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Washington, United States (AFP)—China has deployed fighter jets to the same contested island in the South China Sea to which it also has sent surface-to-air missiles, US officials said Tuesday. Citing two unnamed US officials, Fox News said US intelligence services had spotted Chinese Shenyang J-11 and Xian JH-7 warplanes on Woody Island in the disputed Paracel Islands chain over the past few days. Navy Captain Darryn James, a spokesman for US Pacific Command, confirmed […]
ROHTAK and HANIPAT, HARYANA, India (Reuters) — A week-long protest by India’s Jat community, a rural caste, has left a trail of destruction in Rohtak city, in the country’s northern Haryana state. The protesters gutted several showrooms of automobile companies. They also attacked shopping malls and looted and destroyed shops. A school building was torched and several buses parked in the premises were destroyed. Rohtak was one of the worst affected districts in the state, after demonstrations […]
WASHINGTON D. C., United States (Reuters) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi assailed the Philippines on Friday (February 23) as the instigator of tension in the South China Sea. “It is exactly one country, and let me not avoid mentioning the name: that is, the Philippines has violated the stipulation of Article 4 of DoC (the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea) and has given up on the dialogue and […]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — Afghanistan expects a date for direct talks with the Taliban to be set by the end of February, the foreign minister told an international group seeking to relaunch the peace process at a meeting in Kabul Tuesday. Delegates from Afghanistan, China, the US and Pakistan met in the capital for a fourth round of talks aimed at forming a path back to the nascent peace process, which was interrupted by last summer’s announcement […]
DAMASCUS, Syria (AFP) — The United States and Russia have announced plans for a partial truce in Syria but there were serious doubts it could take effect on Saturday as planned. The agreement does not apply to jihadists like the Islamic State group and the Al-Nusra Front, putting up major hurdles to how it can be implemented on Syria’s complex battlefield. It calls for President Bashar al-Assad and opposition forces to agree by noon on Friday to […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) — U.S. and South Korean senior officials held a meeting in Seoul on Tuesday (February 23) amid high tension on the Korean peninsula after North Korea’s rocket launch earlier this month. The U.S. Treasury Department’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes (TFFC), Jennifer Fowler, and South Korean Foreign Ministry’s Director General for North Korean Nuclear Affairs, Kim Gunn, attended the meeting in the South Korean capital. Fowler and […]
SINGAPORE, Singapore (AFP) — Oil prices dipped in Asia Tuesday after mounting a strong rally the day before as traders remain doubtful that talks on an output freeze among key crude producers will lead to agreement. US crude rose back above $30 a barrel and European benchmark Brent climbed well over $34 on Monday on hopes that the discussions would lead to concrete action to stabilise the battered market. But at around 0600 GMT on Tuesday, US […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Beijing is installing radar facilities on its artificial islands in the disputed South China Sea, an American think tank has said, in a move that could “significantly change” the operational landscape. Satellite imagery of Cuarteron reef in the Spratly islands released by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) shows what appears to be a high-frequency radar installation, as well as a lighthouse, underground bunker, helipad and other communications equipment. The […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asia’s share rally stalled Tuesday, as a boost from Wall Street was overshadowed by renewed weakness in the price of oil. Japanese stocks were broadly flat while Shanghai and Hong Kong were down in early trade, the day after Chinese markets surged on the announcement of a new securities regulatory chief. Mace Blicksilver, the US-based director of Marblehead Asset Management, said he was “cautious” about the prospect for further gains. “I […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Singapore has deported four Indonesian men thought to be followers of a leading Islamic extremist as they allegedly tried to travel to Syria, police said Tuesday. The four, who included a 15-year-old boy, were arrested Sunday in the city-state when immigration officials became suspicious after checking their documents, and finding one of them had previously spent time in Syria. Authorities deported them to Batam, an Indonesian island not far from Singapore, the same […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Washington and Seoul have postponed talks on deploying an advanced missile defense system opposed by Beijing, South Korea’s defense ministry said Tuesday as China’s foreign minister was set to discuss North Korea with his US counterpart. The allies had been set to sign an agreement Tuesday on setting up a joint working group to look into the roll-out of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence System (THAAD) against North Korea’s growing missile […]
PAMPORE, JAMMU AND KASHMIR, INDIA (Reuters) —Indian security forces battled for a third day amid heavy gunfire on Monday (February 22) to clear militants who stormed a government building in the disputed Kashmir region and killed six people, officials and a witness said. After a lull in fighting overnight, army commandos and police launched a fresh offensive to clear the five-storey training institute captured by the militants. Gunfire and explosions could be heard at the […]
