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NKorea's Kim Praises Bravery of Soldiers Fighting for Russia

This picture taken on February 13, 2026 and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on February 14, 2026 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspecting the under-construction Memorial Museum of Combat Feats in Pyongyang. (Photo by KCNA VIA KNS / AFP)
This picture taken on February 13, 2026 and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on February 14, 2026 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspecting the under-construction Memorial Museum of Combat Feats in Pyongyang. (Photo by KCNA VIA KNS / AFP)
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NKorea's Kim Praises Bravery of Soldiers Fighting for Russia

This picture taken on February 13, 2026 and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on February 14, 2026 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspecting the under-construction Memorial Museum of Combat Feats in Pyongyang. (Photo by KCNA VIA KNS / AFP)
This picture taken on February 13, 2026 and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on February 14, 2026 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspecting the under-construction Memorial Museum of Combat Feats in Pyongyang. (Photo by KCNA VIA KNS / AFP)

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un paid tribute to the "matchless bravery" of his country's soldiers fighting in Russia's war with Ukraine as he visited a memorial being built to those killed in the conflict, state media reported Saturday.

"The matchless bravery and mass heroism displayed by soldiers of the Korean People's Army, involved in the overseas military operations, must be imposingly etched in history as a banner of invincibility," Kim said on Friday as he inspected the site, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.

Russia's ambassador to North Korea attended a groundbreaking ceremony of the so-called Memorial Museum of Combat Feats in October, with Kim at the time hailing a "historic peak" in ties with Moscow.

According to AFP, the KCNA report on Saturday did not mention Russia. Earlier this week, however, Kim pledged to "unconditionally support" all of Russian President Vladimir Putin's policies and decisions, in a letter shared by KCNA.

North Korea, one of the world's most diplomatically isolated nations, has deepened ties with Moscow since it invaded Ukraine in February 2022.

It has dispatched thousands of troops to fight for Russia, according to South Korean and Western intelligence agencies, as Moscow presses ahead with its nearly four-year invasion of Ukraine.

At least 600 North Korean soldiers have been killed and thousands more wounded, according to estimates from South Korea.

In addition to sending troops to fight for Russia, Pyongyang has sent artillery shells, missiles and long-range rocket systems.

In return, Russia is sending North Korea financial aid, military technology and food and energy supplies, analysts have said.

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Germany Says Withdrawal of US Troops Was ‘Expected’

A US Air Force aircraft takes off from the Ramstein Air Base, headquarter of the US Air Forces in Europe, near Landstuhl, Germany, 09 March 2026. (EPA)
A US Air Force aircraft takes off from the Ramstein Air Base, headquarter of the US Air Forces in Europe, near Landstuhl, Germany, 09 March 2026. (EPA)
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Germany Says Withdrawal of US Troops Was ‘Expected’

A US Air Force aircraft takes off from the Ramstein Air Base, headquarter of the US Air Forces in Europe, near Landstuhl, Germany, 09 March 2026. (EPA)
A US Air Force aircraft takes off from the Ramstein Air Base, headquarter of the US Air Forces in Europe, near Landstuhl, Germany, 09 March 2026. (EPA)

Germany's defense minister on Saturday said the withdrawal of American troops from Germany had been expected and that Europe needed to do more to ensure its own security.

"That US troops are withdrawing from Europe and also from Germany was to be expected," Boris Pistorius said in a statement sent to AFP by his ministry. "We Europeans must take greater responsibility for our security," he added.

The Pentagon on Friday announced the withdrawal of about 5,000 troops from Germany within the next year, the latest rift in transatlantic ties over the Middle East war.

The move came as US President Donald Trump announced that tariffs on cars and trucks from the European Union would increase to 25 percent next week, accusing the bloc of not complying with a trade deal signed last summer.

Trump has renewed criticism of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who said Monday that Iran was "humiliating" Washington at the negotiating table. Trump said Merz "thinks it's OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon. He doesn't know what he's talking about!"

On Wednesday, the American leader said Washington was "studying and reviewing the possible reduction" of US troops in Germany, and that he would decide in a "short period of time".

