Ukraine’s capital Kyiv has been attacked from the air by Russia for the ninth time this month. One person has been killed and two more wounded in a missile strike on Odesa, a Black Sea port city in the south west, officials say. Blasts were also heard in central regions […]
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MANILA: The Philippines and China pledged on Saturday (Apr 22) to work together to resolve their maritime differences in the South China Sea, where the two have competing claims, and to deepen bilateral ties. Talks between the countries’ foreign ministers mark the latest in a series of high-level meetings between […]
TOKYO, April 15 — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was evacuated from a port in Wakayama after a blast was heard, but he was unharmed in the incident, local media reported today. Several reports, including by Kyodo news agency, said an apparent “smoke bomb” had been thrown but there were […]
NEW YORK: Former President Donald Trump says he’s not making much money from his social media network but estimates it is worth between US$5 million and US$25 million, according to his personal financial disclosure form filed Friday (Apr 14). He owns about 90 per cent of his social media company, […]
LONDON: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will meet Joe Biden in Northern Ireland next week when the US president flies in to take part in events to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday peace accord. Having helped broker the 1998 deal, the United States remains an influential voice […]
WASHINGTON: The United States yesterday called on China to show restraint as Beijing launched military drills around Taiwan, stressing that Washington was ready to meet its security commitments in Asia. “Our channels of communication with the PRC remain open and we have consistently urged restraint and no change to the […]
KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Poland would help form a coalition of Western powers to supply warplanes to Kyiv, as his fighters continued to defend their eastern bastion of Bakhmut in the face of relentless Russian assaults. During a visit to Warsaw on Wednesday (Apr 5), Zelenskyy said Poland […]
China says a meeting between US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will further damage Sino-US relations. BEIJING: China warned US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday (Apr 4) not to “repeat disastrous past mistakes” and meet Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, saying it would not help regional […]
HONG KONG: Hong Kong today “firmly rejected” findings in a new US government report that said US interests had been threatened and that Beijing continued to “undermine” the rule of law and freedoms in the territory under a national security crackdown. The US’ 2023 Hong Kong Policy Act Report, published […]
BEIJING: China threatened to retaliate on Wednesday (Mar 29) if United States House Speaker Kevin McCarthy meets Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen during her planned transit of the US next month, saying that any such move would be a “provocation”. China, which claims democratically ruled Taiwan as its own territory, has […]