New Zealand Health Minister Resigns Amid Calls to Step Down Over COVID-19 Response
July 02, 2020 at 03:29 AM
David Clark stepped down as Health Minister after facing a backlash for his breaching of Level 4 quarantine rules. Recently he had been pressured to resign, as over 2,000 New Zealanders signed a petition calling for him to be sacked. Read More »
Pentagon Clears Plan to Withdraw 9,500 US Troops From Germany
July 01, 2020 at 09:49 AM
US President Donald Trump has approved the Pentagon's plan for withdrawing 9,500 troops from Germany after Trump said the country was failing to live up to its spending obligations as a NATO partner. Read More »
Indian and Chinese Army Commanders Meet to Defuse Ongoing Tension at Border
June 30, 2020 at 09:55 AM
After the unprecedented face-off between Indian and Chinese armies in Ladakh’s Galwan Valley on 15 June, both New Delhi and Beijing have been trying to diffuse tensions at the border through army-to-army engagements and diplomacy. Read More »
Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Forces Raid Kataib Hezbollah HQ, Seize Rocket Launchers
June 26, 2020 at 07:11 AM
A total of 13 Kataib Hezbollah fighters were arrested late Thursday night after Iraqi troops of the Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) raided a headquarters of the paramilitary group in southern Baghdad, Iraq. Read More »
Trump: 'Crazy' Democrats Harder to Deal With Than China, North Korea
June 26, 2020 at 03:58 AM
While delivering remarks in Wisconsin Thursday, US President Donald Trump called Democrats "crazy," claiming they are harder to deal with than China and North Korea. Read More »
India, China Swear Upon Past Agreements, New Confidence-Building Measures to Break Stand-off
June 25, 2020 at 08:12 AM
India and China have been in a border stand-off along the 4,057km long Line of Actual Control since the last week of April. The tensions between the neighbours escalated last week when 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a violent face-off between the Indian Army and PLA. Read More »
North Korea ‘suspends plans for military action’ against Seoul
June 24, 2020 at 06:50 AM
Pyongyang says it has halted plans for military action against South Korea, and has reportedly dismantled loudspeakers recently set up along the inter-Korean border amid a major spike in tensions over defector literature. Read More »
Nuclear Rivals Clash in the Himalayas
June 23, 2020 at 04:23 AM
Last week, the world’s most populous nations, India and China, both nuclear armed, clashed in the high Himalayan region of Ladakh. Read More »
China Releases 10 Indian Soldiers After Three Days of Captivity, Government Sources Say
June 19, 2020 at 07:14 AM
There have been reports of missing Indian soldiers, including officers, after bloody clashes between Chinese and Indian troops erupted in the Galvan Valley on Monday. The Indian government has made no official statement regarding captivity of its soldiers.
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Not a Shot Fired: How the Skirmish That Killed 20 Indian Soldiers Unfolded
June 19, 2020 at 04:29 AM
Indian Army sources have said that 20 soldiers including a colonel were killed in a skirmish with Chinese troops late on Monday in eastern Ladakh’s Galwan Valley. Read More »
