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China tells Taiwan to halt all mainland spying, sabotage activities
China on Sunday accused Taiwan's spy agencies of stepping up efforts to steal intelligence with the aim of "infiltration" and "sabotage," and warned the island against further damaging already strained cross-strait ties. The relevant agencies in Taiwan must end such activities immediately, the official Xinhua ...
Head of Organization of American States threatens military force against Venezuela
The head of the Organization of American States has joined President Donald Trump in holding out the threat of a military intervention in Venezuela to restore democracy and ease the country*s humanitarian crisis OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro delivered the sharp warning in a visit ...
Massive Russian war games see naval forces hunt submarines in Pacific waters north of Hokkaido
Russian naval vessels have conducted anti-submarine drills in the Sea of Okhotsk, the Pacific waterway between Russia and Hokkaido, as part of the country's largest military exercise in decades. The "unprecedented" Vostok 2018 military drills — the largest war games since the fall of the ...
SDF to conduct first joint military exercises in Japan with British Army
The Defense Ministry's Ground Staff Office has said the Self-Defense Forces will conduct their first joint exercises in Japan with the British Army, aiming to improve tactical capabilities and strengthen bilateral ties. The office said Friday that some 50 members of the British Army and ...
South Korea launches its first missile-capable submarine amid detente with North
South Korea launched its first missile-capable attack submarine on Friday, despite a recent diplomatic thaw with the nuclear-armed North. The $700 million, 3,000-ton Dosan Ahn Chang-ho is capable of firing both cruise and ballistic missiles. It is the first of three diesel-electric boats planned to ...
Trump, Pompeo bash former Secretary of State John Kerry for meeting with Iran minister
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo unloaded Friday on his Obama-era predecessor John Kerry for "actively undermining" U.S. policy on Iran by meeting several times recently with the Iranian foreign minister, who was his main interlocutor in the Iran nuclear deal negotiations. In unusually blunt and ...
Myanmar's Suu Kyi at World Economic Forum defends jailing of two Reuters journalists
Myanmar government leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday the jailing of two Reuters journalists had nothing to do with freedom of expression and they can appeal against their seven-year sentences. Suu Kyi, in her first public comment on the case since the two ...
The European Parliament on Wednesday passed a resolution calling for an international ban on the development, production and use of "killer robots" — weapons that kill without a human deciding to fire. Autonomous weapons are machines programmed to select and attack targets using artificial intelligence, ...
South Korea students gain weight 'to dodge military service'
Twelve inventive South Korean college students deliberately made themselves overweight to dodge mandatory military service, a branch of the armed forces in Seoul has said. The students — all classical music majors at the same university in the capital — took protein powder and drank ...
With Vostok-2018, Russia prepares for biggest military drill in its history
Russia on Tuesday will launch the biggest military drills in its history, with the war games to involve 300,000 troops as well as Chinese soldiers, in a move NATO denounced as "exercising large-scale conflict." The weeklong deployment alongside Chinese and Mongolian armies dubbed Vostok-2018 (East-2018) ...
British warship sails near Beijing-claimed islets in South China Sea
A British Royal Navy warship sailed close to islands claimed by China in the South China Sea as it headed toward Vietnam, asserting "freedom of navigation" rights and challenging Beijing's "excessive claims" in the region, two sources said. The HMS Albion, a 22,000 ton amphibious ...
China expressed anger on Thursday after a British Royal Navy warship sailed close to islands claimed by China in the South China Sea late last month, saying Britain was engaged in "provocation" and that it had lodged a strong complaint. The HMS Albion, a 22,000 ...
