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White House Backtracks on Biden Claim About Hamas Beheading Babies
The White House has backtracked on U.S. President Joe Biden’s October 11 allegation that he saw images of beheaded children after Hamas’ lethal assault on Israel on October 7....
Pentagon Claims U.S. Has Enough Arms for Israel and Ukraine
Top White House officials are mulling whether to include more Ukraine aid in an emergency aid package for Israel, multiple news outlets reported on October 9, with one official...
Turkish Lawmaker Suggests Palestinian Independence to Stop Violence, Turkish President Offers to Broker Bilateral Peace
Violence between Israelis and Palestinians is unavoidable in the Middle East unless a two-state solution that ensures a free and independent State of Palestine materializes, Dr. Numan Kurtulmuş, the...
Israeli Lawmaker Blames Netanyahu Government for Weekend Attacks
Israeli lawmaker Ofer Cassif, a member of the Knesset and the left-wing Hadash coalition, revealed to news outlet Al Jazeera that his party had warned about events like last...
Washington Announces New Sanctions on China
On October 6, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced novel trade sanctions on 42 Chinese firms that it criticized for supplying critical resources, such as integrated circuits used in...
NATO Sends More Troops to Kosovo
Around 200 British soldiers from the 1st Battalion of the Princess of Wales’ Royal Regiment reached Kosovo last Friday, October 6, to join existing NATO troops there, with a...
Putin Says Sanctions Helped Russia While Eurozone Heads Toward Recession
On October 4, news agency Reuters reported that the Eurozone’s economy contracted in the third quarter, with demand dropping at the most rapid pace in almost three years last...
Taiwan Accuses China of Election Meddling; Probes Claims That Submarine Program Details Were “Leaked”
The director-general of Taiwan’s National Security Bureau said that China has “very diverse” ways of meddling in Taiwan’s elections, ranging from military pressure to disseminating fake news and manipulating...
Japan to Purchase U.S.-made Missiles a Year Ahead of Schedule
Japan will start buying U.S.-made Tomahawk cruise missiles in fiscal year 2025, a year earlier than initially scheduled, Defense Minister Minoru Kihara declared on October 4, following Tokyo’s ongoing...
Lithuania Wants NATO’s “Security Umbrella” to Cover Ukraine
On October 3, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis posited that NATO’s security guarantees must cover Ukraine, urging the West, which has supplied hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine,...
Politico: Europe Has No Weapons Left for Ukraine
On October 2, news outlet Politico reported that EU countries have provided Ukraine with all the weapons they can without undermining their own defense, according to a European official....
Russia’s Medvedev Blasts Western “Idiots” for Wanting World War III
On October 1, Russia’s former president Dmitry Medvedev posted on Telegram, cautioning that the conflict in Ukraine may give rise to World War III due to the “idiots” in...
Slovakia’s Robert Fico Wins Elections, Says Party Will Not Back Further Military Aid for Ukraine
The Slovak Social Democracy (SMER-SD) party will not back more military aid for Ukraine, its leader, Robert Fico, told journalists on October 1 after his party won last weekend’s...
Russia Halts Further Troop Mobilization as West Pays for 70% of Ukraine’s Expenses
The Russian military leadership has no plans to draft more troops as career military service members can meet its present needs, including those who volunteered to fight against Ukraine,...
North Korea Enshrines Nukes in Constitution, Poland Signs Deal to Go Nuclear
Developing nuclear weapons is no longer merely a major national defense strategy for Communist North Korea. Rather, the hermit kingdom has opted to enshrine nuclear weapons in its constitution....