ABC News: SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea successfully tested a solid-fuel engine for its new-type intermediate-range hypersonic missile, state media reported Wednesday, claiming a progress in efforts to develop a more powerful, agile missile designed to strike faraway U.S. targets in the region. A hypersonic missile is among an array of high-tech weapons systems […]
Reuters: TAIPEI, March 20 – Taiwan’s foreign minister said on Wednesday that China has built “enormous” military bases on three islands surrounding Taiwan’s main holding in the South China Sea, but Taipei is not looking to further escalate tensions in the strategic waterway. Both Taiwan and China claim most of the South China Sea as […]
CNN News: All but one of the 100 cities with the world’s worst air pollution last year were in Asia, according to a new report, with the climate crisis playing a pivotal role in bad air quality that is risking the health of billions of people worldwide. The vast majority of these cities — 83 […]
Press Release: His Excellency Shri Narendra Modi, Hon’ble Prime Minister of the Republic of India, will make a two-day State Visit to Bhutan from 21-22 March 2024 on the invitation of His Majesty The King. Prime Minister Modi will be accompanied by senior officials of the Government of India. Prime Minister Modi will receive audiences […]
BBC News: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has hailed the “return” of Crimea to Russia at a concert marking the 10th anniversary of the illegal annexation of the territory from Ukraine. He said Crimea had “returned to its home harbour” and that it would move forwards with Russia “hand in hand”. Mr Putin was addressing thousands […]
BBC News: Donald Trump cannot find a private company to guarantee the $464m (£365m) he has been ordered to pay in a New York civil fraud case. The former president must either pay the full amount in cash or secure a bond in order to continue his appeal. Mr Trump said that securing a bond […]
BBC News: “Port-au-Prince is in panic mode,” a friend in the Haitian capital texted me. Residents of Petionville, a wealthier area of of the city, are shaken after their most violent day so far in the country’s spiralling security crisis. More than a dozen bullet-ridden bodies lay in the street – the victims of the […]
BBC News: Hamas leader Marwan Issa died in an Israeli air strike, White House official Jake Sullivan has said. As deputy military commander, Mr Issa would be Hamas’s most senior leader to die since the war began on 7 October. The Palestinian group, which controls Gaza, has not officially commented on reports of his death. […]
BBC News: The Supreme Court has heard arguments in a case that will define how far the US government can go in attempting to tackle disinformation online. Louisiana and Missouri brought the case, arguing that the government’s contact with social media platforms should be limited. But the court’s nine justices appeared unconvinced during arguments on […]
Reuters: SEOUL, March 18 – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday technology should be employed to sustain democratic values in the face of efforts by authoritarian and repressive regimes to deploy technology to undermine democracy and human rights. Like-minded governments and their people were working together to promote free and fair elections, […]
Reuters: MOSCOW, March 18- Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Monday that a direct conflict between Russia and the U.S.-led NATO military alliance would mean the planet was one step away from World War Three but said hardly anyone wanted such a scenario. The Ukraine war has triggered the deepest crisis in Moscow’s […]