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Iran is working on sending a man to space in the next five years, Iranian Communications Minister Eisa Zarepour stated on Wednesday.

Head of the Iranian Space Agency (ISA) Hossein Salariyeh says the construction of the country's highly accurate remote sensing Pars 2 satellite is underway, while a bio-capsule will be launched into space by the end of the Iranian calendar year in March 2024.

Two Taiwanese companies identified in a Bloomberg report as doing business with Huawei-linked chipmakers in China said Wednesday their dealings in the country did not violate U.S. sanctions and were in line with national security laws.

Taiwan's top intelligence chief has warned that Taiwanese nationals who travel to China are facing greater risks as more Taiwanese have been questioned by Chinese immigration since a revised Chinese Counter-Espionage Law took effect in July.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says all groups and facilities in Iraq and Syria that are affiliated to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant group are "legitimate targets," following a recent bomb attack on a government building in the capital Ankara.

Addressing the Closing Ceremony of the Council of State's IASAJ Programme, President Erdoğan said: "Our ideal to expand our citizens' realm of freedoms prioritizes our country's liberation from the post-coup constitution. It is high time to shatter the shackles which the tutelage advocates had put on Türkiye's feet with the May 27, 1960 coup and then the September 12 regime consolidated."

Russia said Wednesday its air defenses destroyed 31 Ukrainian drones that were part of attempted attacks on Russian territory overnight.

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Civilians continue to pay a horrendous price in the war in Ukraine, with nearly 10,000 dead and tens of thousands injured since conflict began in February 2022, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in the country said in a report published on Wednesday.

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On Tuesday, the Russian Defense Ministry said that air defense systems detected and destroyed a Ukrainian Neptune missile near the Crimean coast.

Ukraine has lost up to 185 soldiers both killed and injured in combat with Russian forces in the South Donetsk direction over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

The Russian Armed Forces have made great use of various modifications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) during the special military operation to perform tasks without loss of military personnel.

On the night of 4 October 2023, the Russian Armed Forces have foiled attempts by the Kiev regime to carry out terrorist attacks on the territory of the Russian Federation.