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Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to attack him with a missile strike after he visited Ukraine prior to the start of the war last year.  Johnson made the remark while speaking to the BBC about a “very long” and “most extraordinary” …

A suicide bombing at a mosque in Pakistan on Monday left at least 28 dead and another 150 wounded in the city of Peshawar, according to officials. Peshawar senior police official Saddique Khan said no one has immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Similar suicide bombings in the past have …

A global chemical weapons watchdog group released the results of a nearly two-year-long investigation into the use of chemical weapons in Douma, Syria, in 2018, on Friday, concluding that Syrian government forces were behind the attack.  The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said it had “reasonable grounds” …

A senior U.S. general has recently warned U.K. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace that the British Army is no longer considered to be among the world’s top-tier fighting forces, according to a Sunday report.  The source told Wallace that decades of cuts to Britain’s military defense has eroded the country’s fighting …

A Bangladesh boy who accidentally locked himself inside a shipping container during a game of hide-and-seek was discovered six days later in another country. The 15-year-old identified only by his first name, Fahim, was playing hide-and-seek with friends in the port city of Chittagong on Jan. 11 when he hid …

After facing pressure to intervene in the transfer of a transgender convicted rapist to an all-women’s prison, Scotland’s government has decided to stop transferring such inmates with a history of violence against women to its all-female prison, according to reports. The Agence France-Presse, or AFP, reported the decision was made …

Chinese military vessels and aircraft encroached on Taiwanese waters and airspace again, early Monday morning in what has become a daily flexing of power against the island nation. Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense reported in a tweet that six Chinese military aircraft and five Chinese naval vessels were detected around …

Russian students will start training with assault rifles and hand grenades under new guidelines from the country’s education ministry, an addition to the curriculum that is reminiscent of the Soviet Union, the UK Ministry of Defense said Sunday.  The “Basics of Life Safety” course, which will become mandatory in secondary …

Taliban officials sent a letter to private universities over the weekend warning them not to allow women and girls to take entry exams, doubling down on a directive last month barring female students from higher education.  It’s the latest blow for women and girls in Afghanistan after the U.S. pulled …

Israel is poised to speed up gun applications in response to a shooting in East Jerusalem over the weekend that left seven people – including a 70-year-old woman – dead.  The measure was among several that Israel’s Security Cabinet announced Saturday evening.  Members of Zaka Rescue and Recovery team check …