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Nobel Laureate Mohammadi in Iran Hospital After ‘Cardiac Crisis’, Foundation Says

A picture of Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi on the wall of the Grand Hotel in central Oslo before the Nobel banquet, in connection with the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize 2023, in Oslo, Norway December 10, 2023. (NTB/Javad Parsa via Reuters)
A picture of Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi on the wall of the Grand Hotel in central Oslo before the Nobel banquet, in connection with the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize 2023, in Oslo, Norway December 10, 2023. (NTB/Javad Parsa via Reuters)
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Nobel Laureate Mohammadi in Iran Hospital After ‘Cardiac Crisis’, Foundation Says

A picture of Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi on the wall of the Grand Hotel in central Oslo before the Nobel banquet, in connection with the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize 2023, in Oslo, Norway December 10, 2023. (NTB/Javad Parsa via Reuters)
A picture of Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi on the wall of the Grand Hotel in central Oslo before the Nobel banquet, in connection with the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize 2023, in Oslo, Norway December 10, 2023. (NTB/Javad Parsa via Reuters)

Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi was in an Iranian hospital after a "catastrophic deterioration of her health," including a "cardiac crisis", a foundation run by her family said.

The secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awarded Mohammadi the 2023 prize, expressed concern on Thursday that the condition of the Iranian human rights activist was worsening after she had suffered a heart attack in prison.

Mohammadi, in her 50s, won the prize while in prison for her campaign to advance women's rights and abolish the ‌death penalty in ‌Iran.

The activist "was urgently transferred to a hospital ‌in Zanjan ⁠today following a ⁠catastrophic deterioration of her health, including two episodes of complete loss of consciousness and a severe cardiac crisis," the Narges Mohammadi Foundation said in a statement on its website on Friday.

"This transfer was done as an unavoidable necessity after prison doctors determined her condition could not be managed on-site, despite standing medical recommendations that ⁠she be treated by her specialized team in ‌Tehran."

Reuters could not immediately confirm the ‌statement, which said her transfer was a “desperate, last-minute” measure that might come ‌too late to address her critical health needs.

Mohammadi was sentenced ‌to a new prison term of 7-1/2 years, the foundation said in February, weeks before the US and Israel launched their war against Iran. The Nobel committee at the time called on Tehran to free ‌her immediately.

She was arrested in December after denouncing the death of lawyer Khosrow Alikordi. Prosecutor Hasan ⁠Hematifar told reporters ⁠then she made provocative remarks at Alikordi's memorial ceremony in the northeastern city of Mashhad and encouraged those present "to chant norm-breaking slogans" and "disturb the peace".

On Friday morning, Mohammadi fainted after days of dangerously high blood pressure and severe nausea, the foundation said. After multiple bouts of vomiting, she blacked out and was moved to the prison medical unit for emergency intravenous fluids.

The activist, who has undergone three angioplasty procedures, faces a "direct and immediate" threat to her right to life, her family said. “We call for all charges to be dropped immediately and for all sentences imposed for her peaceful human rights work to be unconditionally annulled.”

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Two Killed in Russian Attack on Bus in Kherson

The interior of the damaged flat in an apartment building hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Odesa, Ukraine May 1, 2026. (Reuters)
The interior of the damaged flat in an apartment building hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Odesa, Ukraine May 1, 2026. (Reuters)
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Two Killed in Russian Attack on Bus in Kherson

The interior of the damaged flat in an apartment building hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Odesa, Ukraine May 1, 2026. (Reuters)
The interior of the damaged flat in an apartment building hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Odesa, Ukraine May 1, 2026. (Reuters)

A ‌Russian drone attack on a bus in Ukraine's southern city of Kherson killed two people and injured seven more early on Saturday, officials said.

Most of the casualties were public utilities workers, regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin added on Telegram. He posted images from the site that showed the bus with ‌blown-out windows and ‌a body with traces ‌of ⁠blood lying on ⁠its floor.

"Such attacks are part of a systemic policy of terror against the civilian population," Dmytro Lubinets, Ukraine's human rights ombudsman, said on the Telegram app.

Kherson, the only regional ⁠capital seized by Russian forces in ‌their 2022 ‌full-scale invasion, was recaptured by Ukrainian troops later ‌that year but has increasingly ‌come under attack from Russian forces across the Dnipro River.

Ukrainian officials and human rights organizations have accused Moscow's troops of deliberate ‌and systemic small-drone attacks on civilians across areas close to the ⁠frontline, ⁠in particular in Kherson.

The southern Odesa region, targeted by Russian strikes almost daily over the last couple of months, also came under attack overnight, the regional governor Oleh Kiper said.

A warehouse and neighboring buildings were damaged at a port, he added on Telegram.

Ukraine's air force said it downed 142 out of 163 long-range drones launched by Russia overnight.