Reuters: AIPEI, April 5- Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen met with senior security officials on Tuesday to discuss the “regional situation” ahead of her meeting with U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California, which China has demanded not take place. China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory, has threatened unspecified retaliation if the get-together, scheduled […]
BBC News: Former US President Donald Trump has been consulting lawyers at Trump Tower in New York City as he prepares to face history-making criminal charges. He has been under investigation over hush money paid just before the 2016 election to a porn star who says they had sex. He denies wrongdoing. Extra security measures […]
BBC News: India has reacted sharply to China’s attempts to rename places in the north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh and said it “outright rejects” the move. The state has been and will always be an “integral and inalienable part of India,” foreign ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said on Tuesday. His comments came after reports said […]
Reuters: SYDNEY, April 4 – Australia banned TikTok on Tuesday from all federal government-owned devices over security concerns, becoming the latest U.S.-allied country to take action against the Chinese-owned video app. The ban underscores growing worries that China could use the Beijing-based company, owned by ByteDance Ltd, to harvest users’ data to advance its political […]
BBC News: US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has confirmed he will meet Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen in California this week, despite China’s warning this could lead to “serious confrontation”. Ms Tsai will stop over in the US on Wednesday, as she returns from a tour of Taiwan’s allies in Central America. A visit to Taiwan […]
BBC News: At least one person has been killed and about 30 injured – some seriously – after a passenger train derailed in the western Netherlands. Emergency services say the overnight crash happened after the train transporting about 50 people hit construction equipment near the village of Voorschoten. Earlier reports had said this followed a […]
ABC News: DHAKA,Bangladesh — A massive fire was burning in a popular market for cheaper clothes in Bangladesh’s capital Tuesday morning. The fire started at Bangabazar Market in Dhaka at 6:10 a.m. but no casualties were reported immediately, Rafi Al Faruk told The Associated Press by phone. He said firefighters from 47 units were working […]
India Today: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who was sentenced to two years in prison in a defamation case, was granted bail by a sessions court in Gujarat’s Surat on Monday. The court will hear his appeal against conviction in the defamation case on April 13. The Congress leader had sought a stay on conviction and […]
ABC News: BANGKOK — Hundreds of would-be lawmakers in Thailand on Monday began the official registration process for the upcoming general election, a vote that will pit supporters of an exiled prime minister against the conservative political establishment and its allies in the military. Dressed in T-shirts and jackets in their party colors, and backed […]
Reuters: KYIV, April 3 – Ukraine said on Monday that Russian forces were “very far” from capturing the eastern town of Bakhmut and that fighting raged on around the administration building where the Wagner mercenary group claimed to have raised the Russian flag. A spokesperson for Ukraine’s eastern military command told Reuters that it was […]