ABC News: TAIPEI, Taiwan — After a trip that drew China’s wrath, a defiant Nancy Pelosi concluded her visit to Taiwan on Wednesday with a pledge that the American commitment to democracy on the self-governing island and elsewhere “remains ironclad.” Pelosi received a euphoric welcome as the first U.S. House speaker to visit in more […]
Reuters: Chinese navy ships and military aircraft briefly crossed the Taiwan Strait median line on Thursday morning, a Taiwan source briefed on the matter told Reuters on Thursday. Around 10 Chinese navy ships crossed the median line and remained in the area from Wednesday night through midday on Thursday, and multiple Chinese military aircraft briefly […]
Reuters: U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her South Korean counterpart vowed on Thursday to support efforts to maintain a strong deterrence against North Korea and achieve its denuclearisation. A joint statement was issued after Pelosi met South Korea’s National Assembly Speaker Kim Jin-pyo in Seoul, in which they expressed concerns over the […]
Reuters: The Taliban are investigating a U.S. “claim” that al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Kabul, a Taliban official said on Thursday, indicating the group’s leadership were not aware of his presence there. The United States killed Zawahiri with a missile fired from a drone while he stood […]
BBC News: China is kicking off its biggest-ever military exercises in the seas around Taiwan following US politician Nancy Pelosi’s visit. The live fire drills began at 12:00 local time (04:00 GMT) and in several areas were due to take place within 12 miles of the island. Taiwan said China was trying to change the […]
BBC News: A huge nuclear power plant occupied by Russia during its invasion of Ukraine is “completely out of control”, the head of the UN’s nuclear agency says. Rafael Grossi was quoted by the Associated Press news agency as saying the Zaporizhzhia plant needed an inspection and repairs. “You have a catalogue of things that […]
BBC News: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for oil and gas companies to face special taxes. His comments come as surging energy prices sparked by the war in Ukraine push industry profits to new highs. Mr Guterres said it was “immoral” for firms to be profiting from the crisis. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine […]
ABC News: TAIPEI, Taiwan — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, meeting leaders of Taiwan despite warnings from China, said Wednesday that she and other members of Congress in a visiting delegation are showing they will not abandon their commitment to the self-governing island. Pelosi, the first U.S. speaker to visit the island in more than […]
དུས་ཅི་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༡ པ་ལས་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༦ པ་ཚུན་འབདཝ་ད་ འདས་པའི་ཟླ་ངོ་ ༦ གི་རིང་ལུ་ ང་བཅས་རའི་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ མི་གྲངས་ ༤༠ ལུ་ ནད་གཞི་ཨེཌཛ་གི་རྒྱུ་ ནད་འབུབ་ཨེཆ་ཨའི་ཝི་ ཐོབ་ཡོད་པའི་ ངོས་འཛིན་བྱུང་ནུག། དེ་ཡང་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༨ པའི་ཚེས་ ༢ ལུ་ གསོ་བའི་ལྷན་ཁག་ལས་ གསལ་སྟོན་འབད་མི་ སྙན་ཞུ་ཅིག་ནང་ བཀོད་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་སྦེ་ ནད་འབུབ་ཐོབ་མི་ཚུ་ཡང་ ཕོ་སྐྱེས་ ༡༩ དང་ ཨམ་སྲུ་ ༢༡ ཨིན་པས། དེ་སྦེ་ ནད་འབུབ་ཐོབ་མི་ཚུ་གི་གྲས་ལས་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་ ༢༥ ལས་ ༤༥ གི་བར་ན་འབད་མི་ བརྒྱ་ཆ་ ༧༠ དང་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་ ༥༠ ཡན་ཆད་འབད་མི་ བརྒྱ་ཆ་ ༥༠ སྐྱེས་ལོ་ ༢༠ ལས་ […]
BBC News: Kansas voters have chosen to uphold abortion rights in the first electoral test of the deeply polarising issue since the US Supreme Court allowed states to ban the procedure outright. Voters overwhelmingly said they did not wish to amend the state constitution to assert there is no right to abortion. If the ballot […]
