A pro-democracy group has accused the Vietnamese government of abducting two of its members, an Australian and a Norwegian citizen, in Cambodia and taking them back across the border. Vietnamese authorities confirmed that they had arrested Tran Hiep and Nguyen Duc Thuan, but say they had entered the country using forged documents and planned to […]
Continue ReadingA US ban on several Canadian imports, including alcohol, dairy and motorcycles, has come into effect as a trade war between the two neighbours drags on. The latest measure by the Trump administration is in response to Canada’s implementation of tariffs on a range of US goods earlier this month following a breakdown in trade […]
Continue ReadingNEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Workers renovating a bustling city boulevard stumbled across a piece of the ancient past — a cache of pottery dating back roughly 1,000 years. The discovery was made amid ongoing excavations in Tbilisi, the capital city of Georgia in the Caucasus region, south of Russia. The artifacts […]
Continue ReadingUK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced new “safe and legal” routes for refugees, saying charities and nonprofit organizations would be allowed to sponsor refugees under a capped and controlled scheme. "I know the British people have not given up on their belief that we should be compassionate, live up to our international obligations, and save […]
Continue ReadingFormer German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck accused Israel of war crimes in Gaza, media reports said Monday. “I think there is plenty of evidence that war crimes were committed in Gaza,” Habeck told public broadcaster ARD. While “every form of antisemitism must be named and fought, this should not lead to a ban on speaking […]
Continue ReadingAn Istanbul court has convicted a popular comedian of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan – and handed down a sentence of almost 19 months – but has ordered his release due to time served. It has also placed him under a travel ban, preventing him from travelling outside Turkey. A final decision in the case […]
Continue ReadingPhoto. The White House / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain The most important security signal from Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington is the US proposal for trilateral arms-control negotiations involving the United States, Russia and China. Donald Trump raised the idea directly during his talks with Xi. At the same time, relations between Washington and […]
Continue ReadingBiletskyi said the Third Corps deceived Russian forces into believing the main Ukrainian thrust would come toward Shandryholove and Zelena Dolyna, drawing Russian reserves into counterattacks there while Ukraine struck toward Nove. “This led them to senselessly burn through their reserves in counterattacks in that very sector. The Russians missed the real strike,” Biletskyi added. […]
Continue ReadingSouth Korea has summoned Ukraine’s acting ambassador after President Volodymyr Zelensky last week announced his government had transferred two captured North Korean soldiers to Seoul. Vice Foreign Minister Park Yoon-joo lodged a formal complaint with Andrii Vieshkin and expressed “strong regret” that Zelensky had revealed the transfer, which Seoul says was supposed to be a […]
Continue ReadingKallas added that Monday’s discussion will look at how EU institutions can work with member countries to determine which tools in the EU’s arsenal could be used as part of the protocol response. While diplomats say the details are still vague on what the protocol could entail in theory, it could apply to drone incursions, […]
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