BBC News: Russia’s president has signed a decree which could see 137,000 service personnel added to the country’s armed forces in the coming months. Currently Russia has a limit of just over a million military personnel and almost 900,000 civilian staff. Vladimir Putin’s decree comes amid a recruitment drive around the country, with large cash […]
India Today: After the visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, there is a growing call to invite the Dalai Lama to Taiwan. The top US official had met the Tibetan representative in Taipei in a strong message to Beijing that Washington stands with the people of Tibet. India Today went to the office of […]
NDTV News: Germany inaugurated the world’s first hydrogen-powered train on Wednesday. With this initiative, the government is opening the door for more environmentally friendly travel, said a report from CNN. The route in Bremervorde, Lower Saxony, will be solely served by 14 Coradia iLint trains, powered by fuel-cell propulsion technology, the report further said. An […]
CNN: Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan was granted an extension of his pre-arrest bail on Thursday while police investigate whether he violated anti-terror laws. The news was celebrated by hundreds of Khan’s supporters, who rallied outside the Anti-Terrorism Court in the capital, Islamabad, where the ousted leader’s arrival was met with a heavy security […]
NDTV News: Sitting pensively in a pew at a Taipei church, army reservist Henry Cheng is nonchalant about the Chinese warships and jets circling his island — but he also feels ill-prepared for war. China’s massive military drills this month pushed tensions in the Taiwan Strait to their highest point in years, deepening fears Beijing […]
ALJAZEERA: Pakistan has rejected India’s closure of the incident of the firing of a supersonic missile into Pakistani territory on March 9, and reiterated a demand for a joint probe, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday. The Indian Air Force on Tuesday said at the end of its inquiry that the government had […]
Reuters: TOKYO, Aug 25 – Japan’s National Police Agency chief said on Thursday he wanted to resign to take responsibility for the shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in July. The remarks at a press conference by Itaru Nakamura, whose agency is in charge of Japan’s police, represent the highest-profile fallout of Abe’s assassination. […]
Reuters: TAIPEI, Aug 25 – Taiwan proposed $19 billion in defence spending for next year on Thursday, a double-digit increase on 2022 that includes funds for new fighter jets, weeks after China staged large-scale war games around the island it views as its sovereign territory. China carried out its largest-ever military exercises around the democratically […]
BBC News: The national carriers of Australia and New Zealand say that the worst of the coronavirus crisis is now behind them, even as they posted annual losses for a third year in a row. Qantas says it is seeing demand increase “with the existential crisis posed by the pandemic now over”. Air New Zealand […]
BBC News: A Russian rocket strike on a Ukrainian train station has killed 22 people, Ukraine says, on the day marking six months since Moscow’s invasion began. It says five of the victims of the attack in the eastern town of Chaplyne burnt to death in a vehicle. An 11-year-old boy was also killed. President […]
