Hong Kong’s aviation regulator has ordered Cathay Pacific Airways to conduct a comprehensive review of an incident involving a London-bound passenger flight that was intercepted by Nato fighter jets after temporarily losing contact with air traffic controllers over Romanian airspace last week. The Civil Aviation Department (CAD) expressed serious concern for the second consecutive day…
By Ben Blanchard and Yi-Chin Lee ON BOARD THE TAIWAN COAST GUARD SHIP PP-10081, Taiwan Strait, July 9 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s government took a small group of foreign lawmakers on a Coast Guard ship around sensitive Taiwan-controlled islands next to the Chinese coast on Thursday, pushing back against China’s Coast Guard whose patrols have angered…
July 5 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump, speaking to Russian leader Vladimir Putin by telephone for nearly 90 minutes, offered to help find a solution to the Ukraine war, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said in comments made public early on Sunday. Ushakov said Trump made the offer during the call on Saturday, U.S. Independence…
July 3 (Reuters) – Four people were killed and another 10 injured in Russian overnight attacks on Ukraine, officials said on Telegram in the early hours of Friday. In the bordering Sumy region, two women, an elderly man and a girl younger than two years old were killed and three others injured after a Russian…
July 2 (Reuters) – In Russia’s grain belt, farmers fret they will not be able to harvest their crops as a fuel crisis sparked by Ukraine’s drone attacks on oil refineries and depots disrupts daily life. As Kyiv tries to pressure Moscow into making peace with strikes on the country’s energy infrastructure, the resulting damage…
June 28 (Reuters) – Russian attacks killed at least four people on Sunday in Ukraine’s southeast and northeast, regional officials said. Strikes on the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia killed two people and injured 16, Regional Governor Ivan Fedorov said on Telegram. Pictures posted online by the governor showed a building ablaze and parts of a…
new video loaded: Moscow Oil Refinery Slammed by Ukrainian Drones 1:09 Social media footage showed several sites, including an oil refinery, in Moscow being struck by Ukrainian drones on Thursday. By James McManagan June 18, 2026 0 A Small Election Could Change British Politics 1:09 Hot Mics at G7 Summit Offer Glimpse Into Leaders’ Conversations…
new video loaded: Moscow Oil Refinery Slammed by Ukrainian Drones 1:09 Social media footage showed several sites, including an oil refinery, in Moscow being struck by Ukrainian drones on Thursday. By James McManagan June 18, 2026 0 A Small Election Could Change British Politics 1:09 Hot Mics at G7 Summit Offer Glimpse Into Leaders’ Conversations…
In their 2022 book Sinostan, Raffaello Pantucci and Alexandros Petersen saw Central Asia as China’s “inadvertent empire”. If that is true – and the five-country region embracing Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan (informally called the C5) certainly sits at the heart of China’s Belt and Road Initiative – then Beijing could not have chosen…
TALLINN, June 9 (Reuters) – Ukraine has signed a drone deal with Latvia, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday as he met with Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs on the sidelines of a summit between Ukraine and Nordic and Baltic states in the Estonian capital Tallinn. “These are concrete things to strengthen our joint defense…