The UN said yesterday Myanmar’s junta was using violence and intimidation to force people to vote in upcoming military-controlled elections, while armed opposition groups were using similar tactics to keep people away.

Five Pakistani police personnel were killed yesterday when their van was ambushed in a bombing and shooting attack in the country’s northwest, provincial police said, as Pakistan struggles with a resurgence of militant violence.

Russia hammered Ukraine with missiles and drones in a new air attack yesterday, authorities said, killing at least three people including a child and triggering emergency power cuts across the country as Ukrainians gear up to celebrate Christmas.

China yesterday urged the United States to fulfil its nuclear disarmament responsibilities after a draft Pentagon report said China was likely to have loaded more than 100 intercontinental ballistic missiles in sites near the Mongolian border and showed no desire for arms control talks.

Germany deported a man to Syria for the first time since the civil war broke out in that country in 2011, the interior ministry in Berlin said yesterday.

Four Myanmar nationals caught in Bangkok yesterday with 10 heavy-lift cargo drones they allegedly planned to smuggle home will be deported to Myanmar, Thai police said.

President Donald Trump on Monday reiterated that the United States needed Greenland for “national security” after his appointment of a special envoy to the Danish Arctic island triggered a new spat with Copenhagen.

Defence Minister Israel Katz yesterday vowed Israel will remain in Gaza and pledged to establish outposts in the north of the Palestinian territory, according to a video of a speech published by Israeli media.

Accused the AI companies of pirating books and feeding them into LLMs

Arrested under Terrorism Act

Venezuela's key ally Moscow, however, expressed its "full support" for Maduro's government, as Washington has dialed up military operations and threats against Caracas

The North Koreans typically use 'laptop farms'-- a computer in the United States operated remotely from outside the country, mazon's Chief Security Officer Stephen Schmidt says

Eight people were traveling aboard the aircraft

The two countries set to negotiate truce terms after two weeks of deadly border clashes

Two of the Trump-class ships will be built initially, but that number could grow substantially

Myanmar parliamentary candidate Kyaw Kyaw Htwe was once jailed by the junta for pro-democracy activism

Nigerian authorities have secured the release of 130 kidnapped schoolchildren taken by gunmen from a Catholic school in November, a presidential spokesman said Sunday, after 100 were freed earlier this month.

The US Coast Guard was pursuing another allegedly sanctioned tanker on Sunday, a US official told AFP, as Washington ramps up its pressure campaign targeting Venezuela’s vital oil sector.

Denmark said yesterday it would summon the US ambassador after President Donald Trump appointed a special envoy to Greenland, the Danish autonomous territory he has threatened to annex.

Lebanese state media reported three people killed in an air strike near Sidon that Israel said had “targeted Hezbollah operatives” yesterday, days ahead of a deadline for Lebanon’s army to disarm the group near the border.