China has denounced U.S. President Joe Biden‘s decision to earmark over half a billion dollars in military equipment for Taiwan. “Let me be clear: Taiwan independence separatism is a dead end, and what the U.S. has done to assist the Taiwan independence attempt by arming Taiwan will only backfire, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian…
The support is the latest move by Washington to boost the self-ruled island’s military in the face of rising tensions with China. United States President Joe Biden has approved $567m in new defence support for Taiwan, the White House has said. In a brief statement on Sunday, the White House said Biden had delegated the…
Western officials believe they have obtained evidence of secret arms supplies from China to Russia, which could signify a major escalation in Beijing’s involvement in the war in Ukraine. Source: The Times, citing a Western official, as reported by European Pravda Details: A source from The Times claims that the West has evidence of an…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, issued a new nuclear warning during the United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly on Saturday, as he told Washington, D.C., to prepare Europe for a “suicide venture.” Amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, tensions between North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries and the Kremlin…
Text size The Israeli military said Saturday that it was conducting strikes targeting Hezbollah weapons stored beneath residential buildings in the south of the Lebanese capital, Beirut. “The IDF (military) is currently conducting targeted strikes on weapons belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organisation that were stored beneath civilian buildings” in a southern suburb of Beirut,…
China is stepping up export controls on items that can be used for both military and civilian purposes, in what observers called “a timely move” that safeguards the country’s national security against a set of external hostilities. No details were released of the regulation that was approved last week by the State Council to control…
Ukrainian president begins high-stakes trip with visit to weapons factory in Pennsylvania. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has begun a high-stakes visit to the United States during which he will present Kyiv’s plan to end the more than two-and-a-half-year-old war against invading Russian forces to US President Joe Biden as well as election rivals Kamala Harris…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reiterates call for Western allies to allow Ukraine to strike military targets deep inside Russia. At least one woman has been killed and 42 people injured after a Russian-guided bomb struck a multistorey apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city. Prosecutors in the northeastern city said on Sunday that the body…