The Kremlin warned Monday it would take “necessary” measures to “ensure its security” if Poland hosted nuclear weapons, after Warsaw said it was ready to do so should NATO decide to deploy the arms. “The military will...
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Japan’s government said Monday it was closely monitoring reports that a Chinese professor at a Japanese university has been missing since he took a trip home over a year ago. Fan Yuntao, 61, “has been engaged in teaching at a university...
Taiwan’s capital was hit by a series of earthquakes on Monday night, with the Central Weather Administration saying the strongest was a magnitude-5.9 tremor originating in eastern Hualien. The region was the epicentre of a magnitude-7.4 quake...
World number one and record 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic will not play at the Madrid Open this week. Media reports said the 36-year-old Serbian star had pulled out of the tournament and he was not included in the draw on Monday. The 36...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived Monday in neighbouring Iraq for his first state visit there in years, with water, oil and regional security issues expected to top the agenda. Erdogan was greeted with a 21-gun salute at Baghdad’s...
Israel’s military intelligence chief has resigned after taking responsibility for failures leading to the Hamas attack on October 7, the military said on Monday, as Israel carried out more shelling in war-battered Gaza. Major General Aharon...
Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro hailed Elon Musk at a rally in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, saying the billionaire has stood up for freedom of expression — which the former president claims is at risk in his country. Musk, whose ownership of social...
Hundreds protested on Sunday against the US troop presence in military-ruled Niger where a delegation from Washington is expected within days to arrange an orderly withdrawal. The United States had on Friday agreed to withdraw its more than 1,000...
The decision by the US House of Representatives to earmark $61 billion in long-delayed aid for Ukraine shows the country will not become “a second Afghanistan,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday. The House on Saturday approved the...
Severe floods “seen around once a century” are expected to hit parts of southern China, state media said Sunday, as heavy rains prompted authorities to step up disaster precautions. Torrential downpours have struck swathes of Guangdong...
Republican Mike Johnson came out of nowhere six months ago to become speaker of the US House of Representatives, before emerging as an ardent defender of military aid to Ukraine, which the chamber approved Saturday. The evolution of this 52-year-old...
One died and seven people were missing Sunday after an apparent accident overnight involving two Japanese military helicopters out to sea, officials said. A spokesman for Japan’s Self-Defense Force (SDF) confirmed the late Saturday incident to...
Iran and Israel appeared to step back from the brink of broader conflict as lawmakers in the United States approved new Israeli military aid on Saturday despite growing criticism of its ally’s war in Gaza. Iran downplayed Israel’s...
Moscow on Saturday slammed the approval by the US House of Representatives for an aid package to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. “The allocation of US military aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan will exacerbate global crises,” foreign...
The US House of Represenatives’ approval on Saturday of a long-delayed $61-billion aid package for Ukraine will kill even more Ukrainians, the Kremlin said. “The decision to provide aid to Ukraine was expected and predictable,”...