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![Discussions on a US plan to end the war in Ukraine at the US Mission in Geneva, on November 23, 2025. (Source: Getty Images)]( "Kyiv Waits for US Envoys as Secret Peace Talks Face New Obstacles")
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![Moldovan President Maia Sandu. (Source: Getty Images)]( "Maia Sandu Calls for Increased Pressure on Russia After New Drone Incident")
![Russians arrive at Yerevan's Zvartnots airport. (Source: Getty Images)]( "Surge in Russian Emigration Searches Reaches Highest Level Since Autumn 2022")
![A General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon of the Romanian Air Force participates in the Tactical Leadership Programme in Albacete, Spain, on September 24, 2024. Illustrative photo. (Source: Getty Images)]( "A General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon of the Romanian Air Force participates in the Tactical Leadership Programme in Albacete, Spain, on September 24, 2024. Illustrative photo. (Source: Getty Images)")
![Russia conducting large-scale exercises of its nuclear triad testing the country's land, sea, and air-based strategic forces. (Source: Getty Images)]( "Nuclear Secrets as Payment: How Russia May Have Funded Its Iranian Drones")
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![North Korea Is Learning Modern Warfare in Russia, Bringing the Lessons Back to Asia]( "North Korea Is Learning Modern Warfare in Russia, Bringing the Lessons Back to Asia")
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North Korea has deployed a missile unit to Russia and is expected to send thousands more troops as ties between the two countries deepen. This poses a threat to the wider Northeast Asian region—North Korea is gaining experience and material benefits with Russia’s support.![A replica of the Golden Scythian Pectoral from Tovsta Mohyla is displayed at the Treasury of the National Museum of History of Ukraine on November 28, 2023 in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Source: Getty Images)]( "A replica of the Golden Scythian Pectoral from Tovsta Mohyla is displayed at the Treasury of the National Museum of History of Ukraine on November 28, 2023 in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Source: Getty Images)")
![Saab JAS 39 Gripen fighter jets. (Source: Getty Images)]( "NATO High-Tech Aircraft Surge Near Kaliningrad and the Black Sea")
![A man walks out of St. Basil's cathedral in front of the Spasskaya tower at Red Square in central Moscow. (Source: Getty Images)]( "Russian Confidence in the Future Plunges to 1990s Lows")
![North Korean military. (Source: Getty Images)]( "Kim Jong Un's Sister Claims North Korea Is Not Deploying 50,000 Troops to Russia")
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