Neither Moscow nor Pyongyang have confirmed the deployment.

The review in part targeted multi-year foreign assistance contracts awarded by the USAID, with the vast majority eliminated during its course.

Trump's month back in the White House has been marked by soaring friction between Washington and its European allies

The office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed they had received the coffins of "four fallen hostages", and a process to formally identify them had started in Israel.

US President Donald Trump yesterday brushed aside Ukraine’s aspirations to join Nato, again repeating Russia’s stance that the issue caused the three-year-old war.

The White House said on Tuesday it would decide which media organisations participate in the press pool that covers the president, wresting control away from the group of journalists that has done so for decades.

US President Donald Trump unveiled plans Tuesday to sell new “gold card” residency permits for a price of $5 million each -- and said Russian oligarchs may be eligible.

Superbugs directly cause some 7,600 UK deaths each year and contribute to around 35,200 more, a report said yesterday, warning the government was making “limited progress” in tackling rising infections.

Forty-six people were killed when a Sudanese military transport plane crashed into a residential neighbourhood on the outskirts of Khartoum, the regional government said yesterday.

China’s military yesterday held “shooting training” off Taiwan’s southwest coast in a move Taipei described as provocative and dangerous, while a senior Chinese leader vowed unswerving efforts to bring the island under Beijing’s control.

Iran has significantly increased its stockpile of highly enriched uranium in recent months, according to a confidential report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) seen by AFP yesterday.

French police said officers killed a man holding a knife in each hand after he “threw himself” at them in the northeastern Paris suburbs yesterday.

The Israeli army said it carried out air strikes targeting military sites containing weapons in southern Syria on Tuesday evening, just days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for demilitarising the area.

Russia attacked Ukraine with nearly two hundred drones overnight, targeting mostly the Kyiv region and energy facilities in the east, authorities said yesterday.

Hamas said it would exchange the bodies of four Israeli hostages for more than 600 Palestinian prisoners today, capping the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire deal.

A Bosnia court yesterday sentenced Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik to one year in jail for defying orders of an international peace envoy.

The ceasefire has largely halted the Israel-Hamas war sparked by the October 7, 2023 attack, and has seen 25 hostages released so far in exchange for hundreds of prisoners.

Sudanese army had said several military personnel and civilians were killed in the incident

Ukraine's soils hold some five percent of the world's mineral resources

The US Senate has approved all of Trump's cabinet picks so far, despite outcry from Democrats over their trackrecords and lack of experience.