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Sep 5, 2025 - World

Deputy defence minister Anna Tsivilyova said those coming back from the battlefield had become a ‘driver’ in pushing Russia’s innovation in prostheticsA Kremlin official has said that the number of soldiers wounded fighting in Ukraine had helped to make Russia a world leader in the manufacture of prosthetic limbs.Deputy defence minister Anna Tsivilyova, reportedly a relative of President Vladimir Putin, told a conference in Vladivostok that those coming back from the battlefield had become a “driver” in pushing Russia’s innovation in prosthetics. Continue reading...

Sep 4, 2025 - World

A State Department official was sentenced to four years in prison for selling secrets to the Chinese government, the Justice Department said Thursday.

Sep 4, 2025 - World

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum's strategy of managing a tumultuous relationship with President Donald Trump may be running up against wider regional tensions and a lack of willingness by the Trump administration to make concessions

Sep 4, 2025 - World

South-east of country rocked as rescuers struggle to find survivors of first quake A magnitude 6.2 earthquake has shaken Afghanistan as the death toll from the devastating quake on Sunday rose to more than 2,200.It struck south-eastern regions on Thursday night, according to the Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences in Germany. It was not immediately clear how much damage there was. Continue reading...

Sep 4, 2025 - World

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin were overheard candidly discussing medical advances for extending life -- a conversation that critics say highlights China's practice of brutally harvesting human organs from dissidents and prisoners.