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The US and the UK have condemned the move as Hong Kong authorities expand crackdown under national security law.

The decision comes amid renewed asylum seekers arrivals that Helsinki has labelled a Russian hybrid attack.

BAGHDAD: Iraq said Thursday it had arrested several attackers who fired rockets at the US embassy last week amid high tensions over the Israel-Hamas war and found some had links to security services. A salvo of rockets was launched early Friday at the US embassy in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, the latest in a flurry of such attacks amid the war in Gaza. The attack caused no reported casualties or damage, and there was no immediate claim of responsibility, but a US spokesperson said “indications are the attacks were initiated by Iran-aligned militias.”

As the US House of Representatives moves forward with an impeachment inquiry against Biden, we look at the next steps.

President Vladimir Putin says he hopes for agreement with US on prisoner swap but admits 'it's not simple'.

SANAA: The United States shot down an aerial vehicle launched from a Houthi-controlled area in response to a call from a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker in the southern Red Sea on Wednesday, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said early on Thursday. The US Navy destroyer Mason shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle launched from Houthi-controlled areas after the group attacked the commercial vessel Ardmore Encounter in skiffs, CENTCOM said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.

More than 450,000 Afghans have left the country since Pakistani authorities launched a deportation drive in October.