After refusing to meet with his US counterpart, general says ‘some countries’ interfering in others’ business but Beijing does not seek confrontationChina’s defence minister, Li Shangfu, has said a cold war mentality is resurgent in the Asia-Pacific re…
続きを読むUkrainian president to take part in Hiroshima talks on Sunday as leaders target exports to RussiaFollow G7 summit updates – liveThe G7 has unveiled further sanctions targeting Russia over its war against Ukraine, as Volodymyr Zelenskiy prepared to atte…
続きを読むPredicted to make landfall on Sunday, preparations are under way for a partial evacuation of the camp in Cox’s BazarThe plight of Myanmar’s Rohingya explained in 30 secondsTropical cyclone Mocha intensified to become “very dangerous”, the World Meteoro…
続きを読むJosep Borrell says safeguard would show Europe’s commitment to the ‘absolutely crucial’ areaEuropean navies should patrol the disputed Taiwan Strait, the EU foreign policy chief has said, echoing earlier comments stressing how crucial Taiwan is to Euro…
続きを読むLi Shangfu travelled to Moscow where he said ties between the countries ‘surpass military-political alliances of the cold war era’Vladimir Putin and China’s defence minister Li Shangfu have vowed to deepen military cooperation between China and Russia …
続きを読むMan detained after what looked like a smoke bomb was thrown at Fumio Kishida just before speechThe Japanese prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has escaped unhurt after he was apparently targeted by an explosive device on Saturday morning. It comes less tha…
続きを読むControversial pilot project in Kupang, the capital of East Nusa Tenggara province, has twelfth-graders at 10 high schools starting classes in the darkEarly every morning in a city in Indonesia’s far east, sleepy teenagers can be seen trudging through t…
続きを読むChinese president lays out priorities, including ‘reunification’ with island that Communist party has never ruled, as National People’s Congress endsXi Jinping has stressed the need to oppose “pro-independence” influences in Taiwan, as he closed the Na…
続きを読むProsecutors said Chow Hang-Tung, Tang Ngok-kwan and Tsui Hon-kwong were under foreign influence but refused to say who it wasA Hong Kong court has jailed three former members of a group that organised annual vigils to mark the 1989 Tiananmen Square cra…
続きを読むNomination at annual meeting of National People’s Congress confirms replacement of Li KeqiangXi Jinping has nominated Li Qiang, 63, to become premier during the continuing annual meeting of China’s rubber-stamp parliament, the official Xinhua news agen…
続きを読むNext-generation rocket, which Jaxa space agency hopes can compete against SpaceX Falcon, blows itself up after engine failureJapan’s next-generation H3 rocket has self-destructed after liftoff when its second-stage engine apparently failed.The mission …
続きを読むVladimir Putin accuses west of wanting to liquidate Russia; US president Biden says China negotiating peace deal ‘not rational’See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverage Vladimir Putin has said that Russia had no choice but to take into account the nuclea…
続きを読むSouth Korea warns that death from starvation appears to be rising in many of the North’s provincesThe major North Korean state newspaper Rodong Sinmun has said that relying on external aid to cope with food shortages would be the same as taking “poison…
続きを読むForeign Office says officials would have been prepared to meet with Erkin Tuniyaz to raise human rights concernsThe governor of China’s western region of Xinjiang will not be visiting Britain this week, according to the UK Foreign Office, after a backl…
続きを読むVoice of Democracy, one of few remaining independent media outlets, offended prime minister with mention of his sonThe dictator Hun Sen has ordered the shutdown of one of the last independent local news organisations in Cambodia, saying it had attacked…
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