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China said it is carrying out military drills near the Taiwan Strait to protect its sovereignty as a top US official visits Taiwan. Tensions are rising between Beijing and Washington and this visit is intended to show the US support for the island. China has over time regarded self-ruled Taiwan as a breakaway province. Many years have passed since a ...

Undoubtedly, the handling of coronavirus has turned political, but as the world searches for a vaccine, will it survive political interference?  Pete Buttigieg hopes the vaccine is handled medically and not politically. ‘’A safe, effective vaccine can’t come soon enough. The sooner that happens, the better chance we have of being able to get this virus. Put it under control ...

A parliamentary vote on Wednesday elected Japanese ruling party leader Yoshihide Suga as prime minister. This makes him the country’s first prime minister in nearly eight years. Suga’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party used its majority vote in the powerful lower house of parliament. He came into power to lead the world’s third-largest economy as it tries to recover from the ...

Boris Johnson has urged Conservative MPs to support his plan to override part of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement. He said the party must not return to “miserable squabbling’’ over Europe in a zoom call with over 250 of the MPs. The European Union warned the UK about facing legal action should it fail to ditch controversial elements of the Internal ...

Google and Twitter have said they are going to fight wrong information spread online ahead of the November US polls. It is expected that online messaging platforms will flood with false claims and misleading information. Twitter said it plans to aggressively identify and remove false tweets related to the forthcoming elections. Google also said it would scan more auto-complete results ...