MANILA: Former Philippine president Fidel Ramos, a soldier regarded as one of the country’s most effective leaders ever, was interred at the National Heroes Cemetery on Tuesday (Aug 9) in a sombre state burial. A low-flying military helicopter dropped flowers as a wagon bearing the flag-draped coffin containing an urnContinue Reading
Beijing redefines what is “acceptable” even as Taiwanese thinking appear to be hardening further.Continue Reading
BEIJING: China’s thunderous response to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit brought cross-Strait tensions to their highest level in years and sparked an outpouring of nationalist zeal online, but the mood on the streets in mainland China is a little more circumspect. Enraged by Pelosi’s trip, Beijing last weekContinue Reading
The moves follow China’s largest ever military drills around Taiwan in the past four days.Continue Reading
In “Wedding Season,” the latest Netflix romantic comedy, Suraj Sharma and Pallavi Sharda play young professionals who pretend to date to fend off parental pressure to find a spouse.Continue Reading
MANILA: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused China of “irresponsible steps” on Saturday (Aug 6) by halting key communication channels with Washington, and said its Taiwan actions showed a move from prioritising peaceful resolution towards the use of force. His comments came as Chinese aircraft and warships practised onContinue Reading
If there is one thing clear as war breaks out in southern Israel and the Gaza strip, it is that Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system works and works in spectacular fashion. Faced with the launch of over 70 missiles, many of them simultaneously, the Iron Dome interceptors picked them off quickly, one by one. Iron Dome […]
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This story was originally published by ProPublica. As countries around the globe add armed drones to their arsenals, federal lawmakers are pressing the Biden administration to investigate how US parts and technology ended up in what has fast become one of the most popular models on the world market: Turkey’s TB2. Manufactured by the Turkish […]
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MANILA: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Saturday (Aug 6) in a bid to bolster the countries’ “strong” alliance, as China conducts military drills around nearby Taiwan. Blinken is the most senior US official to visit the Southeast Asian nation – aContinue Reading
When news out of cash this week of the demise of al-Qaeda head Ayman al-Zawahiri within Kabul in an ALL OF US drone strike, rumours soon began in neighboring Pakistan over if the drone that killed him took off from bases there or passed through the country’s airspace. US-Pakistan counterterrorism cooperation has been controversial since the early days of the “ war […]
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