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• US airstrikes in Caribbean, Pacific violating intl. humanitarian law: UN chief Press TV 08 Nov 2025 -- The UN chief has expressed support for the legal view that condemns the US airstrikes in the Caribbean and Pacific regions as violations of international humanitarian law.

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• NATO Intends to Place Greater Emphasis on Its Nuclear Capabilities - Secretary General Sputnik 08 Nov 2025 -- NATO intends to place greater emphasis on its nuclear capabilities in the future in order to deter adversaries more effectively, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper in an interview.
• Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's answer to a media question Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 08 Nov 2025
• Russia Received No Diplomatic Clarification on Trump's Call to Resume Nuclear Tests - Lavrov Sputnik 08 Nov 2025 -- Russia has not received any explanation through diplomatic channels as to what US President Donald Trump meant when he announced the resumption of nuclear testing, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters.
• US Nuclear Test Plan Risks New Global Arms Race - Russia's UN Envoy Sputnik 08 Nov 2025 -- US President Donald Trump's statement on nuclear testing has caused chaos worldwide and following through could lead to a renewed arms race with dire implications, Russian Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia told RIA Novosti.
• Putin Appoints Colonel General Sanchik as Russian Deputy Defense Minister Sputnik 08 Nov 2025 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed Colonel General Alexander Sanchik as Russian Deputy Defense Minister, according to a relevant decree released on the official portal of legal acts on Saturday.
• Ukraine's security agreements — what they entail and which countries have signed them, explained by the Ministry of Defence Ukraine MOD 08 Nov 2025
• Carrier Fujian's home port is Sanya, full deployment of carrier-based aircraft 'won't be long': PLA Navy spokesperson Global Times 08 Nov 2025 -- After China's first electromagnetic catapults-equipped aircraft carrier, the Fujian, was commissioned at a naval port in Sanya, South China's Hainan Province on Wednesday, Leng Guowei, a spokesperson for the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy, accepted an interview with reporters on Saturday, announcing Sanya as the Fujian's home port location. He also addressed issues about carrier-based aircraft configuration and the PLA Navy's aircraft carrier development plan.
• China's Fujian aircraft carrier to make regular appearances on high seas: spokesperson PRC MND 08 Nov 2025 -- China's first aircraft carrier equipped with electromagnetic catapults, the Fujian, will make regular appearances on the high seas, said a Chinese navy spokesperson on Saturday.
• China's Navy: Fujian's Commissioning Marks Progress, Not Provocation Sputnik 08 Nov 2025 -- China's weapons development and modernization are not aimed at any specific country and do not pose a threat to others, China's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) spokesman Leng Guowei said on Saturday.
• Trump says no U.S. officials to attend upcoming G20 summit in South Africa People's Daily 08 Nov 2025 -- U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that no U.S. officials will attend G20 summit scheduled to be held in South Africa late this month.

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• Gaza death toll surges past 69,000 as more bodies found in devastation Press TV 08 Nov 2025 -- Gaza's Health Ministry says the death toll has climbed to 69,169, with another 170,685 wounded since the beginning of Israel's genocidal war in October 2023.
• Israel carries out new air raids and demolitions in Gaza despite ceasefire Press TV 08 Nov 2025 -- Despite last month's ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, the occupying regime's air raids and demolitions have continued across Gaza, violating the truce and adding to the devastation in the besieged territory.
• UN reports shocking facts on Israeli crimes in West Bank IRNA 08 Nov 2025 -- The United Nations, in its latest report, has announced an increase in the number of attacks by Israeli military and settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the destruction of their homes, actions that have intensified concerns regarding the establishment of a Palestinian state.
• Israeli settler attacks rise to highest monthly toll in nearly two decades, says UN Press TV 08 Nov 2025 -- The United Nations has warned about a significant surge in illegal Israeli settler violence targeting Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, recording the highest monthly toll in October in nearly two decades.
• Dozens injured as Israeli army-backed settlers launch coordinated attacks across West Bank: Report Press TV 08 Nov 2025 -- Dozens of Palestinians, foreign activists, and journalists have been wounded as Israeli army-backed settlers carried out coordinated assaults across the occupied West Bank.
• Hamas says UN reports show Israeli settler 'terrorism' at record level IRNA 08 Nov 2025 -- The Palestinian resistance group Hamas says recent United Nations reports confirm that violence by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank has reached its highest level amid Israel's systematic policy of terror and displacement against Palestinians.
• Israel perpetrating systematic terror, abuse in West Bank: Hamas Press TV 08 Nov 2025 -- Hamas says the latest UN figures, indicating a significant increase in illegal Israeli settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, confirm the extreme pain and suffering inflicted by the Tel Aviv regime on Palestinians.
• Normalization of relations with Israel 'out of question,' says Lebanon's parliament speaker Press TV 08 Nov 2025 -- Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri says normalization of diplomatic relations between the Arab country and the occupying Israeli regime is not even subject to negotiations.
• Seven injured after Israeli drone targets vehicle in southern Lebanon Press TV 08 Nov 2025 -- Seven people have been wounded after an Israeli drone attack targeted a vehicle in the southern Lebanese city of Bint Jbeil, marking a fresh breach of the ceasefire declared in late 2024.
• Turkey issues 'genocide' arrest warrants for Netanyahu, top Israeli authorities Press TV 08 Nov 2025 -- Turkey has issued arrest warrants for 37 top Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for the crime of "genocide" against the Palestinian people.

