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North Korea: Pyongyang agrees pact with Moscow – and tests new rocket engines. The US accuses North Korea of supplying Russia with military equipment for the war with Ukraine. In return, Russia is helping North Korea to expand its military capabilities. North Korea's missile program, like its nuclear weapons, is prohibited by UN Security Council resolutions. The latest tests are essential for improving the military's strategic offensive capabilities, given the serious and unstable security environment the country is facing and the "malicious" collusion of its enemies.

North Korea calls for an end to U.N. surveillance in demilitarized zone. A UN command monitors the border zone between North and South Korea – led by the United States. Pyongyang doesn't like that at all. Now the regime is becoming clear.. Enlarge image                South Korean soldiers on the border with North Korea (in March 2023) grotesquely. North Korea is pushing for the dissolution of the U.S.-led U.n. command to oversee the Demilitarization Zone (DMZ)

US Republican Tim Scott withdraws presidential bid. In the race for the presidential nomination in the USA, the second Republican has now given up. Despite four criminal charges and a number of other legal challenges, former U.S. President Donald Trump is far ahead in party supporters' favor, according to polls. Former Vice President Mike Pence suspended his campaign two weeks ago, announcing at a Republican Jewish Coalition event in Las Vegas, "This is not my time" The presidential election is scheduled for November 5, 2024. Among the Democrats, US President Joe Biden is running f...

Israel: Hamas has lost control of northern Gaza Strip, Netanyahu says. Hamas fighters have "no safe place to hide," says Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. Meanwhile, in Tel Aviv, thousands demonstrated for a ceasefire and the release of the hostages. Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen called for international unity in efforts to secure release of hostages in Gaza Strip. He invited German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock to a meeting of foreign ministers of the countries whose citizens are being held by the Islamist terrorist organization Hamas.

Ex-NATO chief calls for Ukraine to be admitted without occupied territories. Anders Fogh Rasmussen was Secretary General of NATO from 2009 to 2014. It is considered difficult, if not impossible, to admit a country to NATO that is at war. Critics of the plan fear that a partial admission of Ukraine could be interpreted as an abandonment of the occupied territories, but Rasmussen counters: "The absolute credibility of the Article 5 guarantees would deter Russia from carrying out attacks on Ukrainian territory" Details of the proposal are to be worked out before the next NATO summit.