TAIPEI, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Chinese and Taiwanese warships played high seas “cat and mouse” on Sunday ahead of the scheduled end of four days of unprecedented Chinese military exercises launched in reaction to a visit to Taiwan by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi’s visit last week infuriated China, which regards the self-ruled island...
KYIV, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Ukraine accused Russia on Sunday of again shelling Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, the Zaporizhzhia, and called for new international sanctions on Moscow for “nuclear terror”. Ukraine’s state nuclear power firm said Russian forces damaged three radiation sensors at the facility in renewed shelling on Saturday night, wounding a worker...
LONDON, July 21 (Reuters) – Britain’s Supreme Court on Thursday said it would hear a legal case in October to establish whether the Scottish government can hold an independence referendum without consent from Westminster. Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon is seeking to hold a new independence referendum, but British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has declined...
PRAGUE, July 20 (Reuters) – Taiwan parliament speaker You Si-kun warned against China’s power ambitions in a speech at the Czech parliament on Thursday in a visit drawing a rebuke from Beijing. You said Taiwan was gaining more say internationally but that also authoritarianism was on the rise. “I would like to speak to all...
BRUSSELS, July 20. /TASS/. The EU Permanent Representatives Committee (Coreper) agreed the seventh package of sanctions against Russia, a source in EU institutions told reporters on Wednesday. “The Coreper agreed the seventh package of sanctions, including gold embargo, black list expansion and updates to financial and trade sanctions,” the source said. According to European sources...
BRUSSELS/LONDON, July 20 (Reuters) – The European Union told member states on Wednesday to cut gas usage by 15% until March as an emergency step after President Vladimir Putin warned that Russian supplies sent via the biggest pipeline to Europe could be reduced further and might even stop. Deliveries via Nord Stream 1, which accounts...
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, July 16 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will discuss regional missile and defence capabilities on Saturday when he meets Arab leaders in Saudi Arabia, where he will be seeking to integrate Israel as part of a new axis largely driven by shared concerns over Iran, said a senior administration official. “We...
VINNYTSIA, Ukraine, July 15 (Reuters) – Senior Western officials directly accused their Russian counterparts of war crimes on Friday after Russian missiles struck a Ukrainian city far behind the frontlines in an attack Kyiv officials said killed at least 23 people. Ukraine said Thursday’s strike on Vinnytsia, a city of 370,000 people about 200 km...
BELGRADE, July 14. /TASS/. The conflict in Ukraine is a world war, where the West is fighting against Russia by means of Ukrainian soldiers, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday. “We should understand that amid the world war, all the talks that its is a regional or a local war must be dropped. The...
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese went to the polls Sunday in the shadow of the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was gunned down while making a campaign speech. Abe’s governing party appeared to be cruising to a major victory. As people voted, police in western Japan sent the alleged assassin to a local prosecutors’...