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18.05.2024 12:00 Over a two-week period that has encompassed an inauguration, a military shake-up, a new offensive in Ukraine, and a trip to China, Russian President Vladimir Putin's words and actions underscore the extent to which the war he started will be Russia's main focus for years to come.

18.05.2024 12:00 When Taiwan's President-elect Lai Ching-te is sworn into office on May 20, he will be facing what is perhaps the toughest first term of any leader the democratically ruled island of 23 million has ever elected since 1996.

18.05.2024 12:00 A total of 51 groups comprising 508 foreign dignitaries will attend the inauguration ceremony of President-elect Lai Ching-te and related activities on May 20, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement released on Friday.

18.05.2024 12:00 U.S. senators across party lines on Thursday proposed a resolution to reject China's mischaracterization of United Nations Resolution 2758, saying Beijing's claim of sovereignty over Taiwan based on the U.N. resolution is not accepted by the world.

18.05.2024 12:00 Four United States senators across party lines wrote to the World Health Organization earlier this week, calling for its support for Taiwan's meaningful participation in the organization and the annual World Health Assembly meeting.

18.05.2024 12:00 China urges the U.S. side "to stop arming Taiwan and its provocative moves of using Taiwan to contain China," the Chinese Embassy in the United States has said at a press briefing.

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18.05.2024 12:00 Speaking at NATO's 2024 Cyber Defence Pledge Conference in the Hague on Friday , NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoană said that Allies "must be big on ambition" on cyber defence and called for "a new mindset" to strengthen our resilience against cyber threats.

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18.05.2024 12:00 Myanmar refugees who fled civil war and sought refuge in border villages in neighboring India's Manipur state said they are are being deported by local authorities and a paramilitary group.

18.05.2024 12:00 Fighting between ethnic rebels and the military has cut off access to the district of Puta-O in northern Myanmar's Kachin state, trapping more than 100,000 civilians and sending the price of food and fuel skyrocketing, residents said Friday.

18.05.2024 12:00 Representatives of a Myanmar ethnic minority insurgent alliance met junta officials for a fifth round of Chinese-brokered talks, with key issues being Chinese border trade and stability in western Myanmar, where China has big investments, a source close to the rebel alliance said on Friday.

18.05.2024 12:00 After a week-long mission in Bangladesh, visiting projects of the World Food Programme , the Food and Agriculture Organization , and the International Fund for Agricultural Development , Ambassador Jeffrey Prescott, the U.S. Representative to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, called on the international community to continue its support to the Rohingya refugees and their Bangladeshi host communities for a crisis

18.05.2024 12:00 The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to pass a bill that seeks to undo President Joe Biden's temporary suspension of arms transfer to Israel.

18.05.2024 12:00 Tehran has dismissed "baseless" and "unacceptable" the Arab League statement on Abu Musa, the Greater and Lesser Tunbs in the Persian Gulf, reiterating its sovereignty over the three Iranian islands.