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19.02.2024 12:50 China's claim that the waters between Taiwan's Kinmen archipelago and China's Xiamen are not a restricted area after a case near Kinmen that left two Chinese fishermen dead is an example of Beijing employing "gray zone" tactics to ratchet up pressure against Taipei, experts said Sunday.

19.02.2024 12:50 Taiwan will continue to enforce the law in waters it controls, the Mainland Affairs Council said Sunday as it rejected Beijing's ongoing criticism of the Taiwanese Coast Guard's handling of a case near Kinmen that left two Chinese fishermen dead.

19.02.2024 12:50 The violent eviction of Chinese mainland fishing boats by Taiwan authorities, resulting in the deaths of two fishermen, has caused strong indignation in the mainland, and Taiwan authorities have been urged to release the detained boat and crew and properly handle the incident before it further damages cross-Straits relations.

19.02.2024 12:50 A Chinese mainland spokesperson on Saturday urged Taiwan authorities to release the mainland fishermen who were forcibly detained after a fatal expulsion of a mainland fishing boat.

19.02.2024 12:50 The Iranian telecoms ministry has targeted the launch of home-grown satellites into Geostationary Orbit during the next 10 years.

19.02.2024 12:50 The crews of R-298 and R-18 missile boats of the Pacific Fleet confirmed their readiness to fulfil their combat missions at sea during the K-2 course task.

19.02.2024 12:50 Russians continued to pay tribute to Aleksei Navalny on February 18, laying flowers at ad hoc memorials and defying the authorities, who detained more than 400 people in at least 36 cities at gatherings for the late opposition leader over the past three days.

19.02.2024 12:50 U.S. Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy visited a makeshift shrine to Alexey Navalny in Moscow Sunday, to pay tribute to the late Russian opposition leader, who died at a remote Arctic penal colony Friday.

19.02.2024 12:50 Many Burmese consider it a symbol of the country's democracy movement, where Aung San Suu Kyi lived under house arrest for almost 15 years. They recall her giving political speeches from behind its fence.

19.02.2024 12:50 Thailand is bracing for an influx of refugees after Myanmar's military recently announced a conscription law.

19.02.2024 12:50 Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani has slammed the US Senate for passing a bill that allows the provision of more than $14 billion worth of aid to the Israeli regime amid its ongoing aggression on Palestinians in Gaza.

19.02.2024 12:50 Iran has launched a locally-designed and manufactured emergency control room simulator at its only nuclear power plant in the southern city of Bushehr.

19.02.2024 12:50 Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Ali Bagheri Kani has said that the Islamic Republic has good ties with its neighbors thanks to policies of President Ebrahim Raisi's administration that pursues "a strategic interaction" with the neighboring countries.

19.02.2024 12:50 Kim Su Gil, alternate member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and chief secretary of the Pyongyang Municipal Committee of the WPK who is heading the WPK delegation on a visit to Russia, Friday met with Dmitri Anatoliyevich Medvedev, president of the United Russia Party.