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29.04.2025 14:10 Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has been talking up the benefits of free trade, in the face of a China-U.S. tariff war that threatens the global economy, during a meeting with Vietnam's top leader To Lam in Hanoi.

28.04.2025 13:52 An annual report on global military spending shows Ukraine is spending more of its GDP on defense than any other country in the world - but is still being outgunned by Russia.

28.04.2025 13:52 US President Donald Trump said he wants Russian leader Vladimir Putin to "stop shooting" and agree to a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine, a day after his face-to-face meeting with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of Pope Francis's funeral.

28.04.2025 13:52 Pakistani security forces said they killed dozens of militants attempting to cross into the country from Afghanistan, even as its troops separately continued to exchange gunfire with the India military in Kashmir amid skyrocketing tensions in the region.

28.04.2025 13:52 Russia has admitted for the first time that it deployed North Korean soldiers in the battle to push Ukrainian forces out of its Kursk region following Kyiv's shock incursion into the border area last year.

28.04.2025 13:52 US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said a deal to end Russia's invasion of Ukraine is "closer" as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for greater international pressure on the Kremlin following the latest wave of attacks along the front line.

28.04.2025 13:52 The Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea highly appreciated the combat sub-units of the armed forces of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for performing heroic feats in the operations to repulse and annihilate the grave sovereignty infringement by the Ukrainian authorities, who invaded the territory of the Russian Federation, and completely liberate the occupied area of Kursk Region.

28.04.2025 13:52 A spokesperson for the Defense Ministry says there were no military-related export or import cargoes at Shahid Rajaee Port, where a massive blast has left at least 28 people dead.

28.04.2025 13:52 A massive explosion purportedly linked to a shipment of a chemical ingredient used to make missile propellant has killed at least 40 people and injured more than 1,000 others in the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas.

28.04.2025 13:52 Iran and the United States met in Oman on April 26 for the third round of talks over Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear program. A fourth round is scheduled for May 3, with the location yet to be announced.

28.04.2025 13:52 Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has appointed a close aide as the first-ever vice president and a potential successor in a move deemed by critics as "illegitimate and divisive."

28.04.2025 13:52 Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, in a call with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, has offered to help facilitate the de-escalation between India and Pakistan, Pezeshkian's office has said.

28.04.2025 13:52 The Russian military intelligence oversaw the recruitment of prisoners into assault units known as "Storm Z." It also funded the units and collected of information about casualties, RFE/RL's Systema reports in its investigative documentary "The Slaughter Of Ghosts: How Russian Prisoners Fight In Ukraine."

28.04.2025 13:52 The crew of China's Shenzhou-19 spacecraft held a handover ceremony with the Shenzhou-20 crew and transferred the keys of the country's space station to the latter on Sunday.

28.04.2025 13:52 The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency , Rafael Mariano Grossi, discussed the latest cooperation status between Iran and the IAEA in a telephone call with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.