Tuesday, Jan 14th
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International Glance
"Poor understanding of modern warfare tactics," along with the way they are being utilized by Russia, has contributed to the high casualty rates among North Korean soldiers, lawmakers Lee Sung-kwon and Park Sun-won told reporters after a closed-door briefing from South Korea’s National Intelligence Service.
The agency also said that North Korean soldiers have been ordered to commit suicide by detonating explosives to avoid being captured, according to the lawmakers.
Fifteen months into the war in Gaza, where more than 46,500 Palestinians have been killed and almost all of the population of 2.1 million are living in makeshift accommodation, conditions continue to deteriorate in the face of famine and cold.
At least 1.9 million people – or about 90% of the territory’s population – are displaced. Many have been forced to relocate repeatedly, some as many as 10 times.
In May, the State Department published a report saying it is "reasonable to assess" that Israel may have used American weapons in violation of international law. But it also said it could not definitively connect American weapons to specific cases.
"It is difficult to acquire that information in an active combat zone," Miller said. "But I would also say we didn't exactly work very hard to try to acquire the information."
U.S. law prohibits military assistance from being sent to countries that restrict the delivery of American aid, like food and medicine. Experts who track aid, including from multiple international organizations and the State Department itself, have found that Israel has continually blocked aid to the people of Gaza.
Ukraine has started arming its drones with shotguns to shoot down Russian drones and kill soldiers.
In video footage posted online by pro-Ukraine bloggers, a drone armed with two shotguns flies across a battlefield. The drone fixes on at least three Russian drones carrying grenades, one after the other, and shoots. Each of the Russian drones crashes to the ground.
Israeli air strikes killed dozens more Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including eight people in another school-turned-shelter that the Israeli army claimed was a Hamas command centre.Two wounded North Korean soldiers have been captured as prisoners of war by Ukrainian troops in Russia's Kursk Oblast, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday.
The two men are receiving "necessary medical assistance" and are in the custody of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in Kyiv, according to Zelensky.
The president said he was "grateful" to Ukrainian paratroopers and soldiers from the Special Operation Forces for capturing the North Koreans.
He added that "this was not an easy task", claiming that Russian and North Korean soldiers usually execute wounded North Koreans "to erase any evidence of North Korea's involvement in the war against Ukraine".
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