condemned the Netherlands’ worst antisemitic attacks since World War Two.

Israel rushed to evacuate Jews from the Netherlands after the country’s worst antisemitic attacks since World War Two rocked Amsterdam following a soccer match between the Dutch capital’s Ajax and Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv teams.