“We would like to invite UN experts to visit Ukraine at the earliest possible opportunity to inspect recovered Iranian-origin UAVs in order to facilitate implementation of UN Security Council resolution 2231,” Ukraine’s ambassador to United Nations said in a letter distributed to Council members on Tuesday. The letter, dated OctContinue Reading
SEOUL: North Korea fired artillery shells off of its east and west coasts in Tuesday (Oct 18), the South Korean language military said. The N . fired about 95 shells into the sea off its west coast around 10pm local time and taken a further 150 rounds off its farContinue Reading
BEIJING: China’s foreign ministry, speaking after a Hong Kong protester was allegedly assaulted in the grounds of its consulate in the British city of Manchester on Sunday (Oct 16), said on Tuesday that “disturbing elements” had illegally entered the consulate. During a regular media briefing, ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin alsoContinue Reading
Police in Manchester said “due to our fears for the safety of the man, officers intervened and removed the victim from the consulate grounds”. The victim spent the night in hospital for treatment and an investigation is ongoing, police added in a statement. Alicia Kearns, a lawmaker in the rulingContinue Reading
TOKYO: Japan and Australia seek to reach a new security agreement with particular regard to China’s maritime expansion when the two countries’ prime ministers meet in Perth on Saturday (Oct 22), Japan’s Nikkei business daily reported on Tuesday. The two US allies have been fortifying security ties as a counterbalanceContinue Reading
KARACHI: Pakistan’s foreign minister said on Saturday (Oct 15) he had summoned the US ambassador after President Joe Biden questioned the safety of Pakistan’s nuclear programme. In a speech on Thursday, Biden said Pakistan is “maybe one of the most dangerous nations in the world” as it has “nuclear weapons withoutContinue Reading
JAKARTA: Indonesia on Saturday (Oct 15) banned ingredients linked to the deaths of 70 children in Gambia from cough syrups in the Southeast Asian country as it investigates acute kidney damage that has killed more than 20 children in the capital Jakarta this year. Food and drug regulator BPOM alsoContinue Reading
KARACHI: Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai met on Wednesday (Oct 12) with victims of Pakistan’s devastating monsoon floods, in only the second visit to her home country since being shot by the Taliban a decade ago. Catastrophic flooding this summer put one-third of Pakistan under water, displaced eight million people,Continue Reading
UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand: Thai police are investigating a report that a CNN crew inappropriately entered the daycare centre where more than 20 pre-schoolers were slain as they were reporting on the attack, authorities said Sunday (Oct 9). Danaichok Boonsom, head of the local township administration, told reporters as he leftContinue Reading
BEIJING: China on Saturday (Oct 8) criticised the latest decision by the United States to tighten export controls that would make it harder for China to obtain and manufacture advanced computing chips, calling it a violation of international economic and trade rules that will “isolate and backfire” on the US.Continue Reading