By Kirsty Needham DARWIN (Reuters) – One of the world’s youngest air forces is taking part in war games alongside cutting-edge stealth fighter jets as the Pacific Island nation of Papua New Guinea boosts defence ties with Australia and the United States. Papua New Guinea’s trainee pilots have queued for take-off with U.S. F-22 Raptor …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – President Xi Jinping urged all-out rescue efforts after a highway bridge collapse on Friday in Shaanxi province in China’s northwest killed 11 people, state media reported on Saturday. The incident occurred at 8:40 p.m. (1240 GMT) in Shangluo city on Friday when a highway bridge collapsed due to a flash flood, causing …
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(Reuters) – The United States “will do what is necessary” to see that the Philippines is able to resupply a ship on the Second Thomas Shoal that Manila uses to reinforce its claims to the atoll, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Friday. Sullivan said the U.S. would prefer that the Philippines …
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By Kirsty Needham DARWIN, Australia (Reuters) – The Philippine Air Force must ramp up pilot training if it is to buy 20 or more multi-role fighter jets as it modernises and expands joint operations with its navy, a commander said on Saturday. Philippine pilots are taking part for the first time in multinational war games …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China and Canada should promote normalising relations and get back on track toward establishing a strategic partnership, Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Canadian counterpart, according to his ministry. “China-Canada relations have experienced difficulties and twists and turns over the years, which is not something China would like to see,” Wang told …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Hong Kong International Airport has resumed normal operations, Chinese state media said on Saturday, after a mistake in a security software update sparked hours-long outages in global computer systems. The massive IT outage on Friday affected numerous industries ranging from banks to media companies, and services have been coming back online after …
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By Mohammad Ponir Hossain and Sam Jahan DHAKA (Reuters) – The Bangladesh government has decided to impose a curfew across the country and deploy the army, BBC Bangla reported on Friday, citing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s press secretary, amid widening student-led protests against government job quotas. An official decision regarding the curfew would be issued …
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(Reuters) -Maersk on Friday said there was a fire incident on one of its chartered vessels sailing from Mundra, off the western coast of India to Colombo, Sri Lanka. The fire started due to a short circuit resulting in explosions and the death of a seaman from Philippines, local media said, adding that there were …
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By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A commission created by Congress to conduct an independent review of the 20-year U.S. war in Afghanistan held its first public hearing on Friday, pledging to be “unflinching” in examining how and why key decisions were made and who made them. But, while accountability “is centrally important, our focus …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday that he speaks with his Chinese counterpart fairly regularly, adding that he will see him next week in Laos. Blinken, speaking at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado, said it was important for the U.S. and China to be able to communicate on …
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