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Ennahda slams 'unjust imprisonment' as judge extends Ghannouchi detention

The move comes amid growing social tensions and deepening economic troubles in Tunisia.

Kim orders launch of North Korea's first spy satellite

North Korean leader says gaining reconnaissance technology was a "primary task to be indispensably fulfilled" because of what he describes as threats and aggression from US and South Korea.

Asymmetric neutrality: Analysing China’s tightrope walk in the Middle East

Experts say that staying ‘neutral’ in its global engagements might become difficult for Beijing in the long term.

S Korea, US and Japan hold submarine drills amid tension with Pyongyang

Three-nation exercise was arranged to improve the three allied countries’ capacities to respond to underwater security threats posed by North Korea’s advancing submarine-launched ballistic missiles.

Turkish FM highlights importance of May 14 elections

At a meeting with his AK Party supporters in the US state of New Jersey, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu noted the gains that Türkiye has made in domestic and foreign policies during the party's governance.

Putin says Russia will station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus

Kiev and its Western allies fear tactical nuclear weapons could be used in the conflict after Russian leader warned Moscow was prepared to use all its vast arsenal to defend its interest.

Iran-backed fighters on alert in eastern Syria after US air strikes

Iranian Consultative Center in Syria warns the US against carrying out further strikes in Syria, saying its forces "we will have to retaliate."

Vietnam balks at upgrading ties with Washington as US-China tensions rise

Formal ties upgrade in the US-Vietnam relations this year might not be "realistic", experts say, as Hanoi worries about angering China, its biggest trading partner and a vital source of imports for its manufacturing sector.

Good terrorist, bad terrorist: How US is undermining Türkiye’s concerns

The State Department’s latest report on terrorism makes the same old mistake of refusing to look at the terrorist activities of YPG/PKK and FETO, despite their violations of international humanitarian laws.

Democracy lost: Iraq’s two decades of shattered hopes

The US has a historic responsibility for the misery that has been unleashed on Iraq, and it has the power to set things right.

US presidential candidate vows no aid to 'countries that hate America'

Nikki Haley, 51, two-term Governor of South Carolina and the former US Ambassador to the United Nations formally launched her 2024 presidential bid earlier this month.

Poor US planning and oversight led to Afghan Gov't Collapse: Watchdog

The report, titled "Why the Afghan Security Forces Collapsed," sheds critical light on the flaws in America's longest war and how the Afghan people were set up to fight and die for a doomed cause.