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28.08.2024 18:12 Chinese and Indian warships both docked in Sri Lanka on Monday, triggering intense concerns among the Indian media, which Chinese experts on Tuesday described as morbid, calling this mentality an extension of the "China threat" theory.

28.08.2024 18:12 The ongoing crackdown on political dissent in Hong Kong has turned the city, where millions once took refuge from Chinese Communist Party rule, into an "exporter of refugees," according to exiled former pro-democracy lawmaker Nathan Law.

28.08.2024 18:12 Two years after the U.N.'s human rights chief said China's repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang may constitute "crimes against humanity," her successor on Tuesday called for a full investigation into the charges, while rights groups called for more pressure on Beijing.

28.08.2024 18:12 China's promotion of tourism in the far-western region of Xinjiang, where Beijing has sought to hide its persecution of the 11 million Uyghurs who live there, has parallels to the Nazis' practice of "genocide tourism," a Swedish anthropologist and former diplomat writes in the online current affairs magazine The Diplomat.

28.08.2024 18:12 A multinational contingent led by the Australian Defence Force has arrived in Solomon Islands to safely dispose of dangerous explosive remnants of war under Operation Render Safe.

28.08.2024 18:12 AUKUS has taken another significant step forward with the graduation of three Royal Australian Navy officers from the Royal Navy's Nuclear Reactor Course in Portsmouth UK.

28.08.2024 18:12 Authorities in Vietnam are pressing on with a crackdown on social media users who are seen as critical of the government, using two articles of the Criminal Code that rights groups say are too vague, to punish those "opposing" the state and the ruling Communist Party.

27.08.2024 16:30 Ukraine's military issued air alerts Tuesday for regions across the country, warning of Russian missile and drone attacks a day after a large wave of attacks targeted Ukrainian energy infrastructure.

27.08.2024 16:30 President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Ukraine's global allies to take "decisive action" after Russia launched a massive drone and missile attack on Kyiv and other cities across the country that damaged vital utilities.

27.08.2024 16:30 The Defense Department remains committed to deterring aggression in the Middle East and supporting Israel's defense, said Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder today.

27.08.2024 16:30 Ten months into the war, Palestinians in Gaza are crowded into an ever-shrinking space without adequate sanitation or healthcare and are repeatedly uprooted by evacuation orders that also disrupt the aid centres intended to support them, including the food distributions and community kitchens supported by the UN World Food Programme .

27.08.2024 16:30 The UN Children's Fund announced on Monday the arrival of 1.2 million doses of vital polio vaccines in Gaza, amid urgent calls for humanitarian pauses to reach hundreds of thousands of at-risk children.

27.08.2024 16:30 Chinese and Philippine officials have traded accusations over a clash between their ships near a disputed reef in the South China Sea.

27.08.2024 16:30 According to its annual training plan, the Chinese People's Liberation Army is set to conduct live-fire drills on the Chinese side of the China-Myanmar border from Tuesday to Thursday, according to a notice released by the government of Yunnan Province on Monday.

27.08.2024 16:30 The Chinese government responded angrily to the news this weekend that 39 companies in China and Hong Kong had been added to a list of entities that face special export controls when doing business with U.S. firms.