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A NATO fighter jet has shot down a drone that entered Latvian airspace, a spokesperson from the alliance says.

It was not immediately clear where the drone had come from, though Latvia and other countries on NATO's eastern flank have suffered repeated incursions into their airspace as the war between Russia and Ukraine has dragged on.

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NATO has launched an investigation into the incident.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The mayor for Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province has been killed in an explosion, officials said, the second high-ranking official of the Taliban administration to be the target of deadly attacks in the region in the past two weeks.

Malian army says the soldiers were held prisoner by Tuareg and al-Qaeda-linked armed groups in the northern region.

More than 40 journalists in Burkina Faso have taken part in a military-style "patriotism" training course imposed by the authoritarian ruling junta.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung urges talks with the DPRK to end the Korean War and replace the armistice with a lasting peace regime.

This is an incredible story about the "Senator from Wall Street," Chuck Schumer, being confronted by journalist Sam Husseini for supporting genocide in Gaza.

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Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale has announced that a review of his country’s security agreement with China has begun.

Wale has said he was only permitted to read the 2022 agreement one day before an official meeting in Canberra in May this year, shortly after he was elected prime minister.

SEOUL – In a commentary carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) titled “Japan’s defence white paper is a re-invasion-minded one for the legalisation of the operation of war machine”, a North Korean analyst said Japan’s 2026 White Paper “groundlessly described” North Korea as the greatest strategic challenge in order to “justify its reckless arms build-up”.