Kwon reportedly flew from South Korea to Singapore ahead of the company’s crash in May last year. In September, Seoul prosecutors requested that Interpol place him on the red notice list across the agency’s 195 member nations, and also revoked his passport. But questions about his whereabouts intensified after theContinue Reading
BEIJING: The Chinese military said it warned a United States warship to “leave” waters in the disputed South China Sea on Thursday (Mar 23), claims swiftly denied as “false” by American forces. China claims sovereignty over almost the entire South China Sea – a strategic waterway through which trillions ofContinue Reading
“MUCH MORE DANGEROUS” North Korea has long been banned from nuclear tests and ballistic missile launches by the United Nations Security Council, which has strengthened sanctions on Pyongyang over the years to cut off funding for those programs. In recent years, the 15-member body has been split on how toContinue Reading
LAHORE, Pakistan: Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Wednesday (Mar 22) sought a parliament ruling to empower authorities to tackle former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party’s alleged involvement in violence. The ruling was asked for in a joint session of parliament convened over the instability caused by the crisis overContinue Reading
But Daly said Xi casting himself as a mediator could help at the margins in Europe, and especially in developing nations which share little of the US enthusiasm for preserving an “international rules-based order”. Xi “doesn’t actually have to move the needle on peace or a ceasefire in Ukraine”, heContinue Reading
Goldy Hyder, chief executive of the Business Council of Canada, said he wanted more of a recognition from the US that the two nations’ economies were highly integrated and that Canadian firms could benefit from the IRA. “It is not in America’s interest to consolidate the capital to consolidate theContinue Reading
STANDARD PRACTICE Speaking shortly before Taiwan’s announcement of Tsai’s trip, a senior US administration official said that her expected transits are standard practice and China should not use them as a pretext for aggressive action toward the democratically governed island. But the senior US official told reporters on a callContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden on Monday (Mar 20) signed into law a Bill requiring the release of intelligence materials on potential links between the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan. “We need to get to the bottom of COVID-19’s origins …, includingContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden on Monday (Mar 20) signed a bill that requires Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to declassify information related to the origins of COVID-19, the White House said. Biden said he shared Congress’ goal of releasing as much information as possible about the origin ofContinue Reading
NO SIGN OF UNREST In his call for protests, Trump raised concerns with law enforcement that supporters might engage in violence similar to the Jan 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. New York Mayor Eric Adams told reporters police were monitoring social media and keeping an eye out forContinue Reading