The Russian embassy in the United States said on Wednesday (Jun 7) that a report the United States knew of a Ukrainian plan to attack the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines was part of a coordinated Western attempt to confuse the world over the truth. The Washington Post reported onContinue Reading
The joint aerial patrols, which began before Russia sent its troops in Ukraine and Beijing and Moscow declared their “no-limits” partnership, are a result of long-expanding bilateral ties built partly on a mutual sense of threat from the United States and other military alliances. In the May 2022 patrols, ChineseContinue Reading
BEIJING: China and Russia conducted a joint air patrol on Tuesday (Jun 6) over the Sea of Japan and East China Sea for a sixth time since 2019, coinciding with an increase in military manoeuvres and drills by the United States and its allies in the Asia-Pacific. The patrol is partContinue Reading
BRASILIA: Brazil’s government on Monday (Jun 5) unveiled how it plans to meet a pledge to eliminate deforestation in the Amazon by 2030, using strengthened law enforcement against environmental crimes and other measures in the world’s largest tropical rainforest. Under former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil joined a 2021 pactContinue Reading
“External forces” including the United States should uphold international law and stop “futile political manipulation” over Hong Kong to contain China, a ministry spokesperson said. Restrictions on speech and public protests in the administrative region of Hong Kong have stifled what were once mass candlelight vigils marking the anniversary ofContinue Reading
The US government reported on Saturday, June 3, that a Chinese Navy fleet approached an American warship transiting the Taiwan Strait in an” dangerous way.” & nbsp, Following what the US military described as an” unnecessarily intense manoeuvre” by one of Beijing’s soldiers close to a Washington surveillance plane lastContinue Reading
As devastated relatives watched, workers with heavy equipment were clearing the damaged monitor, wrecked trains, and electrical cables. ” We were called by the police and asked to come ,” Baisakhi Dhar, a resident of West Bengal, said as she looked for her husband Nikhil. She claimed that although herContinue Reading
In April, three alpine climbers perished when ice crashed down on them in the mountain’s lower reaches, and the remaining survivors passed away from illness or exhaustion, according to government and hiking officials. Nepal does control the ascent of Everest and other Himalayan peaks, insisting that all obtains a permit,Continue Reading
Washington: A senior US State Department official arrived in Beijing on Sunday( June 4 ) with meetings scheduled for the following week as Washington tries to improve communication with China at a time when relations between the two nations are uncomfortable. During his visit to China, Assistant Secretary of StateContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: According to China’s defense minister, forming” NATO-like” military alliances in the Asia-Pacific would send the region into a” whirlpool” of conflict. Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu stated at the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore that” in essence, attempts to push for NATO-like( alliances ) in the Asia-Pacific areContinue Reading