Taipei — Images of Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te holding a plate of sushi were posted on social media on Thursday in a show of support for Tokyo after reports that China will halt Japanese seafood imports. The row between Japan and China was triggered by new Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi suggesting this month that…
WASHINGTON, Nov 17 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump is willing to sign legislation to impose sanctions on Russia as long as he retains ultimate decision-making authority over any such measures, a senior White House official said on Monday. Trump told reporters late on Sunday that it was “OK with me” that Republicans were working on…
Tokyo — Japan said Monday that it had scrambled aircraft after detecting a suspected Chinese drone near its southern island of Yonaguni, which is close to Taiwan, on Saturday, as tension between the Asian adversaries spiked. On Sunday, Chinese coast guard vessels spent several hours in Japan’s territorial waters around the disputed Senkaku Islands, known as…
Item 1 of 5 Employees work at a thermal power plant damaged by a recent Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in an undisclosed location of Ukraine, November 13, 2025. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich [1/5]Employees work at a thermal power plant damaged by a recent Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in an…
MOSCOW, Nov 14 (Reuters) – Russia’s FSB security service said on Friday that it had thwarted a Ukrainian plot to assassinate an unnamed top Russian government official and accused Kyiv of planning similar attacks in other parts of the country. The FSB said in a statement that the Ukrainian plot had aimed to kill the…
China angered by Japanese prime minister’s Japan comments China considers Taiwan its own territory Wartime history source of continuing China-Japan tension BEIJING, Nov 14 (Reuters) – Japan is trying to revive its wartime militarism and repeat the mistakes of history with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks on Taiwan, China’s top newspaper, People’s Daily, said on…
Both the right-wing Conservatives and Reform insist they have no desire to destroy the BBC. “There is a future for the BBC, because it does have a strong global brand, but in order to retain its trust and confidence, it’s got to respect its impartial charter responsibilities and make sure that the news and current…
Tuesday will bring Veterans Day for 2025. The day has been observed in one form or another since 1919, when then-President Woodrow Wilson commemorated the first anniversary of the World War I armistice. Wilson said, “To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those…
First Bakhmut, then Avdiivka, now Pokrovsk. In each of the last three years, Russia’s generals have identified a midsize Ukrainian town as their invasion’s next critical target, expending vast amounts of manpower and hardware to take it. The question is not whether Pokrovsk will fall, but what that will mean for the war. Pokrovsk’s capture…
Item 1 of 3 A newspaper vendor pulls a newspaper with an article reporting U.S. President Donald Trump’s message to Nigeria over the treatment of Christians, at a newspaper stand in Ojuelegba, Lagos, Nigeria, November 2, 2025. REUTERS/Sodiq Adelakun [1/3]A newspaper vendor pulls a newspaper with an article reporting U.S. President Donald Trump’s message to…