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South Korea summons Russian ambassador as tensions rise with North Korea

South Korea summoned the Russian ambassador to protest the country’s new defense pact with North Korea on Friday, as border tensions continued to rise with vague threats and brief, seemingly accidental incursions by North Korean troops.

Czech man arrested in Croatia after explosion kills his 9-year-old child
The 46-year-old man on Wednesday entered a restricted military training ground in central Croatia without authorization where he allowed his child to pick up the explosive device and bring it back to the family car, said a police statement..

Japan’s space agency was hit by multiple cyberattacks, but officials say no sensitive data was taken
Officials say Japan’s space agency has suffered a series of cyberattacks since last year, but sensitive information related to rockets and satellites was not affected and it is continuing to investigate and take preventive measures.

How did North Korean soldiers wander across the world’s most heavily guarded border?

The Demilitarized Zone between the two rival Koreas might be the most heavily armed place on earth.

Navigating through darkness: Ukraine’s emergency blackouts return after Russia pounds infrastructure
Ukraine is experiencing rolling blackouts as Russia intensified strikes targeting energy infrastructure over the past three months.

Russia-North Korea pact could dent China’s influence, but Beijing still holds sway over both
China appears to be keeping its distance as Russia and North Korea move closer to each other with a new defense pact that could tilt the balance of power among the three authoritarian states.

Historic flooding in China’s Guangdong kills nine, warnings issued for other parts of country
Nine people have died and six are missing after downpours in recent days caused historic flooding in rural parts of Guangdong province in southern China, after the province saw heavy rains that destroyed homes and roads.

A Muslim mob in Pakistan torches a police station and lynches a man after accusing him of blasphemy
A Muslim mob in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday broke into a police station, snatched a man who was held there and then lynched him over allegations that he had desecrated Islam’s holy book, the Quran.

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French election becomes ‘nightmare’ for nation’s Jews

The alleged rape last weekend of a 12-year-old Jewish girl by boys who hurled antisemitic abuse at her has ignited simmering tensions in France over attitudes toward the largest Jewish community in Western Europe.

US will redirect deliveries of Patriot missiles to Ukraine

The Biden administration will rush advanced air defense missiles to Ukraine by delaying certain weapons shipments to other countries, a move that a White House spokesperson described Thursday as “difficult but necessary” given Russian advances in the war.

Quiet administrative change advances far-right Israeli minister’s effort to control West Bank

Israel is putting key responsibilities in the occupied West Bank under an administrator who answers to a hard-line government minister who favors annexation of the territory, in what analysts and human rights activists describe as the latest step toward the far right’s aim of expanding Israeli settlements there.

Divisions between Israel’s military and government spill into open

JGrowing divisions between Israel’s military commanders and the civilian government over the war in the Gaza Strip spilled into the open this week, raising questions about how Israel will conduct the next phase of the war.

Putin threatens to arm North Korea, escalating tension with West over Ukraine

Putin cast his threat to arm North Korea, in violation of UN sanctions, as a response to decisions by the United States and its allies in recent months to allow Ukraine to strike internationally recognized Russian territory with their weapons. The White House made that decision last month.

When the only escape from war in Gaza is to buy a way out

The only way for almost all people in the Gaza Strip to escape the horrors of the Israel-Hamas war is by leaving through neighboring Egypt.

Clearing a final hurdle, Dutch leader is poised to become NATO chief

Mark Rutte, the departing prime minister of the Netherlands who has guided more than $3 billion in Dutch military support to Ukraine since 2022, on Thursday clinched the last assurance he needed to become NATO’s next secretary general.

Warming made recent heat wave in US and Mexico more likely, study says

The deadly heat waves that began across Central America last month and moved up into Mexico and the Southwestern United States were made 35 times more likely by human-caused climate change, according to a new report by World Weather Attribution, an international organization of climate scientists.