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With full force: The test launch of the new intercontinental ballistic missile ‘Hwasong-19’ in North Korea on Thursday, October 31, 2024 | Photo Credit: AP North Korea boasted on Friday (November 1, 2024) that the new intercontinental ballistic missile it just test-launched is “the world’s strongest,” a claim seen as pure propaganda after experts assessed […]
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a joint news conference at the State Department October 31, 2024 in Washington, DC. Blinken and Austin are meeting with their South Korean counterparts for a 2+2 diplomatic and defense meeting. | Photo Credit: AFP The United States said Thursday that up to 8,000 North Korean troops […]
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A view of a missile launcher as North Korea conducts what it says is a drill to launch a Hwasong-18 intercontinental ballistic missile at an unknown location. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) condemned North Korea’s firing of at least one ballistic missile northeastward from an area near the capital […]
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North Korea launched a new intercontinental ballistic missile on Thursday (October 31, 2024) in its first test in almost a year of a weapon designed to threaten the U.S. mainland and occurring days ahead of the U.S. election. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered the missile test and was at the launch site, calling […]
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This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows a damaged building at the Revolutionary Guard’s Shahroud Space Center in Semnan province, Iran, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Iran said on Wednesday (October 30, 2024) that its production of missiles remained intact, following Israeli air strikes targeting military facilities last week. “There has […]
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Commuters drive past an anti-Israel billboard covering the facade of a building in Tehran on October 26, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP An American researcher said an Israeli airstrike on Saturday (October 26, 2024) hit a building that was part of Iran’s defunct nuclear weapons development program, and he and another researcher said facilities used […]
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The Yars, which can be deployed in silos or mounted on mobile launchers, has a range of up to 11,000 km (6,835 miles) and is capable of delivering multiple nuclear warheads. File | Photo Credit: AP “Russia is testing the combat readiness of a unit equipped with Yars intercontinental ballistic missiles in a region northwest […]
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This action intensifies financial pressure on Iran amid tensions with Israel. Washington: The United States on Friday expanded sanctions against Iran’s petroleum and petrochemical sectors in response to Iran’s missile attack on Israel, the Treasury Department said. “This action intensifies financial pressure on Iran, limiting the regime’s ability to earn critical energy revenues to undermine […]
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Brussels, Belgium: The European Union is expected to impose sanctions on Monday on people and organisations linked to Iranian transfers of ballistic missiles to Russia, two European diplomats and a high-ranking EU official said on Friday. EU foreign ministers will approve sanctions on 14 individuals and organisations over the transfer, including airlines and other companies, […]
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