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05.11.2022 10:50 U.S. officials charged with helping to secure the upcoming midterm elections fear the most dangerous and most likely threats may be difficult or impossible to detect in advance, and that the risk of violence will only escalate once the polls close.

05.11.2022 10:50 Australia can expect another wave of COVID-19 infections in coming weeks, according to experts, as new variants circulate. Coronavirus cases are rising quickly in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia's most populous states.

05.11.2022 10:50 The Somali National Army and local clan militias say they have killed at least 100 militants as retribution for last Saturday's terrorist bombings that killed more than 100 people in Mogadishu.

05.11.2022 10:50 Warring factions in Yemen are being urged to extend a UN-mediated truce following reports of deaths and injuries of civilians from sniper attacks and shelling. The truce, which started at the beginning of April, ended more than a month ago, and human rights chief, Volker Türk, says that there is grave and growing concern for the safety and security of civilians.

05.11.2022 10:50 Cameroon says more than 1,000 Nigerians have crossed the country's border in the past three weeks - fleeing attacks by Boko Haram militants in northeast Borno state. Cameroon's overcrowded camps are struggling to feed the displaced Nigerians as the country is also dealing with an outbreak of cholera.

05.11.2022 10:50 China and U.S. ally Australia have donated weapons and vehicles to the Solomon Islands police, sparking criticism their rivalry could cause new instability in a South Pacific country that spiraled into chaos only two decades ago.

05.11.2022 10:50 Samoa's environment minister says Pacific island nations want the international climate talks in Egypt this month to establish a basis for compensating developing countries for losses caused by climate change.

05.11.2022 10:50 South Korea scrambled fighter jets Friday after detecting 180 North Korean military flights near the border, South Korea's military said, as tensions on the Korean Peninsula continued to escalate.

05.11.2022 10:50 A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea issued the following statement on Friday:

05.11.2022 10:50 The Democratic People's Republic of Korea launched "an unprecedented number" of cruise and ballistic missiles over the course of just 48 hours this week, the UN Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, told the Security Council in an emergency meeting on Friday.

05.11.2022 10:50 The United States criticized China and Russia at the U.N. Security Council on Friday for providing "blanket protection" to North Korea after Pyongyang launched a series of missile tests.

05.11.2022 10:50 Nationwide rallies were held by supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on November 4, a day after he was targeted in an apparent assassination attempt, with protesters blocking key roads in major cities and clashing with security forces.

05.11.2022 10:50 Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan said Friday in his first public address after surviving an apparent assassination attempt that he was hit by four bullets in his right leg and sustained a fracture.

05.11.2022 10:50 Former Pakistan premier Imran Khan, who survived an assassination attempt on his life on Thursday, is stable and determined to continue his political march to press the government to call for an early election, his party said on Friday.

05.11.2022 10:50 Former President Dmitry Medvedev has claimed Moscow is fighting a holy war against Satan and warned Russia is capable of sending its enemies to hell, the latest in a slew of outlandish remarks targeting Ukraine and the West from an ally of President Vladimir Putin who for years portrayed himself as a relative liberal.