Taipei said that Chinese military drills involving naval and aerial forces that Beijing carried out on Saturday may be a “possible simulated attack” on the island. The operations are part of unprecedented military drills Beijing launched in retaliation for U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. China also suspended climate and military talks with the […]
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Beijing targeted a limited range of U.S.-China military and diplomatic cooperation initiatives Friday in China’s latest expression of public rage over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 19-hour visit to Taiwan earlier this week. In a terse eight-point statement, China’s Foreign Ministry announced the cancellation of upcoming military-to-military talks and suspended joint efforts to tackle the climate […]
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In Germany, naturism or nudism is called “FKK” or “Free Body Culture”. Invented in the 1920s as an escape from social constraints, the tradition was on the decline for most of the past three decades, but at one Berlin association, membership has been growing by 10 percent each year since 2020. Devotees there celebrate the […]
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The head of Amnesty International’s Ukraine arm resigned after the human-rights organization blamed Kyiv for endangering civilians and violating international laws with its wartime tactics. The organization issued a report on Thursday accusing Ukraine’s military forces of violating international humanitarian laws and endangering civilians with tactics that include establishing bases and operating weapons systems in […]
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Russia and Ukraine blamed each other for shelling a big nuclear plant in southeastern Ukraine currently under Russian control. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian forces fired twice at the facility, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Europe’s largest. The shelling amounted to “an open, brazen crime, an act of terror,” Zelenskyy said. He also called for […]
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Summer for Ukraine’s children means sunshine and swimming, but also long hours in bomb shelters and mine-safety training. A photographer captured their days in Kyiv for The New York Times.
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Top Chinese military officials have not returned multiple calls from their American counterparts this week as a crisis erupted in the Pacific over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, according to three people with knowledge of the attempts. Beijing’s ghosting of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Mark Milley comes as […]
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Russia and Ukraine accused each other of shelling Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant in the Zaporizhzhia region as the world on Saturday marked the 77th anniversary of the the first atomic bomb attack in the Japanese city of Hiroshima, with the UN chief warning against nuclear arms buildup amid fears of another such attack in the Ukraine conflict […]
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