China’sPeople’s Liberation Army Eastern TheaterCommand said in a statement on Monday (August 8) that joint drills in the sea and airspace around Taiwan were continuing. The notice did not specify the precise location of the exercises or when they would end. Whether the six danger zones for the August 4-7 exercises remain in effect is unclear ...Photo.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli troops killed two Palestinian gunmen in a shootout Tuesday during an arrest operation in the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, police said ...Israeli police said forces encircled the home of Ibrahim al-Nabulsi, who they say was wanted for a string of shootings in the West Bank earlier this year ... .
Taiwan's foreign minister said on Tuesday that China was using the military drills it launched in protest against US House SpeakerNancy Pelosi's visit as an excuse to prepare for an invasion of the self-ruled island ... "China has used the drills ... "But I don't think they're going to do anything more than they are." ... .
By ManuelAyala. Tijuana, Mexico, Aug 8 (EFE).- Mexican civil society organizations and migrants deported from the United States who are now homeless in the border city of Tijuana on Monday demonstrated against the situation in which they say they have been left by authorities ... Being on “this side” of the wall has been tough for him ... EFE.
KABUL. The Taliban stormed back to power a year ago as US-led forces withdrew from the country, two decades after first ousting the hardline Islamist regime ...Women are also banned from making long-distance journeys alone and can only visit public parks in the capital on days when men are not allowed ... The Taliban condemn the strike but do not confirm .
Turkey’s new drill ship Abdulhamid Han set off to drill for gas in the eastern Mediterranean on Tuesday, with PresidentRecep Tayyip Erdogan saying that the ship would operate 55 kilometers off the country’s coast within what he called Turkey’s “sovereign territory.”.
Former PresidentDonald Trump wanted his military advisors to be more like. “the German generals in World War II,” . according to a new book about the Trump presidency that quotes from his administration’s top personnel.
Two more grain-carrying ships left Ukraine's Chornomorsk port on Tuesday, Turkey's defense ministry said, as part of a deal to unblock Ukrainian sea exports, bringing the total to leave the country under a safe passage deal to 12. ... Four ships that left Ukraine on ...
(MENAFN - UkrinForm) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on the international community to increase sanctions against the Russian Federation for creating the threat of a nuclear ... .
Taiwanese soldiers fire artillery during a live-fire drill in Pingtung, Taiwan, Aug. 9. Taiwan's military held a live fire drill to simulate defense of the country against a Chinese invasion, following the China's recent live fire drill in the six maritime areas around Taiwan. EPA-Yonhap ... The drill will end at around 0130 GMT, he added ... Politics ... (AFP). .
. Russia informed the US on Monday that it is temporarily suspending American inspections of its nuclear weapons sites under the 2010Treaty on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic OffensiveArms (New START) ...The statement stressed that the measures had a "temporary character." ... .
A Turkish delegation will visit Washington next week to follow up on US PresidentJoe Biden's pledge to deliver F16 fighter jets for Turkey's ageing air force, Ankara said Tuesday ... "We cannot accept these conditions ... Turkey is due to send its newest drilling ship into disputed east Mediterranean waters in search for natural gas later Tuesday ... ....
Fewer Kenyans voted on Tuesday in an unusual presidential election where a long-time opposition leader who is backed by the outgoing president faces the deputy president who styles himself as the outsider. Turnout was just 56% an hour before polls closed as some voters cited little hope of real change. The election was considered close but calm ... / ... / ... .