TAIPEI: Taiwan sighted two Russian frigates sailing off its eastern coast on Tuesday (Jun 28) and deployed surveillance ships and aircraft to monitor their movements, the island’s Ministry of National Defence said. The Russian warships were “detected sailing from south to north in the waters off our eastern coast” as […]
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WASHINGTON: The United States on Tuesday (Jun 27) imposed sanctions aimed at disrupting gold mining activities that fund the Wagner Group in Africa, vowing to hold the mercenaries accountable for abuses days after they staged a mutiny in Russia. The measures against the Wagner Group had been previously planned but […]
HONG KONG: Amid intensifying military deployments across East Asia, high-level defence dialogue between China and the United States remains frozen. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken did not secure any progress on the issue during his visit to Beijing last week. US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin attempted talks with China’s […]
OTTAWA: Canadian government regulators yesterday opened a safety investigation into the undersea implosion of a tourist submersible that killed all five people aboard during a voyage to the century-old wreck of the Titanic. A debris field from the submersible Titan was found at the bottom of the North Atlantic on […]
SEOUL: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called key ally South Korea to discuss results of his visit to China this month, South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said today. Blinken told South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin he had an honest, practical and constructive dialogue with the Chinese side, […]
BEIJING: The United States and China looked to set up a safety net for their intensifying rivalry during a visit to Beijing by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, but the trip achieved only general promises and no breakthroughs on hoped-for military talks and flashpoint issues. Both President Xi Jinping, who […]
BERLIN: Chancellor Olaf Scholz hosts Premier Li Qiang for talks on Tuesday (Jun 20), seeking to recalibrate cooperation between Germany and China after Berlin branded Beijing a “systemic rival”. Li is on his first trip abroad since he was named premier in March and tasked with shoring up China’s sputtering […]
LONDON: Britain’s King Charles III Charles inspected the troops at his inaugural birthday parade on horseback on Saturday (Jun 17), the first time the monarch has ridden at the event since his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, in 1986. The annual Trooping the Colour parade marks the British sovereign’s official birthday. […]
MOSCOW: Russia on Saturday (Jun 17) said it had destroyed three drones targeting an oil refinery in the southern border region of Bryansk, as Ukraine pursues its counteroffensive against Russian forces. “Russian air defence systems repelled an overnight attack by the Ukrainian armed forces on the ‘Druzhba’ oil refinery in […]
SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said today the government would block the construction of a new Russian embassy near the country’s parliament, citing threats to national security. Russia currently holds the lease for a parcel of land near Parliament House in Australia’s capital Canberra, where it had planned to […]