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20.06.2026 13:30 Germany will supply a "three-digit number" of air-to-air missiles to Ukraine from its own military stockpiles, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius announced, as Berlin continues to ramp up military support for Ukraine.

20.06.2026 13:30 An economy fueled by fighting. From TV screens to classrooms, an all-pervading narrative of civilizational confrontation with the West. Thousands of war-scarred soldiers, some of them violent convicts sprung from prison to fight in the bloodiest battles in Ukraine, returning to cities and towns across Russia.

20.06.2026 13:30 In southeastern Russia, Daniil's motorboat rental business is in trouble. Restrictions on fuel sales mean his fleet in the Rostov and Krasnodar regions is idle, he said in a social media post: "At every gas station, they tell me to f*** off."

20.06.2026 13:30 It's 20 years to the day since the UN Human Rights Council began its work as the world's principal forum tasked with promoting and defending fundamental rights everywhere, particularly the world's most vulnerable people.

20.06.2026 13:30 The National Armaments Director Group has awarded a £27 million contract to Leonardo Ltd to supply critical aircraft consumable spares across the UK's entire fixed-wing and rotary-wing fleet.

20.06.2026 13:30 Taiwan's Coast Guard has warned off a Chinese oceanographic research vessel, the Xiang Yang Hong 22, from its restricted waters after initially warning it in its exclusive economic zone , the Coast Guard Administration said Friday.

20.06.2026 13:30 Kuomintang Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun has said that while her party seeks peace, it would not give up Taiwan's right to self-defense and would fight back if China attacked despite Taiwan not formally declaring independence.

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20.06.2026 13:30 The first suspected case of the deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza in mainland Australia has been identified in Western Australia , China Daily reported on Friday.

20.06.2026 13:30 New Zealand is well prepared to respond if bird flu reaches our shores, but it is important that everyone takes steps now to be ready, says Biosecurity Minister Andrew Hoggard.

20.06.2026 13:30 The International Organization for Migration has conducted more than one million health screenings at borders and along key cross-border routes and travel corridors across Ebola-affected and at-risk countries as it scales up its efforts to support the control of an outbreak that has spread across eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.

20.06.2026 13:30 UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is deeply concerned by the accelerating spread of Bundibugyo Ebola virus disease in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and the growing risks it poses to displaced communities across the region.

20.06.2026 13:30 The spread of Ebola is accelerating in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo amid continued armed violence, posing a grave and growing risk to the region, UN agencies warned on Friday.

20.06.2026 13:30 On 18 June, the Committee of Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces of the States members of the Commonwealth of Independent States met in Astana.

20.06.2026 13:30 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has warned that a direct military confrontation between NATO and Russia could quickly spiral into a nuclear conflict with "catastrophic" consequences.