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June 05, 2023
Biden Praises Denmark For 'Standing Up' For Ukraine In War with Russia

U.S. President Joe Biden thanked Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on June 5 for Denmark’s role in a Western alliance "standing up" for Ukraine as it tries to fend off Russia’s 15-month-old invasion.
June 05, 2023
Turkish Forces Arrive In Kosovo To Bolster NATO-Led Peacekeepers After Recent Violence

The Turkish commando battalion requested by NATO arrived on June 5 in Kosovo to assist in quelling recent violent unrest in the Balkan country.
June 05, 2023
U.S. Navy Says Iranian Fast-Attack Boats 'Harassed' Ship In Strait Of Hormuz

The U.S. Navy said on June 5 that its sailors and the U.K. Royal Navy came to the aid of a ship in the crucial Strait of Hormuz after Iran's Revolutionary Guards “harassed” it.
June 04, 2023
Official: Almost 80 Schoolgirls Poisoned, Hospitalized In Northern Afghanistan

Nearly 80 girls were poisoned and hospitalized in two separate attacks at their primary schools in Sar-e Pul Province in northern Afghanistan, a local education official said on June 4.
June 04, 2023
No Breakthrough In NATO-Turkey Talks Over Sweden After Stoltenberg, Erdogan Meet

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg made no breakthrough on June 4 in talks about Sweden's membership in the military alliance with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with officials from the two countries to meet on June 12 to try to bridge their differences.
June 04, 2023
Taliban Claims Attack In Northwest Pakistan, Two Soldiers Killed

The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack in northwestern Pakistan that left two soldiers and two militants dead.
June 02, 2023
U.S. Lawyer Named Chief Prosecutor At Office Linked To Kosovo War Crimes Court

American lawyer Kimberly West has been appointed as the chief prosecutor linked to a European Union-backed court prosecuting war crimes in Kosovo.
June 02, 2023
U.S. Sanctions Iranians Over Alleged Plots To Kill John Bolton And Others

The U.S. imposed sanctions on June 1o on an IRGC official and others in Iran it says took part in wide-ranging plots to kill former national security adviser John Bolton and others around the world, including at least one additional U.S. government official.
May 31, 2023
Gunmen Kill Soldier In Attack On Polio Workers In Pakistan

Gunmen killed one soldier and wounded another on May 31 when they opened fire on security forces escorting a team of polio workers during a door-to-door inoculation campaign in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold near the Afghan border, police said.
May 30, 2023
Norway Says Beluga Whale With Apparent Russian-Made Harness Swims South To Sweden

Norwegian authorities say a beluga whale, which was first spotted in Arctic Norway four years ago with an apparent Russian-made harness and alleged to have come from a Russian military facility, has been seen off Sweden's coast nearly 2,000 kilometers to the south.
May 30, 2023
Pro-Imran Khan Pakistani TV Journalist Returns Home After Being Freed

A prominent Pakistani television journalist who went missing last week, apparently because of his public support for former Prime Minister Imran Khan, returned home early on May 30 after being released by his captors.
May 29, 2023
Belarus Has No Immediate Plans To Adopt Russian Currency, Lukashenka Says

Belarus and Russia have no plans to adopt a joint currency in the near future, Belarus's strongman leader announced on May 29.
May 29, 2023
Kosovo Ex-President Thaci, On Trial For War Crimes, Allowed To Visit Sick Mother

Former Kosovar President Hashim Thaci, who is on trial in The Hague on 10 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, was in Kosovo on May 29 to visit his sick mother, the court said.
May 27, 2023
Ukraine Claims Russia Plotting 'Provocation' At Nuclear Plant, Offers No Evidence

Ukraine’s military intelligence has claimed, without offering evidence, that Russia is plotting a "large-scale provocation" at a nuclear power plant it occupies in the southeast of the country with the aim of disrupting a looming Ukrainian counteroffensive.
May 27, 2023
Germany Says Russia Set To Expel German Diplomats, Teachers, Cultural Staff

Russia will start expelling German diplomats, teachers and employees of German cultural institutions next month, the German Foreign Office said on May 27.
May 26, 2023
Pakistan's Imran Khan Calls For Immediate Talks Amid Standoff With Military

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on May 26 appealed for immediate talks with state officials, as pressure increased on him amid a crackdown on his top aides and supporters that has seen thousands arrested, as well as many leaving his party.
May 26, 2023
Rights Groups Slam Taliban Restrictions On Afghan Women As 'Crime Against Humanity'

Two top rights groups on May 26 slammed the severe restrictions imposed on women and girls by the Taliban in Afghanistan as gender-based persecution, which is a crime against humanity.
May 25, 2023
Second Pakistani TV Journalist Goes Missing; Abduction Feared

A prominent Pakistani television journalist known for his public support of former Prime Minister Imran Khan has gone missing, the police, his family, and his employer said on May 25.
May 24, 2023
Nobel Peace Laureate Ales Byalyatski Transferred To Brutal Prison In Belarus, Wife Says

Peace Prize laureate Ales Byalyatski, 60, has been transferred to a notoriously brutal prison in Belarus and hasn't been heard from in a month, his wife said on May 24.
May 24, 2023
Japan To Provide 100 Military Vehicles To Ukraine

Japan held a ceremony on May 24 marking its planned donation of about 100 military vehicles to Ukraine, as Tokyo seeks to provide equipment that can be of broader military use than its earlier shipments of helmets and hazmat suits.

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