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Information Swedish authorities joined Chinese investigators aboard the vessel Yi Peng 3 in the Baltic Sea to observe Beijing’s probe into two severed undersea telecom cables. These cables, connecting Finland to Germany and Sweden to Lithuania, were damaged in mid-November within Swedish territorial waters near Denmark. The Yi Peng 3, which had been tracked above […]

Information Russian authorities announced the arrest of a 29-year-old Uzbek national accused of assassinating Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, commander of Russia’s radiological, chemical, and biological defence forces, and his adjutant Ilya Polikarpov. The attack occurred in a Moscow suburb when a remotely detonated bomb hidden in or attached to an electric scooter killed both men

Information TikTok has petitioned the US Supreme Court to block a federal law that requires its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell the platform or face a ban, arguing it violates the First Amendment rights of its 170 million American users. The law, signed by President Joe Biden in April, is set to take effect

Information Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s new foreign policy chief, confirmed that the EU has sent an envoy to Damascus for talks with the interim government led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a group with roots in al-Qaeda. This move follows similar decisions by the US and the UK to engage with HTS as regional

Israel shuts Ireland embassy Israel says it will close its embassy in Dublin, blaming “the extreme anti-Israel policies of the Irish government.” Ireland has been critical of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza. Armed clashes close key oil refinery as fires erupt in Libya The second-largest oil refinery in Libya has suspended operations after gunfighting caused

Information The Hague District Court dismissed a lawsuit by pro-Palestinian activists seeking to ban the Netherlands from selling arms to Israel, ruling that there was no legal basis to impose a total prohibition on military and dual-use exports. The court emphasized that the Dutch government has discretion in its arms export policies and noted that

Information Papua New Guinea (PNG) will join Australia’s National Rugby League (NRL) in 2028 as part of a broader security agreement with Australia. The deal includes 600 million Australian dollars over 10 years to support PNG’s NRL entry, underscoring the popularity of rugby league in PNG, a country of 12 million people. In return, PNG

Information A German-Russian citizen, born in 2003, has been arrested in Russia for allegedly attempting to sabotage a rail line in Nizhny Novgorod, about 250 miles east of Moscow, on the orders of Ukraine’s SBU security service. According to Russia’s FSB security services, the man was preparing to use an improvised explosive device (IED) for

Information The Netherlands has initiated temporary border checks at its crossings with Germany and Belgium to curb irregular migration and cross-border crime, according to Asylum and Migration Minister Marjolein Faber. These measures will include random vehicle and traveller inspections at 840 crossings and international trains over the next six months. The decision is based on