Reuters: BEIJING, Aug 10 – China has withdrawn a promise not to send troops or administrators to Taiwan if it takes control of the island, an official document showed on Wednesday, signalling a decision by President Xi Jinping to grant less autonomy than previously offered. China’s white paper on its position on self-ruled Taiwan follows […]
BBC News: Satellite images appear to show extensive damage and several destroyed Russian warplanes at a Crimea airbase following explosions earlier this week. The Saky base in the west of Russian-ruled Crimea was rocked by a string of blasts on Tuesday, killing one person. Ukraine has not claimed responsibility – but this new evidence suggests […]
BBC News: North Korea’s Kim Jong-un suffered from “fever” during the Covid pandemic, his sister has said – in what appears to be the first suggestion he had the virus. Kim Yo-jong also blamed South Korea for her country’s outbreak – saying it sent leaflets contaminated with Covid across the border. South Korea rejected the […]
ABC News: KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s air force said Wednesday that nine Russian warplanes were destroyed in massive explosions at an air base in Crimea amid speculation they were the result of a Ukrainian attack that would represent a significant escalation in the war. Russia denied any aircraft were damaged in Tuesday’s blasts — or […]
ABC News: BEIJING — China on Wednesday repeated military threats against Taiwan while appearing to wind down wargames near the self-governing island it claims as its own territory that have raised tensions between the two sides to their highest level in years. The message in a lengthy policy statement issued by the Cabinet’s Taiwan Affairs […]
ABC News: OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — At least 15 soldiers were killed in northern Burkina Faso when their vehicles hit land mines, including a rescue team that hit a second explosive device when they were rushing to help, the army said. The explosions took place in the Bam area of the Center-North region, the army […]
India Today: Former President Donald Trump said FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday and broke into his safe, possibly connected to a US Justice Department investigation of Trump’s removal of official presidential records to the Florida resort. The unprecedented search of a former president’s home would mark a significant escalation into the records […]
NDTV News: Around 50 people are missing after a boat carrying migrants sank off the Greek island of Karpathos in the Aegean Sea, a coastguard official told AFP Wednesday. “According to the statements of 29 rescued people, there were 80 people on the boat, so up to 50 people are missing,” he said. The Greek […]
NDTV News: Sri Lanka’s ousted president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, is expected to arrive in Thailand on Thursday, seeking temporary shelter in a second Southeast Asian country after fleeing his island nation last month amid mass protests, two sources said. Rajapaksa flew to Singapore on July 14, via the Maldives, following unprecedented unrest triggered by Sri Lanka’s […]
ABC News: LONDON — As Britain swelters through a roasting summer, and braces for a cold financial reckoning in the fall, calls for the Conservative government to act are getting louder. But the Conservatives are busy choosing a new leader, through a prolonged party election whose priorities often seem remote from the country’s growing turmoil. […]
