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Kyiv and Moscow say at least nearly a dozen people have died since Friday in Ukrainian-Russian clashes in eastern Ukraine, near Crimea, and in Russia itself. Additionally, officials say that in separate attacks, Russia launched a new barrage of missiles and drones overnight on Ukraine, damaging energy facilities in the country’s southeast and west and injuring at least two workers. The clashes come amid Western concerns about the increased support that Moscow is receiving from China, North Korea, and Iran to fuel its invasion of Ukraine.

Namibia’s high court has overturned a law that critics said criminalized gay sex in a ruling that the United Nations hopes will encourage broader testing for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

NATO’s incoming secretary-general said Friday that one of his main tasks would be “to keep military alliance united” at a time of divisions over the war in Ukraine.

Finland’s president says Russia has launched a “hybrid war” against Europe and the West using non-traditional methods to weaken their resolve.

An advocacy group has condemned the five-year jail term given to Belarusian journalist Alena Tsimashchuk on what her supporters suggest are trumped-up charges.

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has withdrawn his bid for NATO’s leadership, clearing the way for Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to become the military alliance’s secretary-general.

A terminally ill Hungarian lawyer who lost his right-to-die case at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has met Hungary’s government, which refused to allow active euthanasia.

French President Emmanuel Macron warned Wednesday that schools in France are threatened by the “scourge of antisemitism” after a 12-year-old Jewish girl was raped in what police called “a hate crime” amid ongoing attacks against Jewish people.

North Korea’s autocratic leader Kim Jong Un and his hardline Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin signed a new military pact Wednesday that includes a pledge of mutual defense if either is attacked.

A fleet of Russian warships including a nuclear-powered submarine on Monday left Cuba, five days after passing within 30 miles of Florida on its way to conduct planned tactical nuclear drills in Cuban waters, Newsweek reports.

Romania was expected Wednesday to support longtime Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who became the next secretary general of the NATO military alliance after Hungary dropped its objections and Slovakia’s president signaled his country’s support.

Eager to receive more military aid, Russian President Vladimir Putin began visiting North Korea after his plane touched down in the capital, Pyongyang, in the middle of the night.

Senior U.S. and Israeli officials will meet at the White House after fresh evidence suggested that Iran is further moving towards obtaining nuclear weapons, Worthy News learned Wednesday.

An overnight attack on two oil depots inside Russia’s Rostov region was reportedly carried out by the Security Service of Ukraine, just days after several countries agreed with Kyiv that it could use Western weapons to hit targets on Russian territory despite concerns about nuclear escalation.

The United States’ Biden administration is understood to be in the final stages of negotiating a security pact with Saudi Arabia that stipulates the US would defend the Saudi Kingdom in the event of an attack, while Riyadh would be obligated to block Russia and China from setting up military bases on its territory, the Jerusalem Post reports.

In an apparent refusal to heed Western demands that Iran’s Islamic regime deescalates its nuclear program and halt all material support of Russia, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani has called on the Group of Seven (G7) world powers to cease their “destructive policies of the past,” Reuters reports.

Pope Francis has urged the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) government to end the massacres by Islamic fighters in the east of the country and protect civilians, including Christians.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Thursday that Hungary, like all other sovereign European countries, has the right to impose an absolute ban on assisted suicide.

The US military last week destroyed radar sites used by Houthi Shia Islamic rebels in Yemen to attack international commercial shipping vessels in the Red Sea, UPI reports.

Hungary’s nationalist prime minister suggested Monday that he would not block the nomination of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as the next secretary general of the NATO military alliance despite misgivings over his past remarks about Hungarian policies.