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• China urges the Philippines to cease provocations on South China Sea issue People's Daily 08 Nov 2025 -- A Chinese military spokesperson on Friday urged the Philippines to cease its infringement, provocation and propaganda.
• Taliban Says Peace Talks With Pakistan Collapse But Cease-Fire Will Hold RFE/RL 08 Nov 2025 -- Peace talks in Istanbul between Pakistan and Afghanistan's hard-line Islamist Taliban rulers have ended with no deal, but a cease-fire between the neighboring countries will continue.
• EU warns Al Fasher becomes 'graveyard of humanity' amid Sudan's worsening crisis Press TV 08 Nov 2025 -- The European Union has sounded the alarm over the dire situation in Sudan's Al Fasher, describing it as a "graveyard of humanity," with civilians trapped under siege, hospitals bombed, and aid routes blocked.

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• Yemen says it dismantled spy network linked to US, Israeli and Saudi intelligence IRNA 08 Nov 2025 -- Yemen's interior ministry says that it has dismantled a spy network allegedly linked to a joint operations room run by the intelligence services of the United States, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, saying the facility was based inside Saudi territory.
• Yemen's Interior Ministry says joint US-Israeli-Saudi spy network dismantled Press TV 08 Nov 2025 -- Yemen's Interior Ministry says a spy network operated jointly by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, and Saudi Arabia's General Intelligence Presidency has been dismantled.
• Anger In Russia Over Muslim Migrants Praying In Public RFE/RL 08 Nov 2025 -- A bus driver in Russia's Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk was investigated last month after he prayed at a bus terminal while passengers waited inside the vehicle.
• China suspends export controls on rare earths, other key resources Global Times 08 Nov 2025 -- China announced on Friday a series of adjustments to trade measures, including the suspension of export controls on rare earths, superhard materials and other strategic resources, as well as the reinstatement of soybean import qualifications for three US companies and the lifting of a ban on US log imports.
• Taiwan VP Hsiao Bi-khim makes historic address at 2025 IPAC summit CNA 08 Nov 2025 -- Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) made history on Friday as the first Taiwanese vice president to deliver a speech in a European parliament while in office, addressing the 2025 summit of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) in Brussels.
• Full text of Vice President Hsiao's speech at 2025 IPAC summit CNA 08 Nov 2025 -- Taiwan's Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) visited the European Parliament in Brussels on Friday, where she addressed the annual summit of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC).
• The 1992 Consensus can bring cross-Straits Peace; KMT party will 'firmly stay on the right path': KMT chairperson Global Times 08 Nov 2025 -- Cheng Li-wun, the new chairperson of the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) party of island of Taiwan, said at a seminar in Taipei on Friday that Facts have proven that the 1992 Consensus can ease cross-Straits tensions and facilitate peaceful exchanges. The KMT, she said, will firmly continue down the correct path and become a proactive and pivotal force for peace, according to Xinhua News Agency.
• China expresses firm opposition and solemn representations: Chinese mission on Hsiao Bi-khim's European Parliament speech Global Times 08 Nov 2025 -- China expressed strong indignation and firm opposition, and lodged solemn representations with the EU, the Chinese Mission to the EU said on Saturday in response to "Taiwan independence" separatist Hsiao Bi-khim who visited Belgium and spoke at a meeting with lawmakers in the European Parliament.
• PLA activities in the waters and airspace around Taiwan ROC MND 08 Nov 2025
• DPRK defense chief condemns U.S. for making threatening military moves People's Daily 08 Nov 2025 -- The defense chief of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Friday slammed the United States for recent military actions in the Korean Peninsula, saying they threaten the country's security and intentionally escalate political and military tensions in the region, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Saturday.
• North Korea threatens 'offensive action' as US aircraft carrier arrives in South Korea Press TV 08 Nov 2025 -- North Korea has threatened to take "offensive action" as the United States and South Korea hold talks on strengthening military ties.
• Russian Delegation Leaves Here KCNA 08 Nov 2025 -- The delegation of the Military-Political General Department of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation headed by Director Viktor Goremuikin, vice-minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, left here for home on Nov. 7.
• Press Statement by Minister of National Defence of DPRK KCNA 08 Nov 2025 -- No Kwang Chol, minister of National Defence of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, on Friday issued the press statement titled "The DPRK armed forces' cognition against the enemy and counteraction will be more clearly manifested", which said:
• Iran rejects US-Israel accusation against Tehran IRNA 08 Nov 2025 -- Iran's Embassy in Mexico has rejected the new accusation by the US and the Israeli regime against Tehran regarding an alleged attack on the ambassador of the regime in Mexico City.
• Iran eyes production of homegrown light passenger planes Press TV 08 Nov 2025 -- Iran is planning to manufacture domestically produced light passenger planes to respond to increasing domestic demand for short-haul flights.
• Turkiye Does Not Sell Rare Earths to the US - Energy Minister Sputnik 08 Nov 2025 -- Turkiy did not transfer its rare earth elements to the United States but concluded an agreement related to nuclear energy, Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Alparslan Bayraktar said.
• Palace: 'No confirmation' yet on ICC arrest warrant vs. Dela Rosa Philippine News Agency 08 Nov 2025 -- Malacañang said on Saturday that it has yet to receive any official confirmation regarding reports that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued a warrant of arrest against Senator Ronald Dela Rosa in connection with the Duterte administration's war on drugs.