Source link Foreign Minister Wang Yi discussed the issue of Taiwan during a phone call with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday Washington must not interfere in Beijing’s internal affairs, Chinese Foreign Affairs Minister Wang Yi warned US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a phone call on Wednesday. They were discussing the future […]
Source link Following Hamas’ latest attack on Israel, the US has faced an elevated threat of terrorism, FBI Director Christopher Wray said at a Senate hearing on Tuesday. Domestic counterintelligence and combating terrorism are part of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) portfolio, and Wray was briefing the Senate Judiciary Committee about the agency’s activities. […]
Source link The fallout from the Israel-Hamas war has increased the terror risk in Europe, an EU official has said The European Union (EU) faces a “huge risk” of terrorist attacks over the Christmas holiday period in a society increasingly polarized by the Israel-Hamas war, the bloc’s home affairs commissioner has said. The warning, issued […]
Source link Pyongyang has said the fracturing of a military accord will likely lead to a “physical clash” North Korea has warned a “military confrontation” with its southern neighbor now appears inevitable after the fracturing of a military agreement intended to prevent an increase in hostilities between the two nations, which technically remain at war. […]
Source link Washington must not fail Ukraine or it will lose against Russia, possibly as a result of Moscow’s diplomacy, former US national security adviser John Bolton has claimed. Meanwhile, Senator Lindsey Graham has said no further aid should be sent to Ukraine “until we up ourselves” at the southern border of the US. The […]
Source link The Philippines said that Beijing’s fishing flotilla is “illegally”operating near a disputed reef The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has dispatched two armed patrol vessels to watch over more than a hundred Chinese boats that it said were “swarming” the disputed area around a small reef in the South China Sea. On Sunday, the […]
Source link The IDF will only prevail in urban warfare against Hamas if it protects civilians in Gaza, Lloyd Austin says Israel’s victory over Hamas will turn into a “strategic defeat” if the country doesn’t work to prevent civilian casualties during its military operation in Gaza, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has said. Washington […]
Source link A Pentagon official has claimed that failure to pass a new budget would hurt recruiting and block new projects Funding for America’s troops will be jeopardized if US lawmakers continue to rely on stopgap funding measures, rather than passing a new Pentagon budget, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Charles Brown Jr. […]
Source link Using the funds could jeopardize the euro’s reputation, the bank’s vice president has said The EU should not use frozen Russian assets in order to help rebuild Ukraine, the European Central Bank (ECB) vice president, Luis de Guindos, said in an interview with De Standaard and La Libre Belgique news outlets published on […]
Source link Certain products may disappear from shelves due to a Polish trucker protest, the organization’s head has cautioned The situation on Ukraine’s border with Poland is critical and could lead to a shortage of basic food stuffs in the country, the head of the Ukrainian Agrarian Business Club has warned. In an interview to […]
Source link The country’s top diplomat has claimed Hezbollah’s presence near the border is a major risk, according to local media Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen has warned the UN that the Middle East could descend into a full-scale war if Hezbollah militants remain in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel, local media have […]
Source link Armenia should trust its neighbors over faraway “friends,” Turkish president Erdogan has said Armenia should work with Türkiye and Azerbaijan to build peace instead of looking to the West for weapons and training, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday, in thinly veiled criticism of the US and France. Some Western powers […]
Source link The Indian leaders believes artificial intelligence is a matter of “concern” and could cause chaos Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday flagged the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to create ‘deepfakes’ – false online images – describing them as “problematic” in a country as diverse as India, as well as a potential […]
Source link Brussels doesn’t have any more munitions to spare and must rely on domestic production, the bloc’s top diplomat has said The militaries of EU member states have already supplied Ukraine with all the ammunition they could find in existing stockpiles, so now the bloc has to rely wait to produce more, the bloc’s […]