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Chinese and Taiwanese flags are seen in this illustration, August 6, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/IllustrationRegister now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comRegisterTAIPEI, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Taiwan's shooting down of a drone off the Chinese coast that buzzed a Taiwanese-controlled island was the most "appropriate" thing to do after repeated…

Senior government and military officials from Japan and the United States on Sunday vowed to strengthen cooperation with the Solomon Islands amid increasing Chinese influence, as they gathered in the capital Honiara to mark the 80th anniversary of the World War II Battle of Guadalcanal. The fierce battle between U.S. Marines…

Thai police said Wednesday they have arrested four men, including two Japanese, for allegedly conducting phone scams against people in Japan from Bangkok, the same day Cambodia deported 25 men suspected of a similar scam operation back to Japan. The other two people arrested in Bangkok were Taiwanese, the police said. They…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn arrived in Taiwan on Thursday, in the second visit by members of Congress since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip earlier this month sharply raised tensions with China. Blackburn, a Republican from Tennessee, landed in Taipei late Thursday after visiting the Solomon Islands and Papua New…

REUTERS / file photosFrench national flag (left), Japanese national flag (Right)Jiji Press 11:57 JST, December 3, 2023 Dubai (Jiji Press)—The Japanese and French governments have drawn up a new road map aimed at promoting the two countries’ collaboration in the Indo-Pacific region and cooperation in the security field. The road map was…

Comment on this storyCommentDonald Surrett Jr. could have run away Sunday when a man armed with an AR-style rifle started shooting inside the Bend, Ore., grocery store where Surrett worked. He could have hidden.Instead, the 66-year-old Safeway employee tried to disarm the shooter.Surrett “may very well have prevented further deaths,” Bend police…

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid spoke to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday, pressing Israel's position that efforts to revive a nuclear deal with Iran should end, a senior Israeli diplomatic official said.As well as speaking with Scholz, Lapid spoke to Ted Deutch, chairman of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee's…

This article by Senior Lecturer Ned Curthoys, The University of Western Australia, VC Fellow Dennis Altman, La Trobe University, Professor Ghassan Hage, The University of Melbourne, Affiliate Researcher Ran Porat, Monash University, Associate Professor Jan Lanicek, UNSW Sydney, Lecturer Micaela Sahhar, The University of Melbourne, Research…

The food we eat and the roads we drive on. Our health and safety. Our cultural heritage, natural environments and economic flourishing. Nearly every cherished aspect of American life is under growing threat from climate change and it is effectively too late to prevent many of the harms from worsening over the next decade, a major report from the…

November 25, 2023 at 3:41 p.m. ESTRostyslav Lavrov shows the selfie he and his friend, Denys Berezhnyi, took after arriving in Kyiv. (Alice Martins for The Washington Post)Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSaveKYIV — The Russian missing child poster went up in Crimea soon after Rostyslav Lavrov escaped last month.“HELP FIND,”…