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A picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on December 13 showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (at podium) attending a welcoming ceremony for the Korean People's Army's 528th Regiment of Engineers, which returned from an overseas deployment in Russia's Kursk region during Moscow's war with Ukraine

World

North Korea acknowledges its troops cleared mines for Russia

North Korea sent troops to clear mines in Russia’s Kursk region earlier this year, leader Kim Jong Un said in a speech carried on...

AFP6 hours ago

A displaced family uses a flashlight as they eat a meal at a temporary camp in Banteay Meanchey province on December 12, 2025, amid clashes along the Cambodia-Thailand border

World

Cambodia says Thailand still bombing hours after Trump truce call

Cambodia said Saturday that Thailand continued dropping bombs on its territory hours after US President Donald Trump said the neighbours had agreed to stop...

AFP8 hours ago

More than half a million people in Thailand and Cambodia have fled their homes due to renewed fighting on the border

World

Thai PM says asked Trump to press Cambodia on border truce

Thailand’s prime minister said he told US President Donald Trump in a phone call Friday that Cambodia was to blame for deadly border clashes,...

AFP16 hours ago

Around 200 billion euros of assets owned by Russia central bank but held by the Belgium-based Euroclear financial depository have been frozen by EU authorities since Moscow's 2022 assault on Ukraine

Business

Russian central bank says suing Euroclear over frozen assets

Russia’s central bank on Friday said it was suing the Belgium-based Euroclear financial group, which holds Moscow’s frozen international reserves, as the EU moves...

AFP22 hours ago

Thousands have fled renewed fighting in eastern DR Congo in recent days

World

Congo refugees recount death and chaos as war reignites

Congolese refugees described neighbours being massacred and losing children in the chaos as they fled into Rwanda to escape a surge in fighting despite...

AFP1 day ago

Thai music teacher Watthanachai Kamngam paints murals depicting the border conflict between Thailand and Cambodia in a bunker near his home in a Thai border province

World

Thai teacher finds ‘peace amidst chaos’ painting bunker murals

On the grey walls of a rural Thai school’s concrete bunkers, a man calmly paints colourful scenes of helicopters, tanks, fluttering national flags and...

AFP1 day ago

World

US says tanker seizure targeted Venezuelan leader Maduro’s ‘regime’

The US seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela targeted leftist leader Nicolas Maduro’s “regime,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said...

AFP2 days ago