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29.02.2024 12:30 Chinese lawmakers on Tuesday voted to adopt a revised Law on Guarding State Secrets at a session of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, to take effect on May 1. The revision, the first in 14 years, aims to comprehensively enhance the confidentiality management of state secrets, particularly in cyberspace, amid new challenges brought by an accelerating technological revolution both domestically and internationally,

29.02.2024 12:30 China will likely continue its trend of moderately increasing its defense budget in 2024, prompted by the country's needs in military modernization, the challenging security environment, and the recovering economic situation, experts predicted shortly before the figure's anticipated announcement next week.

29.02.2024 12:30 Police across China are placing prominent dissidents under house arrest or taking them out of town on enforced "vacations" ahead of next week's annual National People's Congress in Beijing, activists said in interviews and via social media.

29.02.2024 12:30 Hong Kong's forthcoming "Article 23" security legislation will be a major blow to human rights in the city, according to a U.N. human rights expert, American legal scholars and human rights groups.

29.02.2024 12:30 The political party of Pakistan's jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan wrote Wednesday to the International Monetary Fund, asking that lending to the cash-strapped country be tied to an independent audit of the disputed Feb. 8 elections.

29.02.2024 12:30 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken hosted a meeting Wednesday in Washington with top Mexican and Guatemalan officials to discuss managing irregular migration, displacement, and expanding lawful immigration pathways in the Western Hemisphere.

29.02.2024 12:30 A military expert cautioned against the threat of Chinese civilian vessels operating in waters off Taiwan conducting espionage under the pretense of research.

29.02.2024 12:30 An anonymous high-level Taiwanese national security official said on Wednesday that Beijing is using grey zone tactics in its handling of an incident in which a speedboat capsized and two Chinese men died in Republic of China territorial waters off the Kinmen Islands after being chased by the Taiwan Coast Guard.

29.02.2024 12:30 Russian President Vladimir Putin will deliver his annual address to parliament and the nation on February 29, less than three weeks before an election that is set to hand him a new six-year term in the Kremlin.

29.02.2024 12:30 A funeral service for the late Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny will be held on March 1 at a church in the Maryino area of Moscow, where the Kremlin critic once lived, after several days of uncertainty marked by claims by his mother that she was being blackmailed by officials into holding a secret commemoration.

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29.02.2024 12:30 Israeli aerial attack hit areas south of the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Wednesday night, according to the Syrian Defense Ministry.

29.02.2024 12:30 Australia is increasing its contribution of Australian Defence Force personnel to support United States and United Kingdom actions targeting the capabilities used in Houthi rebel attacks in the Red Sea.

29.02.2024 12:30 Some 160 packages of food and medical equipment have been airdropped into the southern Gaza Strip and the Jordanian field hospital in Khan Younis in an Israel-led multilateral operation, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement on Wednesday.

29.02.2024 12:30 Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Wednesday met with a U.S. Chamber of Commerce delegation led by the chamber's President and CEO Suzanne Clark at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.