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US authorities have repeatedly used SpaceX for foreign policy goals, Reuters reported, citing sources. Specifically, in 2023 and 2024, the Biden administration asked the company to block pro-Iranian forces in Yemen and Lebanon from using the Starlink satellite…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has named the creation of the world’s most powerful armed forces in the country as one of his top priorities, the Korean Central News Agency reported after the third meeting of company commanders of the Korean People’s Army on O…

Russian air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 616 Ukrainian drones overnight over Russian regions and the waters of the Azov and Black seas, the Defense Ministry reported.

#tass_photo_archive A park in Novosibirsk. October 1984

Finnish President Alexander Stubb may become the key European mediator in negotiations with Russia on Ukraine after his talks earlier this week with US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Vladimir Zelensky in Oslo, according to Berliner Zeitung. The story says tha…

The number of people wounded or killed by Typhoon Champi, which is approaching Taiwan, has reached 500, according to the island’s central emergency operations headquarters.

A protest against changes to the funding system for the public‑legal Czech Television and Radio is taking place in front of the Palace of the Chamber of Deputies (the lower house) of parliament with several dozen protesters trying to break into the building, p…

▶️ Paratroopers have practiced long‑range parachute jumps with the Stayer before Special Forces Day celebrated on October 24. Video: The Defense Ministry/TASS