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MANILA, Philippines -- A Chinese coast guard ship and an accompanying vessel rammed a Philippine coast guard ship and a military-run supply boat Sunday off a contested shoal, Philippine officials said, in an encounter that heightened fears of an armed conflict in the disputed South China Sea.A top Philippine security official told The Associated…

An expert team from the United Nations nuclear agency plan to stay at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) after gaining long-awaited access to the site on Thursday. “We are not going anywhere. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is now there, it is at the plant and it is not moving – it’s going to stay there,”…

Suella Braverman has embraced controversy in her time as a senior member of the Conservative government.A hard-right, divisive politician, Ms. Braverman, 43, has now been fired from the home secretary’s position twice, once on Monday by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, and once by his predecessor, Liz Truss.The home secretary is responsible for law…

09:27 AM, November 01, 2023Hawley grills Mayorkas over DHS employee who celebrated Hamas terror attack Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., questioned Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about one of his employees who praised terrorists, but still remains employed by the government. On October 7, Hamas launched a multi-pronged terror attack on…

Israel is pressing its case that Hamas is using hospitals as cover, releasing a pair of videos from inside Gaza’s main children’s hospital that showed weapons and explosives purportedly found in the medical center, and a room where the military said hostages were kept.While the Health Ministry in Gaza, which is run by Hamas, on Tuesday disputed…

An initial four-day cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas took effect Friday morning in Gaza, part of a deal that calls for Hamas to free at least 50 hostages and Israel to release dozens of Palestinians from its prisons. Israel's military sounded alarms in several villages near Gaza just minutes after the short-term truce began,…

The expected meeting at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit would be the first face-to-face between the two leaders, who have established a close relationship, since the Russian invasion of Ukraine earlier this year. It would also be the first overseas trip for Xi since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, and come just…

Ukraine silent on how strike was carried outSatellite images show three craters, eight destroyed planes'It's very good,' says ex-head of CIARussian bombardment reported along frontlineKYIV, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Satellite pictures released on Thursday showed devastation at a Russian air base in Crimea, hit days earlier in an attack that suggested…

Officials in Pakistan have warned that more flooding was expected as Lake Manchar in the south of the country swelled from unprecedented monsoon rains that have resulted in the deaths of nearly 1,300 people.Meteorologists predicted more rain in the region in the coming days and authorities urged villagers in the Jamshoro and Dadu districts of…

Outage for maintenance on Nord Stream 1 pipelineNo flows to Germany 0100 GMT, Aug. 31 - 0100 GMT, Sept. 3European governments fear Moscow could extend the outageGerman regulator: we are saving gas, must keep doing soSiemens Energy: not involved in maintenance workFRANKFURT/LONDON, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Russia halted gas supplies via Europe's key…