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US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin has said Washington has seen evidence 3,000 North Korean troops are training in Russia and may be sent to fight in Ukraine. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko told the BBC the accusations were ‘nonsense’ and said that using North Korean troops would escalate the conflict.
Also tonight:
Turkey says five people have been killed in what officials are calling a terror attack on a state-owned aerospace firm.
Geoff Capes, the three-time Olympian who was twice crowned the world's strongest man, has died at the age of 75.
And The World Tonight’s James Menendez speaks to voters on either side of the Mexican border ahead of the US presidential election.
(Picture: Kim Jong Un inspects the 2nd Corps of North Korean army, October 17, 2024 Credit: KCNA via REUTERS)
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