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U.S. armed forces intend to start training Ukrainian soldiers on the sophisticated Patriot missile system next week at Fort Sill, Okla., a defense official confirmed for Fox News Tuesday.  The training is expected to take several months though it will still be an expedited process in comparison to how long …

The U.S. Navy seized more than 2,000 assault rifles after halting a suspected smuggling vessel on its way from Iran to Yemen, the Navy announced Tuesday. The USS Chinook deployed a boarding team to the vessel in the Gulf of Oman with support from the USS Monsoon and USS The …

Gunmen abducted several passengers at a train station in southern Nigeria, according to police. Armed men attacked the station in Igueben town in Edo State kidnapping an unknown number of people waiting to board, said Chidi Nwabuzor, the police spokesman for Edo State, in a statement. The kidnappers “shot sporadically …

Nearly 90% of people in China’s Henan province are infected with COVID-19 amid a renewed surge of cases in the country. Kan Quancheng, the director of Henan province’s health commission, said at a press conference that 89% of the province’s residents were infected with COVID-19 as of Jan. 6, according …

The Vatican judiciary announced Monday that it will reopen the missing person cold case of a 15-year-old girl who disappeared in 1983 and is the subject of a recent Netflix docuseries. Pope Francis’s newly appointed head prosecutor, Alessandro Diddi, will lead the probe into the cold-case mystery that has sparked …

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was discharged from a Central Florida hospital Monday evening after being treated for abdominal pains linked to a 2018 stabbing.  “Grateful for the prayers and messages of prompt recovery,” the president tweeted.  His wife, Michelle Bolsonaro, confirmed her husband’s hospitalization in an Instagram post earlier …

A prominent Russian actor is facing criminal charges for criticizing the Kremlin over the war in Ukraine, according to officials.  On Monday, Russia’s Investigative Committee said its chief Alexander Bastrykin ordered the launch of a criminal case against Russian film and theater actor Artur Smolyaninov. According to the statement, the …

Nearly a dozen Chinese military aircraft and three naval ships were detected near Taiwan on Monday, amid increased tensions, according to Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense. In a tweet on Monday, Taiwanese officials said 11 aircraft from the People’s Liberation Army, or PLA, and three vessels from the People’s Liberation …

Iran, which has already executed four people who took part in protests in recent months, sentenced three more people to death on Monday on charges of “waging war on God.”  The three men – Saleh Mirhashemi, Majid Kazemi and Saeid Yaghoubi – were accused of killing members of the Basij …

White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said Monday that Iran “could potentially be contributing to widespread war crimes” in Ukraine by supplying its drones to Russia.  Sullivan made the remark during President Biden’s trip to Mexico City and just weeks after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy raised the issue during …