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30.04.2024 19:21 Seven opposition lawmakers were expelled on April 29 from a session of Georgia's parliament that is discussing a piece of legislation that domestic critics and Western countries have said will be used to crack down on independent voices in the country.

30.04.2024 19:21 A senior U.S. official warned Monday that more than 2 million people in El Fasher, in Sudan's western Darfur region, are under imminent threat of a "large-scale massacre" from a paramilitary group's attack and urged the international community to pressure the warring parties to de-escalate.

30.04.2024 19:21 The UN's top humanitarian official in South Sudan has urged the government to lift newly imposed taxes and charges that are causing aid deliveries to be suspended, affecting tens of thousands of people.

30.04.2024 19:21 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to meet Tuesday with Jordanian officials and the U.N.'s humanitarian coordinator for Gaza amid a push to seal a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas and bring in more badly needed aid to the Gaza Strip.

30.04.2024 19:21 The head of UN peacekeeping and demining reiterated calls on Monday for a ceasefire in Gaza as a first step to returning the war-ravaged enclave to some normality, while mine clearance experts warned that the Strip is now at its "most dangerous period".

30.04.2024 19:21 The Philippine government on Monday took delivery of a Japanese-made mobile radar system that it says "adds eyes" to the air force's ability to safeguard the country's skies amid an increasingly fraught atmosphere in the disputed South China Sea.

30.04.2024 19:21 A temporary pier the Defense Department is constructing off the Gazan coast to deliver humanitarian aid is on track to establish initial operations soon, the Pentagon announced today.

30.04.2024 19:21 Today, the Nordic Ministers for Defence have marked a new era by signing a common vision for the development of Nordic defence cooperation by 2030.

30.04.2024 19:21 Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg visited Kyiv on Monday for talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the state of the war and the future of NATO's support to Ukraine.

30.04.2024 19:21 Australia, one of Ukraine's largest non-NATO donors, has announced a military aid package worth around $65 million to support Kyiv's war effort following Russia's invasion.

30.04.2024 19:21 An increase in civilian casualties caused by intensifying attacks from the Russian armed forces against Ukraine's electric power infrastructure and railway system calls for concern, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine said on Monday.

30.04.2024 19:21 A Russian missile attack on the Black Sea port city of Odesa killed five people and injured 32, the regional governor said on April 29 just hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for faster deliveries of desperately needed weapons for depleted and outgunned Ukrainian troops.

30.04.2024 19:21 Ever since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, his armed forces have pounded Ukraine with missiles and drones fired from the relatively safe confines of Crimea.

30.04.2024 19:21 A deadly Russian missile attack Monday on the Black Sea port of Odesa killed at least four people and injured at least 28, among them two children and a pregnant woman. Four of the wounded are in serious condition receiving urgent care, regional Governor Oleh Kiper said.

30.04.2024 19:21 The Yemen-based Houthi militant group fired three ballistic missiles at a Malta-flagged, Greece-owned container ship in the Red Sea, the U.S. military and maritime security agencies said Monday.