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21.02.2025 11:00 Afghanistan's radical Taliban leaders on Thursday rejected the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court over their country, declaring as 'unlawful' the decision in 2003 by their predecessors to join the Hague-based court's founding treaty.

21.02.2025 11:00 The recent attack on a UN patrol in the Central African Republic which resulted in the death of a Tunisian peacekeeper, underlines the constant dangers facing peacekeepers from armed groups there, the head of the UN mission told the Security Council on Thursday.

21.02.2025 11:00 Officials in Somalia say 130 militants were killed Thursday as Somali National Army troops "repulsed" attacks on four government military bases in the center of the country.

21.02.2025 11:00 Mexico's president said Thursday that she would propose constitutional reforms to protect her country's sovereignty, after the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump designated eight Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.

21.02.2025 11:00 UK continues to step up on European security in move to deepen defence ties with Norway

21.02.2025 11:00 The Trump administration's makeover of the United States' national security and law enforcement agencies took a major step forward Thursday, with Senate lawmakers voting 51-49 to confirm Kash Patel as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation .

21.02.2025 11:00 On Tuesday, Secretary Noem signed a memorandum deputizing up to 600 special agents within the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service across the country to help with arresting and deporting illegal immigrants.

21.02.2025 11:00 Mexico has said it shall never tolerate an "invasion" of its national sovereignty by the United States under the pretense of fighting drug cartels.

21.02.2025 11:00 Today, the State Department is fulfilling one of President Trump's first promises since he took office. I'm pleased to announce the Department's designation of eight organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists .

21.02.2025 11:00 The quick pace of U.S. diplomacy around ending the war in Ukraine and steps by Washington to normalize relations with Moscow have sparked fears in Kyiv and European capitals about being sidelined and saddled with a peace deal that favors Russia.

21.02.2025 11:00 PRC is out. China is in. That is among the significant modifications to the U.S. State Department's online fact sheet on China, which drops the country's official name, the People's Republic of China , in favor of just China.

21.02.2025 11:00 Homegrown AI and other cutting-edge technology is boosting internal surveillance by the ruling Chinese Communist Party and expanding its overseas influence and infiltration operations, and is already in use far beyond its borders, according to a recent report.

21.02.2025 11:00 North Korea is building a second large naval combatant at Chongjin Shipyard, which is possibly its largest warship, new satellite imagery shows, with experts saying it suggests Pyongyang is strengthening its conventional naval capabilities in collaboration with Moscow.

21.02.2025 11:00 South Korea and the United States on Thursday conducted the first joint aerial drills of the current Trump administration, completing a "simulated precision strike," according the U.S. Air Force.

21.02.2025 11:00 Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol appeared in two Seoul courtrooms Thursday, first to hear criminal insurrection charges and then to face a Constitutional Court impeachment trial, both in connection with his short-lived, Dec. 3 imposition of martial law.