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The fighting shattered months of relative calm in Tripoli.

About 27 people have been killed and 106 wounded in clashes between rival armed factions in the capital of conflict-ridden Libya, according to a medical authority. Some 230 families were evacuated from the area where the clashes took place, mainly in the eastern and south-eastern neighbourhoods of Tripoli, Libya’s Emergency Medicine and Support Centre said.

Clashes between the most powerful armed factions shatter months of relative calm in the capital

Ukraine said it has shot down six Russian Kinzhal missiles in a single night, thwarting a weapon Moscow has touted as a next-generation hypersonic missile that was all but unstoppable.

The U.S. deployed a special nuclear security team to install radiation detectors in Ukraine that could identify the origin of a nuclear attack.

Russia will station tactical nuclear weapons in neighbouring Belarus, marking the first time since the mid-1990s that Moscow will have based such arms outside the country.

On April 1, 2009, President Obama and Russian President Medvedevissued a joint statement committing both states to arms control negotiations on strategic nuclear weapons. The U.S. should beginthese negotiations with matters that require immediate attention.The U.S. should allow the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty to expirein December rather than rush to negotiate a replacement on such ashort deadline.

As the first anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine war approaches, neither the intensity of fighting or the will of the warring parties to change the tide in their favour has wavered.

Israeli security officials fear that warm ties between Russia and Iran could become a "growing threat to Israel."

The attacks come a day after a top Ukrainian army commander warned there’s no doubt Russian forces will try to seize Kyiv as soon as January