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Japan and the United States were also KOREA - The United States and liNely to conduct a joint air drill as early South Korea held a joint air exercise as yesterday afternoon. involving US strategic bombers yesterday, The US-South Korea exercise comes a day after North Korea fired a a day after North Korea launched a Hwasong-1 intercontinental ballistic long-range ballistic missile into the missile (,CBM) in a ‘sudden launching sea off Japan’s west coast, following drill’. a warning of a strong response to upcoming

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff military drills by South Korea said the exercise, where South Korea’s and the United States.

)- A, )-1 K and US )-1 fighters North Korea’s State media KCNA escorted American B-1B bombers, said the country conducted a ‘sudden demonstrated the allies’ ‘overwhelming’ launching drill’ on Saturday in an defence capabilities and readiness ‘actual proof’ of its efforts to turn the posture. ‘capacity of fatal nuclear counterattacN

‘(The exercise) strengthened the on the hostile forces into the irresistible combined operation capability and one’. affirmed the United States’ ironclad /eader Kim Jong Un’s sister, Kim

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)rance wants Russia defeated in AMER,CA - The United States has UNraine but does not want to ‘crush concluded that Russia has committed Russia’ on its own soil, said 3resident ‘crimes against humanity’ during its Emmanuel Macron. The European nearly year-long invasion of UNraine, Union is urgently exploring ways for said 9ice 3resident Kamala Harris. member countries to team up to buy Moscow responded that :ashington munitions for UNraine. European Commission was trying to foment crisis with the chief Ursula von der /eyen said allegation. the EU ‘can move mountains’ to supply

US Secretary of State Antony BlinNen more ammunition. warned China’s top Chinese diplomat EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell :ang

:ang said China has ‘neither stood by and limit the number of Russian diplomats idly nor thrown fuel on the fire’ regarding allowed at their embassy in The the crisis in UNraine, and continues Hague, over efforts ‘to secretly get intelligence to call for peace and dialogue. agents into the Netherlands’.