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(Reuters) – China appeared to rebuff pressure from the United States to rein in its assertive actions in the South China Sea on Sunday as Southeast Asian nations declined to overtly back Washington’s proposal for a freeze on provocative acts. The lack of progress in resolving the maritime tensions at Asia’s highest-profile diplomatic meeting so far this year shows the tough task Washington faces in persuading smaller Asian nations to risk antagonizing the region’s rising power. Foreign […]
China is bent in pursuing its aggressive designs in South China sea with plans to build lighthouses in islands also claimed by Vietnam.
Israel once again deployed forces and tanks in the Gaza border as the 72-hour truce nears its end.
At least 55 people were buried and 49 others missing due to fresh landslides in earthquake-stricken southwest China.
A United States general was killed and another dozen wounded, including a German general, in the latest insider attack of a military training facility in the Afghan capital of Kabul.
By Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO Mon Aug 4, 2014 9:33pm EDT (Reuters) – Japan finds itself surrounded by a worsening security environment as North Korea pushes forward with missile development and China and Russia step up military activity in the region, Japan’s Defence Ministry said on Tuesday. The ministry’s annual white paper comes after intermittent testing by North Korea of ballistic missiles in defiance of a U.N. ban, and a record number of scrambles by Japanese […]
Chinese media release footage of earthquake-stricken Yunnan province.
Israel troops were redeployed near the Gaza border following an air strike in a United Nations school, resulting in 10 civilian deaths.
At least 381 were killed as a magnitude 6.5 earthquake hits the Chinese province of Yunnan.
(Reuters) – A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck southwestern China on Sunday, killing at least 175 people and leaving more than 180 missing and 1,400 injured in a remote area of Yunnan province, causing thousands of buildings, including a school, to collapse. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake registered at a shallow depth of less than 1 mile (1.6 km). Chinese state media said it was felt most strongly in Yunnan as well as in […]
A series of gas explosions in a southern Taiwanese city resulted in 25 deaths and injured about 270, the cause of the gas leaks is still not known, but rupture of gas pipes has been reported.
As a sign of protest, several South Koreans along with North Korean defectors released 10, 000 chocolate pies across the border.
