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Taiwan’s defence ministry on Monday sounded alarm bells about heightened military activity by China, saying it had detected 103 Chinese warplanes around the island in a 24-hour period. Between the morning of September 17th to 18th, the Ministry of National Defence had detected a total of 103 Chinese aircraft which was a recent high and has posed severe challenges to...

U.S. President Joe Biden’s son Hunter was indicted on Thursday for illegally buying a gun five years ago at a time when he admits he was using drugs heavily.  Mr. Hunter Biden was charged with two counts of making false statements, for claiming on forms that he was not using drugs illegally at the time he bought a Colt revolver in...

The Republican speaker of the US House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, bowed to pressure from his party’s hard right Tuesday and gave the go-ahead for an impeachment investigation into President Joe Biden.  “I am directing our House committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry,” he said, saying the Democratic president lied to the American people about his son Hunter’s foreign...

After months of leaks, Apple has finally announced the new iPhone 15 series. This year too, the company has introduced four models – iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro and a Pro Max version. There is no Ultra variant, which the leaks have been suggesting. From the USB-C port to Dynamic Island, Apple has made key changes to...

The luxury armored train carrying North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has apparently crossed into Russia ahead of a summit with President Vladimir Putin that the US said would focus on supplying weapons for Moscow’s war on Ukraine. Kim’s train arrived in the Russian border city of Khasan where a welcome ceremony was held, Japan TV network JNN reported Tuesday,...

Over 2,000 people have died after a powerful earthquake struck Morocco’s High Atlas mountains late Friday night, destroying buildings and leaving people homeless and struggling to find food and water. The World Health Organisation said more than 3 lakh people were affected in Marrakech and surrounding areas, Reuters reported. An aftershock of 3.9 magnitude rattled the country on Sunday. Moroccan media reported that the...

US First Lady Jill Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 just days before President Joe Biden, who tested negative for the virus, is due to travel to a Group of 20 Summit in India, the White House said on Monday. Biden’s 72-year-old wife, whose symptoms were described as mild, last had COVID in August of last year. The president, now...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday announced the departure of defence minister Oleksiy Reznikov, calling for “new approaches” a year and a half into Russia’s invasion. The announcement came hours after Ukraine fought off an attack by Russian drones in the southern Odesa region early Sunday that hit a Danube port on the border with NATO member Romania. “Oleksiy Reznikov...

Dominic Pezzola, 46, who was convicted of assaulting police and obstructing an official proceeding, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Ethan Nordean, 32, who led the group’s march on Congress on 6 January 2021, was sentenced to 18 years for a more serious seditious conspiracy charge. The former head of the group, Enrique Tarrio, will be sentenced next week....

Governments of the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Taiwan on Thursday joined India in rejecting China’s new national map, issuing strongly worded statements accusing Beijing of claiming their territory. China published a new version of its national map on Monday to correct what Beijing has in the past referred to as “problematic maps” that it claims misrepresent its territorial borders. India...