Efforts to encourage global disarmament and nonproliferation date back to before World War I and can be seen in the various conventions to stop the spread of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons ...Ukraine and the new nonproliferation world order.
It marked only the third asteroid sample, and by far the biggest, ever returned to Earth for analysis, following two similar missions by Japan’s space agency ending in 2010 and 2020 ... into smaller specimens promised to some 200 scientists in 60 laboratories around the world.
MANILA, Philippines — Philippine officials vowed Monday to remove a floating barrier placed by China’s coast guard to prevent Filipino fishing boats from entering a disputed lagoon in the South China Sea... More than 50 Philippine fishing boats were outside the shoal at the time, the Philippine coast guard said ... China has told the U.S ... .
Russia launched a major aerial attack on southern Ukraine overnight, the Ukrainian military said Monday, hitting Odesa port and destroying grain stores ... .
Zelensky wines, dines with the world’s richest in the hopes of rebuilding war-torn Ukraine... They’re doing everything they can to prevent the formation of a genuine multipolar world order,” he said. “They are trying to force the world to play according to their own self-centered rule.”.
Its defence strategy is to protect the country and its people from “forceful threats” and exploitation, as well as to take part in “the establishment of world order” ...China’sPeople’s Liberation Army (PLA) is the world’s largest ... The country is also ASEAN’s biggest trading partner.
Two decades on, the United States has failed to provide redress or compensation to Iraqi victims of its military’s torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib and other prisons, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW) ... list 2 of 4Photos. Arbaeen, one of the world’s largest annual pilgrimages in Iraq ... end of list ... Compensation that never happened ... No accountability ... .
The Nagorno-Karabakh region's leadership says 120,000Armenians do not want to live as part of Azerbaijan for fear of persecution and ethnic cleansing ... .
The standoff between gunmen and Kosovo authorities at a monastery near the border with Serbia ended Sunday night, authorities in Pristina said, following a police operation to regain control of the area. . "We put this territory under control ...The StandardChannel. IOSAndroid. IOS Android. More>> ... ... ... ... .
The two dams outside the city of Derna broke up on Sep. 11 after they were overwhelmed by StormDaniel, which caused heavy rain across eastern Libya... Libya Sep 18 ... The WorldHealthOrganization says more than 4,000 deaths have been registered dead, including foreigners, but a previous death toll given by the head of Libya’s Red Crescent was at 11,300.
A Mafia boss who spent nearly three decades evading law enforcement before he was arrested in January has died while receiving medical treatment, according to Italian media reports ...Having been a wanted man for nearly 30 years, he was the Cosa Nostra’s longest-hiding fugitive ... .