(AFP) – Ten people were detained in Hong Kong on Thursday under the city’s national security statute, accused of giving financial assistance to abroad dissident organisations advocating for sanctions against the Chinese financial center. Following massive and often violent pro-democracy protests the year before, Beijing enacted a broad national securityRead More →
MOSCOW (Reuters) Following the failed revolt by highly armed mercenary fighters on Saturday, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on Monday that the nation had suffered “a challenge to its stability” and needed to stay united behind President Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin said that the Wagner Group mercenaries would returnRead More →
Australia (Reuters) – According to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday, the Australian government would provide Ukraine a fresh A$110 million ($73.5 million) package that includes 70 military vehicles to help the country stave off an invasion by Russia. With the new promises, Australia has contributed a total of A$790Read More →
United Arab Emirates (AP) DUBAI, — Voters in Kuwait returned most of their lawmakers to parliament in the third election in as many years amid widespread frustration with the ongoing political gridlock, according to results released on Wednesday. Thirty-seven lawmakers kept their seats in the 50-member assembly following Tuesday’s election,Read More →
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong tested positive for Covid-19 only days after returning from official trips to South Africa and Kenya. “I’m generally feeling fine, but my doctors have advised me to self-isolate until I am asymptomatic,” Lee said on Facebook on Monday. “Because of my age, they alsoRead More →
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – The government of Somalia declared on Sunday that it would begin choosing its president and other officials by direct ballot next year, ending a system of indirect voting in the Horn of Africa nation that has survived three decades of violence and clan fights. In recent years,Read More →
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Voters in Turkey returned to the polls Sunday to decide whether the country’s longtime leader extends his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade, or is deposed by a challenger who has promised to restore a more democratic era. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has beenRead More →
HIROSHIMA (Reuters) – The United States, Australia, and Japan will meet in India next year for a summit of the Quad, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday. The meeting was shifted to the fringes of the Group of Seven countries summit in Japan’s Hiroshima after US President Joe BidenRead More →
TOKYO, (Reuters) – On Saturday, the Group of Seven leaders decided to launch a new programme to combat economic coercion and promised to take steps to guarantee that any players seeking to weaponize economic reliance fail and suffer repercussions. According to the initiative’s creators, the Coordination Platform on Economic CoercionRead More →
THAILAND (Reuters) – Thailand’s progressive opposition made early momentum in a preliminary election vote count on Sunday, building up a large lead over conservative parties linked with a military at the core of government for over a decade. With a quarter of valid ballots tallied, the populist Pheu Thai Party,Read More →
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