Asia Pacific

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken is assembly officers in China this week as disputes over wars, commerce, expertise and safety are testing the 2 nations’ efforts to stabilize the connection. The United States is heading into an election 12 months through which President Biden will face intense stress to confront China’s authoritarian authorities and […] More

Taiwan was shaken by a collection of earthquakes on Monday and early Tuesday, the strongest with a magnitude of 6.3, partially toppling 4 buildings and conserving frightened residents up in a single day. The tremors had been aftershocks from the magnitude 7.4 quake that killed 17 folks three weeks in the past, the authorities mentioned. […] More

A senior journalist with Australia’s nationwide broadcaster says she was successfully pushed out of India after her reporting on Sikh separatism angered the Indian authorities, accusing the authorities of hindering her from going to occasions, searching for to have her reporting taken down and refusing for weeks to resume her visa. Avani Dias, the South […] More

Thanks to their reign of terror in “Jurassic Park,” Velociraptors are notorious prehistoric predators. The sickle-clawed killing machines acquainted to moviegoers, although, are far faraway from their scientific counterparts — and never simply because the fictional ones lack feathers. In actual life, Velociraptors topped out on the dimension of a Labrador retriever and have been […] More

Taylor Swift flies to Las Vegas from Japan and beneficial properties a number of hours. Hong Kong’s inventory market closes as London’s opens. A clock on a distant Pacific island strikes midnight 24 hours early on a politician’s order. None of these instances are empirical scientific info. Humans have simply agreed to watch time zones, […] More

The Myanmar junta has recaptured the city of Myawaddy, an vital buying and selling hub on the border with Thailand, reversing a key victory for resistance troopers who seized it practically two weeks in the past then have been pressured to withdraw, a spokesman for the insurgent Karen National Union stated on Wednesday. The seizure […] More

U.S. moved towards approving Ukraine help invoice The Senate is on observe to go the $95 billion package deal of overseas help to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. A ultimate vote is anticipated within the subsequent few hours, and President Biden plans to signal it. The invoice could be a significant increase for Ukraine, the place […] More

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will arrive in China on Wednesday to attempt to protect the latest and delicate stabilization of ties between the United States and China, as tensions over commerce, territorial disputes and nationwide safety threaten to derail relations once more. Even as Mr. Blinken’s airplane approached Shanghai, the challenges forward had […] More

On the outskirts of Chongqing, western China’s largest metropolis, sits an enormous image of the nation’s glut of automotive factories. It’s a posh of grey buildings, almost a sq. mile in measurement. The hundreds of workers who used to work there have moved on. Its crimson loading docks are closed. The facility, a former meeting […] More

Two Malaysian Navy helicopters collided midair throughout a coaching session within the northwestern state of Perak on Tuesday, killing all 10 folks on board, at the very least the second accident involving authorities plane within the Southeast Asian nation in as many months. The two helicopters had been rehearsing for Saturday’s ninetieth anniversary celebration of […] More

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his energy at dwelling secured and his Hindu-first imaginative and prescient deeply entrenched, has set his sights in recent times on a task as a world statesman, driving India’s financial and diplomatic rise. In doing so, he has distanced himself from his party’s staple work of polarizing India’s various inhabitants alongside […] More

The City of Baltimore has mentioned that the proprietor and manager of the cargo ship that introduced down the Francis Scott Key Bridge final month are instantly chargeable for the accident and shouldn’t be allowed to keep away from authorized legal responsibility, in line with courtroom paperwork filed on Monday. The 985-foot-long ship hit the […] More