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North Korea has stopped tourists from visiting, just weeks after the first Western tourists entered the country for the first time in five years. North Korea sealed itself off at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020, and started to scale back restrictions in the middle of 2023. It opened up to Russian visitors in 2024, but it was only last month that Western tourists were allowed into the remote, eastern city Rason.

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Eight 225kg Mk82 bombs were accidentally dropped from a KF-16 jet fell outside during military exercises in Pocheon, South Korea.

An official with Gyeonggi-do Bukbu Fire Services said 15 people were wounded, two of which were seriously hurt. What's next?

The air force said it will establish a committee to investigate why the accident happened.

Amid continued threats of annexation from U.S. President Donald Trump, King Charles III sported Canadian military honours while visiting a British aircraft carrier on Tuesday, just a day after meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

‘They are often victims themselves with complex mental health and emotional needs,’ says justice minister explaining ruling

Israeli soldiers have been selling looted valuables from Gaza and Lebanon, a new investigation has revealed.

A report by Hamakom Hachi Ham Bagehenom (The Hottest Place in Hell) compiled numerous testimonies of thefts allegedly committed by members of the Israeli army. These included large sums of cash, jewellery, electronic devices, and even vehicles.

These items were later sold on Telegram channels, Facebook Marketplace, or in public sales.

A commander in the Nahal Brigade, using the pseudonym Eitan to remain anonymous, explained that while soldiers initially took items as souvenirs, the thefts soon escalated.

Searching soldiers' bags became a lower priority, as "it was the whole battalion. Soldiers were doing it everywhere, and they managed to hide it everywhere."

MOSCOW — The Trump administration’s rewrite of decades of U.S. foreign policy on Russia, laid bare in the Oval Office confrontation between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, is bringing Washington into alignment with Moscow, the Kremlin said Sunday — a shift that could upend the geopolitics that have governed international relations since War World II.

Leaders and representatives from more than 15 Western nations participated in the summit, where they discussed their own vision for peace in Ukraine after Trump initiated negotiations with Moscow without consulting them

Don't insult the leaders. Don't insult the ideology. And don't judge.

Grenada's Agriculture Minister Lennox Andrews says before the end of the second half of 2025 the Government will bring legislation to the parliament that will decriminalise the use of cannabis for religious and recreational use.

Chile’s president has declared a state of emergency after an electricity blackout plunged most of the country into darkness on Tuesday, including the capital Santiago.

The outage – in the middle of Chile’s summer, when temperatures in Santiago are around 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) – has affected some 8 million homes, President Gabriel Boric said in an address to the nation on Tuesday evening.

‘Triple whammy’ includes military support and sanctions on Russia and oligarchs

Benjamin Netanyahu has said his government is working closely with the US to implement Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza, which involves US ownership of the coastal strip, the removal of more than 2 million Palestinians and the redevelopment of the occupied territory as a resort.