MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia blamed the European Union on Wednesday for the migrant crisis on the border between Belarus and Poland, accusing it of trying to “strangle” Belarus with plans to close part of the frontier and urging it to talk directly with Minsk... “This is nothing other than further attempts to actually strangle Belarus,” he said ... Sign Up.
Notably, China claims the democratic island of Taiwan as its own territory and says it should be taken by force if necessary. Taiwan resists, saying it is an independent country and will defend its freedoms and democracy in the face of China's aggression. Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama (FilePhoto / REUTERS). CopyLink... ....
Conspiracy theoristJacob Chansley, popularly known as “QAnon Shaman,” quoted Forrest Gump in his latest memo requesting that the time he has already spent in jail be considered as his sentence. The memo was Chansley’s fifth plea for freedom ahead of his sentencing next week for participating in the US CapitolHill riots on 6 January ... .
China is stepping up its nuclear weapons arsenal at a stunning pace. And one of its main aims is to gain a strategic advantage over the US in any future war over Taiwan... The 2027 date was particularly alarming ... .
Future conflicts with Hamas in the Gaza Strip or Hezbollah in Lebanon could involve clashes between drones, IDF OC Artillery CorpsBrig.-Gen. Neri Horowitz said on Wednesday. "The enemy is evolving in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon," Horowitz said at the UVID 2021 conference ... cnxps.cmd.push(function () { cnxps({ playerId ... (credit ... .
China reacted with fury on Wednesday to a visit by a delegation of US lawmakers to Taiwan, as tensions between Beijing and Taipei reach their highest in years ... Beijing responded by saying the "risky and provocative actions" are "doomed to end in failure" ... Few details about the trip have been made public so far. Pentagon spokesman John F ... .
JAKARTA (Bernama). Malaysia and Indonesia have agreed to implement a travel corridor between the two countries through a TravelCorridor Arrangement or Vaccinated Travel Lane as both countries recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. Read full story ... .
The Kurdish administration in northeastern Syria said Wednesday that a Turkish drone strike targeting a car in the border city of Qamishli killed three civilians ... "The treacherous targeting of the patriots of northeastern Syria by the Turkish occupation will not discourage us," the spokesman said on Twitter ... ....
The Biden administration threatened sanctions against Nicaragua after longtime PresidentDaniel Ortega secured a fourth term in an election that observers say was a sham.
SeniorNASA officials on Tuesday provided an updated timeline for returning humans to the Moon under the agency's ArtemisProgram, and they discussed costs and other issues related to it ... The agency was also unable to provide milestone payments. Read 14 remaining paragraphs . Comments. .
By Foo Yun Chee. LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) – Alphabet unit Google lost an appeal against a 2.42-billion-euro ($2.8-billion) European antitrust decision on Wednesday, a major win for the bloc’s competition chief Margrethe Vestager in the first of three court rulings that will strengthen the EU’s push to regulate big tech ... MARKUS FERBER, EU LAWMAKER ... ....
Now you hear it, now you don’t. So how are you going to kill it, if you don’t know where it is. There’s a heckuva lot of deep, blue ocean out there, and today’s stealth submarines — US, French and Russian — can hide, and stay submerged for months ... They will be armed with Trident D5 missiles to continue the United Kingdom’s continuous at-sea deterrent.