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Chinese military could this year carry out a “sudden entry” into areas close to the island, Taipei’s defense minister has said. Taiwan should be on the lookout for the Chinese military’s possible actions in areas adjacent to the self-governing island during 2023, its Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng told lawmakers on …

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Monday that the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut was of more symbolic than operational importance, and its fall would not necessarily mean that Moscow had regained the initiative in the war. The battle for Bakhmut has raged for seven months. A Russian victory …

Four American citizens were shot at and kidnapped by armed men after driving across the U.S. border into northeastern Mexico, the FBI said Sunday. The Americans crossed into Matamoros, in Tamaulipas state, on Friday, driving a white minivan with North Carolina license plates, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation said …

A motorcycle-borne suicide bomber has rammed into a police truck in southwestern Pakistan’s restive Baluchistan province, killing at least 10 policemen, in one of the deadliest attacks on security forces this year. “The suicide bomber was riding a motorbike and hit the truck from behind,” senior police official Abdul Hai …

Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has called the suspected poisoning of students in Iran’s schools an “unforgivable and big” crime, calling on authorities to seriously pursue the issue. “If it is proven that the students were poisoned, the perpetrators of this crime must be …

The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said that the exchange of fire between the Azeri and Armenian sides in the Karabakh region left a number of injuries and casualties. A statement by the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry claimed it received information about the transportation of military equipment, ammunition, and personnel from Armenia to …

Several hundred protesters have attacked a police station, a military base and a courthouse in southeast Peru, injuring at least 27 people. Around 300 demonstrators set fire to a police station in the Chucuito District of the Puno Province at around 11:40 a.m. local time (16:40 GMT) on Saturday, the …

Kuwait’s crown prince re-appointed Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf al-Sabah as prime minister and asked him to nominate a cabinet, state news agency KUNA reported on Sunday, more than a month after the government resigned due to renewed friction with parliament. Crown Prince Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad al-Sabah moved last year to end …

Tens of thousands of Israelis are protesting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious plan to overhaul the legal system in the country, as the government pressed on with the proposed changes despite the mass opposition. Tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrated Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious plan to overhaul …

Three people have been arrested over the murder of a Philippine provincial governor and eight others, authorities said Sunday, adding that another suspect was killed in a shoot-out. Seventeen people were also wounded in the audacious attack on Saturday in the sugarcane-growing heartland of the Philippines. At least six gunmen …

Syria’s foreign ministry on Sunday condemned the unannounced visit of the top US military officer to a US base in northeast Syria as “illegal” and a “flagrant violation” of the country’s sovereignty, state news agency SANA reported. Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made the …

Police in Pakistan said officers on Sunday attempted to arrest former prime minister Imran Khan, who is battling several legal cases as he pressures the government for early elections. Officers from the capital, Islamabad, arrived at Khan’s home in Lahore, which was surrounded by hundreds of his supporters, but were …

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shiaa Al-Sudani and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi discussed enhancing bilateral relations between their countries. Al-Sudani met with El-Sisi today, Sunday, during his official visit to Cairo. Additionally, both leaders exchanged perspectives on a range of regional and global issues of mutual concern, underscoring the importance …

Two pilots from Ukraine have arrived at a military base in Arizona, officials told the broadcaster The US has invited Ukrainian pilots to a military base in Tucson, Arizona to establish how long it’ll take to train them to fly Western fighter jets, including F-16s, unnamed officials told NBC. Two …

The ex-US leader claims he is the only candidate that can prevent World War III. President Joe Biden is leading the United States “into oblivion,” Donald Trump told the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland on Saturday, promising to stop wasting US taxpayer money on “stupid” foreign wars as he …

Between 20 and 30 cars have gone off the tracks, officials say A Norfolk Southern cargo train derailed near Springfield, Ohio in the US on Saturday. The incident comes a month after another train operated by the same company came off the tracks in East Palestine, Ohio, causing a major …

The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry says the United States is in no position to advocate human rights or democracy, recounting the White House’s record of supporting political systems based on institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination, namely South Africa’s dismantled apartheid regime and the Tel Aviv regime. Nasser Kan’ani …

Beijing says it will take resolute steps to oppose the self-governed island’s push for independence. Beijing maintains that Taiwan is part of China’s territory and will continue working towards reunification with the self-governed island through peaceful means, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has said. “We should promote the peaceful development of …

A Rasmussen survey has found that only 18% of US voters are convinced that the government played no role in the January 6 breach More than six in ten Americans believe it’s at least “somewhat likely” that federal government agents helped provoke the January 2021 Capitol riot, a new poll …

The European Union said Saturday it was setting up a “humanitarian air bridge” to deliver aid to Goma in the conflict-hit eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Goma is the capital of North Kivu province, where fighting with the rebel group M23 has displaced more than 600,000 people. …