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4 days ago | businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Matthew Loh |Henry Blodget

Analysts are casting doubt on Russia's former president's claim that "a number of countries" were considering supplying nuclear warheads to Iran after the Pentagon's salvo of bunker-buster strikes there. Dmitry Medvedev, who was president from 2008 to 2012 and is a top aide to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, didn't specify which countries he was referring to in his Telegram post on Sunday. In his post, he downplayed the damage dealt to Iran's vital nuclear sites.

1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Matthew Loh |Henry Blodget

Ukraine's military released footage on Thursday of a rare instance where a first-person-view drone captured a man identified as a Russian soldier and brought him alone to Ukrainian lines. The incident was recorded on Tuesday, said the Magyar Birds, a famed drone unit that filmed the clips. The footage shows a man clad in military attire raising his hands in surrender to a small quadcopter drone.

1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Matthew Loh |Henry Blodget

Billionaire Mark Cuban said the presidential campaign team for Kamala Harris had asked him to submit vetting papers for the vice president position, which he declined. In a video clip published on Thursday, Cuban was asked by political commentator Tim Miller, who'd heard a rumor of the exchange, if the former Dallas Mavericks owner was really courted by the Harris campaign for the role. "Yeah," Cuban said, nodding.

1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Matthew Loh |Henry Blodget

The US State Department said on Wednesday that it's resuming its process for approving student visas and that applicants have to make their social media accounts public for review. "Our overseas posts will resume scheduling F, M, and J nonimmigrant visa applications soon," the department wrote in a notice, asking applicants to look out for interview appointment slots. F, M, and J nonimmigrant visas are for full-time academic and vocational students, as well as those entering the US on exchange.

1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Matthew Loh |Henry Blodget

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is set to send another 6,000 of his people to aid Russia in the Kursk region. Russian state media on Tuesday cited Sergei Shoigu, the secretary of Moscow's security council, saying that Pyongyang had agreed to provide 1,000 sappers — combat engineers who deal with explosives and fortifications — and 5,000 construction workers to rebuild the oblast. Shoigu gave no timeline on the deployment.