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China, which has territorial disputes with many countries in the strategic Indo-Pacific region, has been opposing the US proactive policy specifically in the disputed South China Sea.

Cryptocurrencies plummet amid a global market sell-off as the crisis between Russia and Ukraine escalates
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Romelu Lukaku has been linked with a swift return to Inter after losing his starting role for Chelsea, but the £97.5m signing wants to stay and fight for his place

The midfielder is very fond of the fans at Everton, who welcomed him after he endured a tough period of his career at Manchester United

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Middletown, OH: The Alice Lloyd College men and women’s indoor track squads recently participated in the River States Conference Championships. After the dust settled on all events for the men’s side, four individual Eagles had earned points for the squad. The club finished 10th overall out of the 12 participating schools. Junior Dakota Owens led […]

Demonstrators gathered outside Downing Street on Thursday afternoon to call for more drastic action including ‘total isolation of Russia’.

Schlapp says conference already has a sufficient foreign policy programme because of the ‘very prominent’ ex-Trump administration officials who are set to speak

Ishan Kishan played a fine knock of 89 runs as India posted 199/2 in the opening T20I of the three-match series against Sri Lanka, in Lucknow on Thursday.

Belfast-based firm Overwatch makes software to help medical researchers record and organise data.

Caroline Barnes appeared at Coventry Magistrates' Court on February 24

A COST of living crisis is already gripping Britain - but how much worse will the war between Russia and Ukraine make it?

The discovery sits approximately 290 kilometres off the coast of Namibia, in the deep offshore.

HONG KONG in the past week has been under greater stress from covid-19 than ever before. First came the shocking photographs of elderly patients on beds, lined up in the cold in the car parks of overflowing hospitals. Then the reports of foreign domestic helpers—who are forced by law to live in their employers’ houses—being abandoned to the streets after testing positive. Next, a raft of announcements: schools are to be closed to become testing venues, while disused tower blocks are to be converted into isolation centres. Читать дальше...

SOME SAW it as a pivotal moment in China’s relationship with Russia, and indeed in the crisis over Ukraine. On February 19th Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister, speaking by video link to a conference in Munich, declared that the “sovereignty” and “territorial integrity” of countries should be protected, adding, lest anyone misunderstand, “Ukraine is no exception”. It sounded like an affirmation of international norms, just as Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, was about to shatter them.

FOR THOSE concerned about peace in the Asia-Pacific region, Ukraine is, as one Japanese newspaper commentary puts it, “not a fire on the opposite shore”. Not least, Asia also has a small democracy bang next to a big bully. China has long claimed Taiwan as its own, uses its armed forces to intimidate it and reserves the right to invade.

A DRONE WHIRS overhead as Ivorian special forces creep out of the undergrowth towards a mock village. French trainers watch closely. Nearby, Ghanaian commandos roar down a dusty road before an explosion sends them retreating under the gaze of British soldiers. Operation Flintlock, an annual counter-terrorism training exercise, appears to be going just as it should: regional forces learning from grizzled Western commandos.

WEAVING IN AND out of traffic, the minibuses on Cairo’s ring road seem to be racing. In a sense, they are. The white minivans compete to pick up passengers and faster trips mean more fares. Since a ride costs as little as five Egyptian pounds ($0.32), quantity is key. So drivers speed along the motorway, exploiting every little gap in the traffic. Some are intoxicated by tramadol, an opioid that has a reputation for improving alertness (and male sexual stamina), two claims your correspondent preferred not to test. Читать дальше...

IF HE IS in a tight spot, says Trouble Kalua, people mention his name, asking, “What do you expect?” Shortly before his birth in Malawi, his father had lost his job as a bus conductor, impoverishing the family. Then the baby nearly died. “This boy is trouble,” his father said. “His name is Trouble.”

THOUGH ITS eyes are covered, the falcon looks frightened in the video. It sits frozen on its perch as a dozen excited men bid for the creature. The scene plays out in the Libyan city of Tobruk. But the bidders, phones in hand, are relaying prices to traders in the Gulf. When the offers top 1m dinars ($220,000) those in the room yell Allahu akbar (God is great). Finally the bird is sold to a man in a camouflage jacket for 2.25m dinars, making it one of the most expensive falcons in the world.

WHEN APRIL KELLEY was 15 she was married, against her will, to a family friend seven years her senior. He drove her six hours from her home state of Arkansas into Missouri, which then had looser laws governing the marriage of minors. April remembers a county clerk at the ceremony peering at her tear-stained face and asking if she wanted to go ahead; she was too terrified to reply, she recalls. Her mother and husband-to-be nodded their assent.

A BLOG POST by a self-professed liberal, atheist 19-year-old student put culture warriors in a spin in January. She described her transfer from an elite, liberal-arts college to a Christian college in Michigan. Conservatives said it showed young people were sick of leftist indoctrination. Liberals pointed to the fact that the student’s mother was an anti-vaxxer, who boasted online that this was the reason for the transfer.