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31.05.2025 15:31 A Chinese envoy warned Friday that more weapons on the battlefield will only protract the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

31.05.2025 15:31 A retired US astronaut has told RFE/RL that joint missions with Russia on the International Space Station should be scaled back, comparing them to collaboration with Nazi Germany at the height of World War II.

31.05.2025 15:31 The Security Council today extended for one year the sanctions regime it has imposed on South Sudan, which includes asset freezes, travel bans and an arms embargo — even as some speakers expressed concern that the African position on this issue is being ignored and sanctions are getting misused as a tool for coercion.

31.05.2025 15:31 Starving Gazans continue to be deprived of aid as international relief efforts are being severely constrained by the Israeli authorities, the UN humanitarian affairs coordination office OCHA said on Friday.

31.05.2025 15:31 The UN is facing a deepening budget crisis that threatens lifesaving operations worldwide. From refugee aid in Mozambique to maternal health services in Afghanistan, critical programmes are on the brink of collapse unless urgent funding is secured.

31.05.2025 15:31 Finland has proposed a project Quantum Enablers for Strategic Advantage for the sixth wave of projects under the Permanent Structured Cooperation .

31.05.2025 15:31 RAMSTEIN, Germany -- Norwegian Armed Forces successfully guided live U.S. munitions to target using a networked weapons system, May 14, marking a first for NATO in cross-national ordnance control mid-flight. Norwegian Armed Forces successfully guided live U.S. munitions to target using a networked weapons system, May 14, marking a first for NATO in cross-national ordnance control mid-flight.

31.05.2025 15:31 The Iranian Foreign Ministry has summoned Austria's chargé d'affaires to Tehran to protest an "irresponsible and provocative" claim by the European country's domestic intelligence agency about Tehran's peaceful nuclear program.

31.05.2025 15:31 In a significant boost to India's indigenous defence manufacturing capabilities, the first centre fuselage assembly for the Light Combat Aircraft Tejas Mk1A was handed over to Hindustan Aeronautics Limited by M/s VEM Technologies in Hyderabad on May 30, 2025

31.05.2025 15:31 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia is "doing everything" to ensure that proposed peace talks in Istanbul on June 2 yield no results after a Russian large-scale drone attack on Ukraine's second-largest city left almost a dozen people injured.

31.05.2025 15:31 The Security Council today met for a second consecutive day on Ukraine, as the Russian Federation accused European States of artificially keeping the issue in the spotlight and obstructing peace by arming Kyiv. However, many Council members countered that it is Moscow that is prolonging the war and violating the Charter of the United Nations.

31.05.2025 15:31 China announced Friday it was replacing its top official in Hong Kong who was regarded as a symbol of Beijing's hardline approach toward the territory since 2019 pro-democracy protests.

31.05.2025 15:31 Federal grand juries in Milwaukee and Los Angeles each returned indictments charging two foreign nationals, Cui Guanghai, 43, of China, and John Miller, 63, of the United Kingdom and a U.S. lawful permanent resident, with interstate stalking and conspiracy to commit interstate stalking and conspiracy, smuggling, and violations of the Arms Export Control Act .

31.05.2025 15:31 Federal grand juries in Milwaukee and Los Angeles each returned indictments charging two foreign nationals, Cui Guanghai, 43, of China, and John Miller, 63, of the United Kingdom and a U.S. lawful permanent resident, with interstate stalking and conspiracy to commit interstate stalking and conspiracy, smuggling, and violations of the Arms Export Control Act .

31.05.2025 15:31 Israel says the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas must accept a ceasefire proposal submitted by US envoy Steve Witkoff or "be annihilated", as US President Donald Trump claims that a ceasefire agreement is "very close."