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The United States, Japan, and South Korea began the first trilateral “Freedom Edge” military exercise on Thursday, just shortly after nuclear-armed North Korea claimed it successfully test-fired multiple warheads.

Bolivia’s embattled President Luis Arce on Thursday denied being behind an attempted coup against him to boost his popularity. He said the general who led it “acted on his own.”

Eighteen journalism and press freedom groups have urged U.S. President Joe Biden to ensure that Russian-American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva of the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) network is declared “wrongfully detained” by Moscow.

The leader of the Dutch nationalist right-wing Party for Freedom (PVV) called Islam “disgusting, reprehensible, violent and hateful” Wednesday, just days before his group will lead the next government.

A Christian evangelist and farmer in Nigeria urged prayers on Wednesday after authorities declared a health emergency due to a cholera outbreak that killed scores of people.

The NATO military alliance appointed outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as its next secretary-general after Hungary and Romania withdrew their opposition.

Army troops led by a general stormed the presidential palace in Bolivia in an apparent coup attempt after President Luis Arce warned Wednesday that an “irregular” deployment of troops was taking place in the capital, Worthy News established.

The International Court of Justice (ICC) has indicted Russia’s former defense minister Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov, chief of the staff of the Russian Armed Forces, for alleged war crimes in Ukraine.

Julian Assange, the founder of the secrets-leaking website WikiLeaks, was freed by a court on the U.S. Pacific island territory of Saipan on Wednesday after pleading guilty to violating U.S. espionage law in a deal that will see him return home to Australia.

Kenya’s president condemned the deadly storming of parliament on Tuesday, the most direct assault on the government in decades, and said it was “a national security threat.”

The European Union launched membership talks with war-torn Ukraine on Tuesday, a decade after Russian troops seized the Crimean Peninsula to deter the country from moving closer to the West.

The head of US Africa Command (AFRICOM) warned Sunday that the continent of Africa has seen a massive surge in the number of Islamic jihadist terrorists operating there in the last 16 years.

Julian Assange has been released from a British prison, announced WikiLeaks, the group he founded, which posted on social media a video of him boarding a flight that departed Britain at London’s Stansted airport on Monday evening.

Chinese authorities said Monday that at least 47 people died in southern China’s Guangdong Province after torrential rains set off flooding and landslides and warned of more “abnormally high amounts of rain.”

Hungary vowed Monday to launch legal procedures against the European Union after the bloc found a way to use proceeds from frozen Russian assets to buy arms for Ukraine, despite Hungarian opposition.

Confidential documents and analysis by weapons experts indicate that a significant expansion at Iran’s most fortified nuclear facility could soon triple its production of enriched uranium, the Washington Post reported.

Hungary’s self-declared “illiberal” Christian conservative government has come under pressure from the U.S. and its allies to end policies that they claim discriminate against the LGBTQ+ community.

Russia’s southern region of Dagestan has begun three days of mourning after a rampage by suspected Islamic militants who killed 19 people, most of them police, and attacked churches and synagogues in coordinated assaults in two cities. Sunday’s violence occurred in Dagestan’s capital and a nearby town.

Moscow says at least four people have died in Ukrainian drone and missile attacks on Sunday, a day after Russia’s bombing of Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv killed three people and left dozens in hospitals. The attacks came as Ukraine expected the arrival of more U.S.-made air defense systems.

At least 15 police officers and several civilians, including an Orthodox priest, were killed and a dozen wounded when suspected Islamic gunmen opened fire at Russian synagogues, churches, and a police post in Russia’s North Caucasus region of Dagestan, several sources said.