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Japan scrambles jets to counter Russian bombers in its airspace
Jun 21, 2019 (UPI)
Two Tu-95 bombers entered Japanese airspace near Minamidaito Island in Okinawa Prefecture on Thursday morning for about three minutes, and one later re-entered ...
Satellite image shows Chinese fighter planes on contested South China Sea island
Jun 21, 2019 (UPI)
The image, taken Wednesday and published Friday by CNN, shows the Chengdu J-10 jets on Woody Island, one of the Paracel Islands claimed by China, Taiwan and Vie...
Merkel boosts EU push for 2050 net zero emissions target
Jun 20, 2019 (AFP)
Merkel made the remarks as she arrived for an EU summit which will, among other topics, discuss "climate neutrality" by mid-century under growing public and pol...
U.S., Japanese military leaders address growing 'number of challenges'
Jun 20, 2019 (UPI)
Japan's Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya and Lt. Gen Kevin B. Schneider, the USFJ commander since February, reaffirmed the strength of the U.S.-Japan Alliance "an...
US announces $250 million in military aid to Ukraine
Jun 18, 2019 (AFP)
The amount is part of a series of Pentagon payments now totaling $1.5 billion to the country since 2014, when Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula and a conflic...
Russia warns US over extra troop deployment to Mideast
Jun 18, 2019 (AFP)
"We are urging all the sides to show restraint," President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists in response to a question on the deployment...
'Just a collision': Philippines' Duterte downplays sinking
Jun 17, 2019 (AFP)
The typically brash Duterte urged calm in his first public comments about the June 9 incident, which has fed into outrage over China's expansive claims to the r...
Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong leaves jail, vows to join protests
Jun 17, 2019 (AFP)
Organisers said some two million people marched in tropical heat on Sunday calling for the resignation of chief executive Carrie Lam, rebuking a now abandoned b...
Beijing denies 'hit-and-run' in South China Sea collision
Jun 15, 2019 (AFP)
The Chinese trawler sailed away after the incident Sunday near Reed Bank that sank the fishing boat, sparking outrage from Philippine authorities and media. Whi...
'Good gifts': Putin presents Xi with birthday ice cream
Jun 15, 2019 (AFP)
"Happy birthday, my best wishes... I am delighted to have a friend like you," Putin told Xi, according to the Kremlin website. The two leaders met in the Tajik ...
Happiness and Harmony: 'Big step forward' as twin pandas grow
Jun 14, 2019 (AFP)
Pandas are listed as a vulnerable species, but conservation efforts have helped reduce their danger of extinction. The pair, named Hehe (meaning Harmony, pronou...
Artillery attack wounds family in east Ukraine
Jun 14, 2019 (AFP)
The shelling came as attacks have intensified in the last month after a period of relative calm in the conflict between Ukraine forces and Russian-backed separa...
Trump says considering 2,000 new troops for Poland
Jun 12, 2019 (AFP)
Trump said the additional US troops would be moved to Poland from fellow NATO-member Germany, but cautioned that the discussions had not been finalized. "They'r...
Russia says it intercepted U.S., Swedish aircraft over Baltic Sea
Jun 12, 2019 (UPI)
The Russian Su-27 plane took off to intercept the planes, which the ministry identified as a U.S. RC-135 and a Swedish Gulfstream jet, each a reconnaissance air...
USS Reagan, Japanese carrier conduct joint exercise in South China Sea/
Jun 12, 2019 (UPI)
Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force sent the Izumo carrier group to work with the Reagan CSG as part of a cooperative deployment, the U.S. 7th Fleet said in a p...
Philippines blasts 'cowardly Chinese boat' over sinking
Jun 12, 2019 (AFP)
The boat on Sunday hit a Filipino craft anchored near Reed Bank -- claimed by both Manila and Beijing -- causing it to sink and leaving 22 crewmen "to the mercy...
Polish president eyes increased US troops in Trump meeting
Jun 11, 2019 (AFP)
"There will be a significant announcement tomorrow ... about troops commitments in Poland," an American official said. He declined to give more details about th...
Pentagon chief calls for political neutrality in military
Jun 11, 2019 (AFP)
"All DoD personnel, service members, and civilian employees alike, swear an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States," Shanahan said in ...
India spends big on Maldives security
Jun 08, 2019 (AFP)
The Maldives, a low-lying archipelago of more than a thousand tiny coral islands south of the Indian subcontinent, straddles the world's busiest east-west marit...
Russia and China show united front at economic forum
Jun 07, 2019 (AFP)
Xi arrived in Moscow on Wednesday for a three-day visit with Vladimir Putin and described the Russian leader as his "best friend" during a cosy meeting at the K...
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