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Pelosi travelling on a military aircraft,”raises the stakes of miscalculation,” says US Nat’l Security Council coordinator John Kirby by Ludovic Ehret, with Patrick Lee in Kuala Lumpur and Amber Wang in Taipei Agence France Presse BEIJING, China (AFP) — China said Tuesday that the United States will “pay the price” if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visits Taiwan during her Asia trip. Pelosi was in Malaysia, the second stop in a tour that has sparked rage […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China’s population will begin to shrink by 2025, officials have said, as family sizes grow smaller and citizens age. The world’s most-populous country has been grappling with a looming demographic crisis as it faces a rapidly ageing workforce, slowing economy and its weakest population growth in decades. And although officials relaxed the nation’s strict “one-child policy” in 2016 and last year allowed couples to have three children, the birth rate […]
by Patrick Lee, with Amber Wang in Taipei Agence France-Presse KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, Malaysian state media reported, her second stop in an Asian tour that has sparked rage in Beijing over a possible stop in Taiwan. Beijing views Taiwan as its territory and has indicated through repeated warnings that it would view the visit as a major provocation. Pelosi landed at a […]
by Aishwarya KUMAR Agence France Presse NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — Indian authorities reported Asia’s first possible monkeypox fatality on Monday after the death of a man who recently returned from United Arab Emirates testing positive. Kerala state’s health ministry said tests on the 22-year-old “showed that the man had monkeypox”. Three monkeypox-related fatalities have so far been reported outside Africa in an outbreak that the World Health Organization has declared a global health […]
by Martin Abbugao, with Amber Wang in Taipei and Sebastian Smith in Washington Agence France-Presse SINGAPORE, Singapore (AFP) — The White House on Monday warned China against overreacting to a trip by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, saying she would have every right to visit the self-ruled island despite Beijing viewing it as a highly provocative challenge. China need not turn any visit by Pelosi into a “crisis,” White House National Security Council […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States has killed Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, according to US media outlets, in what the White House announced Monday was a “successful” operation against a target in Afghanistan. Zawahiri, an Egyptian surgeon who became one of the world’s most wanted terrorists, was identified as a mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States that killed nearly 3,000 people. He had been on the run ever […]
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AFP) — Sri Lanka issued an urgent appeal on Monday to tackle rapidly spreading malnutrition among children as its economic crisis leaves nine out of 10 people dependent on state handouts. The Ministry for Women and Child Affairs said they were seeking private donations to feed possibly several hundred thousand children wasting due to insufficient food. The bankrupt state, grappling with Sri Lanka’s worst economic crisis since independence, was unable to […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Thousands of Indonesian and American troops began a two-week joint military exercise on Monday that Washington said aims to advance “regional cooperation in support of a free and open” Asia-Pacific region. The US and its Asian allies have expressed growing concern about China’s increasing assertiveness in the Pacific, but Washington said the drills were not aimed at any country even though they would be significantly larger than previous exercises. At least […]
TRIPOLI, Libya (AFP) — Libya’s oil production has returned to the volume recorded before a months-long blockade that paralysed the economy, official sources said on Sunday. “We are happy to announce that our production rates have reached the pre-force majeure levels” of 1.2 million barrels per day, Libya’s National Oil Corporation said on Twitter. Oil and Gas Minister Mohammed Aoun told AFP that he “confirms” production has returned to that level. On July 15, […]
Hong Kong, China | AFP At least two Hong Kong dancers were injured on Thursday night after being hit by a falling screen at a concert of the city’s most popular boy band Mirror. Footage of the incident circulated online showed a group of white-clad dancers performing onstage at the Hong Kong Coliseum when a giant overhead video screen fell and crushed a man. The screen then toppled onto at least one other person before […]
by Natsuko Fukue Agence France-Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe by a man resentful of the Unification Church has resurfaced years of controversy over the group. Police say Tetsuya Yamagami targeted Abe because he believed the former prime minister supported a “certain group” to which the man’s mother had made large donations. In a letter published by local media, Yamagami accused Abe of supporting the Unification Church […]
by Sebastian Smith Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping agreed to schedule their first in-person summit during a sometimes tense phone call Thursday where Xi warned the United States not to “play with fire” in Taiwan. Although this was their fifth phone or video call since Biden took office a year and a half ago, the summit would be their first in-person meeting as leaders. […]
