China’sPeople’s Liberation Army Eastern TheaterCommand said in a statement on Monday (August 8) that joint drills in the sea and airspace around Taiwan were continuing ... The PLA never officially announced the end of the war games ... The Taiwanese economics ministry reports that the island has an 11-day supply of natural gas and 146 days’ worth of oil.
Taiwan's foreign minister said on Tuesday that China was using the military drills it launched in protest against US House SpeakerNancy Pelosi's visit as an excuse to prepare for an invasion of the self-ruled island ... "China has used the drills ... "But I don't think they're going to do anything more than they are." ... .
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli troops killed two Palestinian gunmen in a shootout Tuesday during an arrest operation in the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, police said ...Israeli police said forces encircled the home of Ibrahim al-Nabulsi, who they say was wanted for a string of shootings in the West Bank earlier this year ... .
(MENAFN - UkrinForm) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on the international community to increase sanctions against the Russian Federation for creating the threat of a nuclear ... .
. Russia informed the US on Monday that it is temporarily suspending American inspections of its nuclear weapons sites under the 2010Treaty on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic OffensiveArms (New START) ...The statement stressed that the measures had a "temporary character." ... .
Two more grain-carrying ships left Ukraine's Chornomorsk port on Tuesday, Turkey's defense ministry said, as part of a deal to unblock Ukrainian sea exports, bringing the total to leave the country under a safe passage deal to 12. ...The StandardChannel. IOSAndroid. IOS Android. More>> ... personnel are working. ... (Reuters). .
At least seven people have died and six were missing in and around Seoul, the South Korean capital, after torrential rain knocked out power, triggered landslides and flooded homes and the city’s metro system ... The Yonhap news agency said the downpour was the heaviest in 80 years ... They were later found dead. More sad news emerging ... .
KABUL. The Taliban stormed back to power a year ago as US-led forces withdrew from the country, two decades after first ousting the hardline Islamist regime ...PresidentAshraf Ghani flees to Abu Dhabi, admitting the "Taliban have won" ... International aid agencies come to the rescue, sending food, tents and medical supplies ... .
A man touring a Dutch castle died after he was hit with a 22-pound metal ball thrown by a competitor at the OpenHighland Games. EastBrabantPolice said the 65-year-old Geldrop local died Sunday, “after being hit by a metal ball in use at a sporting event.” ... “It wasn’t a spectator so he didn’t see the ball coming at all.” ... We’re devastated.” ... ....
A study out of the United Kingdom has shown that health care workers who received multiple COVID-19 vaccine boosters after initially being infected with the original virus strain from Wuhan are more prone to chronic reinfection from the Omicron variant ...Robert Malone ... He added that this process is reinforced by multiple inoculations.
Nagasaki marked the 77th anniversary Tuesday of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city during World War II, with MayorTomihisa Taue set to call for the abolition of nuclear weapons amid mounting concerns over their potential use following Russia's invasion of Ukraine...Photo shows Peace Park in Nagasaki on Aug ... (Kyodo) ... But some U.S.
The killing became part of a larger national reckoning over racial injustice and killings of unarmed black people including George Floyd and Breonna Taylor... .