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Some 18 North Korean soldiers are believed to have deserted the Russian frontline, with Kremlin fighters reportedly searching for them. The troops were deployed in Russia's Kursk and Bryansk oblasts, about four miles from the border with Ukraine, when they deserted, the public broadcasting company of Ukraine, Suspilne, reported. Intelligence officials cited by the broadcaster said the Russian military is searching for the North Korean soldiers, while commanders are trying to conceal the desertion from their higher-ups. It comes after reports that Moscow was planning to assemble a battalion of troops sent over by Kim Jong Un to help push...

Donald Trump has been accused of violating federal law by allegedly calling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the ceasefire deal the U.S. is helping negotiate between Israel and Hamas. The former president allegedly made the call on August 14, according to Axios, which cited two unnamed "U.S. sources who were briefed on the call." The next day, however, Netanyahu's office denied that the call took place.... Axios cited one source as saying that Trump's alleged call was intended to encourage Netanyahu to take the ceasefire deal that was on the table. However, the unnamed source told the outlet...

Kamala Harris has suffered a blow in a poll that looked at how alternative Democratic candidates would do in swing states. There have been calls for U.S. President Joe Biden to be replaced as the Democratic candidate since the world watched his poor performance in his debate with Donald Trump on June 27. Many have assumed the vice president would be the obvious choice, but a new poll shows she doesn't fare as well as others, and she wasn't among the four who performed best. Analytics company BlueLabs carried out research to determine who would increase the number of people...

A man who lost his entire immediate family to Covid in one week is urging people to get the vaccine. Francis Goncalves’ mother, father and brother all died in hospital within two weeks of contracting coronavirus. Despite his parents living with underlying health conditions, they, along with his brother, refused to take a jab. ‘(My family) got caught up in a lot of the anti-vaccination propaganda that’s going around,’ he told Wales Online. ‘It preys on people who are afraid and they fall into the trap.’ Francis, 43, who lives in Cardiff, is now speaking out so people who’ve been...