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Lebanon will place all weapons under state control, but will wait for the “right conditions” to determine how to execute it, President Joseph Aoun said on Sunday, Anadolu reports.

“The Lebanese people do not want war, and therefore the armed forces are the only body responsible for Lebanon’s sovereignty and independence,” he said following a meeting with Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Bechara Boutros Al-Rai.

He said the state will deal with the issue of…

The United States slashing foreign aid risks piling pressure on already acute humanitarian crises across the globe, a World Health Organization official said Sunday, also warning against withdrawing from the UN agency.

Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has effectively frozen foreign aid funding, moved to dismantle the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and other programmes, and announced plans to leave the WHO.

Washington, which had long been the WHO’s biggest…

China and Egypt held their first joint air force drill, Chinese media reported on Sunday, Anadolu reports.

Named “Eagles of Civilization 2025,” the joint air force exercise kicked off at an air base in Egypt on Saturday morning, with China deploying fighter jets, early warning aircraft, tanker aircraft and helicopters to the drill, state-run CCTV reported.

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force’s J-10C fighter jet, YU-20 aerial tanker…

Chinese satellite company Chang Guang Satellite Technology on Saturday rejected an allegation from the US that it is supporting Houthis by providing them intelligence, Global Times reported, Anadolu reports.

This came after US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce stated that Chang Guang Satellite Technology was “directly aiding Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen by providing satellite imagery used to target US and international vessels in the Red Sea,”…