Category: World News
China summons Japan ambassador to rebuke G7 summit ‘camp confrontation and Cold War mentality’: report
Fox News China’s Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong reportedly summoned Hideo Tarumi, Japan’s ambassador to China, on Sunday to relay “solemn” protest from Beijing in response to the “hype around China-related issues” that occurred at the G-7 summit of the leaders of the world’s leading democracies in Hiroshima over the weekend. In a statement, cited…
Read MoreMadrid museum to open new gallery next month with 5 centuries of Spanish royal collections
Fox News It’s not as if Madrid was short on world-ranking galleries with the likes of the Prado Museum, the Thyssen-Bornemisza and the Reina Sofía, among others. But next month, Spain is set to unveil what is touted as one of Europe’s cultural highlights of the year with the opening in the Spanish capital of…
Read MoreGerman prosecutors charge 4 for violating trade act to sell spyware to Turkey
Fox News German authorities have filed charges against four suspects from a Bavarian company accused of selling surveillance software to Turkey that could be used to spy on Turkish dissidents, prosecutors said Monday. The Munich prosecutors say the defendants intentionally violated licensing requirements for dual-use goods by selling surveillance software to non-EU countries. Specifically, the…
Read MorePhilippine fire destroys a nearly 100-year-old neoclassical landmark
Fox News A massive fire tore through Manila’s historic post office building overnight, slightly injuring seven people and razing the nearly 100-year-old landmark in the Philippine capital, police and postal officials said Monday. The fire started before midnight in the basement of the neoclassical, five-story building and was brought under control Monday morning more than…
Read MoreSingapore PM Lee Hsien Loong tests positive for COVID-19
Fox News Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Monday he tested positive for COVID-19 for the first time after returning home from work trips in Africa and Asia. Due to his age, the 71-year-old said he was prescribed the Paxlovid antiviral medication. “I tested positive for COVID-19 for the first time this morning,” Lee…
Read MoreAnimal rights activists in Madrid protest against plans for a large-scale octopus farm
Fox News Animal rights activists gathered Sunday in Madrid to protest plans for the construction of an octopus farm in Spain, saying there are no respective laws in the country and the European Union to guarantee the welfare of the animals in captivity. The proposed farm, which aims to breed octopuses on a large scale…
Read MoreEstonia, Latvia planning joint purchase of German IRIS-T air defense systems
Fox News Estonia and Latvia plan jointly to acquire German air defense systems for the protection of the two NATO nations’ airspace in what would be the biggest defense cooperation deal between the Baltic neighbors that border Russia, the Estonian and Latvian defense ministries said Sunday. According to the provisional deal, deliveries of the medium-range…
Read MoreUnited Nations reports 2 million people were killed from extreme weather over the past half-century
Fox News The economic damage of weather- and climate-related disasters continues to rise, even as improvements in early warning have helped reduce the human toll, the U.N. weather agency said Monday. The World Meteorological Organization, in an updated report, tallied nearly 12,000 extreme weather, climate and water-related events over the past half-century around the globe…
Read MoreStrategic partners Poland and Ukraine exchange remarks over violent past
Fox News Officials in Poland and Ukraine, staunch strategic partners, have unexpectedly exchanged bitter remarks regarding a painful mutual past that includes mass murder. This year is the 80th anniversary of the massacres of tens of thousands of Poles by Ukrainians that Poland calls genocide. In 1943-44, Ukrainian nationalists and others massacred about 100,000 Poles…
Read MoreBerlin police investigate report of Russian exiles falling ill
Fox News German police are investigating reports that at least two Russian exiles fell ill around the time they attended a conference in Berlin last month linked to a Russian opposition figure. Berlin police confirmed their investigation in an email responding to a query by The Associated Press, but wouldn’t give any details. The probe…
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