Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan. The president of Iraq's Kurdish region, Nechirvan Barzani, arrived in Ankara on Wednesday. He met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip...
In the crosshairs again. The Israel Defense Forces resumed airstrikes on Beirut after a six-day hiatus. The IDF said it struck a Hezbollah underground...
Widening rift. Canada expelled six Indian diplomats, including India’s high commissioner to Ottawa, after identifying them as persons of interest in the murder in...
Surrounded. China’s military conducted one-day joint force exercises known as Joint Sword-2024B to the north, south and east of Taiwan. Officially, the drills were...
Thaw in relations. During a meeting with Australia's prime minister on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Laos, Chinese...
Downgrade. The German government’s latest economic forecast projects a 0.2 percent contraction in gross domestic product this year, a downgrade from its April forecast...
North Korean mission. North Korea will likely deploy troops to Ukraine to support Russia’s war effort there, South Korea’s defense minister said on Tuesday....
Kazakh doubts. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said construction and operation of a future nuclear power plant in the country should be entrusted to an...
Security matters. Top security officials from the Russia-led Commonwealth of Independent States are holding a summit in Kazakhstan. At the gathering, the chief of...
Weak performance. Russia’s services purchasing managers’ index fell to 50.5 points in September from 52.3 in August. Though not quite in contraction territory, it...
Ground operation. The Israeli military announced on Tuesday the launch of “limited, localized and targeted raids” in southern Lebanon near the Israeli border. The...
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