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The Chinese military is pushing the government to introduce wartime legislation to defend the country’s sovereignty and national interests with force if needed amid the growing tensions over Taiwan with the US, a media report here said on…

Issued on: 05/03/2023 - 08:53 China said Sunday its military spending would rise at the fastest pace in four years, warning of "escalating" threats from abroad at a…

Israel intercepted a rocket from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday evening, a day after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken left the region in a visit that aimed at calming escalating violence.The rocket triggered sirens in the southern city of…

Blinken, who will travel Monday and Tuesday to Jerusalem and Ramallah after his stop in Cairo, had long planned the visit to see Israel's new right-wing government, but the trip takes on a new urgency after some of the worst…

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A Russian-produced rocket fell on the Polish village of Przewodow, near the Ukrainian border, at 3:40 pm local time, the Polish foreign ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. The ministry said it had summoned the…

Signs are posted at the LIV golf tournament on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022, at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, Illinois.Brian Cassella | Tribune News Service | Getty ImagesThe PGA Tour filed a countersuit against LIV Golf late Wednesday,…

European benchmark natural gas prices spiked 28% on Monday morning to hit €274 ($272) per megawatt hour — the first day of trading after Russian energy giant Gazprom halted flows through the vital Nord Stream 1 pipeline indefinitely,…

What’s Up? (May 22-28)U.S. Blocks Russian Bond PaymentsOn Wednesday at midnight, the Biden administration let lapse an exemption in the sweeping sanctions against Russia that had allowed the country to continue making payments on its…

SEOUL, South Korea: During his election campaign, South Korean President-elect Yoon Suk Yeol had tough words for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, saying he would teach his rival some manners and sternly deal with his provocative missile…