The Sri Lankan government has asked the Chinese government to defer the visit of its space-satellite tracker ship Yuan Wang 5 at Hambantota port “until further consultations” are made between the two governments. The spy ship was scheduled to dock at Chinese leased Hambantota port on August 11 for refueling and leave on August 17. […]
Taiwan’s defence ministry on Friday said the island’s military has dispatched aircraft and ships and deployed land-based missile systems to monitor the situation, as China conducts large-scale military drills in zones surrounding Taiwqn. Taiwan’s military will prepare combat readiness but will not ask for a war, the defence ministry added.
US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi addressed Taiwan’s parliament on Wednesday and was due to meet with its president as well as human rights activists during a visit to the island that has infuriated Beijing.China condemned the highest-level US visit to Taiwan in 25 years as a threat to peace and stability in the […]
The United States has sanctioned Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rumoured girlfriend Alina Maratovna Kabaeva in a fresh round of sanctions targeting Russian elites over Moscow’s actions in Ukraine.According to the Treasury Department, the 39-year-old Kabaeva was in a “close relationship to Putin.” She is a former member of the State Duma and is the current […]
Contrary to the Pakistani military’s narration, Baloch Raaji Aajoi Sangar (BRAS) – an umbrella organisation of Baloch armed groups, claimed the responsibility for targeting and downing the military helicopter in the mountainous areas of Windar and Noorani in Balochistan.Earlier on Tuesday, the wreckage of military helicopter that went missing on Monday night carrying senior military […]
The United States killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a strike in Afghanistan over the weekend, President Joe Biden said, the biggest blow to the militant group since its founder Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011. Zawahiri, an Egyptian surgeon who had a $25 million bounty on his head, helped coordinate the September […]
Japan, Singapore and South Korea have topped the Henley Passport Index – which uses exclusive data from the International Air Transport Authority – to rank 199 passports. The Asian giants’ top ranking reverses pre-pandemic rankings dominated by European nations.The index defines the strength of diplomatic relations of any one country with others; essentially, the more […]
Sri Lanka president Gotabaya Rajapaksa could resign by midday, a top source from within the ruling party told Reuters Wednesday morning, hours after confirmation he had fled to Maldives on a military aircraft. Rajapaksa, 73, had promised to resign and assured a “peaceful transition of power” following widespread protests over the country’s worst economic crisis […]
As Sri Lanka saw the demonstrations – against worst-ever economic crisis – hitting a peak, Army chief General Shavendra Silva on Sunday made an appeal to protesters. The country’s two top leaders – Sri Lanka PM Ranil Wickremesinghe and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa – on Saturday agreed to step down amid the massive stir. While Rajapaksa’s […]
Tetsuya Yamagami – the 41-year-old man who will forever be remembered as the man who shot and killed Shinzo Abe – did not initially plan to attack the former Japan prime minister, police sources told Japanese agency Kyodo News. Yamagami – who made no attempt to run away after shooting Abe twice from close-range with […]