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Lebanese Health Ministry: One killed in South Lebanon's Khiam
Lebanon's Health Ministry reported that one person in the southern town of Khiam was killed on Saturday following an Israeli strike.
Bloomberg
12-07-2025
- Politics
- Bloomberg
Major Russian Airstrike Targets Western Ukraine Near Romania
By Updated on Save Russia launched its latest massive drone and missile strike on Ukraine, targeting areas in the nation's west that border European Union states. The attack — including on areas that have seen few if any strikes in the war to date — left at least two people dead and damaged residential houses and other civilian infrastructure.
Bloomberg
12-07-2025
- Politics
- Bloomberg
Russian Air Attack Targets Western Ukraine Near Romanian Border
Russia launched its latest massive drone and missile strike on Ukraine, targeting areas in the nation's west that border European Union states. The attack — including on areas that have seen few if any strikes in the war to date — left at least two people dead and damaged residential houses and other civilian infrastructure.
CBS News
04-07-2025
- Politics
- CBS News
North Korean man avoids military and landmines to cross border into South Korea
A North Korean who crossed the heavily fortified land border into the South has been detained and taken into custody, Seoul's military said Friday. The North Korean, identified as a male civilian, managed to cross the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) in the midwestern part of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on Thursday, Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said. The MDL is the de facto border, which runs through the middle of the DMZ — the border area separating the two Koreas, which is one of the most heavily mined places on earth. A South Korean soldier is seen in a watchtower at the border with North Korea, divided by the Imjin River in Paju, north of Seoul, on June 5, 2025. PEDRO PARDO/AFP via Getty Images "The military identified the individual near the MDL, conducted tracking and surveillance," the Joint Chiefs of Staff, or JCS, said in a statement. It then "successfully carried out a standard guiding operation to secure custody," it added. The operation took about 20 hours, according to Seoul, after the man was detected by a military surveillance device sometime between 3:00 and 4:00am local time Thursday. The mission to safely guide him to the South involved a considerable number of South Korean troops, the JCS said, and took place in an area difficult to navigate due to dense vegetation and landmine risks. The man stayed mostly still during the day, and South Korea's military approached him at night. He willingly followed the troops after they offered to guide him safely out of the DMZ, according to the JCS. It said "relevant authorities" will investigate the detailed circumstances of the incident. North Koreans are typically handed over to Seoul's intelligence agency for screening when they arrive in the South. History of defections The incident comes after a North Korean soldier defected to the South by crossing the MDL in August last year. Also last year, another North Korean defected to the South across the de facto border in the Yellow Sea, arriving on Gyodong island off the peninsula's west coast near the border between the Koreas. Tens of thousands of North Koreans have fled to South Korea since the peninsula was divided by war in the 1950s, with most going overland to neighboring China first, then entering a third country such as Thailand before finally making it to the South. Defections across the land border that divides the peninsula are relatively rare. The number of successful escapes dropped significantly from 2020 after the North sealed its borders - purportedly with shoot-on-sight orders along the land frontier with China - to prevent the spread of Covid-19. No unusual activities by the North Korean military have been detected, the JCS said Friday. South Korea's President Lee Jae Myung, who took office last month, has vowed a more dovish approach towards Pyongyang compared with his hawkish predecessor Yoon Suk Yeol. "Politics and diplomacy must be handled without emotion and approached with reason and logic," Lee said Thursday. "Completely cutting off dialogue is really a foolish thing to do." This week the Justice Department revealed that North Korea, which recently opened a new coastal tourist site with room for 20,000 guests, has been using remote information technology workers employed unwittingly by U.S. companies to fund its weapons programs.
Yahoo
19-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
AP photographer recounts capturing shooting of a man by a Kenyan police officer during protests
The shooting of a civilian by a Kenyan police officer in the head at close range on Tuesday took place during the latest protest against the country's deadly and pervasive issue of police brutality. It happened on one of Nairobi's busiest streets, again outraging many Kenyans, who have long witnessed officers shooting or beating protesters and others. Tuesday's shooting was rare because the officer fired in full view of journalists.
