Philippines military chief angered by confrontations in SCS
The Philippine military chief said on Monday he was with Filipino forces aboard a supply boat when it was blasted with a water cannon, surrounded and bumped by Chinese coast guard ships over the weekend in the disputed South China Sea. Gen Romeo Brawner Jr. told The Associated Press in...
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Allies of Navalny say they haven’t heard from him in 6 days
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Nepali soldiers employed in both Russian and Ukraine armies: PM Prachanda
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Bilawal moves supreme court for live streaming of proceedings
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SC verdict upholding abrogation of Art 370 has ‘no legal value’: Pak
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Voter turnout plunges below 30 per cent in Hong Kong elections
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Russia targets Kyiv with ballistic missiles
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UN officials ramp up urgency as climate talks enter final days
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Poland’s outgoing govt loses confidence vote
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki’s government lost a confidence vote in parliament on Monday, ending the rule of his national conservative party after eight years in power. The vote paves the way for the majority in parliament to elect Donald Tusk, a centrist and former EU leader, as prime minister,...
Polling centres open in Egypt’s presidential polls
Polling centres in Egypt opened on Monday, the second voting day in a presidential election that is certain to see President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi secure another term. The vote, which began across the Middle Eastern nation on Sunday, has been overshadowed by the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, on Egypt’s eastern...
Iraq scrambles to contain fighting between US troops and Iran-backed groups
Dozens of attacks on US military facilities by Iran-backed factions in Iraq over the past two months have forced the government in Baghdad to perform a balancing act that is becoming more difficult by the day. A rocket attack on the sprawling US Embassy in Baghdad on Friday marked a...
Sunak apologises to COVID-hit families
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday apologised to the families who lost loved ones in the COVID-19 pandemic as he opened his evidence to an ongoing public inquiry in a tough week, which will also see him tackle a feared revolt over a parliamentary vote on his Rwanda policy...
Israel battles militants in Gaza’s main cities
Israeli forces battled Palestinian militants in Gaza’s two largest cities on Monday, with civilians still trapped in the fighting even after hundreds of thousands have fled to other parts of the besieged territory. Israel has pledged to keep fighting until it removes Hamas from power, dismantles its military capabilities and...
West African leaders acknowledge little progress in their push for democracy
In a renewed push for respect for democracy in coup-hit West Africa, leaders from across the region kicked off a crucial meeting in Nigeria on Sunday and acknowledged for the first time that their efforts to stem the tide of coups have so far met with little success. The 15-nation...
Elon Musk restores X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones
Elon Musk has restored the X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, pointing to a poll on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter that came out in favour of the Infowars host who repeatedly called the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax. It poses new uncertainty for advertisers,...
