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27.02.2025 12:20 No other country or foreign entity can dictate how the Philippines must improve its defense capabilities, Armed Forces of the Philippines spokesperson Col. Francel Margareth Padilla said on Wednesday.

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27.02.2025 12:20 Days after Israel failed to release hundreds of Palestinians in exchange for Israeli captives, Hamas says it has reached a new agreement with mediators in Egypt to bring the abductees home.

27.02.2025 12:20 Hamas has confirmed that Israel will release the 620 Palestinian prisoners, whose release was postponed by the regime, while the resistance group will simultaneously hand over the bodies of four Israeli prisoners.

27.02.2025 12:20 UN human rights chief Volker Türk issued a strong appeal on Wednesday for the fragile ceasefire in Gaza to hold, amid delays to talks between Hamas and Israel on extending the truce into the second phase.

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27.02.2025 12:20 The occupied West Bank has become a "battlefield" as Israel is repeating its genocidal actions in Gaza there, says Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees .

27.02.2025 12:20 Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi have held talks with the secretary general of Lebanon's resistance movement Hezbollah in Beirut.

27.02.2025 12:20 Egypt has rejected a proposal made by Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid that Cairo, instead of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, temporarily run the Gaza Strip, dismissing such plans as "unacceptable."

27.02.2025 12:20 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says US President Donald Trump's scheme to take over the besieged Gaza Strip would not resolve the long-standing Palestinian issue, but would rather be a "time bomb" in West Asia.

27.02.2025 12:20 Peacekeeping efforts by the United Nations are being challenged by growing disunity between Member States, the UN head of Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix said in an interview with UN News, during the Conference for Women Peacekeepers in New Delhi.

27.02.2025 12:20 Outraged Philippine citizens have been taking to social media to dispute online Chinese claims that Palawan province, where Beijing and Manila are at loggerheads over a disputed reef, was historically part of China.

27.02.2025 12:20 No amount of aggressive and illegal actions by the Chinese will deter the Philippines from conducting operations designed to protect the country's territorial integrity, according to a ranking Philippine Navy official.